Chapter 6
ImageStreaming
According to EEG studies, visual response involves 80% of the area of the brain.
Yet, conscious thought response involves less than 5% of the area of the brain.
Conscious thought—what we most naturally call “thinking”— is mostly associated with verbal thinking. Your “word thinker” limits the speed of thought: it can only go as fast as you can vocalize. The pace of your conscious thoughts is no more than 400 words a minute.
However, it does operate, mostly nonstop, at least 15 hours a day. This adds up to between 300,000 to 400,000 words, each and every day. A lot of thinking!
Your Beyond-Conscious mind, which thinks mostly in images, runs many, many thousands of times faster. Parts of your brain’s Limbic system run millions of times faster! It’s so quick that it seems instantaneous to you.
During the act of hitting a baseball, you notice none of the thousands of inputs, or thoughts, that take place to initiate the act: tensing and relaxing just the appropriate muscles to aim and swing, the feedback from your eyes to the motivating centers in the brain, onward to the large muscles, all the small muscles, the interaction with your inner ear involved in keeping your balance, seeing the ball, timing and aiming the swing—whew!
If you tried to simultaneously hit the ball and consciously keep track of and describe just a small part of this activity, that ball would be in the catcher’s glove while you were still describing the pitcher’s wind-up!
Whereas, the Beyond-Conscious mind operates with an unfathomable amount of near instantaneous detail to allow so many common, daily actions that you take for granted to take place.
Unconscious Action
Nearly all of your visual response occurs unconsciously.
Think about that for a second. As you’re reading this, the majority of your brain is involved in processing that you are completely unaware of.
It’s been estimated that a mere 2% of your brain, by volume, associates in words. Two.
Thirty-five to forty-five times more of your brain associates in imagery—even if you haven’t paid any conscious attention to that process.
Then where is most of your intelligence—and virtually all of your creativity?
From Here to There—How?
How do you get the useful bits of information out of your Beyond-Conscious and to your conscious awareness?
You actually already have all the intelligence, you already have all the insights, and nearly all the information you need for what you are seeking!
The skill to be sought is that which will get that intelligence and insight from your Beyond-Conscious to your conscious awareness—and onto the page.
One of the most tested and proven techniques for becoming aware of and capturing information from your Beyond- Conscious is ImageStreaming. The method was first “shown” to Win in 1973, and we have been developing and learning from it ever since.
ImageStreaming is a described-out-loud visualization process.
Describe and Learn
As you describe anything in detail while continuing to examine it, you discover more and more about it.
Your seemingly undirected, free-floating visualizations and descriptions are an extremely sensitive path for the insights your Beyond-Conscious mind holds.
ImageStreaming taps into the vast knowledge bank stored in your Beyond-Conscious mind and brings it to conscious
awareness. All the huge amounts of data that you store and process, that you do not normally pay attention to, is available to you.
I Can’t Visualize!
What if you “cannot visualize” or “don’t get” images?
No worries, we have many foolproof exercises to gently and effectively introduce you to your ImageStream.
Chapter 7, Turning on the Juice with Visual Images and the More Tricks Sections contain exercises that will help you awaken conscious awareness of your internal imagery!
Upcoming section Start/Restart has another technique called Sidebands that allows you to access the deeper Beyond- Conscious processing of your mind—and without even using internal imagery!
The Squelcher
ImageStreaming serves to circumvent your “Squelcher.”
The Squelcher, that part of you that is the instant internal editor is in reality a very necessary part of your conscious mind. You need a filter mechanism in order to deal with the vast amounts of data that would easily overwhelm your conscious mind.
The Squelcher is a masterful pattern recognizer and shortcut finder. If anything is even faintly familiar to this editor, it will instantly recall all the information that it learned from previous experience—sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings.
You rely on this all day every day: imagine relearning everything anew each day! You are able to react safely in somewhat similar, yet different situations.
But the Squelcher also limits new discovery by acting at Beyond-Conscious speed to supply the conscious mind with all the background data of a “new” experience based on a previously stored experience.
You truly do see mainly what you have seen before and expect to see; you hear what you’ve heard before and expect to hear. Only when the difference really catches our attention in a big way do we do a “double take” and pay attention. Since creativity is discovering the new and unique, the Squelcher can be a critical block!
ImageStreaming: a free-flowing visualization technique...
For more detail on how ImageStreaming
overcomes writer's block, and more on how to turbocharge
your written imagination...
CLICK HERE TO ORDER BY
CREDIT CARD
USING OUR SECURE SERVER
