ImageStreaming
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ImageStreaming
ImageStreaming
- the super "swiss army knife" of creativity
tools!
ImageStreaming is a described
out loud visualization process. ImageStreaming taps in to
the vast knowledge bank stored in your unconscious mind and
brings it to your conscious awareness. All the huge amounts
of data that you store and process, that you do not
normally pay any attention to, are now completely available
to you.
Your unconscious mind... or as
I'll call it -- Beyond-Conscious -- (cue booming, echoing
James Earl Jones voice)... continually, 24/7, makes
associations within all the data and perceptions that you
have stored. It continues to do this as you add new
experiences or begin
to learn anything.
This association facility allows us to generalize learnings
among whole subsets of experience... for example, once
you've learned what a car is and what it's for... how to
get in and out, and how to ride in it -- it is quite easy
to generalize that experience to riding in different cars
and more -- from small sports cars on up to large stretch
limo's, to go-karts and ATV's, to moving trucks through
semi tractors and earth movers, from jet ski's to sailing
yachts, from mini trains to bullet trains, from roller
coasters to ferris wheels and even ultralight aircraft to
passenger jet airplanes. You generalize doors (maybe) and
seats and the purpose of transportation and can suss out
how to ride in almost any conveyance. Quite impressive
really.
To accelerate this normal
generalizing/ organizing process and bring more of these
automatic insights conscious, ImageStreaming powershifts
this unconscious operation into overdrive.
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 creates
and holds. Rather than waiting for the inspiration to leak
through... in a dream, or the shower, etc.... you can use
this simple process to have access to all your intelligence
on command.
Frame
what it is that you want more insight about for your
writing. Close your eyes, relax and describe what you see -
out loud! Imagine someone is listening to what you are
describing.
Stop and write out what you are
describing every minute or so. Or even better record it.
Look for points of resistance;
stay awake to surprises and insights on what inspires you
or differing realizations that show themselves.
Record what you say and/or do
it with a partner. Describe out loud!
And -- this is IMPORTANT: Do any and all editing as a
separate and later step. The framework/mindset to build
here is that you describe everything, in detail, with no
editing! Include all your senses in describing what you
experience.
Keep going until you hit a
productive line of inspiration. As soon as you hit
something that intrigues you, write that down and GO! Keep
writing and move quickly to capture all of it.