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Visualize
Internal
imagery
About 80% of all the area of your brain is involved in
processing internal and external pictures and images.
You think mostly in pictures. And your conscious mind has
minimal awareness that it's going on! The vast majority of
your thinking/ mental processing occurs in your unconscious
mind.
The main part of your conscious mind is physically focused
through your speech (Broca’s Area), word processing
(Wernicke’s Area) and expressive movement -- writing,
sketching, painting etc. (Supplemental Motor Area).
Since much of your conscious
mind is focused through the language center of the brain,
language is important to you. Experiments have shown that
we must lable things in order to start to understand them.
Words are sloooowwww compared to pictures. A picture's
worth a thousand words. Yet words are ultra powerful to our
state of mind and emotions. But they are not the prime
source of our inspiration.
Inspired creation comes from the picture processing
unconscious mind and the resultant attempt to describe and
make sense of what you are seeing.
This fact means that anytime you “see internal pictures” or
anything that allows you to "see your internal pictures"
will amp up your writing creativity. Especially if you can
describe what you see!
Going into a relaxed state of mind and letting imagery flow
while you watch, amplifies your ability to connect with
more and more of your unconscious thinking.
Directed daydreaming, visualizing, and mental imagery
accelerates your creative process. Do it everyday! A
valuable resource to look at is the book "Creative
Visualization" by Shakti Gawain.