March 9, 2007
Overcome Writer's Block
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 Beyond-Conscious 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 has been estimated to process in the billions of bits per second by cognitive scientists. In comparison, your conscious mind processes about 40 bits per second. Most of your knowledge, knowing and intelligence comes from your unconscious mind.
Your unconscious mind (or as I'll refer to it — Beyond-Conscious) continually, 24/7, makes associations within all the data and perceptions that you have stored. It continues to do this as you add anything new or begin to learn any other new thing.
This 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 — from small sports cars to large stretch limo's, to trucks, trains, or even airplanes.
To accelerate this normal process and bring more of those insights conscious, ImageStreaming powershifts this normal 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.
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 and insights on what inspires you or surprising new insights that show themselves.
Record what you say and/or do it with a partner. 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.





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