Read what you have written out loud — and record yourself speaking it.

Next, while listening to that, write notes on ideas that occur to you as you listen - pieces to add, directions to explore, additional insights or inspiration to explore. Set an intention to listen and not edit what's there, as well as to pause and write all ideas that occur to you while listening… again without editing!

Shifting the context/ modality from writing or typing will allow other insights to make themselves available to your conscious mind. Write quick notes and leave lots of space to explore the ideas that pop in.

If you begin to uncover some hot stuff, be ready and alert to push it a lot deeper. Pause the recording and follow any insights by writing them down, as fast as you can.

For more associations and deeper understanding, make a list of what you consider as the key points from the quick notes you make. Explore those subjects further - especially ImageStream on each to get richer insights.

Make More Mental Connections

As another catalyst, make a list of the letters of the alphabet. A,B,C,D,…Z

Then make a word or phrase reference that applies directly or that indirectly makes sense to you… to the subject you are expanding.

As an example, firm Tree Fruit varieties (…I was eating an apple)

A - Apple, Adam, etc.

B - Braeburn

C - Crisp

D - Delicious … … …

V - Vista Bella

W - Winesap

X - Excellent

Z - Spitzenburg

This A-Z list is intended to contain fresh, new ideas that you can relate back in some ( even tenuous) way to your original subject. This listing causes your mind to begin to create deep associations and connections to all the massive data that you have stored in your beyond-conscious mind. Constructive cheating is allowed here!

Fill in your list with all the things that pop into your own mind. Be surprised… it's okay to reach — if there is a connection that makes the slightest sense to you, that's fine!

Then relate the list to your subject. As an example: I'm writing about reading and commenting on your own writing as a way to enrich it.

Expanding connections from the firm Tree Fruit list:

A- Apple - firm and juicy has an initial taste and then a mouth feel, taste and smell, texture as you eat and then an acidic after taste… it keeps giving as does reading your writing and then commenting on it.

B- Braeburn - red and yellow mottled, firm and pungent… at the root of the fruit is the seed and there are many seeds around one core - the core of great writing is produce a lot and the various seeds are the many ways you can produce writing, speaking, notes fragments, freenoting, copy writing, editing, refining, all of it builds my writing breadth and depth quickly.

C- Crisp - firm, hard, cool, crunchy… switching between writing and reading/ speaking it out loud and then writing on insights switches between many parts of the brain. Ideas are competing to survive as they are subjected to more viewpoints and compared with other understandings and knowledge held in the unconscious mind. The firm ideas survive.

D- Delicious - "Delicious" picked off the tree is hard, cool and sweet — it changes taste with the land it's grown on and the climate where the tree is… after the fruit has aged it is softer, warmer, sweeter and more candylike… - reading my own words aloud refines my writing and noting while I listen gives me a stream of enriched and seasoned ideas to compare it all too, making it better and better - I focus on my ideas and they expand and refine and become distilled to the essence and become clearer. Etc.

If you cannot make an immediate connection and have to ask someone, or do a quick lookup to get hints and answers - that's okay. It all serves to refresh and build your understanding of the subject. Later, read the notes and start to expand on the new directions, and further enhancements.

Keep going with wherever that leads you!