Imagination
December 8, 2023
First and foremost, I want to say that our imaginations should (and I rarely ever use this word!) "should" have been inspirited, stimulated and cultivated since the moment we were born. We are creators afterall. Creators that were never shown how, nor encouraged, to use our greatest God-given ability. In fact, when I was young I was told to, "stop being such a dreamer!" I'm willing to bet, after all I've witnessed in this world regarding "agendas," if we could follow this back through the ages to when this "forgetting" first began, we would discover that this manifesting ability of ours was intentionally shut down.
Today, most of us would probably agree that our minds never shut-up. Not surprising since we are inundated with endless streams of information on the daily. Whenever we want to come up with fresh, cutting-edge ideas, it's quite common (if not expected) for us to get together and "brainstorm." The thing is, similar to the memory in a computer, the brain's memory can only give us information that has already been downloaded.
Our brains naturally file away every single experience we have. If we are going through something challenging, our mind will attempt to offer solutions derived from similar past experiences. That's all it can do. That's its job. If we've been through similar challenges in the past then our mind will conclude that what will happen in the future is what has happened in the past. Again, thoughts are conclusions drawn from previous circumstances. But when we get our feelings and energy behind these thoughts, by perhaps feeling like our situation is hopeless because in the past the results were unfavorable, that is when we sabotage the very outcomes we desire. This is why it's beneficial to get out of our heads from time-to-time and drop into our soul perspective. Our imagination lives there.
Put even more simply, the brain is like an analog device that has an output proportional to its input, which means it's not the tool for coming up with brand spankin' new ideas. Our imagination is best suited for that task, while our analytical mind is most proficient at figuring out the details. For example, if we desire change in our lives, we've got to find a way to deflect the mindless chatter so we can reconnect with our imagination. Otherwise years from now, our lives could very well look the way they do right now.
I think Albert Einstein said it best: "Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand. Imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions."
So what do you want your life to be about? Imagine THAT!