Creative Breakthroughs. Problems Solved. Illumination.

During the upside-down course of this mysterious thing that I call my life – there is a technique that I have used whenever I was so rudely blocked by an impasse to understanding, a creative solution.

So if you are having difficulties with understanding something you have read or heard – frustrated by a problem you just cannot find an answer to – or you desperately need a novel idea for a creative work that you are toiling over – just follow the steps below in order to generate the insight that has thus far eluded you.

To begin, you are going to take whatever it is you want to understand, whatever the problem is you want solve, whatever the creative idea you need to generate, and put it at the forefront of your mind’s eye.

Next, you are going to keep that conceptual object before your awareness as you go about your daily routine.

When you are going for your daily stroll, doing some busy work at the home or office or staring out the window at the street scene outside, using focus and will keep the object alive in the eye of your mind, gently reaffirming its place at the forefront of your awareness whenever your attention wanders.

When the object is placed within the sight of your mind’s eye your subconscious mind will be set to work upon it behind the veils of conscious awareness.

But do not lust for result and have patience. Although your conscious awareness is unable to detect it, your subconscious will be analyzing and generating solutions to the conceptual object presented. In time you will be rewarded for your efforts with the problem solved, the understanding deepened, a novel creative idea, in a sudden blaze of insight and illumination.