tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87652628521285904392023-11-15T23:25:53.792-08:00Dreamer Dragonfly's BlogDreamer Dragonflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11026961140098808113noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765262852128590439.post-66403777803267350602010-10-26T07:44:00.000-07:002010-10-26T07:44:13.904-07:00Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">1. Trying to Find the “Right” Answers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">One of the worst aspects of formal education is the focus on the correct answer to a particular question or problem. While this approach helps us function in society, it hurts creative thinking because real-life issues are ambiguous. There’s often more than one “correct” answer, and the second one you come up with might be better than the first.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Many of the following mental blocks can be turned around to reveal ways to find more than one answer to any given problem. Try reframing the issue in several different ways in order to prompt different answers, and embrace answering inherently ambiguous questions in several different ways.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">2. Logical Thinking</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Not only is real life ambiguous, it’s often illogical to the point of madness. While critical thinking skills based on logic are one of our main strengths in evaluating the feasibility of a creative idea, it’s often the enemy of truly innovative thoughts in the first place.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">One of the best ways to escape the constraints of your own logical mind is to think metaphorically. One of the reasons why metaphors work so well in communications is that we accept them as true without thinking about it. When you realize that “truth” is often symbolic, you’ll often find that you are actually free to come up with alternatives.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">3. Following Rules</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">One way to view creative thinking is to look at it as a destructive force. You’re tearing away the often arbitrary rules that others have set for you, and asking either “why” or “why not” whenever confronted with the way “everyone” does things.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">This is easier said than done, since people will often defend the rules they follow even in the face of evidence that the rule doesn’t work. People love to celebrate rebels like Richard Branson, but few seem brave enough to emulate him. Quit worshipping rule breakers and start breaking some rules.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">4. Being Practical</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Like logic, practicality is hugely important when it comes to execution, but often stifles innovative ideas before they can properly blossom. Don’t allow the editor into the same room with your inner artist.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Try not to evaluate the actual feasibility of an approach until you’ve allowed it to exist on its own for a bit. Spend time asking “what if” as often as possible, and simply allow your imagination to go where it wants. You might just find yourself discovering a crazy idea that’s so insanely practical that no one’s thought of it before.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">5. Play is Not Work</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Allowing your mind to be at play is perhaps the most effective way to stimulate creative thinking, and yet many people disassociate play from work. These days, the people who can come up with great ideas and solutions are the most economically rewarded, while worker bees are often employed for the benefit of the creative thinkers.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">You’ve heard the expression “work hard and play hard.” All you have to realize is that they’re the same thing to a creative thinker.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">6. That’s Not My Job</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">In an era of hyper-specialization, it’s those who happily explore completely unrelated areas of life and knowledge who best see that everything is related. This goes back to what ad man Carl Ally said about creative persons—they want to be know-it-alls.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Sure, you’ve got to know the specialized stuff in your field, but if you view yourself as an explorer rather than a highly-specialized cog in the machine, you’ll run circles around the technical master in the success department.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">7. Being a “Serious” Person</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Most of what keeps us civilized boils down to conformity, consistency, shared values, and yes, thinking about things the same way everyone else does. There’s nothing wrong with that necessarily, but if you can mentally accept that it’s actually nothing more than groupthink that helps a society function, you can then give yourself permission to turn everything that’s accepted upside down and shake out the illusions.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Leaders from Egyptian pharaohs to Chinese emperors and European royalty have consulted with fools, or court jesters, when faced with tough problems. The persona of the fool allowed the truth to be told, without the usual ramifications that might come with speaking blasphemy or challenging ingrained social conventions. Give yourself permission to be a fool and see things for what they really are.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">8. Avoiding Ambiguity</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">We rationally realize that most every situation is ambiguous to some degree. And although dividing complex situations into black and white boxes can lead to disaster, we still do it. It’s an innate characteristic of human psychology to desire certainty, but it’s the creative thinker who rejects the false comfort of clarity when it’s not really appropriate.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Ambiguity is your friend if you’re looking to innovate. The fact that most people are uncomfortable exploring uncertainty gives you an advantage, as long as you can embrace ambiguity rather than run from it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">9. Being Wrong is Bad</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">We hate being wrong, and yet mistakes often teach us the most. Thomas Edison was wrong 1,800 times before getting the light bulb right. Edison’s greatest strength was that he was not afraid to be wrong.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">The best thing we do is learn from our mistakes, but we have to free ourselves to make mistakes in the first place. Just try out your ideas and see what happens, take what you learn, and try something else. Ask yourself, what’s the worst that can happen if I’m wrong? You’ll often find the benefits of being wrong greatly outweigh the ramifications.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">10. I’m Not Creative</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">Denying your own creativity is like denying you’re a human being. We’re all limitlessly creative, but only to the extent that we realize that we create our own limits with the way we think. If you tell yourself you’re not creative, it becomes true. Stop that.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">In that sense, awakening your own creativity is similar to the path reported by those who seek spiritual enlightenment. You’re already enlightened, just like you’re already creative, but you have to strip away all of your delusions before you can see it. Acknowledge that you’re inherently creative, and then start tearing down the other barriers you’ve allowed to be created in your mind.</span>Dreamer Dragonflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11026961140098808113noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765262852128590439.post-36233414424749000122010-10-26T06:49:00.001-07:002010-10-26T06:49:29.443-07:00Dragonfly Card<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000ee;"><u>My first go at making a Dragonfly Card </u></span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hanging handmade Charms </td></tr>
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This is my first ever home made card , i want them to be different from cards made with kits , these will be made with recycled paper, and bit and pieces i pick up along the way . Im hoping they'll get better the more i make :)Dreamer Dragonflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11026961140098808113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765262852128590439.post-91174824274595716902010-08-12T06:50:00.000-07:002010-11-10T09:29:49.494-08:00Healing<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Im trying to heal my mind ,body and soul in order to have a better quality of life . </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Im starting to understand that from birth we start being programmed which makes us into the people we are, but what if the programming is based on generations of negative thinkers who have followed the rules only because they knew no other way . </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rules that have been made to keep us trapped in a cycle so we dont have the energy to think our way out . </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well times are changing and people are questioning and wanting to know if we are living as fully as we could, i find im one of those people that think outside the box and question why we live the way we do , why we follow each other when it's not good for our health , why we believe just because we are told . </span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What i am now choosing to follow is the light ,( higher self or what some think of as God, not a teaching in book but an inner knowledge encoded ) and forgotten, that leads me to open my mind , let in beliefs that move us towards self healing , love, kindness and peace for all , not just the few . </span></b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At the moment i am choosing to use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as my tool to find the core of my being and to understand how my life was programmed to make me feel bad about myself , push people away, feel unlovable ,and angry at the world . By looking at these automatic thoughts and feelings i can start to change my beliefs about myself and change them for the better . </span></b>Dreamer Dragonflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11026961140098808113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765262852128590439.post-8795064245921344772010-08-12T04:48:00.000-07:002010-08-26T03:03:33.990-07:00The Seven Chakras<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Im very drawn to certain colours in my life and i believe they all have meaning for growth and balance. Lately i have been drawn in by all the colours of the rainbow and feel very calm and relaxed when i bring them all together in one piece of work ( like a Hanging Charm ) . I also go through phases of being drawn to one colour more than others and believe there is a lot to learn about why we are drawn to these colours .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> If you feel you need to bring more of something into your life then use the colours to help it come about . <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGknpmz1JJ9DlbFbjflts0bCulskYhD2PNuB449aSBJfKjyyFnKCKtWSxnFakznfV_1d-GNZI4ZzhKYin70QjR-kgUtUG1QjXdPIIX_udwG4tgEsVY4cm304qmHoAGpNQCBfJBxV69B34R/s1600/CHAKRAS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGknpmz1JJ9DlbFbjflts0bCulskYhD2PNuB449aSBJfKjyyFnKCKtWSxnFakznfV_1d-GNZI4ZzhKYin70QjR-kgUtUG1QjXdPIIX_udwG4tgEsVY4cm304qmHoAGpNQCBfJBxV69B34R/s640/CHAKRAS.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Dreamer Dragonflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11026961140098808113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8765262852128590439.post-83513122041335315892010-08-03T03:06:00.000-07:002010-10-26T07:36:09.607-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;">If you don't get it right in this life YOU will be back again to learn more, so do your best, be your best,have fun and enjoy the rest.:D</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"> </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br />
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</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><br />
</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d5a6bd;"><u>“Do not</u> believe in anything simply because you have heard it. </span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d5a6bd;"><u>Do not</u> believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. </span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d5a6bd;"><u>Do not</u> believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. </span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d5a6bd;"><u>Do not </u>believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders....................</span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><u>Do not</u> believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><br />
</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">The Buddha (563-483 B.C.)</span></i></span></span>Dreamer Dragonflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11026961140098808113noreply@blogger.com0