Imagination is the most precious gift man has ever been bestowed with. Improving imagination means you are up-lifting yourself step by step from the lowest rung of ladder to the highest one. It will automatically help you improve your physical strength, accelerate your mental potential and ignite your intuitive power. Following techniques are very helpful in improving your power of imagination.
1. Meditation Technique
Meditation is the most powerful tool to enhance power of imagination. It helps to improve your muscle relaxation. Spare half an hour daily to practice meditation.
It will help you a lot. Get yourself disconnected from the world around you and dive into your inner world. Apply guided breathing and guided blood circulation to make meditation more productive and more effective. Apply this technique specially when you are feeling sad.
2. Webbing Technique
Plasticity of mind allows you to stretch it into the direction you desire to move in. Think of a life-long plan. Divide this life-long plan into small chunks and different milestones. Arrange these chunks in such a way that you may depict the whole picture of your life-long plan. Think keeping the end in mind. It will boost up your power of imagination. Apply this technique in advance thinking.
3. Visualization Technique
Visualization is the mean, imagination is the end. So treading on the path of visualization will lead you the final destination viz-a-viz imagination. Start visualization technique from materialistic things like apple and egg to become expert over visualization. After 10 days, do advance visualization. Now try to visualize abstract things like effect of science on human life. Visualize that you are flying in the sky higher than ever you thought, swimming in the ocean deeper than ever you perceived. It will enhance your power of imagination.
4. Meta-cognition Technique
Meta-cognition is the highest stage of visualization. In meta-cognition, you actually visualize the mind-thinking process which help you how to become a master of your own mind. By this technique you can control your own thoughts, intentions and desires. This is the stage where you will be able to knock at the door of imagination. Open the door of imagination, shift yourself on a new-reality and enjoy new vistas of success in life. This technique is very helpful just before and after sleep.
5. Focusing Technique
Focusing technique is very helpful in improving power of imagination. Focusing technique improves your concentration and mental focus on the target you want to achieve in your life. It opens the knots of your mind while making your thinking-process a LASER-beam which is very effective and energetic. Try to focus natural scenes like trees, mountains, springs and shallow water. Keep your focus on the scene meanwhile apply the meta-cognition technique. It will accelerate your power of imagination. Improving power of imagination means you are growing in all directions.
6. Zero-thinking Technique
One of the best ways to increase imagination power is to stop mental chatter which keeps you busy all the way. When we think about nothing, our mind welcomes great new ideas to fill the space. Zero-thinking technique is the strongest tool to gear your imagination.
7. Mindfulness Technique
Mindfulness is another technique to enhance your power of imagination to next level. Mindfulness makes your mind ultra-peaceful. When our mind is ultra-peaceful, its left hemisphere ( seat of rationality ) becomes passive and right hemisphere which is responsible for imagination works efficiently. In this ways, you feel your mind switched on to high imagination power.
8. Brainstorming Technique
Brain-storming triggers your power of imagination many folds to come out of any challenging situation with best possible solution. This technique is more helpful when you need out-of-the-box-solution of any problem you are facing in real life. It helps you a lot to increase imagination.
9. Body-scanning Technique
Body-scanning is an advanced level technique to improve power of imagination. Go to your bed half an hour earlier than your routine, close your eyes and jump into the world of imagination. Start scanning your body with the eyes of imagination. Focus every inch and move on next. It will give you sense of improvement. Every time you repeat it, you get new version of your-self.
10. Imagineering Technique
Concept of imagineering is derived from imagination of engineering. Imagineering means let your imagination go higher and put it into engineering to design new things. It will boost your imagination power to convert your limitations into new opportunities.
Conclusion:
For the best results, apply all these techniques one by one at initial level and a blend of these techniques at higher level. It will make you master of your own destiny.
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Very compelling and argumentative article. “visualization is the mean, imagination is the end” very beautiful line to draw a demarcating line between visualization and imagination. Frankly speaking i 1st time realized the difference between the two exchangeable terms. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful article