“Aha!”

Hello, Mark!

Thank you for another interesting tutorial. What you call the 10-second miracle is what I have called the “Aha!” moment…the moment when, after allowing seemingly disparate ideas to percolate, there is a sudden breakthrough to a new idea, technique or insight. I wonder if this process of becoming more creative is the balancing of the right/left brain. Does that moment of rest or humor or focus on another task give us the capacity to pull away from the logical left brain, dominant in most, to give the out-of-the-box right brain room to breathe?

You know, I’ve noticed that even animals, whom some once considered not sentient as we are (false), are creative in their own ways. Some animals do have the intelligence and persistence to work through problems in their environment in new and creative ways. To me, that says that we ALL are evolving–each form of life and consciousness. That’s exciting! That means that we continually have new frontiers to explore, new ways to develop and express ourselves.

“EEEK!” was my initial response to your mention of numbers. That’s not my strong suit. But you were talking about numbers in the broad sense, which help identify “what is,” not trigonometry and calculus and other scary stuff. I can deal with your number aspects.

In fact, I have in some of my previous endeavors. In one position, I worked for a German engineer who saw his world through numbers and graphs. I remember telling him about bottlenecks in my system. He listened very politely, but, despite my waterfalls of words, I could tell that he didn’t “get it.” So I determined to find a way to put my observations into language that he could readily understand. I created a system, based on daily productive activities, to create statistics to show bottlenecks, speed processing and, ultimately, please a satisfied customer. When I presented it to him after gathering a month’s worth of data, he was impressed. In fact, he was so impressed that he assigned a draftsman exclusively to my area (one of my goals) to eliminate the bottlenecks and regularly presented my findings to the executive meetings. Not too bad for someone who hates numbers.

It occurs to me that we can be creative in a fun, playful way or while under the gun for results. Sometimes an unforgiving deadlines ignites results. But I have found that perfectionism holds back creativity because it either makes it impossible to start or impossible to reach perfection on the first try. I’ve had to learn, after much gnashing of teeth, when “good enough is good enough.”

Another exciting development is that there are all kinds of breakthroughs in alternative medical treatments. Some of those treatments approach what is described in the work of Miss Annabelle’s students. We’re on our way!

Like most people, I suppose, I’ve had bursts of creativity…but I want to live in a creative state all the time.

Let’s make it happen!

Many thanks again,

N.

P.S. I haven’t been able to listen to the teleseminars or attend the chat rooms for the past few weeks. I’m working like a crazy woman on a few home improvement projects. My husband and I have been doing all kinds of improvements for the past 2 1/2 years and now the light is at the end of the tunnel. I’m rushing to finish some of the most time-consuming tasks so that we can enjoy our beautiful–but short–Michigan summer and focus on my FNE. Very soon!