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(Commentary by Mitch Carter)
Creativity is a function of the brain. To tap into creativity you have to cut off all external input by closing off your senses—sound, sight, touch. Any external input will direct your brain to react to that input. To reach creativity, this powerful tool in our brain, you need to sit alone and think.
In solitude you feel the feelings in the center of your lower chest by focusing on them. After a while your feelings will access thoughts you have in your head. As you separate and isolate the multitude of feelings in the center of your lower chest area, each feeling correlates with a thought in your brain.
At first the feelings/thoughts are shallow and numerous, everyday events, some in the past, some in the present. You fall into a trancelike state or stupor from the mundaneness of your thoughts. Eventually deep thoughts seep in and make you sit up and take notice. A chill runs down your spine as you experience a deep understanding of the world.
In solitude your thoughts come to you in pictures instead of words. Big pictures, big overviews which show you so much more than you were able to see with words. You are now in creativity, but you are stuck because you can’t express yourself in pictures. You need words to be able to communicate.
You are in danger of losing the whole picture if any outside input interrupts you and breaks your train of thought. Now you learn to read the picture. Much like a detective you look for clues, and realize the truth. When you are able to decipher what the picture means, you are able to translate your new understanding in words.
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