Imagination Celebration: Imagine the Possibilities
The month of August is “Imagination Celebration”. During this month we will focus on our imagination, and develop it.
Using your imagination should be the easiest of brain practices. Yet I want you to take it beyond just imagination in general terms. I want you to Imagine the Possibilities!
There are two fun activities we will do:
- Imagine Going Beyond the Current Limitations
- Write Your Own Story
Imagine Going Beyond the Current Limitations
Imagine going beyond current physics. Imagine going beyond society as it exists today. Imagine going beyond all of the mainstream beliefs.
What if we really COULD go beyond these limits? Then what? What might we do? What might be Possible?
I want you to start thinking about a topic, any topic, and then wiping away all “known limits”. Eliminate all “known truths” and “beliefs”. Wipe those away. Eliminate them. Then start again.
What might be possible now?
I want you to spend a week or two thinking about this. Pick your topic of interest, wipe away all known limits, and then let your mind envision new possibilities. What might we do? What might we create? Write all those ideas down.
Draw it, paint it, tell it in stories. Create essays and novels. How might this be? Let your imagination go…completely uninhibited! Imagine the possibilities!
Write Your Own Story
For this next activity, I want you to Write Your Own Story.
Forget about your reality. Your current reality is completely irrelevant for this activity, and thinking about it will in fact inhibit you.
For this exercise, you will be both a fiction character, and the author of that character.
Make yourself a fiction character in a novel. You are the protagonist. It is your story. Now, you are the Author of that character. What will you have that character do? What will he/she experience? What do you want to see that person experience, accomplish, enjoy, and overcome?
Remember: anything is possible! This is a fiction story, and you are the Author. There are no limits, none whatsoever.
Your character can see anything and go any place. Your character can face any challenge and any obstacle, and overcome it. Your character can choose what he/she enjoys, and freely enjoy doing it without any critics in the background. It is all yours. The whole thing!
Envision it. Write it. Draw it. Paint it.
Use your imagination, use your feelings, use examples of people who admire. Put this all together in a series of stories and scenes that are perfect for your character.
Be sure to imagine as many details as possible. Details of locations, clothing, people. Details of all feelings and physical sensations. These will enhance the realism of Your Story.
The purpose of this activity is to help you develop your imagination when it comes to possibilities – specifically to your own life. And, in the process, you might just start a sequence of real events where some of your scenes do actually come true!
Songs and Poems Related to Imagining Possibilities
“Try” by Mark Fennell
“Dreams” by Langston Hughes
“Can You Picture That” by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher
“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” by Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston, and Mack David
“The Rainbow Connection” by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher
“Life is like a Movie” by Paul Williams and Kenny Ascher
Mark Fennell, August 2016