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This follows our last post about a "friendly imagination".The imagination is a powerful gift. It is a creative tool you can use in many ways for yourself and others. Children have a great insight into this power and use it in play and story telling. As adults we tend to neglect it. We could use it in a "friendly imagination" way just observing others in those quiet waiting times in dentist or doctor's office or in our commuting back and forth from work on the transit system. You can use it prior to a major sales call or meeting to just relax into the possible sequence of events. The imagination can be supplied with plenty of material and background triggers. The imagination is primarily reproductive and therefore it must have something to reproduce. A person developing a "friendly imagination" must have an awareness of what affects other people and also police what affects oneself. Being aware of the triggers, makes it easier to add a positive spin to most anything. The habit of attention, observation, concentration must be cultivated so that the imagination can draw , either to reproduce or to recreate.
The imagination can not be totally set free to do imagine anything it wants. The will has to step in to sort out the good and the bad images. No one can tell what image will appear and the will has to police the operation. The moment one relaxes just a bit, the imagination goes off on its own. A certain power of control has to be exercised. Images can affect our personality in both a good and bad way. If we take in a wrong image, we do our personalities harm. For example, if one spouse is watching another spouses wandering glances, they could create a mountain of harmful images. Emotions start playing a part.
If one is happy, bouyant, joyful then the imagination presents pleasant images and vice versa. When one is down or feeling depressed, it is good mental health exercise , to fill the mind with uplifting images. One can develop a clever use of the imagination in the process.
The contribution of imagination to personality is tremendous. Good speakers know this. A good conversationalist can communicate a vivid picture in words to listeners. The personality reaps benefits from this in many ways on both ends of the conversation. It provides a way for us to understand others. People do not like each other if they fail to understand each other. It takes an imagination to evaluate themselves too with a listening ear. The secret of understanding others may well be called a "friendly imagination". The ability to reconstruct something of the interior of a person's life, their secrets, their terrors, is indirect proportion to imaginative power. People become kindly when they are treated kindly. Human nature has a way of rising to the occasion and we tend to like and even love people who make us rise. We can supply a kind of personality atmosphere to people we are just meeting. It is surprising how much they become what we expect them to be.
Our study of a "friendly imagination" will continue with the next post.
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