Enhancing Creativity through Gaining Inspiration From Within
Jose Silva, parapsychologist and founder of the Silva UltraMind ESP System used to demonstrate an experiment on creativity with kids in his hometown of Laredo, Texas. He would ask kids to think of solutions to a particular problem while they were at the beta, or waking, level of mind.
He would then guide them to the alpha, or meditative level of mind and ask them to think of further solutions. The children were always able to come up with more ideas while at alpha.
Does your mind function more creatively when you're at the alpha level of mind?
There is surprising evidence for this, both from first hand experiences and laboratory evidence.
Napoleon Hill, the best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich and The Laws of Success believed that the human mind was capable of tapping into universal fields of intelligence to access ideas and inspiration.
Napoleon Hill illustrates this idea about gaining inspiration from within in the quote below:
"The great artists, writers, musicians and poets became great because they acquire the habit of relying upon the "still small voice" which speaks from within, through the faculty of creative imagination. It is a fact well known to people who have keen imagination that their best ideas come through so-called 'hunches'." |
Hill talks about how one inventor from Maryland, the late Dr. Elmer R. Gates used this technique to come up with over 200 patents. Gates would sit in his sound-proof laboratory equipped with a pad of writing paper.
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He would shut off the lights and ponder on the known factors of the invention on which he was working. He would remain in this position until ideas began to "flash" into his mind in connection with the unknown factors of the invention. |
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On one occasion, ideas came so fast to Gates that he was forced to write for almost three hours. When the thoughts stopped flowing and he examined his work he found that they contained a minute description of principles which had not a parallel among the known data of the scientific world. Moreover the answer to his problem was intelligently presented in those notes.
"It's likely. . .he was entering his Alpha Level."
The greatest inventor of our time, Thomas Alva Edison, used a similar technique. Edison was known for taking frequent naps in the middle of the day. It's likely that during these naps he was entering the alpha level. He would often come out of these naps with the solution to problems that had been bugging him.
Edison was awarded 1368 distinct patents and invented, among other things, the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, the film projector, and the first motion picture.
Edison was known to have said "Ideas come from space. This may seem impossible and hard to believe but it's true. Ideas come from out of space."