#Imagination March 30

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Over the past three weeks I have been able to spend extended time with my three year old granddaughter Bryleigh. Those interactions have included lots of role playing and listening to her IMAGINATION. She is constantly recruiting me to become one of the characters in her IMAGINED world.

One example is she climbed up on a wall that is used for seating around our backyard firepit. She immediately told me she was “Humpty-Dumpty” and was about to take a fall. She repeated the rhyme to the best of her knowledge every time she crawled up on the wall.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the King’s men
Could not put Humpty together again.

After she IMAGINED ten times she was Humpty Dumpty she informed me it was my turn. What an IMAGINATION that a 6’4″ grandfather could be an oversized egg but up and off the wall I went doing my best not to take too hard of a tumble.

Albert Einstein had many memorable quotes including the one below:

“IMAGINATION is more important than knowledge”

One of the dangers of getting older is we forget the many powers of IMAGINATION. For starters scientists have concluded that it strengthens our brain. Yet too many of us have wrongly assumed that we no longer have the power to IMAGINE. As Zig Ziglar says we have succumbed to “Stinking Thinking”

The power to IMAGINE is always there but we may have to stimulate our brain to get it up to full speed. An engine that has not run for a long time can still work but we have may have to jump start it. Our brain with a few simple techniques can be immersed in IMAGINATION again.

I came across an article in Psychology Today titled “7 Simple Yet Effective Ways to Jump-Start Your Imagination”. It was written by Fran Sorin. I suggest you give it a read.

The first step according to Fran is we have to change our self -perception. Our minds do not see the world as it really is but how we IMAGINE it. 30 Day Challenges especially ones that involve time in nature or solitude stimulate our IMAGINATIVE powers.

If you can IMAGINE seeing “all the Kings Horses and Kings Men” tell them that Bryleigh’s grandfather needs to be put back together again.