How to pull ideas out of thin air

Is there a place where ideas germinate waiting for us to find them? A playground of genius waiting in 'the cloud' (translation: quantum field of possibilities) for us to pluck them literally out of thin air? The answer is YES!

Having played around with genius and innovation for the last decade, I know that ideas are like dandelion puffs, floating around in the quantum field waiting to be seeded into the fertile landscape of someone's passion. Then the inner genius takes over to sprout those ideas into all manner of new ideas and revolutionary breakthroughs.

To access these unformed ideas, one has to ...

* be willing to extend the mind beyond the current thinking,

* allow something 'new' to just drop into you and

* be amazed by the wonder of a quantum field filled with new'ness just waiting there for you to pluck genius from it.

I know this to be true from years of experience of pulling new words, concepts, ideas and innovation from this field of limitless possibilities. I suppose you could ponder that this might be the universe's think tank of possibilities for life. You could wonder at the marvel of it all and then dive in with glee to see what's on offer there for you. But what you can't do is think your way to this.

Consider our miraculous brains, the parts we use anyways, as software-filled computers, holding as much knowledge as we can pack into them. But if that brain (your stand alone computer) isn't hooked up to the quantum field (the infinite internet of ideas & possibilities), then what you get is a version of what you already know ... an improvement of what is without the quantum leap of new'ness that's just bursting to come through you.

This is an art form of its own kind, learning to surrender the thinking brain and all that you currently know, to allow true breakthrough genius to come to you. But I can tell you that there's nothing more exciting than this as you allow yourself to make an exhilarating relationship with the playground of ideas that can elevate life for us all. So let's explore and play with this some more....

• Be willing, at least for the moment, to brush away all the box load of training you have. Consider that you just might be able to go beyond that to discover something brilliantly new. Open up wildly to something new pouring through you.
• Have a willingness to unleash something deep inside you (let's call it your unique genius shall we) and to pour that out into the world.
• Then connect with the field of new ideas and limitless possibilities. Let's call it 'the cloud' just for fun.

It's here in this 'cloud' of the unformed potential of us all, that brilliance awaits us all. Anyone and everyone can access this field and anyone and everyone can be an innovator in whatever area of expertise calls to them.

When you call a new idea or possibility from the 'cloud', sometimes it comes to you fully formed and ready to roll into the world. Sometimes it comes like a drip drip drip, until some time later you discover you're standing right in the middle of a brilliant idea, a revolutionary solution, a new genius idea that's never been before. This is INNOVATION! This is what will reshape our world in the coming years and decades as the human race discovers its ability to engage in the creation of new possibilities with benefit for us all.

As a writer, consider that you could innovate a whole new possibility of writing. That you might stir generations to come with the genius of your ideas pouring through you. That you could free the world to new horizons with what flows through you now.

Seek brilliance. Innovate wildly. Allow this universe of new ideas to pour on through you. Light up with the world with the wonder of you.

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