Radiant & Linear thinking

I have mentioned before that I use the dosey place between waking and sleeping as a very creative place. This morning, dwelling in the delicious space, cosy and comfortable it came to me the difference between this drifting kind of thinking that is all about connections and the normal linear thinking we employee most of the time. Tony Buzan refers to it as Radiant Thinking ^1&2.

I am no expert on the brain, but I would imagine the Left brain is more used for these linear methods and the Right brain for the radiant thinking. Try this amazing test to see what mode you are in right now. When I first looked at it, it was going one way; I read the text and low-and-behold! It was spinning the opposite way!

I also suspect that this kind of connective thinking is something that more women do well, whilst men tend to rely on the logical processes and often decry the value of any other form of logic. The thing is, the rules of logic as specific to their own domain, and expecting the Universe to be governed by one set of rules is a bit like trying to expect footballers to play soccer using the rules of chess!

So today, literally O P E N Y O U R M I N D and explore the world in a different way…. Bon voyage!

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein

 

 

References

1. http://members.optusnet.com.au/charles57/Creative/Mindmap/Radiant.html
   
2. http://www.worldtrans.org/essay/radiantthink.html
   
3. Another Left – Right brain test
   

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