Children are good with imagination, because they haven’t yet finished building their framework for reality. The gaps and open spaces they fill with the stuff of imagined worlds, driving curiosity, problem-solving, and learning. Inevitably, children become adults, and quickly learn about fear, pain, responsibility, loss. They learn about expectation and disappointment. And slowly—or in some cases, not so slowly—the resources of our beautiful minds are constrained to survival, stress, and the ambiguous problem of the future, and how to control the creation of it.
People with high levels of anxiety have active imaginations, but tend to paint a picture of reality that relies heavily on the negative outcomes of the past.
Likely why we tend to make the same mistakes over and over. Practice instead cultivating a creative imagination, where your thoughts are not reacting to fear, but responding to it with it's antidote: love, excitement, and presence.
The world isn’t all unicorns and rainbows, obviously. But the narrative you weave into your imaginings can make you a victor or a victim. The trials you encounter can be seen as devastating blows that send you hurtling back to square one, or as obstacles in the journey towards your destiny. Flowery it may be, but it works. And if you can go through your day imagining an exciting reality with solvable problems and slayable monsters, instead of a constant cosmic beatdown, then why not?
Start to practice imagining, day dreaming, allow your mind to rest, and in that rest, allowing it to wander.
Cultivate a healthy imagination by making room for that which is positive and uplifting. This will take a while. It's not something that's going to happen overnight. A good start? Clear out the proverbial closet, and limit the amount of space you allow your worry to occupy. Play with your perspectives. Replace negative thoughts with positive ones.
Meditate. Write. Draw. Listen to some good music and smile.
And, of course, I'm biased. Go practice with your yoni egg.
Seriously. Powerful. Stuff.