by Tom Evans | Mar 14, 2012 | Timing
Listen to the latest Moments of Light podcast interview with Davina Mackail, author of The Dream Whisperer.
There are so many benefits of using your dream-time to be creative – apart from just being more efficient by using time we think is wasted, the quality of the information you can receive is quite literally ‘out of this world’ …
Listen to this interview to find out how to remember and interpret them and why buying a dream interpretation book isn’t necessarily a good investment …
Davina Mackail works as a shamanic life coach and healthier home and business expert.
She is also an experienced teacher, writer, presenter and inspirational speaker. Her passion is encouraging the magnificence of humanity and inspiring people to live from their hearts and fulfil their dreams. This has led to a life long study of the human mind, metaphysics, quantum physics, the nature of consciousness, philosophy, psychology and shamanism – a passion that is as much part of her being as breathing.
Her book, The Dream Whisperer, is published by Hay House will help you unlock the treasure house of your dreams.
The Dream Whisperer on Amazon.co.uk
Find out more about Davina and her magical work on her web site AskDavina.com
by Tom Evans | Mar 6, 2012 | Illuminating
When I trained as an iMindmap Instructor a few years ago, I was introduced to the concept of limiting each branch of the map to a single word. At first, I didn’t go along with this idea as I thought the application of any ‘rule’ might limit the creative flow. Once I learned, however, to see it as a discipline as opposed to a draconian rule, the benefits and reasoning behind it became crystal clear.
A year or so ago, I was stuck on chapter 9 of of my book on Light Bulb Moments. It wasn’t flowing so I used Tony Buzan’s technique of free association Mind Mapping on the words “light”, “bulb” and “moment”. Now had I mapped using the phrase “light bulb moment”, my mind might have been lead to “Edison” and then “phonograph” or “Topsy the Elephant” (Google it) or to “Eureka”, “Archimedes” and “bath water”.
Instead, as you can see on the map below, “Bulb” took me to “tulip” and to “Amsterdam”. The word “Moment” in isolation made me realise we have a moment in time and the moment of a lever around a fulcrum. As a result, I started a series of podcasts called “Moments of Light” in which people talk about how they had a light bulb moment and did something with it.
The word “light” as you might imagine provided a deep and wide source of metaphor and association. Light of course can be split into a spectrum of component colours. It made me realise that quantum physicists ascribe many attributes like spin, colour and flavour to exotic particles like quarks. Then a light bulb moment came in.
Is it possible that thought itself has properties like colour or flavours?
At that point, the writer’s block vapourised and the result was a chapter called “Flavours of Thought” which I didn’t plan to write. This led to writing a whole book of the same name a month later that I didn’t plan to write either.
As chefs use a mix of flavours in their concoctions, I also combined the flavours of thought into various recipes too. As a result, about a year later a membership site appeared on the scene called “Recipes for Fresh Thinking” that I didn’t plan to build. I started training “Master Chefs of the Mind” to solve many common mind-based issues prevalent in every day life.
I then came across some esoteric material on something called the Cube of Space. I found I could map my Flavours on to the Cube. As a result, I found I had from nowhere created an amazing tool for personal evolution and advancement. This in turn lead to a new practitioner programme called the Cube of Karma that I had no plan in developing. I see it now as a gastronomic recipe of all the flavours of thought.
None of this was planned, none of it was foreseen. This all shows the power of a true Mind Map.
Related Links:
The Art and Science of Light Bulb Moments
Flavours of Thought
