FEAR -- THE GREAT ENEMY OF CREATIVITY

Fear has stopped people dead in their tracks – inhibited their abilities to grow and live life more abundantly. When we're fearful, we freeze up, stress out, withdraw from social events and end up living a life of lesser fulfillment.

Creativity brings about a sense of joy; happiness and balance into ones life. Look into the face of two young children drawing pictures – one won’t draw, for fear that everyone will laugh and the other, completely uninhibited and playful as though he/she hasn’t a care in the world. For both children creativity has a lot to do with their willingness to take risks – simple little risks that help us overcome procrastination, fear of rejection, fear of failure and fear of change.

Creativity is life altering. However, for many it becomes life threatening by bringing about change and we are terrified of change. But, it is creativity that allows positive change in the world and in our personal lives. It is what great leaders, business owners, and innovators bring to a prosperous and adventurous life that we are all entitled to enjoy.

Creativity comes from accepting that you have to let go of control. You need to let go of old world ideas -- not values. Businesses die everyday because of the fear harbored in people whose creativity has dried up because they are locked up in their little cocoon of false security, false fears and fighting the inevitable -- change.

Creativity comes from accepting and seeing things from a different perspective and stepping outside the normal channels of doing things. You can’t be creative while conforming to everything. You have to realize that what makes you different also makes you creative and creativity comes from our desire to play without fear of rejection, fear of failure and the fear of losing control.

The business of today is obsolete tomorrow -- A large part of innovation, in companies today, is welcoming differences. You have to be open to the unusual and understand that difference is often more positive, than negative. Overcoming the fear of change enables creativity and the ability to see something unusual and to recognize that the answer may lie in its difference.

Two keys to creativity that spark innovation are the ability to think beyond relatively conventional paradigms and to examine traditional constraints using nontraditional thinking. The second is to be able to go outside your own frame of reference and find another way to look at a problem.

Rekindle your creativity -- stop fighting the inevitable by embracing change. Work with these suggestions for making positive changes in your personal and business life.

1. Creativity comes from having an inquisitive mind --. It is the inquisitive mind that is asking, how can I, do it different with better results.

2. Creativity comes from letting go of control. If you are a traditional and “good old days” thinker – let go and move your thinking into now and the future.

3. Creativity comes from looking at something from a different perspective. As an exercise, recreate all of your business or company’s brochures – color schemes, typeface, themes and copy. Experience and appreciate the different.

4. Creativity comes from moving outside your industry norms -- challenge the status quo and statements like – this is the way we have always done it or this will not work in our industry. Look for alternatives for solving business and personal problems

Creativity comes from an active mind – positive self-talk and use of affirmations will stimulate the inactive mind.

Mind Upgrade -- Face Value of Visual Communication Dynamics

In your face marketing and selling, visual communication dynamics overwhelmingly influence our thinking and behavior. We are dynamically visual beings by nature. The eye is the most powerful information conduit to the brain -- continually feeding us images that create our perception of the world and shapes how we think behave and respond.

We think and dream in picture and images and the words we hear are processed and transformed into mental pictures. Images and sounds dominate human communication and as consumers we have come to expect media rich, entertaining dynamic visuals in advertising and marketing materials. What was once a trip to a shopping mall to purchase goods and services has turned into a visual entertainment event.

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Thinking the Pain Away; Patients can use imaging technology to control paincenters in the brain

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has released the following news article:

Researchers have developed a potentially powerful new tool that allows patients to fight pain by literally thinking it away. Volunteers put inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine were able to control the activity of a brain region responsible for pain perception, suggesting that the technology may someday provide a drug- and side-effect-free way to calm troubled nerves.

People have been using a technique called biofeedback for decades to control automatic body functions such as heart rate and muscle tone. By focusing on their pulse rate on a monitor, for example, people can actually lower it, in an attempt to relax. People have also learned to modulate their own brain waves, say, to move computer cursors. Christopher deCharms, the chief executive of Omneuron, a Menlo Park, California-based company developing clinical applications for functional brain imaging, wondered whether people could learn to dial up or down activity in a particular brain region to produce a therapeutic effect.

To find out, deCharms teamed up with pain specialist Sean Mackey and his colleagues at Stanford University. The researchers placed eight healthy volunteers one at a time in an fMRI machine, which maps the brain by region, and had them hold a very hot metal cube. A virtual reality display inside the machine depicted a flame whose intensity reflected the activity of their rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC), an arc-shaped brain region that previous studies had implicated strongly in pain perception.

Using the fiery feedback, the subjects learned to raise or lower the activity of the rACC by alternatively focusing on or away from the pain, or thinking of the heat as neutral or frightening. The better they controlled their rACC activity, the better they controlled the self-reported intensity of their pain. By contrast, volunteers who were asked to change their rACC activity without fMRI feedback, or with sham feedback from another brain region or from another volunteer's rACC, could not effectively do so, and also failed to control their pain, the researchers report online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We feel this is very strong evidence that the real-time fMRI information was necessary for this effect," deCharms says. The team also saw improvement with eight chronic pain patients who were taught to control activation of their rACC.

"It's a really interesting and potentially important finding," says Robert Dowman, a pain researcher at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. "This gives us another possible modality for [chronic pain] therapy that doesn't involve drugs." But don't expect a home version any time soon. Dowman notes that the $2 million price tag of fMRI machines will likely limit the method's practicality for the foreseeable future.

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NOTE: At Hypmovation Inc. our 38 years of case studies and results have proven that the techniques we use with clients through hypnosis produce a therapeutic effect of pain control.

These Experts Tell How to End Holiday Shopping Procrastination Now!

Are you one of those people who waits until the last second to holiday shop and then runs around like a crazy person?

Plenty of people do exactly that year after year. Audiences will love hearing veteran talk and radio show guests Don L. Price and Jim Zinger, who can show people why they procrastinate and how to stop.

This year can be different as self-hypnosis experts Price and Zinger tell your audience how they can:

• Start by making simple suggestions to themselves and end procrastination in four easy steps.
• Visualize themselves accomplishing the things they want (like seeing all their parcels neatly wrapped under the tree)
• Reward themselves for getting something done and not feel guilty about the reward.
• Carry over their “do-it-now” attitude to 2006.
  

CREDENTIALS: Don L. Price has 21 years of experience as a speaker and author in helping people use self hypnosis to better their lives.
Jim Zinger is a pioneer in the use of self-hypnosis in business and industry. Jim has been featured on television show Making It: Secrets of Success.

Together they have done over 500 radio shows and have helped over 50,000 people succeed in their lives. AVAILABILITY: Los Angeles, Southern California, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
CONTACT: Don Price or Jim Zinger (818) 841-0581

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