Why Lateral Thinking Is Wrong

Lateral thinking is meant to improve your creative thinking. And it surely does.

However, there is no need for figuring out a solution to a problem by observing random objects. There is a much easier way to develop your creative thinking.

Lateral thinking concentrates only on outside objects, letting your brain create different solutions as a result. However, this may not completely solve the problem nor would it be the quickest and best way to deal with it.

Better Solution

Instead of using lateral thinking, you should firstly visualise your goal.

If you want to achieve something, you should clearly see the outcome. For example, if you want to find a loving partner, you should see in your mind’s eye yourself happily living with a partner of your dreams.

For problem solving, you should clearly see how the solved problem will look like.

What difference does such visualising make? By clearly visualising and then waiting for the response of the universal mind, you will start getting super creative ideas and clues as to what to do to get what you want.

Result – much less work involved on your part plus unlimited creative ideas. Your limited thinking does not interfere in this process thus allowing you to fully benefit from the greater intelligence.

Lateral thinking offers some creative solutions, but they are as creative as your mind allows them to be. Whereas visualisation gives you unlimited creative solutions that you would never receive from your limited thinking.

The Technique

Relax, close your eyes and calm down. If you meditate you will know how to do that. Just go into yourself, rather than paying attention to the outside. Concentrate on your breathing.

Once you are calm, start visualising. Form a clear mental image of your desire. Dwell on that image solely, do not let to be distracted by anything. Try to see your desire as clearly and as detailed as you can.

Feel how you would feel already in the possession of your desire. See yourself where you want to be. Dwell on that image for at least 5 minutes. 20 minutes would be ideal, but I do not expect you to be that patient if this is your first visualisation.

5 minutes will work okay, if you let the universal mind bring you ideas. What do I mean by that? Some people perfectly visualise, but they do not believe that they will receive any ideas from such activity. Therefore, they block the greater intelligence from reaching them.

You should expect and be open for the ideas to reach you. Only by opening up to the ideas you will let them flow into your life. And there will be many of them flowing, if you let them in! The more open you become, the more ideas you will get.

Choose the best ideas and act on them with a peaceful mind. Universal mind’s ideas will show you the quickest way to achieve what you want.

Once these ideas come, you will notice how creative they are. The solutions you will get from the universal mind will be very original and even humorous.

My first ever visualisation was a huge success. I manifested my desired goal within a day. Since then I’ve been a huge promoter of this technique. It is much easier to achieve goals this way than using any other technique including lateral thinking.

I will tell you briefly how the idea was presented to me in the most creative way possible!

After reading about the power of visualisation, I decided to try it myself. I had a real headache searching for my mp3 player’s usb connection. I had not used my player for a month because I just could not find my misplaced usb.

After reading about the technique, I decided to visualise that I was successfully charging my mp3 player with the usb connection.

After around six hours from visualisation I worked on my laptop. Suddenly the broadband connection stopped working. That was very surprising because I was working quite late, and my mobile broadband works just fine at such time.

I decided to remove the mobile dongle so that I could reconnect and see if the problem still persisted. And guess what I found… The usb from the dongle was the exact fit for my mp3 connection!!!

Although I used the usb dongle for a couple of months, I could never even think of this solution. Yet when I started to visualise, this solution was brought to my attention. It was always there, yet before I had no ability to recognise it.

Simple. Creative. Quick. Effortless. That’s what the visualisation is all about:)

That’s the idea behind the saying that money making ideas are everywhere, but if you are not open to see them, you will not see them:)

Personal Intelligence vs. Universal Intelligence

By using lateral thinking you may develop new neural paths because of the new thinking processes you use. For people on some consciousness level that would be a good idea. But for someone who starts to realise the truth behind all the appearances, personal intelligence can be a burden and a block to receiving greater intelligence.

You see, once you develop more intelligence you are bound to get more inner voices assessing situations and advising you what to do. Instead of listening to the intuition and being guided by the universal mind, you let your limited experiences guide you. This is not a good solution if you want to effortlessly realise your goals and progress in personal development.

Therefore if you feel that you are not ready to be guided by the universal mind, lateral thinking may be the right choice. However, if are ready to open up to the greater power, lateral thinking would be nothing more but a burden.

The same applies to the goal setting. Goal setting is a great method to achieve your desires. However, for people on highest consciousness levels (near or on the enlightenment level) goal setting seems unnecessary as they are well above this need.

I hope I have clarified your decision about the use of lateral thinking. Now you should decide if you are still in need of this technique or you are open to manifesting your goals with the use of universal intelligence.

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