Sometimes you may find it difficult to engage your creative side or feel as though you’ve hit a wall and cannot come up with any more ideas. Other times you may get so wrapped up in your day-to-day routine and the stress that comes with it that your mental clarity is a bit foggy.
Your subconscious and conscious are responsible for very important things in your mind. Think about the last time you felt anxiety for seemingly no reason, your subconscious was behind it. Your conscious mind allows you to be aware of the present moment. You’re aware of your environment, breathing, and an object that you’re sitting on. It also allows you to remember phone numbers that you frequently use. Think of it as memory recall.
Check out this page that gives you a little insight on how important the subconscious really is. Keep reading to find out how setting aside 20 minutes a day can help improve your creativity and bring you mental clarity.
Write down your goals/thoughts 10 minutes before bed
“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” – Thomas Edison
It’s important to give your subconscious some direction before you drift off to sleep. This can be easily done by meditating and/or writing down your thoughts or “requests”, the more specific you can be, the better. It could be anything. From what you want to accomplish, or something you’d like to explore.
When you do this before bed, you give your subconscious the opportunity to get to work on giving you the answers to your questions/requests while you’re sleeping. Not only that, but it helps you unwind from your day. Any thought that crossed your mind can be written down in addition to your requests.
10-minute morning reflection
When you’re asleep, your subconscious mind has time to look over your thoughts and make connections with your conscious. This may explain why your brain is most creative immediately after waking up. Research has confirmed that the prefrontal cortex of the brain is most active and creative immediately following sleep.
Try to repeat your before-bed routine in the morning instead of reaching for your phone or your computer. Meditation is another way to get the ball rolling in the morning. When you write down your thoughts/goals in a journal after waking up, you give yourself the ability to channel your subconscious and conscious thoughts in a much clearer and creative state.
Practice thought-dumping; when you write down your first thoughts in the morning it allows your mind to explore a higher level of thinking and creativeness. You may discover new ways to improve your relationships, romantic or friendly. You may find a better way to approach a problem that you have, or you’ll be able to discover a solution much easier.
You create your own destiny
The end goal here is to be able to connect both your subconscious and conscious thoughts to create conditions for yourself that give you the opportunity to accomplish the goals you’ve set for yourself, give you answers to the questions you have, and fulfill your requests.
Mental creation always comes before physical creation. For example, before a building is constructed, there’s a blueprint laying out all the details. Your thoughts are the blueprint of your life that you are building on a daily basis. Over time, as you begin to learn to channel your thinking, consciously and subconsciously, you are able to create conditions for yourself that make achieving your goals inevitable.
You essentially create your own destiny. Getting yourself into this simple routine will help secure where you want to go and how you’ll get there.
