Lesson 5: Uniting With The Inner Source.
Footnote:
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Section 5-1: Brainstorming, What Is The Inner Source?
We are going to perform an exercise in brainstorming to determine what the inner source is. First, I will present an 'inner source overview, then we will go through a brainstorming exercise. To perform this exercise you need to do the following:
- Have a well-defined and clearly stated problem.
- Have someone assigned to write down all ideas as they occur and are brought before the group.
- Have someone in charge to enforce the guidelines.
- Have the right number of people in the group.
- Suspend any judgment.
- Encourage every idea, they are all to be accepted and recorded.
- Encourage people to build on ideas of others.
Encourage way-out and odd ideas. Brainstorming is the act of defining problems or ideas and coming up with anything related to your topic no matter how remote the suggestion may sound. All ideas are recorded and evaluated after brainstorming is complete.
I. Procedure.
- In a small or large group select a leader and a recorder. (This can be the same person.)
- Define the problem or idea to be brainstormed. (Make certain everyone understands the topic that is being explored.)
- Set up the rules for the session. They should include:
- The leader being in control.
- Everyone being allowed to contribute.
- No one insulting, demeaning, or evaluating another participant's response.
- No answer considered incorrect.
- Recording each answer unless it is repetitive.
- Setting a time limit for the activity.
- Stopping when the exercise is complete.
- The leader being in control.
In the singular situation you can use this group overview for your independent brainstorming session. Also, when you begin a major piece of work-you may incorporate family, friends, writing group associates, etc. to perform the act of brainstorming. Once you have refined this tool, you may also brainstorm with groups of folks that have a relation to your topic without their knowledge of a writing in progress within your mind-if this were to be a formalized scenario-you would perhaps want to receive a release statement for their ideas. Brainstorming is a good way to ascertain the knowledge base of your potential readership and landing fortuitous ideas.
Once you finish brainstorming, go through your results and begin evaluating responses. Initial qualities to look for when examining responses may include:
- Responses that do not fit-eliminate them.
- Like concepts-group them into well defined statements or questions.
- Repetitive or similar responses-group them into logical sequences.
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Individuals are much better at generating ideas and fresh directions. Once an idea has been born, a group may be better able to develop the idea and take it in more directions than can the originator. In your performance of independent brainstorming, you may then desire to bounce your thoughts off your agent, or a good friend, or a total stranger on the bus or metro. Have you ever wondered why some of famous authors have had eclectic hangouts where they entertained (seemingly at times to the exterior world) strange groups of people, or as they say, "hung out with the weirdoes?" The reason could be that they were developing broad scale ideas through live brainstorming sessions with variants of people whose customs may not have been quite like their own. Of course, they were truly sincere friends in their associations, but the variations of friendships aided their writing and brainstorming was an element of that process, you may be assured.
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II. Understanding the inner source .
Getting in touch with the 'inner self' and hearing the 'inner voice' is tantamount to your writing enhancement. The voice of the spirit residing deepest inside of each of us delivers a unique approach to the fulfillment of writing goals. Bookshelves are jammed with information on meditative techniques, transcendent spiritual experiences, and ways to build self-identity in addition to inner confidence. A number of these texts are referred to with this lesson series. We aren't going to draw uniformly from these texts, rather treat them as supplements to the lesson material. I urge you to purchase them when you may, read them, and utilize the material.
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It's a worthwhile goal to hear your inner voice. It is where the whispers of your psyche and the universal consciousness are to be found. It is where thoughts ramble without stumbling over words, where ideas spring from, where images dance, and where the imagination soars. The inner voice is where emotions find root and spiritual longings arise. It is also where we find the stuff that makes us human, the stuff all humans have, and where the home of differences defining us as individuals reside.
II. Brainstorming Exercises:
