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Imagınation, Creativity And The Brain

Neither wisdom nor truth needs imagination. For you only imagine “things” you wish for, or dread, things which are not yet to come, whereas truth and wisdom are solid facts and do not require your garland of imagination.

If you dare to place the garland of your imagination around the throat of truth, it will choke for lack of wisdom.Imagination may distort or stagnate, but it can also ( at each quantum level) create an emotional impulse for a new decisive action until it is once again tempered through trial and error, intuition or objective reason.

Fiction adds things that are not there or subtracts things that are.Facts are still only valid if they correspond to the way things are.Your imagination can be used foolishly if you let impulses and instincts run it, or it can be used wisely if you use it to anticipate the upsides or downsides in the path of your primary objective and help you mitigate your risks/phobias and unrealistic rewards/philias.

Human creativity and innovation appear to have simmered for hundreds of thousands of years, with only a few innovations before reaching a boil some 100,000 years ago.

Increasing population sizes have catalyzed breakthroughs in cortical free association, technology and symbol usage, and large social networks have actively spurred human creativity.

Human brains make up only 2% of the total body weight but use %20 of the body’s resting energy. Humans become most creative and adaptive when they face new environmental challenges.

Their creativity and adaptability help them live longer.Creativity, innovation and improvisation in their many forms activate different brain regions than general memory and memorization, as demonstrated by functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures blood flow and hemodynamic activity.

Creativity is more responsible for how human’s evolved than any other attribute. Natural selective pressures (predation, oppression, challenge) initiate it.

Creativity is a whole brain activity that engages all aspects of your brain. When you are creative, your lateral prefrontal cortical regions undergo inhibition and shut down. These areas involve conscious self-monitoring, self-inhibition and evaluation of the rightness and wrongness of actions you are about to implement; due to outer injected values and social idealisms from other injected values and social idealisms from other outer authorities, your sure ego.

Your medial prefrontal cortices turn on. These areas are involved in self-expression and autobiographical narrative. They are part of the default network having to do with self. Creativity occurs when your brain reduces conscious self-monitoring.

When you become a masterful expert, you can and will do this, but while you are an amateur, you won’t and won’t.Creativity is maximized in you when you love what you do.

We love being creative, and we love to perceive creativity. Those “magnificently obsessed” with what they love doing are well beyond their performance and what opinions critics think practice and become the most creative.

About the Author /

Nevşah Fidan Karamehmet Nevşah is a teacher, speaker, best-selling author and successful entrepreneur. With more than 20 years’ experience in the field of Breathing Sciences, Nevşah is recognised globally as being the authority on dysfunctional breathing and thinking habits.  Her posts include Vice President at the Graduate School of Behavioural Health Sciences and founding president of Breath Coaching Federation, and she’s also a member of the Breathing Sciences Faculty. Her work has taken her all over the world, working with clients like HSBC, ING Bank, Vodafone, as well as well-known celebrities and professional athletes.