Let Your Imagination Fly
the weather is beautiful today
it is lovely outside with the sun
shining the sky is clear
and on the way to school i saw a
beautiful and
richly colored pine tree right now i
have an image displayed in my mind i can
see the scene
i just described hear the birds singing
smell the freshness of the air and feel
the texture
of the wood and this is imagination
good morning everyone my name is yuyu
and today
i’m here to talk about imagination but
before i start
i would like to ask one question on a
scale of 1 to 10
how important is imagination
now if someone were to ask me about this
i would probably ask back
do you mean how important imagination is
to me
or to you to human in general
or to our society for our society
as a whole it is very clearly seen that
imagination is extremely important
without imagination scientists won’t be
able to come up with all those amazing
theories
there won’t be any technological
advancement and there will be
no amazing fiction novels in story
but for each individuals like you and i
the answer might be different i’m pretty
sure many people
here and out there probably consider
imagination
as a not so important skill and
may be rated as a one however
imagination is an extremely part of
everyone’s life
and being able to use it can help us in
many many ways
i did some research and found three key
evidence that
imagination is extremely important it
helps you overcome
fear and anxiety it gives you strength
to your brain
and it gives you inspiration for your
work in your life
but before i really get into detail on
those evidence let’s
first identify what is imagination
in psychology imagination is the ability
to generate sensations
that are not physically present so
basically
it is ability to smell see hear
feel and taste without having those
physical sensations
so what are some benefits of these
first let’s start by taking a look at
how imagination
can help you overcome fear and anxiety
according to your research brought down
by the university of colorado
in 2018 imagination is a neurological
reality
that can impact her well-being the same
as reality
so basically when you’re imagining
threats without negative consequences
your brain will be tricked into thinking
that in reality
there’s no negative emotion connected to
the fear you have as well let’s see
let’s take an example
let’s say that you’re afraid of a ghost
a lot of people are afraid of the ghost
they may use imagination to imagine
seeing a ghost and chatting with it
without
being negatively affected and this
will trick into their brain and will
help them thinking
that ghosts are not the same as
uh the negative emotion they used to
have and when they imagine this multiple
time
and every time the eddy is positive
it is likely that after a while their
fear of the ghost
will as well disappear another evidence
how imagination can be extremely helpful
is that it can give you inspiration for
your work in your life
so this may be really really hard to
understand
so let’s do an experiment right now
close your eyes and imagine that you’re
on a deserted island there’s only you
and there’s ocean all around you
for as far as you can see in the middle
of the island
there’s a palm tree you walk up to the
palm tree
and what does a palm tree look like now
you may open your eyes
see you automatically visualizes the
look of the palm tree
mainly its size and this shape
maybe even its color and texture
similarly
the instructions i give you are not
directing you
to imagining palm tree but your
knowledge have connected your past
knowledge
with the instruction i give you and this
is how your imagination will work
your imagination can make your brains
brainstorm with a wider perspective in a
more creative way
and will help you make those connections
when you use them in your work in your
life
so when you’re doing something and
you’re realizing you don’t have more
inspirations and you cannot think of
something creative
for your work in your life it’s actually
not a bad idea
to just let your imagination run wild
let your imagination fly
and sometimes new ideas and connections
will be made
and your problems is solved
but what if we don’t need any
inspiration for your work in your life
and we don’t have any fear or anxiety
is imagination really that helpful well
yes
imagination can help you strengthen your
brain
remember the definition of imagination
the ability to generate sensations
that are not physically present so as
research have shown that each sense is
connected to a different region of our
brain
your imagination can help you to realize
these
are reality and connected to the regions
of her brain without you actually
physically have to do this
for instance imagining playing piano can
actually
boost your neuronal connections that are
related to the fingers
so as we can see everyone can be
benefited from imagination
but is it possible to be better at
imagination
is it possible to be able to achieve
those benefits i mentioned before
by doing something and improving your
imagination
and the answer is yes as always
it is always possible to improve and be
better at imagination
and today i really want to talk about
how by practicing imagination
you’re able to cultivating imagination
and be better at imagining things and
the three methods i want to talk about
today are daydreaming
divergent thinking based on an object
and situational imagination
daydreaming it’s easy and fun
all you have to do is to think you
your brain will just take you to
somewhere you know or it would take you
to somewhere you might not
know and it is always a good idea
to just start right now close your eyes
and just think about something you you
do something you may want to go
somewhere you may not want to go and you
don’t have to
direct your brain into some direction
just let it go
the second very very interesting way to
help you practicing imagination
is actually divergent thinking based on
an object
this is a little bit harder than
daydreaming but you can also do this
very easily now i want you to look at
something
and just pick an object and think about
everything that you can do connected
with it
you can visualize the visuals you can
think about the smell the here all these
sensations that are connected to the
object
and as you think about this way you’re
actually connecting different regions of
your brain
you’re actually practicing and improving
the brain
that is actually helping you improving
imagination
the third way is a little bit hard but
it’s not that hard as well
all you have to do is to think about a
place rather than an
object think about a situation that you
have experience
or a situation you want to experience
for example pick your classroom think
about everything that could happen there
think about your actions and your
reactions think about
all the things that is connected to
classroom and
you don’t have to limit your thoughts
you can picture a dinosaur in your
classroom
or you can picture a media shower it
doesn’t really have to be something that
can happen
just let your imagination fly and use
your creativity
to this point our world treasures
imagination
our society relies on the imagination of
the scientists
artists authors but this doesn’t mean
those of
us whose life doesn’t revolve around
imagination cannot
learn to train and use imagination
anyone can use imagination to overcome
fear and anxiety
anyone can use imagination to help you
gain new inspirations for your work in
your life
and everyone can use your imagination to
strengthen your brain
after all albert einstein has said
imagination is more important than
knowledge knowledge is limited
imagination encircles the world thank
you