El éxito en los negocios depende de cómo piense. Los seis sombreros para pensar es un método único y conveniente para tomar decisiones y explorar nuevas ideas, que le ayudará a pensar mejor.

De Bono, reconocido como autoridad mundial en el tema de pensamiento conceptual, desenreda el proceso de pensamiento, separando los elementos como emociones, información, lógica, esperanza y creatividad. De esta forma, elimina la confusión – principal dificultad a la hora de pensar.

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sunt convins ca daca toti am impartasi celor din jurul nostru din cunostintele si informatiile noastre, am fi cu totii mai buni in ceea ce facem

Asta e cred principalul motiv pentru care intretin acest blog.  Din acest motiv stau la ora asta tarzie sa scriu aici. Pentru ca ma ajuta pe mine insumi. Si astfel poate (cine stie) ajut si eu pe cineva la randumi (sau asa mi-ar placea sa cred cel putin)

Am gasit de curand acest site: b vo (The Business Voice). E o sursa excelenta de informatii de management, leadership si strategie. Si nu numai. Si am urmarit un interviu cu Edward de Bono. Acesta vorbeste printre altele despre cat de diferita e expunerea la mediul real de afaceri fata de alte medii precum politica de exemplu.

In mediul de afaceri e foarte important sa ai incredere. In tine, in ceilalti. Sa afisezi incredere si sa te simti sigur pe tine.

De fapt cred ca marele atu vine din faptul ca te pune sa gandesti.  Sa anticipezi si sa iei decizii rapid.

Si cred ca aceasta este si sursa de lidership in mediul de afaceri. Aceste atitudini creeaza liderii din mediul antreprenorial.

Desi am reusit, cel putin pana acum, cu cateva zile inainte de finalul unei campanii electorale, sa nu fac trimiteri la mediul politic, ma vad nevoit sa o fac acum. Am urmarit serile trecute o discutie intre un moderator tv si liderul de campanie al unuia dintre principalele partide angrenate in lupta electorala din aceasta perioada. Si am concluzionat ca “seful de campanie ” nu se numeste deloc intamplator “sef” si nu “liderul de campanie”. Pentru ca din discursul sau lipsea orice urma de lidership, de idei articulate si de rigoare a discursului. Si din pacate m-a facut sa ma simt doar ca nu acolo e punctul unde merita sa ajungi.

Din pacate in felul acesta politica va mai amana inca cateva generatii acumularea experientelor de leadership .

De ce am zis la inceput ca simt ca ma ajuta blogul? Pentru ca in ultima vreme orice urmaresc la televizor, aud la radio, citesc, vad in jurul meu  trec prin filtrul blogului. Ma gandesc in ce fel pot contrui si exprima o idee plecand de la ceea ce simt intr-un moment anume., de la ceea ce cred intr-un anumit moment.

Asadar urmariti ce zice Ewdard de Bono si ziceti mai departe. Cititi o carte si recomandati-o altcuiva mai departe. Mergeti la un spectacol si recomandati apoi si altora sa mearga.

Da! Cred ca pe mine cu asta m-a ajutat cel mai mult mediul de afaceri. Sa incerc sa fiu tot mai bun in a da inapoi celorlalti din cele invatate de mine.

E’ un metodo per stimolare la creatività, con il pensiero laterale o divergente, ideato da Edward De Bono. Dà spazio a tutti i tipi di pensiero che l’essere umano non è consapevole di possedere, spingendo all’uso delle facoltà che non si usano.

Nelle relazioni con gli altri, capita a tutti di fossilizzarsi su un solo punto di vista, oppure di sovrapporre diversi tipi di pensiero, generando confusione e difficoltà di confronto. Ogni tipo di pensiero non è né negativo né positivo in sé, semplicemente esiste. Un pessimista, che vede sempre tutto nero, distrugge ogni fiducia in un’idea nascente ma può anche evidenziare gli aspetti rischiosi di un progetto.

Le emozioni possono arricchire di significati un’idea ma anche inquinarla: considerate inferiori e perciò mai ammesse ai “tavoli degli adulti”, se restano inascoltate, compresse, trovano poi dei modi plateali e distruttivi per manifestarsi.

Con il sistema dei cappelli colorati, da indossare assumendo in sé il pensiero corrispondente, si scoprono i diversi aspetti del nostro modo di affrontare la vita, quelli che non usiamo mai e quelli che usiamo sempre, si riesce a distinguerli e a dirigerli, come un direttore fa con i suoi orchestrali. Con il gesto teatrale di indossare cappelli di colori diversi, ogni tipo di pensiero ha il suo spazio legittimo di espressione, accettato e riconosciuto dal gruppo, come una maschera mette al riparo dal ruolo che s’interpreta. Costruite dei cappelli colorati, anche con dei semplici cartoncini avvolti a cono. Indossate a turno il cappello di un colore e valutate la situazione in oggetto, stando ben attenti ad usare, con quel cappello, solo e soltanto quel tipo di punto di vista.

• Cappello bianco: richiede l’esclusiva valutazione dei fatti, l’assunzione di un punto di vista neutrale. Nessuno ha idee prefabbricate: con il cappello bianco si assumono informazioni, parlano i dati, le cifre, con assoluta precisione e imparzialità.

• Cappello rosso: è l’atteggiamento opposto, è il momento di lasciare liberi presentimenti, intuizioni, impressioni. Con il cappello rosso non abbiamo alcun bisogno di giustificazioni, ragioni e motivi per ciò che sentiamo: emozioni, sentimenti, irrazionale vanno legittimati e resi visibili.

• Cappello nero: qui s’indossa la logica negativa, il giudizio critico. Il cappello nero consente di esprimere un punto di vista pessimistico, distruttivo. È il momento di evidenziare gli errori, i rischi di un’idea, di porsi domande negative.

• Cappello giallo: rappresenta il pensiero positivo, fattivo, costruttivo, che mette in luce i vantaggi di un’idea. Con il cappello giallo si fanno proposte, suggerimenti, si immaginano nuovi scenari per il futuro, si garantiscono efficacia e innovazione: non c’è creatività senza ottimismo.

• Cappello verde: apre la mente a nuove idee, concetti, concezioni, crea deliberatamente, cercando cambiamenti e nuovi approcci ai problemi. È il cappello della creatività, porta a muoversi invece di giudicare, a considerare l’idea come ponte, propulsore, per qualcos’altro. Qui si indossa la logica dell’assurdo, della provocazione a caso, del cambio di maschera.

• Cappello Blu: è il momento di pensare col pensiero, di organizzare il pensiero. Il cappello blu è il direttore d’orchestra, richiede il controllo degli altri cappelli, per la sintesi di tutti i punti di vista, definisce il problema, compila un programma, un quadro complessivo.

Dari Healing Collection menambah koleksi anda dari Tapas Fleming dengan TAT (Tapas Acupressure Techniques). Berikut ulasan mengenai Tapas dan TAT.

About Tapas Fleming and TAT®

Tapas Fleming began her passionate search for truth at age 15. For many years her focus was on enlightenment, interpersonal relating and emotional release. In 1974, Tapas was initiated into natural meditation, a yoga-meditation for purification and liberation. After losing premature twins and coming close to dying herself, she went to school to learn acupuncture and focus on her own healing. In 1993, Tapas came up with a new simple and elegant way to serve her patients — Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT). She is a leading force in the emerging field of energy psychology. Tapas lives in Redondo Beach, California where she has a private practice and travels worldwide to give TAT trainings.

THE TAT® STORY (HOW I CAME UP WITH TAT®)

Both in my own life and as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I have often wondered how to get myself or a patient out from under the negative influence of past events. However much therapy or meditation or other forms of healing one undertakes, certain issues never seem to get resolved once and for all.

I cannot claim to have painstakingly arrived at a solution to this dilemma. Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) came to me after taking a nap in my office one day. I woke up with the thought of a particular acupuncture point and how it could be used for healing a person’s whole system. I was specializing in allergy work at the time, using a combination of acupressure and acupuncture, based on the methods of Dr. Devi Nambudripad of Buena Park, California. The acupuncture point is called Urinary Bladder 1 (UB1) or “Eyes Bright” as it is called in Chinese.

I immediately began to incorporate this point in my treatment of allergy patients with great success. After several months, a new patient told me, “My T’ai Chi master told me to use that point with one other for headaches and other problems.” Although my insight was based on my training and experience as an acupuncturist, this simple confirmation of my own experience meant a great deal to me. I added the third point the yT’ai Chi master mentioned.

After another few months, I was contemplating the fact that the occipital area of the brain is the vision center and that the points I was using for treatment were related to vision. I thought that perhaps if I included the brain’s vision center in the treatments I was doing, it would enhance the treatments. It did. An entire layer of complication in my allergy treatments (combining an allergen with other substances in order to achieve a complete clearing) was no longer necessary with the addition of placing the back of the hand on the occipital area of the head. The healing was more complete with less steps.

What I have discovered from using TAT goes beyond what I learned as part of my professional training. I discovered in my acupuncture practice that our bodies, not just our minds, have memories. Not just our memories, but the memories of our ancestors. If we stop and think about it for a minute, it becomes obvious that our bodies are the product of our parents’ bodies. We look like our parents, and often have similar health problems as our parents. Well, to take it many steps further, our parents’ bodies came from their parents’ bodies, whose bodies came from their parents’ bodies, and so on for a long, long way back. The color of your hair and your eyes, the shape of your hands and feet, your bone structure, and some of your health problems are the legacy of both your recent and ancient ancestors. Just as car manufacturers base new models on a long line of previous designs rather than reinvent the wheel, you are the latest model of your ancestry.

Again, I did not come to this conclusion through study and thought, but through experience in my clinical practice. For example, I was working on a patient who was allergic to dust. As I was treating her I “saw,” you might say psychically, a farmer pushing a plow and breathing in copious amounts of dirt. Big clouds of dust rose all around him as he followed his plow. Without mentioning the complete image I was seeing, I just talked to the patient about the dust of the land where she was living, and in her conversation to me she revealed that she came from a long line of German farmers. What was coming to me from her body was what I would call the cellular history of her present life in this body. Our bodies have living histories which we could call cellular memory. When an ancestor experienced something traumatic, that memory seems to be stored and passed down at a cellular level.

I was inspired to explore cellular memory more deeply when I worked with a patient who, by her early 30’s, had been in nine car crashes which she hadn’t caused. She had suffered a concussion and other major traumas to the head, and was suffering from constant neck and headaches with a couple of migraines a week. The story I “saw” was about a young boy of eight or so who was in a mountain cabin with his father. A crazy mountain man came in and killed his father, smashing his head open. When I mentioned this, my patient was silent for a few moments, then told me that her father had fallen, smashed his head, and she was there when it happened. She then told her sisters about what had come up, and her sisters told her that they knew of two men in the family who had been murdered by people smashing their heads in. The sisters also talked about the fact that their young children had already suffered an inordinate amount of concussions and blows to the head in the course of their growing up.

I began to realize that I had been given the gift of seeing the history of the cells of a human body and a way to heal the traumas that had been passed down from generation to generation: TAT. What I have learned from working with many friends and patients in these last several years is that when the story of those cells is heard, they release the stored trauma they have been holding and are able to rejoin the organism they are part of and get on with this business of living. Using TAT, a person doesn’t have to have a conscious or psychic vision of what happened. The TAT pose itself along with your focus on a trauma creates a connection between the cells’ memory and your function of vision. You “re-view” the trauma and it is integrated in a few moments.

WHAT IS A TRAUMA AND WHAT DOES TAT® DO?

A trauma occurs when life becomes unbearable and you tell it “No.” Or variations on the theme which could include: “Hold it right there.” “This is too much for me.” “If this happens, I won’t survive.” This is not necessarily a conscious choice. It is a natural response to your life in that moment. This response sets up patterns of mental, emotional, and physical behavior and health. A blockage, or energy stagnation has just been put in place and your life has been impacted. It seems like a good idea at the time, but you lose the ability of distinguishing the difference between a truly life-threatening event and an event that merely has certain aspects that resemble the original traumatic event. It is as if life were a flowing stream, and at one point, out of fear, you roll a boulder into it to try to dam the flow in order to keep a traumatic event from happening to you. The water, of course, simply flows around the boulder, but in your life – in your body, mind and emotions – there is a blockage that wasn’t there before.

From the view of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a blockage of energy flow creates disease. If you consider the blockage as a boulder in your body’s life flow, you can easily imagine that the life energy that would naturally be flowing along certain streams is going to be diverted. On the upstream side of the boulder, there will be dammed up energy, on the downstream side you will find a lack of energy. This creates emotional, mental and physical disharmony which is also known as a yin-yang imbalance. On one side is too much, on the other is not enough. The goal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is to achieve balance.

TAT is a way of saying to your whole body-mind: “Have another look at this.” It is an opportunity to change, based on taking a new look, rather than continuing to look away. By taking another look, within the context of TAT’s direction of the body’s energy flow, the charge that is still being held is removed from the past event and the event can now be integrated into your whole system.

What has that charge been? It’s traumatic stress which is simply the stress to your system of continually trying to hold off a trauma. That event really did happen. Working to deny its existence or hold it away from you is stressful. Traumatic stress ends when the trauma is no longer resisted. TAT accomplishes this in moments.

I would say that TAT reunites a person with parts of himself or herself that have been locked away or frozen in time. There are many ways to describe the results of TAT. Integration, harmony, peace, unity, connectedness, relatedness, oneness and wholeness are a few of the terms people have used to express how they feel after doing TAT.

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E pensare che credevo di aver avuto uno spunto originale…

Invece ieri sera mi trovo davanti a queste parole di de Bono: “nello ju-jitsu, se uno dei lottatori prevede le mosse dell’avversario è in grado di utilizzarne la forza e il peso e di volgerle contro l’avversario stesso. Allo stesso modo si può prevedere il corso dei pensieri di una persona che ragiona verticalmente [in senso strettamente logico, ndr], e trarne profitto.“

(da “Il Pensiero Laterale, come diventare creativi” – Edward de Bono, BUR, pag. 157)

Lavoro a coppia sull'anticipo, toccare la spalla e schivare - studio dell'avversario.

L’analogia di de Bono si aggiunge alla mia (o, meglio, la mia si aggiunge alla sua…), e osserva la stessa questione da un’angolazione diversa: le arti marziali non solo possono aiutare la mente a ragionare in modo “laterale” ma possono anche aiutarci nel “prevedere” i comportamenti del nostro avversario.
Ora, “prevedere” a mio avviso è una verbo da usare con cautela. Non si tratta di vera e propria preveggenza. Più che altro è lo sviluppo di una certa sensibilità che ci porta ad anticipare le mosse del nostro avversario in modo spontaneo, senza forzature. Tu “tiri”, io so già prima che tu parta dove vuoi arrivare. In qualche modo “ti sento”. E non ci sto pensando, lo sento e basta.

Gli orientali dicono che prima attacca il nostro Qi, poi attacca il nostro corpo.

Quando una persona ci attacca, se siamo in grado di “sentire” il suo Qi, siamo in grado di “prevedere” le sue mosse e usare la sua forza contro di esso.

Se siamo in grado di intuire il suo processo mentale, siamo in grado di “manipolarlo” e volgerlo a nostro vantaggio.

Direi che tutto torna, grazie Edward

Purchased a couple books the other day and have been reading in my heap of spare time and trying to apply it lol and Mum was feeling native so she made sardines and salted eggs for lunch.

As students, we don’t really have background information about Edward De Bono. Is it our school or our own level of research on innovation that we should blame on the fact that we didn’t read ‘Lateral thinking’, or one of his other books ?

But while watching him do his thing, we saw an innovation-veteran. Inspiring for young people like us, and a great example of how to live your life with passion for what you do. We can only hope that we can reach that level of expertise and wisdom.

Powerpoint, Flash, Moviemaker, … Nothing can compare with the simplicity of De Bono’s presentation style. Drawing while you speak gives the audience the feeling that the speaker is sitting next to you. And working with an overhead projector, maybe with a glass of wine and some Jazz music, gives a very cosy and warm feeling.

Not representive for the amazing content of his presentation, but in this video you can see De Bono DRAW A HOUSE! (winkingsmileyface)

By Thomas

Thanks to the people from FlandersDC I will be attending the 11th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation. Expecting lots of inspiration and new ideas for this blog.

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This year’s edition of ECCI is taking place in Brussels, at the brand new meeting place The Square. Great venue, if you ask me.

Getting ready for creative action
“Enough said about creative theory, it’s time for some creative action.” Talking about creativity is interesting but also frustrating. When attending creativity talks I often went home with lots of great advice, but those were just words. In the end putting these ideas into practice is what counts.

Not in this conference. Apparently, ECCI XI is all about making it happen.

Here great advice and practice should go hand in hand. Apart from the keynotes (more about that further on) there are a bunch of workshops to get us started.

Here’s my pick for the next 3 (!) days.

Day 1:

• 11u00: Virginia Stephen, “When Artist, Executive, Educator and Facilitator Converge: Visual Literacy Becomes a Dynamic Idea Mover” OR Jana Görs, “Five Theseses for Improving the Outcome of the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation – How to Launch a Bird, not an Egg.”
• 14u30: Sandra Minnee, “Creating Acceptance for Change: Mastering Conflicts”
• 16u30: Marc Bogaert – Luc De Schryver, “From Intention to Innovation: How a Company’s Cultural DNA can bridge the Gap between Innovation, Intentions and Results.”

Day 2:

• 11u00: Marcel van der Pol, “The Story of the Hero: Finding Treasures and Making Ideas Work”
• 14u30: Maureen Jenkins, “Regenerating Sources of Creativity – Your Personal Disciplines”
• 16u30: Stavros Michailidis – Donald M. Drost, “Make it Happen with Momentum”

Day 3:

• 11u00: Dorte Blegind, “Coaching as a Tool for Successful Implementation of innovative Projects”

Keynote speakers + Interview with Edward De Bono

Every great conference has interesting keynote speakers. I’m looking forward to the talks of Alberto Alessi, Kobus Neethling and Edward De Bono.

Thanks to Koen Peeters of Flanders DC I get the opportunity to do an interview with The Maltese Guru of Lateral Thinking: Edward De Bono. The interview will be published on this blog, later this week.

Earlier today I asked you to send me your questions for Mr. De Bono.

These are the questions I’ve selected for the interview:

- Is creativity a science or can it be a science? (Batist Vermeulen, Art Director @ Jetstream / Ceci n’est pas de l’art)
- What would you recommend to diplomats of the Copenhagen Summit? (Leen Creve, Journalist @ Knack Weekend)
- For people who feel they have a book or two in them, what would you recommend they do to get it written and out to read? (Bernd Nurnberger, Cocreatr @ Purple Pointr)

Thanks for the great questions tweeps!

Stay tuned.

Laat ons beginnen met een filosofische vraag: wat is het belangrijkste bij het nemen van een beslissing, de juiste beslissing nemen (wat natuurlijk hypothetisch is) of tevreden zijn met de genomen beslissing? Als je de tweede optie prefereert dan heeft Edward de Bono een interessante techniek voor u:

Geef bij het maken van een beslissing elk alternatief een nummer en gooi dan met een dobbelsteen om te beslissen welk alternatief het wordt. Gewoon het lot laten beslissen dus!
Niet zo gek als het lijkt, omdat het de last van het nemen van een beslissing wegneemt. Mensen hebben trouwens de neiging om hun beslissingen te rechtvaardigen en te verdedigen, omdat men nooit zeker weet dat men de juiste beslissing genomen heeft.

Dit is natuurlijk slechts 1 beslissingsmethode. Voor alle andere methodes is er het boek ‘Beter denken‘.

Bon, ik neem nog een wijntje, de dobbelsteen heeft beslist. Het is trouwens goed voor het hart. Santé!

People are so varied that sometimes, just when you least expect it, an individual will emerge from an unlikely and obscure place and their story will take on a life of its’ own. There are the bona-fide experts on subjects who make ridiculous statements with all the seriousness they can muster, and some – Edward De Bono – are even taken seriously by people who should know better. There are the bored code-monkeys who discovered how to make money from thin air, kids who fool the world with balloon-related pranks, and actors jumping up and down on Oprah’s sofa.

Great way to prove you ain’t gay, Tom…

Oh the joys of seeing the things that go on. If I tried to write a novel which encompassed the absurdities of life, and kept strictly to things which have actually occurred, it would be laughed out of town as unbelievable. Life is complicated, and sexy, and hilarious, and ridiculous, and disgusting, and horrifying… Simplifications of what our existence amounts to in fiction makes reality even more ridiculous when viewed through sober eyes and a clear mind.

It’s hard to put down on paper (or type, as I do) fiction that contains just enough absurdity to reflect reality, but doesn’t fall into unbelievability. I still haven’t worked out if I should try to explain why people are so wrong when they claim that some fiction is like life ripped from reality and pasted on the page. Does it matter that such a feat is impossible? The ailments, observations, minutia, boring bits, slapstick and bowel movements of the average person (though such an individual arguably does not exist) cannot be captured on paper without some degree of editing.

“Literary” still has some growing up to do before I take it seriously.

Any ‘reality’ is a skewed one when put on paper. The digital superhighway – such a stupid term, but a useful way of comparing the internet to a neverending traffic jam – is filled with supposedly ‘real’ moments in private lives. I’ve got no time for moronic “Lookit me, I’m setting my head on fire” videos, and even less time for ten-minute-long videos of people bemoaning their pathetic existence. It isn’t real, because the artifice of display gets in-between the truth and the viewer. Big Brother, whilst listed as a ‘reality show’ is merely the end result of focus groups and sadistic producers. No reality involved.

I’ve been reading a lot of blogs and websites this past week which seem inclined to accept stories in newspapers at face value. The habit certain individuals have gotten into, of merely saying whatever in the news interests them, is a bad one. I’m tempted to start linking to these blogs and taking apart the news they hold dear, but I really don’t want to re-read their take on the news. Which is, as any intelligent person can see from the cover of a newspaper, nearly always skewed and distorted by reporters and editors.

One of the funniest things about British news is the insistence that half-naked women are of urgent importance and news worthiness. No. Sorry, but I’m not impressed. It’s trifling and irrelevant scum journalism which borders on the stalker-ish. Two-page spreads on forthcoming television shows? Hackery of the worst kind. Giveaways? That’s a sure way to increase readership, especially when a national tabloid decides that cartoon DVDs will boost readership. Can I say “The Sun / Daily Star / Daily Record was grooming children” without a lawsuit? Fuck yeah. Try and stop me.

Only when all barriers between subject and audience has been removed will reality be represented in anything other than a superficial and meaningless way, and we ought to start taking what we see, hear and read with a pinch of salt. It is especially important that people come to realize that Hollywood – that legendary vile den of iniquity – shoulders a fair proportion of the blame for ills which are now, sadly, all too common. Anorexia? Thank the airbrushed posters of skeletal good-for-nothings celebrities.

The rise in breast implants? Posters of Keira Knightley with massive tits ain’t fooling anyone. I’m shocked that people believe the ‘perfect people’ are free of cellulite, blemishes and zits; elevated individuals who have never experienced the delights of either diarrhea nor broken noses… It’s dangerous portrayals of ‘the body beautiful’ which infect minds and begin the slow descent into self-awareness in teenagers. And younger. Can’t we, as a species, accept that we’re fed so much bullshit from the media?

Yeesh, that’s a rant and a half… I’m stopping before I upset anyone else. If I’ve missed any targets, please let me know who to lay into next.

Playtime.

If that one word doesn’t trigger some kind of emotional response in your soul, stop reading- and call your doctor.

Playtime is awesome.

This post is getting better and better, isn’t it? What memories does that three word sentence evoke? I’ll tell you the five things I think of when I hear playtime:

1. Cops and Robbers (or jailbreak/release as we Western PA’ers call it)
2. Four Square
3. Playing football with the neighborhood kids until the streetlights came on
4. Creating games out of thin air…and loving it
5. Laying wide awake in bed the day before vacation

Playtime.

What a word. So then, I now pose this question:

Why does Playtime have to stop?

Simple question. Many answers.

Is it because the word “play” sounds so young, and fresh, so it has to die once we get older?

Surely not.

Not being able to play limits the ability to be creative. It hinders the spirit to explore new boundaries, think differently, and improve things.

No playtime. No progress.

Show me a person who doesn’t want a play, and I’ll show you a person that is unable to be creative.

Play Away.

The United States workforce spends the most time working IN THE WORLD. Who can schedule enough playdates with only a national annual average of 4 weeks vacation?

How can we bring on change and innovation, when we are surrounded by Debbie Downers that refuse to even consider “radical” ideas? If we changed “radical” to “playful”, would the idea be listened to? Probably not.

An intelligent mind is a playful mind. One who is not afraid to take the “established” norms in society and make a game out of it. Isn’t that what that whole revered theory of Provocation is about? (example: If your computer keyboard had no letters, what would you do to make it functional?)

Let’s bring that chlidish mentality back. Enter situations like you’ve never seen anything like it before, as if you were a newborn. Experience is good in some cases, but when creativity is involved, it is highly overrated.

Okay, enough writing. Meet me at the sandpit!

Il rapporto tra creatività e comunicazione commerciale. Delicato. Perché, si sa, la pubblicità spesso si autodefinisce come la meno nobile tra le arti. Ma al contempo sa che, osando, potrebbe pure reclamare il proprio posto al sole. Leggete cosa ne pensano i creativi che hanno risposto al nostro appello.
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Il pensiero laterale, concetto introdotto dallo psicologo e medico Edward De Bono, è una “modalità di risoluzione di problemi logici che prevede un approccio indiretto ovvero l’osservazione del problema da diverse angolazioni, contrapposta alla tradizionale modalità che prevede concentrazione su una soluzione diretta al problema” (fonte Wikipedia). In sostanza, per cercare la soluzione ad un problema NON si parte dalla soluzione più ovvia, ma da approcci alternativi, magari focalizzandosi su dettagli apparentemente marginali.

Ma dove un’arte marziale può aiutarci a osservare un problema da un’angolazione diversa dall’usuale, a pensare al di fuori degli schemi? Pensiamo un po’ alle nostre reazioni a determinate azioni da parte di un aggressore (sia esso reale o per gioco): una spinta per esempio. Se guardiamo due bambini spingersi, molto probabilmente quello dei due che spinge più forte, perchè più forte o più pesante (vantaggio relativo), sarà quello che avrà la meglio. Ciò accade nella maggior parte dei casi, tranne quelle rare volte dove c’è quello “un po’ più furbo” che ad una forte spinta non si oppone. Cede, si sposta lateralmente o in modo circolare (come, in differenti modi, nel Taichi, nell’Aikido o nel Kung-fu T’ien Shu).

L’aggressore a questo punto, sorpreso da una mossa inaspettata, generalmente perde l’equilibrio. Più forte è l’attacco, più facile è che l’epilogo per l’aggressore sia un capitombolo … la disfatta più totale per ogni bambino

Arti marziali e pensiero laterale, reazione ad una spinta - foto luciapoggiali.com

Ciò che cosa ci insegna? Ci sono azioni e reazioni che escono dagli schemi, che sono inaspettate e che generano scompiglio. È chiaro, una reazione inattesa può anche non portare al risultato sperato, anzi, peggiorare la nostra situazione. Se lo spostamento laterale non viene eseguito correttamente, potremmo essere “intercettati” comunque dal nostro avversario, fornendo un fianco ancora più debole all’aggressione. Ma se la mossa riesce, e per riuscire necessita di determinazione, preparazione e coraggio, allora sarà possibile tramutare una situazione di svantaggio in uno scacco matto.

Sia chiaro, cedere NON è capitolare, è il non opporsi ad una forza ma utilizzare la forza stessa dell’avversario per raggiungere un risultato a noi favorevole.

Se in una contrattazione con più offerenti del medesimo bene veniamo trascinati in una battaglia sul prezzo e sappiamo che non potremo mai vincere dato che il  nostro concorrente è più economico, proviamo a spostare il focus del cliente sui livelli di servizio, sull’immagine, sulle prestazioni e la qualità del nostro prodotto. Oppure proviamo a fare un’analisi più accurata delle necessità del cliente. Potremmo scoprire che ci sta chiedendo qualcosa che non gli serve o che non risponde esattamente alle sue necessità o che, peggio ancora, abbiamo offerto un prodotto di fascia troppo elevata per le necessità del cliente stesso.

Quest’ultimo caso mi è capitato di recente dove, curando gli interessi di un cliente in un acquisto rilevante di materiale informatico, il fornitore più accreditato ha perso la commessa per essersi focalizzato solo sul prezzo del prodotto offerto, senza accorgersi che stava offrendo un prodotto dalle prestazioni eccessive rispetto alle reali necessità del cliente. In questo modo l’altro offerente ha firmato facilmente il contratto, senza neanche “spingere” troppo…

Per tornare al parallelo con le arti marziali quindi, sarebbe bastato non focalizzarsi solo sulla forza della spinta (il prezzo) ma spostarsi “lateralmente” lasciando disperdere la forza del concorrente, portando il discorso su altri livelli ed analizzando meglio la situazione.

Ci sono persone più portate di altre al pensiero laterale, ma come in tutte le cose, anche in questo caso è possibile allenarsi. Allenati, impegnati, sii determinato ed i risultati arriveranno.

Nota: Edward De Bono sarà Domenica 18 ottobre al Festival della Creatività alla Fortezza da Basso di Firenze alle ore 17, pedana del padiglione Cavaniglia.

“El Pensamiento Lateral”

Pensamiento lateral o pensamiento divergente (del inglés lateral thinking), es un termino acuñado por el psicólogo, fisiólogo y escritor maltés Edward de Bono para el pensamiento creativo. Su primera aparición fue en su libro The Use of Lateral Thinking, publicado en 1967.

Generalidades: De Bono define el “Pensamiento lateral” como un conjunto de métodos de pensar que permiten cambiar conceptos, percepción y aumentar la creatividad. Es una colección de teorías de “pensamiento divergente”, que no son inmediatamente obvias y que no pueden seguirse, usando solamente la lógica tradicional paso a paso, y que se concentran en generar nuevas ideas, en cambiar conceptos y perspectivas.

Por regla general, nuestro cerebro aborda los problemas de modo racional. Fundamentamos nuestras respuestas en lo aprendido, con una base histórica y con un enfoque plenamente lógico, pero en muchos casos es importante aplicar otra perspectiva a la resolución de problemas.

De Bono encuentra que el pensamiento lógico, que es fundamentalmente hipotético y deductivo, tiene una gran limitación de posibilidades cuando se trata de buscar soluciones a problemas nuevos que necesitan nuevos enfoques. El término “Pensamiento Lateral” fue acuñado para diferenciarlo del “pensamiento lógico”, al cual llamó “Pensamiento Vertical”. Los caminos del “pensamiento lateral” son situaciones extrañas, absurdas o ilógicas para nuestro cerebro y requieren una explicación. Exponemos algo que debe ser resuelto, parece muy difícil de solucionar, pero si pensamos lateralmente, evitando lo lógico o lo obvio, enfrentamos viejos y nuevos problemas con nuevas ideas. El Pensamiento Lateral actúa liberando la mente del efecto polarizador de las viejas ideas y estimulando las nuevas y lo hace mediante la perspicacia, pero sobre todo mediante la creatividad y el ingenio, procesos mentales con los que está profundamente unido. En vez de esperar que estas tres características se manifiesten de manera espontánea, De Bono plantea el uso del pensamiento lateral de manera consciente y deliberada, como una técnica.

El término pensamiento lateral (lateral thinking) fue propuesto para representar todos esos caminos alternativos que no estamos acostumbrados a usar. Según De Bono, la mayoría de la gente tiende a ver sólo una forma de resolver el problema cuando puede haber varias formas de resolverlo que no son visibles a simple vista. En España, Manuel Toharia, José Antonio Marina y Ricardo Marín Ibáñez reivindican a menudo la importancia del pensamiento divergente. El Pensamiento Lateral no es un método creativo de resolución de problemas con pasos explícitos. Es una colección de técnicas de pensamiento divergentes como:

* Divergencia.
* Pausa Creativa.
* Foco.
* Desafío.
* Alternativa.
* Seguidor del Concepto y Concepto.
* Provocación.
* Movimiento.
* Entrada Aleatoria.
* Los Estratos.
* La Técnica del Filamento.
* Fraccionamiento.
* La Técnica del Porqué.
* Tormenta de Ideas.

Comparación con otros tipos de pensamiento: El Pensamiento Convergente: Guilford, en 1951, clasificó el pensamiento productivo en dos clases: convergente y divergente (o lateral). Es el pensamiento lógico, convencional, racional o vertical. El pensamiento convergente se mueve buscando una respuesta determinada o convencional y encuentra una única solución al problema. Mientras tanto el pensamiento divergente (lateral) se mueve en varias direcciones en busca de la mejor solución para resolver problemas a los que siempre enfrenta como nuevos, sin mantener patrones de resolución establecidos, pudiéndose dar así una generosa cantidad de soluciones adecuadas en vez de encontrar una única y correcta.

Una idea en el Pensamiento convencional a diferencia de una idea en el Pensamiento creativo puede ser invalidada por las objecciones siguientes:

* Eso no es así.
* Eso no funciona.
* Eso no puede cambiar.
* No es una nueva idea.
* Es demasiado caro.
* Es irreal.
* Es estúpido.

El Pensamiento Holístico: Holismo es la palabra que describe la tendencia de la naturaleza a crear conjuntos mediante el ordenamiento o agrupación de muchas unidades. En 1927 el mariscal de campo Jan Smuts, experto agrónomo y militar acuñó el término “Holismo” en su libro “Holism and Evolution”. El pensamiento holístico percibe las cosas en su conjunto y no analiza sus partes. Ve el bosque más que los árboles. Según Smuts, las realidades básicas naturales son conductos irreductibles que no es posible separar para analizarlos según sus componentes sin perder su cualidad “holística”. Este tipo de pensamiento es muy importante para el desarrollo de la creatividad pues permite a los líderes, directivos, científicos o artistas, considerar las distintas situaciones y oportunidades como un todo, para así evaluar la incidencia que los diferentes impactos independientes o relacionados, generan sobre el resto y el todo. El trabajo en equipo es un concepto holístico con resultados sinérgicos. En un equipo cohesionado, el todo es mayor que la suma de sus partes. El director de orquesta tiene la responsabilidad sobre el “todo”, cada uno de sus músicos ejecutan la parte de la partitura que les corresponde. El Director de Orquesta debe tener el pensamiento holístico sobre sí mismo, sobre el resto, sobre el todo.

Máximas de De Bono: El autor intenta con ellas indicarnos qué es el pensamiento lateral:

La percepción es real incluso cuando no es la realidad. (Perception is real even when it is not reality.)
Si no decide el futuro según sus designios, alguien o algo lo decidirá por usted. (If you do not design the future someone or something else will design it for you.)
Puede que necesitemos resolver problemas sin suprimir la causa. Hemos de diseñar el método para seguir adelante incluso si la causa sigue existiendo. (We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.)
El pensamiento tradicional sólo trata de “lo que es”; el pensamiento futuro ha de tratar necesariamente lo que puede ser. (Traditional thinking is all about “what is;” future thinking will also need to be about what can be.)
La efectividad sin valores es una herramienta sin una finalidad. (Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.)

Acertijo de ejemplo: ¿Por qué tenemos que pensar “de frente” a la hora de enfocar los problemas de lógica o de matemática en general? ¿Es el camino más fácil el “correcto” en el enfoque de cualquier problema? El pensamiento lateral trata de encontrar soluciones imaginativas, distintas, que se apartan del clásico enfoque “de frente” de cualquier problema cotidiano. Esto se manifiesta en los llamados “acertijos”, en donde la solución, en general, no es precisamente, aquella que más se “espera”:

Antonio, padre de Roberto, un niño de 8 años, sale conduciendo desde su casa en la Capital Federal y se dirige rumbo a Mar del Plata. Roberto va con él. En el camino se produce un terrible accidente: un camión, que venía de frente, se sale de su sector de la autopista y embiste de frente al coche de Antonio.

El impacto deja al borde de la muerte a Roberto, pero Antonio sigue con vida. Una ambulancia de la ciudad de Dolores llega casi de inmediato, advertida por quienes fueron ocasionales testigos, y el niño es trasladado al hospital.

No bien llega, los médicos de guardia comienzan a tratar al chico con mucha dedicación pero, luego de charlar entre ellos y estabilizarle las constantes vitales, deciden que no pueden resolver el problema de Roberto. Necesitan consultar. Además, advierten el riesgo de trasladar al niño y, por ello, deciden dejarlo internado allí, en Dolores.

Luego de las consultas pertinentes, se comunican con el Hospital de Niños de la Capital Federal y finalmente conversan con una eminencia en el tema a quien ponen en constancia de lo ocurrido. Como todos concuerdan que lo mejor es dejar a Roberto en Dolores, la eminencia decide viajar directamente desde Buenos Aires hacia allá. Y lo hace.

Los médicos del lugar le presentan el caso y esperan ansiosos su opinión. Finalmente, uno de ellos es el primero en hablar: “¿Está usted en condiciones de tratar al chico?”, pregunta con un hilo de voz. Y obtiene la siguiente respuesta: “¡Cómo no lo voy a tratar si es mi hijo!”.

a) ¿Antonio es el padrastro?

b) ¿Antonio es cura?

PIENSA BIEN TU RESPUESTA

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Solución: La eminencia es una mujer y por supuesto es la mamá.

Como se advierte (si quiere vuelva y relea todo), no se hace mención al sexo de la eminencia en ninguna parte. Pero nosotros tenemos tan internalizado que las eminencias tienen que ser hombres que no se nos ocurre considerarla mujer.

Y esto va mucho más allá de que, puestos ante la disyuntiva explícita de decidir si una eminencia puede o no puede ser una mujer (habría de demostrarlo), creo que ninguno de nosotros dudaría en aceptar la posibilidad tanto en una mujer como en un hombre. Sin embargo, en este caso falla. No siempre se obtiene esa respuesta. Más aún: hay muchas mujeres que no pueden resolver el problema y cuando conocen la solución se sienten atrapadas por la misma conducta machista que condenan.

Sin duda una gran técnica, que nos hace ver las cosas de distintos puntos de vistas para llegar a infinidades de soluciones.  Es aplicar nuestro lado derecho del cerebro donde se concentra esta habilidad de mirar mas creativa mente las cosas que nos pasan todos los días, por que esta técnica se puede aplicar a cualquier problema cotidiano y así no estar resignado a que los problemas siempre tienen que tener la misma solución y ahogarnos muchas veces en un vaso de agua.

Les dejo algunos otros acertijos para que apliquen esta técnica:

Acertijos de Pensamiento Lateral:

LOS ANTEOJOS: La abuela estaba desayunando y en un descuido los anteojos se le cayeron en la taza de café, sin embargo los anteojos no se mojaron ni un poquito. ¿Cómo es posible que no se hayan mojado?

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EL INTERRUPTOR: Hay tres interruptores afuera de un cuarto que está cerrado con llave. Adentro del cuarto hay tres lamparas. Usted puede encender y apagar los interruptores cuantas veces quiera, siempre y cuando la puerta del cuarto permanezca cerrada. Entonces, usted debe entrar una sola vez al cuarto y determinar cual interruptor le corresponde a cada lampara.

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LA LICENCIA DE CONDUCIR: Un joven por salir de prisa a encontrarse con sus amigos dejó olvidada la licencia de conducir. Una vez en la calle no se detuvo en la luz roja y siguió por una vía de sentido contrario. Todo esto fue observado por un policía de transito quien no hizo el menor intento para impedírselo o para citarlo. ¿Por qué?

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EN EL CONVENTO: Un hombre vino a visitar a las monjas del convento cuando la madre superior se encontraba de viaje. El hombre se marcho antes de que la madre regresara y fue muy cuidadoso al no dejar nada que revelara que su estadía alli. Las monjas no dijeron nada acerca de la visita. Entonces, ¿Cómo supo la madre superiora que un hombre había estado en el convento?

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Respuestas

RESPUESTA:
Café no significa solo café líquido. Los anteojos no se mojaron porque cayeron en una taza de café en grano.

RESPUESTA:
Encienda el primer interruptor por solo un minuto y entonces apáguelo. Después encienda el segundo y déjelo encendido. Luego, entre en el cuarto y toque las 2 bombillas (focos) que están apagadas. La bombilla que está calientita es encendida por el primer interruptor. La bombilla que esta encendida es la que está conectada al segundo interruptor y la otra es la que esta conectada al tercer interruptor.

RESPUESTA:

El joven no iba manejando, iba caminando.

RESPUESTA:

La tapa del servicio estaba alzada y el borde salpicado.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0040vrg/The_Interview_29_08_2009_Edward_de_Bono/

Edward de Bono has championed a new way of thinking for more than forty years. He has set out to challenge the logical, truth-seeking process established by the Greek philosophers 2,400 years ago and cemented in Western culture in the Middle Ages by the church.

That way of thinking is fine, but is not sufficient to meet the problems posed by the modern world. To solve the great challenges of today — global warming, the credit crunch — better, more creative thinking is needed, claims Dr de Bono. And he has spent much of his life proselytising his vision. Such concepts as lateral thinking and the six hats are part of his new way of thinking that he says will equip all sections of society to live better lives and solve more complex problems.

In this week’s edition of The Interview, Edward de Bono tells Lyse Doucet how he became aware of the failings of conventional thought, how he has championed his new way to business leaders, politicians and children, and why he still wants to realise his dream of establishing a Palace of Thinking to encourage a revolution.

Some have accused him of arrogance, some say he is just plain wrong, but Dr de Bono is always charming and entertaining as he seeks to convince the unenlightened.

La Promenade. Marc Chagall. 1917-18

“For hundreds of years we have believed that if something is logical in hindsight, then logic should have been enough to get the idea in the first place. This is complete and total rubbish.”— Edward de Bono.

Next to my pillow for the last week has been The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher. Came across a piece by Edward de Bono on page 140 of the beastly thing. The last post I wrote was about how little we teach children in regards to their inner world (NOT, for the record, cranky teachers who eat 9 year old egos for lunch…)

De Bono believes that teaching students “how to think” is as important (if not, ahem, more) than teaching Math/Science/Language Arts. He says crazy things like:

“Thinking should be a deliberate act, rather than a reactive one.”

And… “Language has been the biggest help, and the biggest barrier to human evolution.”

The piece I’m posting is a blatant cut/paste until I can find shreds of time bigger than a fingernail clipping to blog. I don’t know if I’ll be sent to the principals office for copyright infringement… but I’ll give credit and see what happens.

Enjoy………………………………………………

We don’t think in words. The temptation to equate thinking with language is because words are more palpable than thoughts. After all- I’m thinking- if I couldn’t talk to myself how would I know what I was thinking?

Thinking is hard work; few engage in it.

For those who do there are a number of ways of sorting, each with advantages and disadvantages. They can be broadly categorized:

Natural Thinking. This is fluid and undirected, it wanders and meanders, is subject to repetition and generalizations. The sort of thinking that goes on when we don’t think we’re thinking.

Logical Thinking. This selects a route and follows it to its conclusion. With this approach the solution is largely predetermined, so if you head off in the wrong direction you can end up painting yourself into a corner.

Pattern Thinking. This confines thoughts to operate within given rules. Therefore solutions are limited by the possibilities available within the pattern.

Lateral Thinking. This is purposeful in intent without specific aim. Freewheeling so it can reveal solutions which might have been overlooked in other approaches.

Grasshopper Thinking. (Brazen Method of Preference.) Most of the time our thinking jumps around alternating and mixing between reasoning which adheres to measurable responses, and imagining which allows unpredictable currents to play around with data. Producing electrico/chemical sludge.

If Ulysses James Joyce exploited the fact that we don’t think in words, and even if Ulysses is so complex as to be inaccessible (at least to me), it must still be a gross simplification of the mush of muddled thought constantly churning, tumbling and swirling around in our heads.

Paradoxically education allocates more value to logic and analytical skills than to imaginative conjectures. Thus law is held in esteem whereas art, or design is considered a fiddly, fussy, arty-crafty activity of minor intellectual endeavor. An attitude with an attitude- particularly perverse since analysis looks backwards while design looks forwards.

Language also plays its part. Have you noticed that when we don’t agree with someone we say: “I don’t think so.’ The ‘… think so’, literally indicating a prescribed route.

The conventional thinking we are taught (and conditioned to think) employs what Edward de Bono calls ‘rock logic.’ Rocks being solid, hard, permanent, inert and unchanging. Like bricks, rocks can be added on top of one another to build structures. However there is also ‘water logic.’ this is fluid and flows according to gradient (context), and assumes form according to space (circumstance.) If you add one rock to another, you get two; if you add water to water, it changes shape. Rocks analogous to a page of accounts and water to a piece of poetry.

The former has units which add up to a conclusion, the latter has images which conjure up a perception. One isn’t better than the other; it’s courses for horses.

To move from hod to pail do Bono suggest inserting an equivalent of the mathematical zero into our thinking. He suggest ‘po‘, a neologism derived from hy’po‘thesis, sup’po’se, ‘po’ssible, ‘po’sition, and ‘po‘etry. Confronted with a sticky situation one inserts ‘po’ into the equation, instead of giving a knee jerk res’po‘nse. This allows for time to generate new thoughts and ex’po’se fresh perceptions. ‘Po’ can open the mind to reveal ‘po‘tentials outside of conventional thinking and analytic evaluation.

The world we have around us is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, unfortunately it has also produced problems we cannot solve on the same level of thinking at which we created them.

Alan Fletcher. The Art of Looking Sideways (Phaidon 1994.)

Extraido del blog de Lateral Consulting

Quizás esta época de crisis nos permita recuperar viejos valores que teníamos escondidos en algún cajón. La fase del crecimiento desbocado de nuestra economía en los últimos 30 años llega a su fin. Nada será tan fácil desde ahora, pero hay que ver la parte positiva: posiblemente desenpolvemos la cultura del esfuerzo, algo muy útil para generar nuevas ideas (entre muchas otras cosas).

Incluyo en este post una cita del pensador Edward de Bono de 2004, titulada 8= 6+2, referida a la limitación del pensamiento por la falta de interés en seguir buscando respuestas alternativas tras obtener una primera respuesta certera. De Bono insiste en la necesidad de no quedarnos con la primera respuesta, de seguir buscando, de mirar hacia otros lados. Las aplicaciones de esta forma de pensar inconformista darían excelentes resultados en campos como la política, la gestión de empresas o el deporte. Ahí va la cita:

La mayor parte de la gente no puede distinguir entre: 6 +2 = 8 y 8 = 6 +2. La diferencia puede ser bastante importante. La suma de 6 y 2 siempre nos conducirá a 8. Sin embargo, 8 puede estar compuesto de otras combinaciones distintas de 6 y 2 (5 +3, 4 +4, 7 +1).

¿Por qué es importante esto? Debido a que la gente comienza a creer que si tiene la respuesta “correcta” no hay necesidad de pensar más porque no llegaremos a mayores precisiones. Tener la respuesta correcta significa que uno no tiene que escuchar otras respuestas, ya que nunca podrán ser más ciertas. El resultado es una grave limitación en el pensamiento. Edward de Bono 8 de 2004

När man tror något, alltså tror liksom “förmodar”, inte i någon religiös bemärkelse, så kan detta sitta mycket fast i hjärnan. Man kan t.ex. tro att man inte är värd något, att man är mer värd än andra, eller att andra med flit lägger sina kläder framme bara för att du skall bli irriterad. Sådant där som man när man tittar närmare på det ter sig ganska absurt, men som ändå sitter så hårt fast att det styr ens reaktioner i stunden, t.ex. i mötet med andra människor.

För många år sedan läste jag boken I am Right, You are Wrong av Edward de Bono, och han har där en teori om hur det “ser ut” i hjärnan när någon idé sitter fast på detta vis. Han tänker att det finns en cirkulär resonemangskedja i hjärnan, så att det man tror på något sätt via en kedja av resonemang till slut bygger på det man tror på. Man har alltså egentligen ingen grund för att tro detta, men man har gång på gång fått det man tror på bekräftat baserat på att man tror just detta. Så sitter det fast ännu hårdare till nästa gång.

Ett exempel kan vara att jag tror att jag inte kan spela tennis. Om jag då försöker spela tennis, kommer jag med stor sannolikhet att ta varje motgång som ett bevis på att det ändå var precis som jag trodde, att jag faktiskt inte kan spela tennis. Snacka om en mental blockering!

Hur bryter man då en sådan cirkel? Om man först observerar att cirkeln kräver att man följer ett logiskt resonemang med hjälp av tankar, kan man se att man antingen kan fånga tanken i flykten (via observationsövningar) och ändra dess riktning, eller att man ser till att befinna sig i ett läge där man inte tänker, alltså i meditation.

I det första fallet finns det ofta en stark känsla inblandad, som man kan behöva observera, eftersom cirkeln då “sluts” genom en omedveten reaktion på en stark känsla. Genom att göra denna känsla medveten (med hjälp av diverse metoder som jag skrivit om tidigare) kan man bryta cirkeln och se vad som egentligen är sant. Antagligen är det bara så att jag behöver träna mer på att spela tennis för att bli bättre. Men det kan vara svårt att inse om man har dålig självkänsla.

Om man under meditation ser till att återkalla den cirkulära tankekedjan, kan man stoppa tankarna och enbart fokusera på känslan som driver tankekedjan, och genom att dyka djupare i känslan inse vad känslan egentligen säger. Detta är besläktat med hypnos, tror jag, men jag är inte tillräckligt kunnig för att vara säker. Den som hypnotiserar ser till att hålla den tänkande delen av hjärnan upptagen med att begripa vad han eller hon säger, medan den kännande delen lämnas öppen och tillgänglig för bearbetning. Den som läser och kan mer om detta får gärna kommentera, så blir jag glad! Här är det förstås frågan om självhypnos i så fall.