Shapers

Consciousness Shapers

The brain is often full of peripheral ideas. These may be useful or just sometimes in the way. Consciousness shapers (CS) are devices to help our selection process. We make a list of five-eight items.

These items are delivered to consciousness using the following CS criteria: 

• random trivial, important, interesting, essential, and possible. 

For instance, the following is a CS based on the criteria mentioned:

Salt

Seasons

Appointment

River

Kentucky

Conversation

Awareness

When selecting the items, no effort is made to organise them into a category. Effort is made at randomness. For example, if my first item was Airport, my second would not be Arrivals hall. Each item should be spaced apart in time and space and unrelated. Only the criteria above mentioned should be kept in mind.

You look at your list and certain items will jump out as most important to you. It may be just one or two. That is fine. The other items are there to look at from time to time. They can be used as stimulants for further thinking or for further ideas.

Here is another CS

Merchant
Raider
Film
Purchase

Friend
Astronomy
Sausages

There is no intention of relationships, similarities, decisions or things to do. The intention is to create as random as possible list. We then forget about the criteria for the list (in italics above), how well we have fulfilled the criteria, or whether our list is good or not. We look at the list as possible directions for further thinking. Usually one particular item will be obvious as important. The less important items need looking at as and when we want to.

More on the CS related ideas on my site www.masternewmindsets.com