Mindfulness and Interacting Ideas.
Trying to explain mind’s social playground of interacting ideas.
Systems Consulting Work
Consulting on financial systems in secured environments, Couldn’t bring own equipment or custom software, Relied upon mental gymnastics for spotting patterns and making notes, Remembered processes and ideas in consulting sessions, Looking back, Really practicing what I now call Songline thinking.
Mindfulness.
Focusing my awareness on what mind is directly experiencing thoughts and emotions called mindfulness, But in my view it’s really very bland term for actual intensely exhilarating thinking experience where mind actively manipulates thoughts and influences emotions.
My idea to experiment with explaining complex process of ideation using familiar but complex natural living systems like flowers and vanilla vine.
Snapdragons and Ideas.
Snapdragons grow and nourished by light, Ideas grow and nourished by mind’s light of thinking.
Snapdragons strive, Competing for their light share, Just as ideas clamor for mind’s attention.
Snapdragon roots seek soil’s moisture absorbing nutrients and utilising water, Ideas link with worldview, Our soil of knowledge facts and beliefs proven and accepted knowledge that fills and deepens new idea’s depth and usefulness.
Snapdragons blooming announcing to bees ready for pollination growing next generation, Ideas mature and blossom into words, Socialised and shared places like medium.com, Becoming memes.
Idea Gardening.
Gardening under intense LED grow-lamps requires careful scheduling in tending and watering especially snapdragons.
Ideation requires critical thinking to ensure practicality and maximising usefulness, Takes time and careful validation.
Time and care always required to produce something worthwhile, Vanilla pods absolutely illustrate need for careful and consistent attention.
My vanilla two months in sequential flowering, Flowers had to be pollinated within four hours of morning bloom, Hand pollination required skill patient hand and much practice.
Ideas are just like vanilla pods, Requires practice to reap benefits, Takes careful consideration and often rethinking to maximise usefulness, Yet minimise cost and implementation time, Ideas must be tailored to ensure success in acceptance and socialisation to large audience, Same with pods, must be cured over several months to produce rich vanilla flavors.
Snapdragons composed multiple blooms, Together create spectacular beauty, remembered and cherished, Beauty depends on complex shapes individual flowers merging and blending emerging to create unmatched splendor.
Ideation blends concepts forming assemblies where whole far exceeds potential of individual component thoughts, Opens up undreamt opportunities, Stretching horizons.
Idea Meditation.
Ideation takes many forms, My studies in rock sand and light are literally hands-on thinking.
Giving ideas physical form aids meditation helping develop and refine conceptualisation, Meditations provide memory cues for further exploration, Sometime revealing surprising relationships challenging imagination.
Blessed be.
