Visual Stimulation

What comes to your mind on seeing this picture?

I am sure certain memories, dreams, ideas, desires, stories must have sprung up into your mind – if not all – at least some thought must have come up. That is the power of Visual. A simple image can put your brain into gear – either into positive or negative.

Compare the two pictures below:

They must have created either a positive or negative feeling. They could arise out of personal experiences, anecdotes, stories you have seen (or read) or out of a general perception.

In our conscious and unconsicous states of mind, we hold memories or perceptions about each visual imagery and we exhibit our judgements based on our mindsets.

I want to present today a concept called Visual Stimulation. This is a practical process, widely used in educating infants and toddlers. The idea is to stimulate through visuals, the learning ability (read ‘creative’). Visuals, accelerate the learning power of each individual and it is very much needed for creativity. Ofcourse, the idea is not to put too many plots inside one visual – but to give a simple, clear picture that stimulates – so less in visual stimulation is better.

The reason why we advocate this process of Visual stimulation is simple – We want you to break free! VS aids in creative brainstorming.

So our challenge is simply this:
Take any visual – be it in a natural setting or in a captured (photo, painting, comic etc) setting.

1. Just delve into that visual.
2. Relax deeply.
3. Allow it to stimulate different feelings and thoughts.
4. Pen it down(write or draw), one after another. (How many relate to your personal life – work or home?)
5. Create a story or recollect a story from one of the core emotions and capture it on paper.

Now you are ready for more productive work.

This will set you in tune, to create good ideas and also capture stories that add meaning to your life.

So start your visual stimulation today.