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The Secret

to Snacking on Someone Else's Imagination

By Chris Dunmire

The world of entertainment is not only about creative expression in itself, but a journey into the realms of possibility brought forth by someone else's idea manifestation.

When we tap into the world of infinite imagination and experience expressions of lyric, song, and archetypical behaviors springing forth, this is truly a beautiful place of intention working its magic. We love taking in music, play acting, and stories with plots and scenes unfolding before us. We spend our lives absorbing articles and books, listening to the radio and our MP3 players, attending Broadway stages and small playhouses, and watching TV shows and movies on the silver screen.

Is it all just for diversion and passing time? Simple amusements of recreation? Or is something else profoundly at play?

What if? Food for Thought

What if we are really drawn to partaking of other people's creative expressions because it helps feed a need within ourselves? What need? A hunting and gathering of nourishing inspiration for our own imaginations. Are our thoughts really our own? Or are they digested nutrients from other people's creative extensions intermixed with filtered side dish of our own perspective?

Have you ever considered just how open you are to new worlds and life-changing concepts? How curious are you? How much effort do you put forth to pursue trivial things? Even if you briefly entertain a few new, different, unique, or outright outrageous realities, do you realize how your brain smiles with that good feeling vibe and has this wonderful capacity to stretch and make room for MORE new ideas to grow from the fertile soil of your mind? Do you see the cycle of how this soil gets nourished? By feeding on other things outside of yourself.

Okay, time to be honest here. The inspiration from this piece of writing comes from the currently buzzing movie, The Secret, making the rounds not only online, but which is slated to be (or has already been) Oprahized. For this I see visions of a The Secret movie and book series and a host of other Secret merchandise, workshops, and retreats on the horizon, ala Abraham-Hicks. Well you can buy a clone of the movie's Genie lamp and scroll holder on the movie Web site.

The Secret movie, (www.thesecret.tv), inspired by Wallace D. Wattles' 1910 book, "The Science of Getting Rich", discusses the Law of Attraction concept, which is all about manifesting thoughts into things. Good thoughts attract good things. Negative thoughts attract, well, more negative things.

There's a whole lot more fascinating details behind The Law of Attraction concept than I'll touch on here, so if you want to know more, go investigate. Overall, I think it's a cool perception-altering tool we all can use. (Some say it closely resembles good 'ol fashioned positive thinking, but I think there's more to it than that. My motto: Take what's useful and leave the rest.)

Along with that, I've come to wonder if this concept — whether called The Law of Attraction, focused attention, or directed intention — is THE underlying energy behind innovation, creative expression, and creativity as a whole. Perhaps it is even the focused energy our souls intermix with our thoughts to create our individual realities.

However mind-blowing The Secret movie is to people, the Law of Attraction concept has been around for years (remember, the inspiration for the movie was from Wattles' book) and it's been capitalized on by many authors and influential speakers. Still, The Secret's producer's were clever with their viral marketing strategy and have a deliciously designed Web presence where you can download and print your own free copies of Wattles' "Science of Getting Rich" and Charles F. Haanel's "Master Key System" books if you choose to become a registered member.

Indeed, snacking on other people's worlds of imagination through various entertainment outlets has endless capacity to open our minds to new thinking and shift our routine perspectives. And does all of this inspire creativity? Yes, it does. •

© 2007 Chris Dunmire, CoachingYourCreativity.com. All rights reserved. (2/18/07).

About the Author
Chris Dunmire is the founder of the award-winning Creativity Portal® Web site and is a Master-in-training Kaizen-Muse™ Creativity Coach who supports clients through overwhelm, procrastination, perfectionism, and other blocks to their creativity AND celebrates the joyful, expressive parts of being . . . an imaginary being! Connect with Chris to experience how creativity coaching can enrich your life.