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Pass into the realm of make believe. The truth anchors our ship in a safe harbor. We leave our everyday life safely protected. We begin to enhance an altered credibility.
Enhancing Exercise #1:Detailing a belief.
Take an improbable idea that you always wished were true and develop support for the idea. Keep it light and focused, and set a limit on the time involved. After that time carry the belief to someone else Hint: Don’t have a starting point, Consider as an example laughing as though tickled by something.
Take a quote from someone, but quote it as misheard. Take an idea that seems trivial. Take a behavior or expression that comes from family stories. Take a page from Miss Manners. Read about some other culture and adapt it. Seed a direction of inquiry.
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Embark on deepening the mystery. Remember from childhood how to spin a yarn or a long tale. Return to times when saying, “You’ll never guess what happened to me!” blends several things that happened with several wished for scenarios.
We enter the realm of the storyteller. Decide to bring to a social setting a tale that encourages others to tell tales about themselves. Use specific historical events or current events. Remember that we all put a certain spin on what we remember. That spin serves as an essential element of remembering. Each memory subtly shifts (or for some of us, blatantly shifts) differently from every other memory of the same event. Memory being of an observer has its own uncertainty principle built in. Two people can remember the same event differently depending on how it touched them. Own and elaborate a spin. Explore personal things and imagine special things in the world.
