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that their feet are webbed. This vision helps swimmers go really
faster.
Just before sleeping, make a relaxation phase and then imagine
that your brain is bursting out of your skull and is forming a halo.
See yourself like this and you will gain in confidence in your
intellectual capacities. Thanks to this new confidence, your
capacities will really increase!
-Control your breath: we have seen in relaxation and visioning
the role of the breath. Right now, we propose a more radical but
very effective method.
One hour before the creative session, relax and hold the breath
for as long as you can. Repeat this exercise and you will feel both
a great excitation in your mind and a greater clarity.
3-INCUBATION
Incubation is a contingency phase: It means that you have not
solved your problem during the creative session. Consequently
instead to go on with the problem, it's better to set back from it.
It's said that incubation can last minutes, weeks or years! we
shall focus on incubation lasting hours and minutes!
31-Incubation lasting hours
An universal technique is simply to go to bed! Let 'suppose that
you have a creative session and that you do not find any results.
Stop and begin again to morrow. Very often the solution you
were looking for is easily found after a good sleep.
32-Incubation lasting minutes
This incubation process takes place within the creative session.
When you feel difficult to go further, just stop, go into a pause
and make the following exercise:
-Call your image resource (A quiet river for example). Vision it
and enjoy.
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