Are we not all the same? Always looking for that special moment, that eureka moment, that turns your world upside down and makes you feel like you hit the jackpot. The moment that may bring you recognition, success, fame and maybe even fortune. Oftentimes it feels like it is just out of reach, it seems to be there for the taking but you just can’t lay your hands on it.
When you think of it, there are literally thousands of eureka stories that actually helped shaping the world as it is today.
It is believed that Archimedes was the inventor of the word ‘eureka’ after he discovered his principle known as :
‘Any object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object.’
More interesting inventions are amongst others the inventions of the lightbulb, the telephone, Coca Cola and the personal pc to name just a few big eureka moments.
What’s amazing is that most eureka moments seem to pop up by accident, or by the invention of something that was meant to be used in another way.
Now the question of the day: Is it possible for us to influence our brain into having our ’Aha!’ moment? The answer is a strong and confident YES!
Scientists have come up with studies that prove that sudden flashes of insight don’t just happen, but are the product of preparation of the brain. These ‘flashes’ will come when the brain is relaxed and receptive to ‘free floating ideas’.
A Eureka! sensation involves minimal monitoring of one’s own thoughts and builds on the sentiment expressed more than a century ago, when the great scientist Louis Pasteur declared that ‘Chance favors only the prepared mind.’
I think this is great, and good to know that you don’t need to grind your brain to come up with new creative ideas. It proves the power of for example meditation to achieve higher mental and spiritual levels.
I am looking forward to talk to you again.
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