Albert Einstein Was So Right!

Albert Einstein was so right, and it was his imagination made him the genius he was. In fact, Albert Einstein relied on the workings of his imagination and the picture mind until he was 9 years old. You see when children are born, the right brain is the only brain accessible until about the age of two on average (depending on the child), after which time the left side makes its debut. Until that point children rely on mostly on the images in the mind from which they decipher the world around them. In Albert Einstein's case, his left brain only became active around the age of 9 so he had all of those years to develop the right side of the brain along with a strong imagination. This is a rare case, but for most children imagination needs to be cultivated.

Why is Imagination so important?

The ability to visualize an image clearly in the mind is a right brain function and it is what develops a strong photographic memory where children can see pictures of anything in the mind as clearly as they would in the environment. The stronger this ability to see in the mind, the more easily they can remember what they learn through a photograph in the mind. This can help in all areas of their lives including school and studying.

Where the genius lies, is when the child develops this ability to the extent that they can not only see an image clearly in their minds eye, but they are able to alter that image at will, and make it into whatever they want. This leads to an infinite power of possibility where they can see exactly what they want as clearly in the mind as it would be in reality and then they can figure out with the help of the left brain how they can turn their idea into reality.

The power of imagination is really limitless from clearing health issues, to helping with school, to becoming creators and innovators. There is no limit to what becomes possible.

How to Cultivate Imagination?

There are some wonderful tools and techniques that you can use with kids to help them develop a strong imagination. Here is a wonderful simple exercise you can begin with to work with your children.

Floating Balloons.

Using balloons in this exercise is nice because almost all children can relate to them and they can easily be visualized too. This is a great exercise to introduce image visualization to your kids and once they can do this with ease, you can add other fun exercises to strengthen this ability.

You will begin by asking your child to:

Lie down and close their eyes as though they were sleeping.

If they are struggling, you can even add that if you are pretending to sleep you wouldn’t be talking or moving or opening your eyes but just lying very still and quiet.

Make sure to reassure them if they are doing very well like saying. “Wonderful, you are doing so well!”

Now ask them to imagine a coin on their tummy. With it on the tummy , ask them to inhale and exhale slowly and deeply while they imagine the coin moving up with the inhale and down with the exhale.

Repeat this process 3 times until you can see they are relaxing.

After that they can breath normally again.

Then ask them to imagine a red balloon in their mind and once they do they can raise their hand. After they do that, ask them to put their hand down.

Once they can, they can release the red balloon and put an orange one in it’s place and once they can they can put their hand up and then down again

Again repeat it with a yellow balloon.

And after they let this balloon go, ask them to take a deep breath in and say that you will count back from 3 to 1 and when I finish you will wake up and come back to the room. 3 coming back slowly, 2 feel yourself in the room and 1 slowly open your eyes and come back

Ask them to take one more deep breath in and then you are done. Excellent! You were awesome!