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If you have this bad habit of constantly stifling your imagination, you might try the following.

1. Set aside some imagining time, maybe twenty minutes or even an hour.

2. Smile a little, by way of alerting yourself to the fact that you mean to get dreamy and visit faraway places.

3. Slowly silence your busy thoughts. Imagine that you have a knob, like the knob on a tuner, that you can turn to lower the sound. Lower the sound on your thoughts until they are extinguished.

4. Keep smiling, even though the ensuing silence is a little unsettling.

5. Wait, holding the heartfelt intention that you will keep the door to your imagination open for as long as it takes, until blue elephants, space settlements, or your new novel strolls right in.

6. Wait, smiling, as if the time to open presents was rapidly approaching.

7. Keep waiting. The longer you wait, the stronger the muscle you’ll build, the one you flex when you want to imagine.

Try this same tactic when you arrive at the bench in your town square, your neighborhood park, your outdoor mall, your business complex, or your own back yard. You can utterly and completely prevent yourself from fruitfully daydreaming by making sure to keep yourself busy and distracted; or you can mindfully make an opening for your dreams and ideas to enter. What’s your preference?

This opening to imagination doesn’t happen automatically, any more than do openings to other dimensions. You have to separate the folds of warped space in order to time travel; you have to silence your everyday mind in order to imagine. Accept that you will need to practice. It is a funny kind of practice, practicing right silence and dreamy readiness, but a necessary one.

Just don't try this driving a car people. A trip in the train is a better place, except for the silly smiles!!! Jenny

@Boofy  LoL.. 
@Dialyn - Great advice. Thanks for the heads up of the website!

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I try to ride the bus as much as possible just for this reason.  :)

Yeah and long lines at the banks are not so painful when Zaaar the magnificent and Necrumble the dragon are slugging it out in your noggin.   ;^}

 I stopped wearing a watch when it occurred to me that it was observing time passing that was making me impatient. The adjustment to non-clock watching has been easier than I thought possible...less stressful than the alternative.

A watch? What is that? lol.