Creative visualization more efficient at younger age?

[JonasVE12]

because of the brain being more neuroplastic at a younger age, is it easier to get benefits from for example doing creative visualization, meditation, than when you do it at a later age where the brain isn't as neuroplastic as before? Just curious

Edited July 13, 2019 by JonasVE12
Reframing

[herghly]

Well, it is easier to create change the younger you are. So this only would make sense

[JustThinkingAloud]

The younger we are, the less information is stored in our brains. That’s why we don’t have a problem believing in Santa when we are kids. We don’t know any better. The older we get and collect more information about the world around us, the harder it is to believe in something that contradicts our stored information.

[possibilities]

Yes and no, however from my perspective what's more important to address is the relationship between creative visualisation and the neuroplasticity of the brain. Those brains that are more adept towards creative visualisation are more likely to have more plastic brains compared to those that are not.

"I am a cloud in your tea, darling do not drink but if you do let me sit on your moustache, but that's why we're not getting married. Because you drink tea and not coffee, as for your moustache... I would have shaved it for you weekly. And then I woke up from my slumber in your misery, now I'm married to someone special who's cheating on me but I'm blind to it because I think life should be special like that, write a letter to the imagination. Get me out of this pain. Maybe if I liked tea instead of coffee I'd have found someone more loyal, like you, miss moustache, the cloud I chase at the other end of my emotional rainbow. Rainy days sometimes yes, but then we have our hot summers underneath the bed covers as well."

Thus the pertinent question here to me is, "does creative visualisation make the brain more plastic?", given the relationship between taking psychedelic substances, of which I've had none of and probably wouldn't benefit from (though will try in future), and increases in openness to experience (research this) I'd have to say yes. Creative visualisation, done regularly and in depth is likely to positively influence similar regions of the brain as some psychedelics. Thought is a drug, a highly underestimated and poorly explored one. Most people simply need to grapple with their fear of realising their full potential to really discover themselves here.

In so saying as much, in as much as the adult brain is plastic made possible say through continuous creative visualisation, given the content rich landscapes of the mind due to past experience, they're more likely to benefit much more than children, as well as being more open to experience and creative. This implicitly answers the question as to why some people believe children to be more open minded and creative, it is simply because the average adult mind has not and or does not openly explore their experience, if they did, I have no doubt they'd benefit much more from creative visualisation, and be well, much more creative. My prediction is that Leonardo Da Vinci would have been much more creative in his twenties than say before the age of 10 as he had much more knowledge to work with.

This is the elephant in the room in modern psychological literature concerning creativity, that is, the average adult is dang lazy! So how on Earth can they be a reliable model of comparing the creative potential of a child with an adult mind? Its utterly myopic.

 

 

 

Edited July 16, 2019 by possibilities

[kag101]

It doesn't matter. 

Stop making excuses, and go visualize! Lol