Mind Mapping Part Three
Now that you have your mind map (or web) and may have discovered some associations that surprise you, what do you do with that now?
As always, that is completely your choice. You can choose to move on and make more mind maps. Sometimes it can be fun and interesting to simply continue exploring through various topics.
You can choose to put it away. It may have not been such a fun exercise for you and you don’t want to deal with it any longer.
Another alternative is to use it to change your life. If your subject was ‘love’ and you have a lot of problems with love but aren’t sure why, this mind map could be the beginning of you facing what issues you have with the subject.
For instance, say you underlined ‘love’ in connection to ‘money’. You may have never realized that you associated love with money, but there it was on paper.
You could choose to ignore it, put it away, forget about it. That’s completely your right. However, you can also choose to pursue it. Why do you associate love with money? Was it because one of your parents was with the other purely for money reasons? Do you think your mate might only be with you because you make a lot of money?
These are the sorts of questions you can begin to ask yourself once you have done mind mapping.
Mind mapping is by no means a miracle cure, solution, or answer. However, it can be used as the first step in finding your base beliefs and opening up. Mind mapping could even be your first step in changing your life, for you can’t change your base beliefs unless you know what they are.
Whatever you decide to do, be well. You have my best wishes to you on your journey.
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