Mind Mapping Part Two
Now that you have your blank paper and pen, it’s time to pick your topic of exploration.
It’s completely your choice as to what you choose to explore. However, I do recommend that you choose something you don’t have passionately strong feelings about on first go. Again, it’s completely up to you, but I believe in gentle probing as one of the better ways into exploring your own mind.
For this part, I’ll choose a topic to use as an example to lead you through the process. If you have never done a mind map before, think of a large web which you use to connect the words you associate with each other. In the middle of the web will be the word/concept/belief you have chosen to explore.
For this example, let’s go with ‘money’.
The first string of associations you might make are alternative words for ‘money’. So your first line of the ‘web’ might look like:
Money – Cash – Dollars – Change
At this point, I would like to remind you that nothing is ‘wrong’ on this map. Anything goes.
Then you might start with money equals comfort. Comfort equals luxury. So on and so forth. You could come up with anything. Don’t censor yourself. Let your subconscious make the associations.
After connecting money to comfort, money to abundance, to a good job, to the lottery…after connecting it to many things, you might find yourself connecting it to something that surprises you. Money equals sex, perhaps, or money equals power.
Any time you start to write something or write something and it surprises you and/or makes you pause, underline it, circle it, or star it. Those pauses mean you’re starting to tap into the underlying beliefs that are ingrained in your subconscious. Those are the things you are going to want to focus on.
You have your mind map. Now what? That will come in part three…
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