Papillon Human Potential - Mental Potential

Mind Maps

"Mind Maps® Act as the ‘Swiss Army knife of the brain’ allowing you to improve and accelerate your learning and thinking skills." - Buzan Centre

The very basics of mind mapping are simple. The benefits are quite literally up to you.

The way it works is that you get a piece of paper, write the title of a subject you wish to 'explore' in your mind in a circle in the middle of the paper, and then write whatever thoughts branch out from there as offshoots, allowing your thought processes to bring up into your conscious awareness ideas and options that you hadn't previously considered (see the middle of the three images above).

The man behind the Mind Maps concept is Tony Buzan, whom I first saw on TV in the UK twenty years ago, as the pioneer of such brain power concepts as rhythm, pattern, memory, creative thinking, and so on.

About Tony Buzan

One interesting piece of software which we recommend you have a look at and trial for free is something which Tony and the organisation he founded, The Buzan Centre, have produced, and that is the MindGenius software.

We all used this Mind Mapping software ourselves (you can do so too under a free 21 day fully functional trial), and found it to be very useful, and enjoyably creative.

As I say at the top of the page, you can do a Mind Map on a subject and find that you had many more, possibly even many times more options and opportunities than you thought you had. The kids can use them for their weekends away, and the possibilities are endless.

But the most important element, we feel, whether practised on paper or with specially designed software, is how Mind Maps allow us to explore and plunder the very depths of our minds, whilst also growing or minds further.

And, of course, Mind Mapping can be an ideal way for those Conscious Creators among you to look at your beliefs around various subjects.

Here are the links if you'd like to find out more about the Buzan Centre and MindGenius, and if you'd like to find out more about having a free trial of some of the applications. Of course, these are not Papillon's own products, so you'll have to confirm all these details with the organisation themselves.

Best of luck, happy creating, and let us know of any successes you have using the Mind Maps.

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