Select a single problem you want to solve, and ask your computer brain for insight and solutions. Now find something fairly mindless to do, such as washing up, or go for a walk round the block. Concentrate on your action and allow your brain to process. Your subconscious will respond by sending you the odd thought about your problem. Run with the

Once the puppy has dropped something at our feet, we don’t actually have much time to record it. The puppy can be off searching again immediately, and we can very quickly lose the inspired idea or the words and images to communicate it effectively, especially if we are near the end of the Creative phase.

When we enter the Creative phase we have to be very aware that our thoughts about work, goals, life plans, co-workers, careers, what we are capable of, what we have achieved and how successful we are, are all subject to creative extrapolation by the subconscious.

Repeating a beneficial statement about ourselves during the phase in which we naturally believe it helps us to fix

The subconscious has a powerful ability to imagine, extrapolate, and create reality. We can ask it to show us the projected future based on a single thought or idea, or we can ask it to extrapolate and create various ways to achieve a goal or solve a problem.

We can think about a project that needs inspiration or insight, or a concept or relationship we wish to understand or explore further, or we can simply want a great idea about something! To give you an example, when I was an illustrator

Negotiations • Inactivity • Detailed, precise work • Logical reasoning

Our month starts with a natural increase in our energies, enthusiasm and self-confidence. We have left our hibernation stage, and in the following days will feel the urge to get things done, catch up on tasks left unfinished in the Reflective phase, start new projects, stand up for what feels right, and to follow our heart.

For example, we can plant thoughts in the subconscious about things we wish to make progress on.