A lot has been written about how the practice of meditation helps people become calmer and more centered. Here’s a link to an article about how it can help people become more creative.
…can intelligence and creativity really be as “neuroplastic” as memory and motor skills? Intelligence, much less creativity, has not been conclusively linked with any one area in the brain. The closest analogues are the so-called executive functions, brain systems involved in planning, integrating of sensory information, and abstract thinking, that are thought to be concentrated in the prefrontal cortex. There is, says Aronson, a way to improve executive functioning, and it’s the very same practice prescribed by Alexander: mindfulness meditation.
I particularly liked the description of creativity:
It involves the ability to make unexpected connections, to move fluidly among concepts, to consolidate past memories, ideas, or impressions and arrive at new insights.
Interesting read. I think creativity is all that imerges when we let go of conditioned expectations. That’s why we can’t so much be creative on demand but rather are creative when we let go of any agenda, which is the ultimate attitude in meditation.
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I agree, Klaus. Meditation allows expansion. Thanks for commenting.
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