Would you like to give
your creativity a super boost this week?
Then muse over your
Muse with a little meditation.
Cognitive Psychologist
Lorenza Colzato and friends (2012) have found that certain meditative techniques
promote creative thinking.
In particular, they
noted that “Open Monitoring” meditation helped their subjects generate the
greatest number of new ideas.
To “open monitor”
meditate, you sit, breathe, and remain open
to all thoughts and sensations without focusing attention on any one of them.
In other words, you think of those thoughts and sensations as pretty puffy
clouds just passing through.
I’m thinking that open
monitoring meditation sounds like a great excuse to get your butt into a lawn
chair and call it work…
Bonus!
PROMPT: Writer’s block? Give this technique a 10-minute
whirl. Follow it up with a brainstorm of plot possibilities, and you’ll be rocking
instead of blocking in no time!
Interesting! My husband just bought a book on creativity. It looks good!
ReplyDeleteI hope to see you at the SCBWI meeting this week!