Mindfulness and Creativity
The Creative Spark Podcast - Episode 4
How can mindfulness practice increase your creativity?
What if mindfulness practice can help you overcome creative resistance?
Jenn will be sharing several examples how mindfulness can open the creative well. Following systematic steps in building a mindfulness practice allows to find the flow experience, in which time flies by and we are productive without lots of effort. And this holds true for all areas of creative thinking that don’t necessarily have to be art related.
Mindfulness and creativity go hand in hand. They are sister disciplines that have a lot in common, mutually benefit one another, and stimulate similar areas in the brain. In this Creative Spark conversation we will discuss how mindfulness can stimulate your creative potential, and how you can use mindfulness to generate new and creative ideas.
Podcast – Mindfulness and Creativity
Take-Aways:
- Understanding how mindfulness increases focus and descernment
- Simple meditation to start your mindfulness practice
- Understanding how mindfulness physically changes our brain
- How to apply mindfulness for the creative process
- How to use mindfulness to generate new, creative ideas
Interview guest: Jenn Fairbank
is co-CEO and co-founder of Cornerstone Mindfulness, LLC. She is an Author, Corporate Trainer, and nationally-trained mindfulness expert. Jenn received her master’s degree in social work at the University of Pittsburgh. She has 10 years of experience teaching the scientific practice of mindfulness through her private practice, corporate trainings, and events. Jenn co-authored Companion for Life; The Foundation for Living, and Business Mindfulness Training eBook.
Resources:
This podcast is the 2nd part of a series about mindfulness and creativity.
Part 1: The Mindfulness-Creativity-Link
Part 2: Creative Spark Podcast – Interview with Jenn Fairbank, co-CEO of Cornerstone Mindfulness
Part 3: Can mindfulness increase creativity? – An overview of recent studies and research
Part 4: How to use mindfulness to optimize the creative process
