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Creativity

Mindfulness and creativity feed each other. When you quiet the mental noise, new ideas have room to surface. Explore how meditation and present-moment awareness can unlock creative flow in writing, art, music, and problem-solving.
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Creativity
Through the Looking Glass 

Literature and legends, fables and falsehoods—novelist Anne Donovan on paying attention and finding insight though story. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 31, 2010
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Creativity
The Art of Losing: On Writing, Dying, & Mom 

How do we reconcile chaos with control? Cataloging moments of poetry and disaster, novelist and essayist Ruth Ozeki makes sense of family quirks, history almost lost, and the death of parents. Read More 

  • Ruth Ozeki
  • August 24, 2010
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