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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.
Why Our Brains are Designed to Forget—Illustration of a white face with the back of it going through a shredder with a dark blue background with three yellow stars.
Creativity
Why Our Brains Are Designed to Forget 

While many of us yearn to sharpen our memory, the science of sleep shows that, in fact, our brains are designed to forget—a process that unlocks the mind’s capacity to dream and think in creative ways. Read More 

  • Scott A. Small
  • July 28, 2022
How the Arts Can Bring Healing to Healthcare—Colored pencils are laid out on a white surface, with the points toward a gap in the shape of a heart.
Creativity
How the Arts Can Bring Healing to Healthcare 

We often think of art and science as separate or even opposites, yet there’s a growing wave of organizations, medical school programs, and people exploring the ways in which the two fields overlap. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • April 19, 2022
Where Music and Meditation Meet
Creativity
Where Music and Meditation Meet 

Longtime mindfulness practitioner and musician Grant Jones is bringing his two passions together in a project that aims to make mindfulness more accessible for communities of color. Read More 

  • Ava Whitney-Coulter
  • February 19, 2022
How Kindness at Work Encourages Creativity
Creativity
How Kindness at Work Encourages Creativity 

CEO Andrew Swinand shares how working mindfully became the norm at Leo Burnett Group, and the simple practices that have helped to unlock new levels of creativity and innovation across his teams. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • October 12, 2021
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