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
The Key to Lasting Change? Get Creative 

Not the markers and paper kind of creativity—but that doesn't hurt either. When we visualize how one shift, like a new job or promotion, actually reverberates through all areas of our lives, it sparks the real change agents: passion and intention. Read More 

  • Hugh Delehanty
  • January 16, 2018
Creativity
4 Reasons to Try Mindful Singing 

Synchronizing body, speech, mind, and breath allows you to be completely in the moment, says Temple University professor Alexander deVaron. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • December 22, 2017
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Creativity
Are We Becoming Smart Fools? 

IQ points keep rising with each generation, but the tests are leaving out emotional intelligence, creativity, and wisdom—the very traits we need to solve our most pressing problems. Read More 

  • Sharon Begley
  • December 4, 2017
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Creativity
A Vivid Display 

Summer is the perfect time to find inspiration in the world around you. This year turn that inspiration into a practice of mindfulness through the art of flower arranging. Read More 

  • Claire Zimmerman
  • August 1, 2017
Creativity
How Creativity Frees the Mind 

Hugh Delehanty embarks on a creativity and mindfulness retreat, where he discovers that the key to being creative is to strip away all but the essentials of who and what you are. Read More 

  • Hugh Delehanty
  • July 12, 2017
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