Meditation Can Make You More Creative

• Divergent Thinking: An ‘open monitoring’ style of meditation can promote divergent thinking, a crucial aspect of creativity, finds research published in the journal Frontiers in Cognition (Colzato et al., 2012).
• Problem-Solving: A study by Ren et al. (2011) has looked at another crucial area of creativity: problem-solving. This requires different skills because it’s about gaining a vital insight into a problem that’s already defined. In this study, people were given insight problems to try and solve. The results showed that, compared with a control group, those who learned a simple meditation technique, involving focusing on the breath, solved more of the insight problems.

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