4 Meditation Practices to Tap into Your Creative Potential

Creative flow comes also from being mindful of your thoughts

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When researchers studied yogis with the most hours of meditation, they discovered with surprise their ability to produce high-frequency gamma waves in their brains.

This state is a sign of intense activity, a kind of “Eureka effect” also present when we realize new connections between our ideas.

These Yogi learned through a very long and rigorous work to put their minds on a state of strong creative energy.

According to Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson in The Science of Meditation, although we may never achieve the expertise of these masters, studies show that the practice of meditation triggers the different states conducive to your creativity.

By increasing your self-confidence, by clarifying and emptying your mind of distractions, by making you deeply focus on your thoughts and reflections, and by activating selective brain waves, it opens your mind to new creative resources.

Here’s how 4 meditative practices give you new connections in your ideas and emotions.

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