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If this is true, them pursuit of mindfulness (training your mind to suppress spontaneous thoughts) while a powerful tool to enhance productivity has a negative
by oldmancoyote 10y ago
If this is true, them pursuit of mindfulness (training your mind to suppress spontaneous thoughts) while a powerful tool to enhance productivity has a negative side. It suppresses spontaneous creative thinking. Or does it produce a clear mental space into which creative thoughts can intrude and not be lost due to distractions? I feel like I'm in a mental squirrel cage going round and round and getting nowhere.
- i2shar 10y agoI understand exactly what you mean. But expert practitioners say that this is only the initial and the hardest phase and that it can be overcome with practice. What lies beyond is another question, but I want to trust that I will be able to get there and experience it first hand.
- cylinder714 10y agoHere's what David Lynch, an avid practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, has to say about it: http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/david_lynch_explains_how_meditation_enhances_our_creativity.html http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/david_lynch_explains_how_...