Creative thinking is such an important part of modern society. Whether you’re in marketing, a photographer, a graphic designer or a small business owner. Whatever career you’re in, they will always be a need for some kind of creative input.
Even if you’re a high-sailing CEO of a huge corporation, how are you supposed to give the stakeholders what they want without a bit of thinking outside the box? But, what happens when you run out of good ideas? How are you supposed to re-ignite that spark?
One of the most popular methods of regaining your mojo is through meditation. Consider the big companies. Google, Medtronic, Buzzfeed, Facebook. All these companies provide their employees with meditation sessions to get the juices flowing. Not only will these sessions reduce stress in everyday life, but it can also help you to become a lot more creative.
Enhancing Your Creativity
It’s been proven time and time again that mindful meditation has many positive effects on the mind, especially when it comes to working environments. Stress is a part of everyday life, and we should be doing whatever we can reduce this.
Meditation also helps you to become a lot of a positive thinker. It can help you to overcome negative effects or events. It also helps you to make more balanced decisions.
In fact, it’s been suggested that even just 10-12 minutes of meditation a day is enough to boost your creativity levels dramatically. During a study that took place in the Netherlands, 129 students were asked to think of as many uses as possible for drones.
Before the study took place, the group was split into three groups. The first group engaged in a 10-minute mindfulness meditation. The second engaged in a fake 10-minute meditation session. The final group began brainstorming immediately.
The Results
After the experiment, the results were diverse. All groups managed to create roughly the same amount of ideas. The description for each idea was also roughly the same.
However, the group that had meditated had created a much broader list of ideas. The non-meditating groups had created two categories of ideas. On the other hand, the meditating group had created over four categories. One meditating group had even created more than nine categories.
In total, the meditating group was 22% more creative than the rest of the students tested. The students were also tested for how they felt. Restlessness was decreased by an average of 23%, irritation by 24% and nervousness by 17%.
Final Thoughts
As you can see, this recent study carried out a few months ago has turned up some surprising results that state the very clear benefits that meditation has. By even taking the time out of around 10-15 minutes a day, you can dramatically improve your life to become more productive and more creative than ever before.