{"id":17488,"date":"2017-08-28T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=17488"},"modified":"2017-09-08T06:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:26:31","slug":"role-mindfulness-creativity-sarah-chauncey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/28\/role-mindfulness-creativity-sarah-chauncey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Mindfulness in Creativity by Sarah Chauncey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Let\u2019s welcome back\u00a0Sarah Chauncey<\/a>\u00a0as she shares with us \u201cThe Role of Mindfulness in Creativity.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Novels, J.D. Salinger<\/a> wrote, grow in the dark.<\/strong> By that, he meant that true creativity comes from the subconscious mind<\/strong>, from allowing ideas time to percolate below our conscious awareness.<\/p>\n

This is true for all creative ventures.<\/p>\n

Creative ideas don\u2019t come from staring at a computer. That signals our thinking minds to activate, and the thinking mind can\u2019t innovate or create<\/strong>; it can only analyze, strategize and replicate old ideas. We humans are creatures of habit: If we sit in the same place (literally or figuratively), we\u2019ll come up with the same old ideas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

True creativity and innovation come from looking at things differently<\/strong> \u2013 and that can only happen when the thinking mind is out of the way, when the subconscious can bubble up and offer its contributions.<\/p>\n

Many people\u2014especially new nonfiction writers\u2014sit in front of a screen, wrenching sentences from their brain word by word. That\u2019s an excruciating process, not to mention a recipe for bad writing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The subconscious takes in 20 million bits of information per second \u2013 and this is a conservative estimate, from biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton<\/a> (I\u2019ve heard numbers up to 40 billion bits per second). The conscious mind takes in 2,000 bits per second and can process<\/em> a maximum 40 bits of information in the same time. We know so, so, so much more than we are aware of knowing.<\/strong> The subconscious, not the intellect (which comes from our limited conscious minds), is the key to innovation.<\/p>\n

Ever wonder why you get great ideas in the shower<\/strong>, in the washroom (she said, delicately), while you\u2019re daydreaming, walking, driving or falling asleep (hopefully, not the latter two at the same time)?<\/p>\n

These activities signal the thinking mind to take a break, and the subconscious \u2013 where ideas percolate \u2013 finally has a chance to speak up. A glass of wine or beer has a similar effect, though it\u2019s less a signal to the subconscious and more a dulling of the intellect, including that pesky mental firewall that constantly says, \u201cNo, that idea can\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trick to getting the most out of your subconscious is to relax, yet remain aware enough to notice what comes up.<\/strong> You can\u2019t just space out and hope to remember ideas later (just ask anyone who\u2019s half-awoken with a great idea at 3am and thought, \u201cOh, I\u2019ll totally<\/em> remember this in the morning.\u201d).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where mindfulness \u2014 including the ability to observe one\u2019s thoughts \u2014 comes in.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neurobiologist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.<\/a>, author of Brainstorm<\/em><\/a> and Mindsight<\/em><\/a>, among other books, talks about the difference between \u201cdirected thinking\u201d and \u201cpurposeful daydreaming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Directed thinking is focus-time, the \u201cbutt in chair, hands on keyboard\u201d stage of the writing process. You can\u2019t be a writer without this stage (and, y\u2019know, actually writing<\/em>), but it\u2019s not the only important stage of the process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Purposeful daydreaming \u2013 allowing the mind to wander and make spontaneous connections \u2013 requires mindfulness. If your subconscious is percolating new ideas into your conscious mind, and you don\u2019t know how to notice your thoughts as they arise, the ideas get trampled under the rush of mind activity (that you\u2019re not aware of having).<\/strong><\/p>\n

People who practice mindfulness learn to watch their thoughts with curiosity, not judgment. They develop what Siegel (and others) call the \u201cobserving circuit\u201d in the brain, whereas most people are only aware of the \u201cexperiencing circuit.\u201d They\u2019re aware of where their bodies are, but not what their minds are doing.<\/p>\n

Mindfulness takes, well, practice. The human default is to simply do, without being aware of what we\u2019re doing. But the brain can be trained, thanks to neuroplasticity (the phenomenon that \u201cneurons that fire together, wire together\u201d). The more you train your mind to observe your thoughts, the easier it will become to observe. And with that, creativity grows.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Studies have proven this: Participants who practiced mindfulness experienced increases in creativity while daydreaming<\/a>; those who didn\u2019t practice mindfulness experienced no gains.<\/p>\n

The key to developing creativity, therefore, is developing the observing circuit. We all have it, but most of us don\u2019t know we have it, because our thoughts and intellect obliterate it. It\u2019s only through practicing mindful awareness, training the observer neurons to wire together, that true creativity can emerge and increase.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So mindfulness makes for more effective writing. It\u2019s not working harder; it\u2019s working smarter, leveraging the intelligence of the whole brain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mindfulness is an essential part of every writer\u2019s toolkit.<\/strong> We need it in order to be innovative, not only to generate creative solutions, but also to notice them. Taking the time to slow down, to quiet the thinking mind, to notice what comes up \u2013 these are the keys to true creativity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Over the past 25 years, Sarah Chauncey<\/a> has written fiction and nonfiction for print, television, digital and business. She currently advises nonfiction authors who seek to make a difference in the world, by helping them expand their reach through resonant storytelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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