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Can Meditation Make You More Creative?

Scientific study explores connection between meditation and creativity
· Neuroscience,Health,Creativity Tools

Summary from Creativity at Work of a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University used creativity tasks that measure convergent and divergent thinking to assess which meditation techiques most influence creative activities.

In this study they investigate the possible impact of meditation based on focused-attention (FA) and meditation based on open-monitoring (OM) on creativity tasks tapping into convergent and divergent thinking.