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Shelley Carson on enhancing our creative brain

Shelley Carson on enhancing our creative brain | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it
Topics in our interview relate to the creative mind and developing creativity, including the seven brain activation patterns she discusses in her book.
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Meditation Technology for Emotional Health and Creativity

Meditation Technology for Emotional Health and Creativity | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it
How can meditation and mindfulness training benefit our emotional health, change the quality of our thinking and enhance our creativity?

Do we need to retreat into nature or solitude to make use of meditation?

In this article are references to research on meditation, as well as videos and other information about biofeedback programs and apps that can enhance other forms of mindfulness.
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Intelligence, Creativity and Mania | Psychology Today

Intelligence, Creativity and Mania | Psychology Today | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

Why do smart and manic so often go together? By Eric Maisel, Ph.D....

"Mania can hit anyone, since it can be induced by street drugs and by other causes as well as by the dynamics of one’s own racing, needy brain. But I want to focus on the way that it afflicts intelligent and creative people."

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Image from post: Creativity Higher with Bipolar? By Douglas Eby.

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2010/12/creativity-higher-with-bipolar/

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> Related book: Rethinking Depression: How to Shed Mental Health Labels and Create Personal Meaning, by Eric Maisel, PhD.
http://goo.gl/J77pc

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Creativity Can Be Challenging

Creativity Can Be Challenging | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

Creative work can be deeply rewarding, but also physically and emotionally challenging.

The photo is Juliette Binoche in a movie - her character “is an art instructor suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis...”

 

There are also emotional challenges in being creative, as Eric Maisel and Sharon M Barnes explain.

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Madness Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: A Corrective

Madness Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be: A Corrective | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

By David Dobbs - My post two days ago on the links between depression and creativity sparked some smart comments. Perhaps the best was sent to me privately by the excellent blogger The NeuroCritic, and I am highlighting it in its own post here, with The Neurocritic’s permission, because it makes a an important point that I failed to note in the original piece: These links between madness and creativity don’t make the more severe manifestations of depression or bipolar disorder any less destructive or painful.

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One of many related TalentDevelop posts: Rethinking Creativity and Depression

http://depressionandcreativity.org/139/rethinking-creativity-and-depression/

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