Tag: Creative flow

  • How to Fit Exercise into Your Routine to Promote Creativity

    How to Fit Exercise into Your Routine to Promote Creativity

    Anyone in a creative field will tell you about the slumps. It might not be the term they use, but you’ll know what they’re talking about. These are the times when your brain just doesn’t want to kick over. Your fingers don’t want to move, and the ideas are all stuck like fossils buried too…

  • Why Exercise Makes You More Creative

    Why Exercise Makes You More Creative

    “Sit as little as possible.” The advice, offered by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche over a century ago, sounds like it could have been cribbed from the Health section of the New York Times. He continues: “Do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement—in which the muscles…

  • This 1 Activity Can Improve Your Mood and Mind

    This 1 Activity Can Improve Your Mood and Mind

    If you’re as busy as I am, finding the time to exercise can seem harder than bobsledding up a tree. But according to Dr. Wendy Suzuki, professor of neuroscience and psychology at New York University, getting off your couch or up from your desk through your workweek can have an insanely positive influence on your…

  • Movement is Beautiful: How Exercise Can Make You More Creative

    Movement is Beautiful: How Exercise Can Make You More Creative

    I’ve been doing two things for the majority of my life—exercising and performing in the arts. But it wasn’t until about nine years ago, while in the throes of my personal-training career, when a lightbulb went off and the words “fitness, performance and creativity” popped into my head. It gave me pause and literally stopped…

  • Does Exercise Make You More Creative?

    Does Exercise Make You More Creative?

    You know the feeling: You’re in the middle of a good sweat sesh, in the zone, playlist on point, and you honestly feel invincible. The feel-good endorphins you get from an amazing workout are unbeatable, and can make you feel incredible and inspired AF for days. But does exercise make you more creative? Or is…

  • Exercise A Better Mindset

    Exercise A Better Mindset

    It’s hard to find flow in a cubicle. And there’s a good reason for that. You’re sitting in a box. Next time you’re feeling stuck and your mind seems as blank as your screen, remember this: studies show body movement can unlock creative ways of thinking—no matter what kind of problem you’re trying to solve.…

  • Go Out and Play! Why You Shouldn’t Stop Acting Like a Kid

    Go Out and Play! Why You Shouldn’t Stop Acting Like a Kid

    It seems like a simple solution to fighting modern day stress – go back to simpler times, even if it is just for a short stint. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Evolutionary biologist and animal behavioral specialist Marc Bekoff, PhD, once said that “play is training for the unexpected.” And psychiatrist and play expert…

  • Why grown-ups love coloring books too

    Why grown-ups love coloring books too

    If the idea of ‘flow’ is new, try starting small with activities that promote ‘micro-flow’. The benefits from something as simple as colouring and doodling cannot be understated. Hope you enjoy the Daily Find, love from CW! Anyone who has appreciated a meditative mental drift while knitting or mowing a lawn knows that there is something…

  • Summary of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Summary of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    A fascinating summary of the concept of ‘flow’. If you have not heard of this before or only watched the TED talk, read on. The distinction between pleasure and enjoyment is of utmost importance. Hope you enjoy this Daily Find, love from CW! Flow is the state of total immersion while doing an activity. Flow comes…

  • Why do people stare when I knit in public?

    Why do people stare when I knit in public?

    “It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living.”   -D.W. Winnicott, psychoanalyst, pediatrician and creativity expert Some people might think it is a bit strange to have packed knitting needles on a year-long trip away from home. I have to admit, this even gave me…