When the muse doesn't show up, be your own... My latest story for Medicinal Media is about how to summon your creative flow through yoga. Thank you to #HariKaur & Connie Habash for generously sharing their wise insights!
"Within each of us lies a natural imaginative voice. Some choose to follow its call more than others, but that doesn't make it any less present. The term flow state conjures up images of an internal wellspring bubbling with potential. In this fluid space, time takes on its own pace and magic becomes real. Some view it as the elusive muse — a struggle to find and hold. For many people, yoga can help do just that.
The ancient discipline forms a union between body and mind in a moving meditation, also referred to as flow. And science recognizes myriad connections between these two flows; a study of 92 MBA students published on ScienceDirect discovered that 20 minutes of yoga a day significantly improved divergent thinking — the way the mind processes thoughts when it generates free-flowing creative ideas.
Whether it's a painter mixing the perfect shade of midnight blue or a novelist confronting the daunting blank page, “yoga allows you to activate the observing mind to see possibility that was hidden from you when you try to control others,” according to master Kundalini instructor, Hari Kaur, who is also a co-founder of Hari NYC and co-author of A Woman’s Book of Yoga and A Woman’s Book of Meditation. As yoga awakens the creative mind, “It strengthens your nervous system to hold and pursue new perspectives and ideas that may have previously gone unseen or felt impossible,” adds Kaur..."
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Are you in the midst of a creative block? Yoga might assist you in breaking through it. The ancient practice can help us to improve our physical health, but it also offers myriad psychological benefits — including shifts that might bring us closer to our creativity. Read more about finding creative flow with the help of yoga in our latest story, written by Danielle Winston and illustrated by Laina Deene. https://lnkd.in/gkqPsQGS
Find your creative flow with yoga
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