Lesson 39: Unlock Your Creative Potential Through Meditation with Brad Gantt

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How to unlock your untapped creative potential through meditation

with Brad Gantt

By quieting our own internal dialogue, by improving our ability to focus and remain in the present moment, we have more access to those qualities of ourselves that give birth to creative ideas.
— Brad Gantt

We know that meditation can help you reduce stress and anxiety, among many other health benefits, but can meditation actually help you become more creative? The answer is YES! And through some simple and effective techniques, it doesn’t require thought shaming and rigid postures to get there.

This week on Creativity School, Brad Gantt, meditation teacher and creative director, talks to us about how meditation can help rid our internal clutter, get us into a flow state, and allow us to journey deeply into our well of untapped creativity, accessing parts of ourselves that have always been there.

If you' think you can’t meditate because you’re unable to sit still and quiet your mind, or you just don’t have the time, this episode is for you. Listen to find out how meditation can be an easy way to clear out your mental junk, reduce accumulated stress, and unlock your creative potential!

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Mentioned in this episode:

  • How a panic attack led Brad to seek meditation

  • How meditation can help us build a resilience to stressful situations

  • The importance of simply being

  • How meditation can help us see things with complete clarity

  • How meditation can help the creative process and make the creative process more enjoyable

  • How meditation is like a treadmill for an out of shape mind and requires consistency to see the best results

  • Why you don’t need to spend a lot of time meditating to see the benefits of it

     

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