Everyone knows that meditation can reduce stress and calm your mind, but the many ways that meditation enhances creativity is one of its lesser-known benefits. From liberating you from fixed habits of thought to reducing your need for sleep as you work on your latest masterpiece, there are many ways that practicing meditation can improve […]
Meditation for the Creative Soul
Meditation can be as important as an artist’s brush for finding inspiration and deeper creativity. A mind cluttered with thoughts lacks the space it needs to be most creative. Meditation helps one dissolve internal barriers and allow creativity to flow more freely. In an interview by The Art of Calligraphy with Nadja Van Ghelue, the artist […]
Seeing New Possibilities with Pottery
In this segment of Breathing Space for the Oprah Winfrey Network, Oprah describes taking her first pottery class and makes the comparison between throwing pottery and embracing the present moment. The video is filmed at the Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago. “The process has a hypnotic, soothing quality to it. Drawing us inward, opening our […]