When inspiration is elusive, ritual appears to offer a shortcut to creative flow. “It makes sense that ritual would be a way to quickly sensitize yourself to that internal freewheeling process ...

The state of flow literally surrounds the problem of creativity, using neurochemistry (among other things) to boost every stage of the creative process. First, in flow, the brain release a bevy of ...

flow" during their creative process. The researchers found that high-experience musicians were more likely to experience intense flow states during creative musical improv sessions. Additionally ...

The flow state has been described as effortless ... back and forth that happens in the creative process a lot of the time.” For Atlanta-based pianist and composer, Madoka Oshima, the mere ...

And so it is that, when faced with a decreased flow in productivity, we ask not what it might be that's interfering with our creative process, but rather what device might be quickly employed to ...

"Flow": What academics define as "a ... Jonah Lehrer was spot on about this part of the brain being integral to the creative process). The areas implicated in processes like organization and ...

especially during the creative process. Researchers have proposed two main theories for how the flow state affects the brain. The first posits it's a state of hyperfocus in which ECN activity ...