Looking for new ideas? You may serve meditate

If you're looking for a creative way to solve a problem, you may think will help you open your mind and find just what you need.

The benefits of meditation for physical and emotional health are more than familiar.Scientific evidence indicates that meditation can help you better manage stress, reduce anxiety, increase positive thoughts and make you more happy, it is also effective in helping the person to tolerate pain better.

However, what impact can have meditation on how the brain organizes ideas and leads one to find a solution to a problem?

Just that was the question that led to Laurence Colzato, Ayca Ozturk and Bernard Hommel, researchers at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, to recruit 19 adults that from at least two years practicing meditation habit.

Volunteers were summoned over one month to three individual sessions, where with the help of a guide, conducted exercises of various kinds of meditation and then generate a simple test of creative thinking.

To have a point of comparison, a session was devoted to visualization exercises where volunteers were asked to imagine performing various household tasks.

Another session was devoted to open monitoring meditation, where attention is paid to the activity of the mind freely, ie let through all thoughts, emotions or feelings that are experienced.

And the last session was devoted to meditation controlled approach, which should be directed to an object of meditation, mantra or the breath and not let other thoughts or activities going around breaking the concentration.

Scientists suspected that favor open monitoring meditation divergent thinking or lateral thinking, a way of generating creative ideas through the exploration of many possible solutions, and assumed that the controlled approach meditation help the person to perform tasks related to thinking convergent, it follows a certain set of logical steps to arrive at a single correct answer.

However, at the end of their study, whose results appear in the latest edition of the journal Frontiers in Psychology , they realized they were wrong, but only in part.

Meditation does favor the development of creative thinking, but only in the case of open monitoring meditation.

You know, if you are looking for new and different ideas, you could use to do a little meditation 'may well open your mind and be able to find the answers you seek.