Thank you for making your point with such a graphic illustration. Just watching that video brought me into a state of joy. I am curious to understand how you differentiate art that is created with mindfullness from art that is not. How does the creative process in itself evoke a mindful state? Are you implying that when the focus of our awaresness is on the process of creating, thee is a different experience than when ou focus is on the product? Attention on process brings us into the present.

Improv actors get this; being in the flow state for even just a few moments onstage translates into more daily mindfulness.

FYI for more fun videos of crowd engagement: http://improveverywhere.com/

Hi Cathy,

Prior to my current gig (and before blogging for PT), I was in charge of counseling at Pratt Institute, the largest private college for art, design, and architecture in the U.S.  Often, I found that students got stuck creatively when they wondered what others would think, waited for inspiration, or wanted to "be perfect."  Mindfulness training helped them to get some distance from these paralyzing ideas and freed their creative spirit, thus becoming more artistically productive.  Pretty cool, huh?

Jon

Is the picture in this post an abstract ouroboros?

in troubled times.
historically the entertainment industry weathers an economic storm relatively succesfully and i think that's because entertainment makes people remember to forget about the garbage they thought their day might have been made of and replace it with something inspiring.

What a night it has been, with Slum Dog Millionaire and A.R.Rehaman form Chennai winning Oscars - Wow. I loved the movie and watching the Oscars was so much fun. And then I sit down to check my mail and I receive this wonderful article on mindfulness. Yes. The joy one get with creating and the joy that on can share with those creations is unbelievable. I hope we create more of this rather than those crazy billionaires and Taliban's.