Mindfulness Stops Creative Insights?

[SimpleGuy]

I often hear from you guys to be mindful, to be in the moment. But when I`m mindful and don`t have any thoughts, it means I cut off myself from insights and useful thoughts that could help me somehow in life.

So is it better to yearn to be thoughtless, mindful or just do your meditation and you`re free and having your insights throughout the day? 

[Carl-Richard]

It's exactly when your mind takes a break from the usual slop of self-absorbed worries and cultural indoctrination that creative thoughts have the space to arise. So no, on the contrary. Of course during the meditation you might shift your focus away from creative thoughts that may arise, but in the moments after the meditation and just in general, your creativity will be elevated. Generally switching your activities up, especially just taking a break and for example going for a walk and letting your mind wander in between work, brings creativity. Your frames are broken and your mind is opened to a new set of possibilities.

When you're doing a task and focusing on something, you construct a limited a number of frames that you find relevant to work with, but they're limited. When you switch focus, you break frame, and new perspectives, new thoughts may arise.

Edited 19 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[SimpleGuy]

16 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

It's exactly when your mind takes a break from the usual slop of self-absorbed worries and cultural indoctrination that creative thoughts have the space to arise. So no, on the contrary. Of course during the meditation you might shift your focus away from creative thoughts that may arise, but in the moments after the meditation and just in general, your creativity will be elevated. Generally switching your activities up, especially just taking a break and for example going for a walk and letting your mind wander in between work, brings creativity. Your frames are broken and your mind is opened to a new set of possibilities.

When you're doing a task and focusing on something, you construct a limited a number of frames that you find relevant to work with, but they're limited. When you switch focus, you break frame, and new perspectives, new thoughts may arise.

Thank you, bro. I also heard Rick Rubin say something like if you change your aperture (perspective, simply speaking) you can gain a lot of creativity. Like from going focused on one specific project with strict rules and boundaries then going from that to free-flowing project where you can do anything you want without rules. You know, smth like that also helps.

But I didn`t really get the point. I had question: "So is it better to yearn to be thoughtless, mindful or just do your meditation and you`re free and having your insights throughout the day?" So which is it? 

Edited 3 hours ago by SimpleGuy
because I want so

[Thought Art]

@SimpleGuy Mindfulness isn’t about stopping thoughts. It’s essentially meta-cognition or meta awareness. Mindfulness really should help creativity. 

[SimpleGuy]

11 minutes ago, Thought Art said:

@SimpleGuy Mindfulness isn’t about stopping thoughts. It’s essentially meta-cognition or meta awareness. Mindfulness really should help creativity. 

Usually when I`m aware/mindful I don`t have thoughts at all.