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Mental and creative first aid

stjohn.jpgI just came back from a three days mindfulness course, working with and training people who suffer from illness and pain, to use mindfulness practices in order to cope better with stress, pain, and other kinds of mental dis-eases. It is always amazing to witness again and again the transformative power of mindfulness practice. The power of calmly witnessing or observing one's own experience, sensations, thoughts and emotions, in the present moment.
It is amazing to see how, out of this apparently "doing nothing", such a creative power is slowly being unleashed, and such strong insights may strike us.

For people who deal with stress or any other kind of dis-ease the insights may reveal the mental causes of their experience and/or the way to dissolve the suffering. For those who are "just" interested in broadening their creative abilities the practice may turn out to be a powerful accelerator.
And one of the interesting observations about insights and strong creative ideas is that powerful insights and ideas are actually quite simple.  One would often have a sense of "it was always there" or "how come I didn’t think of it before?"
There is something of our mental over-business and stickiness to what we know, that prevents us to see things in a fresh and new way.
Take a look of this new BBH London cinema stunt to promote emergency first aid education on behalf of St. John Ambulance.

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When you see the final work you feel "it is so simple", yet we haven't come with the idea ourselves.
Mindfulness training and/or creative thinking techniques such as Media-Happening or Resource Unification may help strong insights and ideas strike us much more often, if not to say on-demand. 


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