{"id":17013,"date":"2013-12-04t09:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-04t14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2013-12-04t08:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04t13:08:02","slug":"the-mindful-phd-inspiration-creativity-new-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2013\/12\/the-mindful-phd-inspiration-creativity-new-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"the mindful phd: inspiration, creativity, &#038; new ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/themindfulphd\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"mindfulphd\" src=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/mindful-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>by <a href=\"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/about\/staff\/#nancy\" target=\"_blank\">nancy chick, cft assistant director<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/the-science-of-inspiration-and-how-to-make-it-work-for-1467413542\" target=\"_blank\">the science of inspiration<\/a>&#8221; (2013), eric ravenscraft highlights the neuroscientific view of inspiration, epiphanies, and &#8220;&#8216;a-ha&#8217; moments&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 180px;\"><em><strong>&#8220;when  you make a new connection between two ideas, it&#8217;s not just a metaphor.  your brain is literally restructuring itself to accommodate new  processes&#8230;. [t]he more &#8216;plastic&#8217; your brain is, the more you&#8217;re able  to form creative or inspirational thoughts.&#8221; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>this neuroplasticity isn&#8217;t finite and has no expiration date.*\u00a0  ravenscraft offers a handful of strategies for increasing  neuroplasticity and nurturing inspiration, one of which is meditating.  while he doesn&#8217;t get more specific, it&#8217;s important to know that a <strong><em>specific kind<\/em> of meditation is associated with creativity and inspiration. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/themindfulphd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>more&#8230;.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>reposted from <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/themindfulphd\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the mindfulness phd<\/em> blog<\/a>.<br \/>\nget the weekly blog by liking <em>the mindful phd<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/themindfulphd\" target=\"_blank\">facebook<\/a>, or following it on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themindfulphd\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by nancy chick, cft assistant director in &#8220;the science of inspiration&#8221; (2013), eric ravenscraft highlights the neuroscientific view of inspiration, epiphanies, and &#8220;&#8216;a-ha&#8217; moments&#8221;: &#8220;when you make a new connection between two ideas, it&#8217;s not just a metaphor. your brain is literally restructuring itself to accommodate new processes&#8230;. [t]he more &#8216;plastic&#8217; your brain is, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":15321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[167,207],"tags":[228],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09154607\/mindful-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}