Creativity- Modern Psychology: Yoga for Creativity Berk defined creativity as Ability to produce work that is original but still appropriate and useful Creativity involves at least three conditions: Prediction of novel idea or response This new idea must solve a problem or accomplish a goal The original insight must be sustained and developed to the full. 4 stages in creative thinking: 1. Preparation 2. Incubation 3. Inspiration 4. Verification Personality of creative individual: Have exception fund of psychic and physical energy. Live more complex life
Creativity- Modern Psychology: Yoga for Creativity Preparation: Knowing the problem Initial efforts to solve Keeping it aside 3. Inspiration : Sudden flash – a new idea May be in dream or day dream 2. Incubation: Preservation 4. Verification: Bringing the flash into the terms of formal logic
Creativity- ModerPsychology : Rich environment which stimulates creative thinking. Freedom from completely structured situation Encouraging self discovery Creative discovery has to be fostered from childhood Restructuring : Conceiving the problem in a new or different way Divergent thinking: Ability to propose many different answers Convergent thinking : Narrowing possibilities to a single answer. Encouraging creativity:
Yoga for Creativity Navanavonmeshalini sakti Creative mind is the one which can bring out newer and newer things – one to many Multiplicity In Intelligence we move from many to single unity Intelligent person need not have to be creative Creative person need not have to be intelligent But if a person can be both intelligent and creative, it leads to all round personality That’s what yoga does Modern world felt the importance of creativity with advancement of Science and Technology Technological development needs creative minds Is creativity by birth? Can we increase it? Brain storming is the right way.
Creativity – Navanavonmeshalini Silence – the source of creativity – archemedis All techniques of yoga take us to silence Patanjali : Dharana + Dhyana + samadhi = Samyama If we want to know something and if we do Samyama we get all knowledge about that. Yoga for Creativity