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April 10, 2006
Can Qigong Enhance Your Creativity?
In a recent copywriting workshop I took, the presenter pointed us to some stunning research on how certain of our responses diminish in range as we get older. The implication was that this diminished response range might have a negative impact on our creativity.
Makes sense to me. Here is the research which I found so disconcerting:
Kids up to the age of five years old were found to exhibit an average of 25 unique facial expressions per day.
And how many unique facial expressions did a study-group of 35-year-plus businesspeople exhibit?
From three to four per day!
Kids up to the age of four were found to laugh an average of 250 times per day.
And the businesspeople?
An average of four times per day!
Very sad…
I am sure that the researchers would have also found that there was a vast difference in the variety of movements performed on average by the two groups.
One of the reasons I love qigong, is that it contains many, many practices to help us open up our range of physical response to the world.
The more rigid you become physically, the more likely that is going to make you rigid in other aspects of your being.
Rigidity contributes to premature aging and diminishes your capacity to survive effectively in the world.
Practice qigong-like disciplines to reverse that trend into rigidity.
And perhaps you’ll notice that your life also takes a creative upturn…
See all of John Du Cane’s qigong resources.
Posted by james at April 10, 2006 10:29 AM