Emergence : The Role of Mindfulness in Creativity

Based on over 40 interviews with women artists, explains the relationship between Flow and Mindfulness Meditation through the words of the artists themselves. The book begins with the history of mindfulness in its Buddhist context; each chapter demonstrates an aspect of this state of consciousness and how a given artist, most of whom are not meditation practitioners, has intuitively entered this autotelic state.   They describe their experiences with their own personal vocabulary. Eventually they all experience Emergence, the natural arising of creative ideas, once they are fully involved in the creative process. The last chapter summarizes the conditions that foster creative solutions to art and life.