This is episode 2,260 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mechley and I welcome you back to our series this week.

Welcome to day two on our series where we're exploring the theme to dare to live more fully.

This is a series where you unleash your creativity and in today's episode you're going to be guided as you repeat an affirmation.

An affirmation is a positive statement you repeat to help you focus on your intention.

And as you explore this week's creativity series, you have a challenge.

Your challenge is to begin to express yourself in a unique way each and every day and I'll be sharing with you different ways each day.

You can express yourself and I'll be sharing a journal prompt for all those journalists out there who are not only meditating showing up for themselves every day to allow themselves to slow down and sit in stillness but also journaling, writing their reflections either before or after they meditate.

When you write down your reflections after you meditate, it's a beautiful ritual.

You will glean so much insight into your life when you do this and you could also use your journaling as an opportunity to do what you could consider to be a brain dump where you let go of your worries.

All those thoughts that might be crowding around in your mind before you sit down to meditate that way you give yourself permission to let go of these thoughts.

So those are some ways you can use your journal.

With your quest, you will in each episode this week, you will discover kind of creativity to unleash for each day.

So get ready to express yourself and to make this week extra meaningful again, journal about how you feel with each creative burst you receive this week.

You might be recreating yourself because of all you've been through this year, you might need to be recreating yourself because your life has changed so much.

So that was one reason why I wanted to share this week's meditation theme with you and I want to share a little insight about creativity.

This is an article on psychology today. There is no author and the title is simply called creativity.

So this is not something I'm going to be able to credit to anyone. Here is what the article has to say.

Why are some people more creative than others? Creative people embody complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that are segregated in others.

According to the pioneering creativity researcher, miholy, succident miholy, I don't know if that's how you pronounce his name. His name is so creative.

Those on to say that creative people, they balance intense energy with quiet rest, playfulness with discipline, fantasy with reality, and passion for their work with objectivity.

And neuroscience research supports this idea. Creative people may better engage the three brain systems, your default mode network, the salience network, and the executive control network.

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