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Hi everyone, this is MeduPak Anola, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radioheadspace and welcome to Wednesday.

This week is all about rethinking the way we deal with stress and something that stress

can help us with is creativity, which we need to solve problems, take on tasks and find

ways to innovate overall.

So today, I'm going to talk about how stress can enhance creativity and some practical

ways to use stress to our advantage instead of feeling overwhelmed.

So one of the ways stress positively affects creativity is that when you're in a stress

state where your body is flowing in a way that is kind of enhancing in a flow state

is sometimes what it's called, then you're able to make more remote connections between

different things.

So what I mean by that flow state is you're kind of in an approach orientation, you want

to go for something.

And then if you look at your physiology, your body is just responding.

Your heart is responding in a way that the walls of your blood vessels are dilating.

The blood is being able to circulate in the way that's kind of flowing and efficient

and allowing you to think kind of big picture and that is what can be beneficial for certain

types of creativity.

And a piece of creativity is being able to connect things that might have otherwise not

been as connected.

Think about when you're planning to cook a meal and then you look in your cupboard and

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