Mindfulness

Mindfulness as a multifaceted construct refers to the ability to regulate with awareness the focus of the attention in the present moment with an open attitude to accept the experience. Originally stemming from Buddhist meditation traditions, this construct has received a great deal of attention in medicine, psychology and neuroscience. Globally, mindfulness-based interventions have been associated with a wealth of psychological benefits, ranging from a decrease of stress and distress and improvement of well-being. A convincing evidence of a close relationship between creativity and mindfulness emerges from the literature as well. Specifically, the two main approaches in the study of the mindfulness-creativity link are here taken into consideration: the study of mindfulness as a unitary construct, which leads to a uniform analysis of mindfulness in association with creativity; the study of the multifold nature of mindfulness, which led to the exploration, through a differential analysis, of the strength and direction of the associations between the mindfulness sub-dimensions and creativity.