By Leonardo Dentico
When children’s author Madeleine L’Engle found herself in a creative rut, she played her way out via the piano. In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention featured on Brain Pickings , L’Engle explained:
Playing the piano is for me a way of getting unstuck. If I’m stuck in life or in what I’m writing, if I can I sit down and play the piano. What it does is break the barrier that comes between the conscious and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind wants to take over and refuses to let the subconscious mind work, the intuition. So if I can play the piano, that will break the block, and my intuition will be free to give things up to my mind, my intellect.
By allowing your mind to enter a subconscious state, it has the opportunity to process the information on another level. Music is a wonderful option, as even Albert Einstein played the violin to facilitate breakthroughs. If you aren’t musically inclined, try listening to music or engage in a hobby that allows your mind to wander. Break open a new model train kit or find your knitting. When you’re in the middle of a creative problem, try finding the solution in your hobby.
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