MINDFULNESS IN CREATIVE PRACTICE: A MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVE ON WELLBEING IN DESIGN
International Journal of Progressive Research in Engineering Management and Science June 13, 2025 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.58257/ijprems41979 via OpenAlex
Summary
Mindfulness enhances awareness of surroundings, feelings, and thoughts, which can positively influence decision-making and creativity. It helps individuals focus on independent thinking while reducing self-consciousness, fostering traits like curiosity and risk-taking that are essential for creative practices. By practicing mindfulness, individuals may achieve greater mental clarity and emotional control, which supports flexible thinking and creative problem-solving, particularly in design contexts.
Study at a glance
| Key finding | Mindfulness is a useful tool for enhancing awareness of individual values that influence design decisions. |
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Abstract
The Greater Good Science Centre at the University of California describes mindfulness as the state of maintaining awareness of a person's surroundings, feelings, thoughts, and sensations through a non-judgmental and supportive lens (Henriksen et al., 2022).Mindfulness and creative practices both seem to share a connection to human behaviour, ranging from attention, stress, emotions and self-awareness.According to Eberth and Sedlmeir (2012), mindfulness directly influences decision-making and judgment towards aspects such as independent thinking while at the same time limiting the focus on self-conscious thoughts (Eberth & Sedlmeier, 2012).These connections help us to understand the link between key habits that support creative thinking, spanning from conscious concentration and focus, the willingness to take risks and experience new ideas and having a sense of curiosity that influence art and design.The practice and uptake of mindfulness could be the eye-opener to individuals being able to tap into a deep sense of mental clarity and emotional control.This can be a gateway to fostering flexible and intentional thinking, creative problem solving and the exploration of noble ideas in a world filled with uncertainty and judgment.Mindfulness is thus a tool that proves to be useful in enhancing awareness of the individual values that influence design decisions among individuals around the world (Henriksen et al.,