The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
So I would encourage any of you that want to explore the creative process for whatever reason or get better the creative process, dedicate some amount of time. Maybe even just five minutes every other day to doing this open monitoring meditation.
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Certainly the more you do it, the better you're going to get it. That's well demonstrated in the literature.
And if you're somebody who's very consistent doing maybe five minutes of open monitoring meditation and five minutes immediately after of focus attention meditation daily, you can expect that you will get very, very good at these processes very, very quickly.
And fortunately, within just a few days and certainly within about a week or more of practice and it doesn't even have to be daily practice. So although, of course, daily practice will accelerate the process further, people become significantly better at divergent thinking.