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So my recommendation would be for those of you that are trying to enhance divergent thinking and creative ability, that you would do this practice at a minimum once per week. And I should say if you were going to do it once per week, I would recommend doing it for about 20 to 30 minutes.
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So the point is that the divergent thinking itself is not occurring during the NSDR or yoga nidra practice. The NSDR and yoga nidra practice prepares you for divergent thinking that you do in the hour or hours that follows.
So the idea would be to do anywhere from 10 to 20, maybe 30 minutes, maybe even as much as an hour, depending on how much time you had to dedicate of such a meditation and NSDR practice. And then not necessarily immediately but within the 5 to 15 minutes following, then to go into a practice of divergent thinking and start doing creative exploration.