This book shows how the dynamics of anxiety and incessant rumination reflect uncontrolled creativity, and how using simple, time-tested techniques we can learn to control the chaos and recover our creative nature.
For centuries, spirituality has told us that the answer to life’s problems lies within us, if only we would realize that we are more than what we imagine. Now, scientific understanding is showing us the way. For humans, anxiety is the background “fever” that never breaks but can often get much worse. Whether the causes are individual, relational, cultural, or pandemic problems, when they occur, they affect our ability to live a joyful and creative life. This often means getting mired in perseverant mind loops. Incessant thinking creates an uncontrolled mind that doesn’t see answers, whose thoughts spin out of control and make us feel helpless. In this book, Professor Pineda shows how the dynamics of anxiety and incessant rumination reflect uncontrolled creativity, and how, using simple, time-tested techniques, we can learn to control the chaos and recover our creative nature.
The key to the solution is to understand that the intellect only helps to some extent, but by itself cannot solve its own problem. What we need is a mind that can, in a nonjudgmental way, distance itself from the problem. This new mind becomes the solution-an answer known for centuries, although acknowledged most pointedly in spiritual practices. Now, the science of the mind is telling us a similar story. We are born with an incredible, original mind that quickly becomes obscured by the fever of fear and anxiety. But we can recover this mind quickly. Professor Pineda teaches us how to recognize the basic problem and find the solution through a series of steps and techniques that he has researched and experienced.
