A short excerpt from a YouTube interview titled "Stella's Story From Pain to Freedom Part 1" in which Stella describes using quiet sitting/prayer/meditation to relieve stress and receive ideas; Dr. Joshua John‑Ram Schacter adds that meditation serves as an organic form of mental processing and a source of creative ideas.
Things come to me when I'm just sitting back and taking that time. Sometimes I have a lot going on, stress wise, with my family, in my life. And if I can just sit down and regroup, give myself a few moments, then my kind is my prayer time. And things come to me when I'm just sitting back and taking that time. Often, if I'm all upset, if I don't forget, I remind myself, slow down, stop, rethink, relax, and then I get to where I need to be.
So not only, not only does it give you that stress relief, but it also is like this sort of organic new processing for your brain. You don't have to, like, be a monk, but when you sit quietly for a bit, so much can come up, you can work out so many things. And then I think I get the best ideas when I meditate.
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