7 Creativity Hacks to Get You Back in the Zone

In a creative slump? Can’t get over that block of a writer? (Sorry poor pun, just for fun). Here are some creativity hacks that can get your creative juices flowing again.

Roll your eyes

Quickly darting your eyes from corner to corner sends information to both the left and right hemispheres of the brain, stimulating the corpus callosum (the thick band of fibers between our brain lobes that is responsible for creative output). In Rita Carter’s Mapping of the Mind, Carter explains that the level of communication between the left and right brain is associated with creative drive.

So go ahead, roll your eyes at the corny joke your co-worker keeps trying to tell. You may need to thank him for your next big idea.

Brainstorm when you are half asleep

Tap into your unconscious when you are not fully awake.

The state of just waking (or falling asleep) is the nexus point between your conscious and unconscious. This window allows us to dip into the unconscious mind where most of our greatest ideas are incubated.

Write down your ideas early in the morning, late at night, before nodding off in that meeting. You may surprise yourself with what ideas you come up with.