Why being creative is good for you

Why being creative is good for you Credit: Getty Images What is the key to creativity, and how does it help our mental health? Her "bedrock of creative recovery" prescription is to write "morning pages" – three pages of stream-of-consciousness longhand writing accomplished on rising, "when our rational, self-editing mind gets out of the way of intuitive inclination". Cameron's new book, The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention, revisits those two tools, and adds walking "to induce 'aha' moments of insight". Creativity will always provoke your fear – Elizabeth Gilbert The writer Elizabeth Gilbert acknowledges Cameron's influence on her, saying "without the Artist's Way there would have been no Eat Pray Love", referring to her 2006 memoir that has sold 12 million copies. Getty Images Picasso was a master of creative connections – his Bull's Head sculpture was fashioned from a bicycle's saddle and handlebars "Highly creative people are good at seeing connections," she says.