Discover how meditation and mindfulness can help you create with greater presence, reduce mental noise, and make room for new ideas. Creativity also requires silence You open up references, check social media, look for an idea that grabs you—and before you know it, you’ve already entered the creative process with your head full of noise that has nothing to do with what you set out to do. It happens often, and we almost never notice it until we’ve been stuck in front of the screen for quite a while.