We'll App and Corporate Mandala Improves Mental Health and Creativity

People in this modern era now live in a stressful environment and in a civilization full of competition to such an extent that their bodies, minds, and souls have contracted to incompleteness. The aims of this study are to improve and identify ways to cope with this condition, by following the process of “question—main factor—coping strategy—case study—research challenge.” The main factors listed are (1) prioritizing mind-body dualism, especially the material body, (2) active sympathetic nerves as a norm, and (3) dominant left brain activity inhibiting the right brain. The coping strategies are (1) transformation through meditation, (2) surrender and self-inquiry on the consciousness of oneness, and (3) spiritual covenant. The case studies analyzed are (1) We’ll app and (2) Corporate Mandala. Following a literature review and reviewing case studies, this study proposes 6 preliminary dimensions and 12 hypotheses aimed to improve the increasing problems in creativity limitation and depression.

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