India, July 21 -- In 1992, Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, first introduced the concept of Morning Pages. She asked readers to begin each day by filling three pages with uninterrupted, stream-of-consciousness writing. The practice was designed to clear mental clutter and create space for ideas to emerge. With that came the notion that creativity is not reserved for artists only. Long before neuroscience began mapping creativity onto neural pathways or epidemiologists started measuring its effect on longevity, practices such as Morning Pages already suggested that art possessed a restorative quality.

Artists have always known this. Writers keep journals and musicians return to their instruments after loss because music offers s...