How can Daoism make us less stressed and more creative?

Hi, my name is Stuart Allsopp, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them.

Okay. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest here is Paul Wang. He just described what he does as something really cool. He describes what he does as a mix between martial arts, medical, acupuncture, and mysticism. He's been doing all three of these things for about 20 years now, and he travels all over the world sharing what he does. Really excited to have you on the show. Our topic today is the relationship between stress and creativity. And what I'm really interested in finding out is how can neigong and gong fu. How did you describe it?

I call it Gong fa. And I can go into why I use that terminology and the slogan for that. I describe it as self care cultivation.

Cool. So I want to talk about how that can help us become less stressed and more creative. So welcome to the show. Thanks for being here.