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Don’t Break the Chain

30 minutes can change your life. For my Kin class we were required to watch a Youtube video that emphasized the positives of engaging in 30 minutes of physical activity a day. A plethora of pros were described such as: mood lift, better concentration, improved sleep, and reduced anxiety. Now, I am a varsity volleyball player, so I figured that because I do so much physical activity during practice, an excess 30 minutes on an elliptical wouldn’t do anything. I was so wrong. After a hard loss, I decided to do 30 minutes of intense aerobic physical activity in the fitness room of our hotel. I plugged my headphones in, turned on a podcast and got to work.

As I am not one for cardio, those 30 minutes had a great impact on me. Not only did I have a great night’s sleep, I also played great the next day. My enhanced mood remained for the rest of the week!

From then on I made a promise to do at least 30 minutes of cardio a day, except on days when I am hungover (lol).

Not only does the added cardio make me feel great, I also use it as a creative brainstorming session. Similarily to a shower, except I have a starting point. According to Marily Oppezzo’s Ted Talk (https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/want-to-be-more-creative-go-for-a-walk-marily-oppezzo/id160904630?i=1000399647105&mt=2), exercising can increase creativity and give you a space to formulate ideas. And that is where I got the idea to create a platform for my life. This platform creates a space for me to organize my life, almost like a journal, but for everyone to see. I’m just hoping my identity is anonymous on this blog, but I have no way of telling.

I’d be lying if I said my new “obsession” with cardio had nothing to do with the weight I gained over the summer. I’m tired of looking in the mirror and seeing something I do not recognize and do not like. Even though it’s a little bit of weight, I still do not like it one bit. I feel almost trapped, and hopeless about the fact that I will not be able to get rid of it. I’m not sure if this classifies as “body dysmorphia” since I have gained weight, the number on the scale has not changed, but the circumference of my thighs and stomach has so I’m not really sure what is happening here! This “obsession” won’t turn into anything dangerous, because I know what I am getting myself into, and I know how to stop. My run in with bulimia in grade 12/first year is not a concern, because I know my boundaries this time around.

Lastly, I’d like to emphasize the “high” I get after exercise. I used to get it after runs, but when my knees started going to shit, I had to stop. Now I can get it on the elliptical and it’s great. There is nothing better than a sweaty neck!

So, in my relentless pursuit to not break the chain, I will be writing X’s on my calendar every time I hit my cardio requirement for that day, and even if it is only half an hour, it’s still better than nothing!

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Hayal Gücünüzün Gelişmesi

Hayal Gücünüzün Gelişmesi. En yaratıcı fikirleri(m)nizin genellikle yürürken ortaya çıktığını söyleyen araştırmalar yayınlandı. 2014 yılında Stanford Üniversitesi tarafından yapılan bir araştırmaya göre, herhangi bir yürüyüş aktivitesi – ister bir yürüyüş bandı üzerinde olsun, isterseniz bir arkadaşınıza giderken yapmış olduğunuz eylem- yaratıcı fikirlerin olgunlaşmasını kolaylaştırıyor.…

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May Wong: Stanford study finds walking improves creativity

Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. They examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person’s creative output increased by an average of 60 percent when walking.

Many people claim they do their best thinking while walking. A new study finds that walking indeed boosts creative inspiration.

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Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk

By Gretchen Reynolds, NY Times, April 30, 2014

If you are unable to think of a catchy, creative way to present sales data or begin a newspaper column, take a walk. A brief stroll, even around your office, can significantly increase creativity, according to a handy new study.

Most of us have heard by now that exercise, including walking, generally improves thinking skills, both immediately and in the longer term. Multiple studies have shown that animals and people usually perform better after exercise on tests of memory and executive function, which is essentially the ability to make decisions and organize thoughts (although prolonged, intense exercise can cause brief mental fatigue--so don’t take a math test after a marathon).

Similarly, exercise has long been linked anecdotally to creativity. For millenniums, writers and artists have said that they develop their best ideas during a walk, although some of us also do our best procrastinating then.

But little science has supported the idea that exercise aids creativity.

So researchers at Stanford University recently decided to test that possibility, inspired, in part, by their own strolls. “My adviser and I would go for walks” to discuss thesis topics, said Marily Oppezzo, at the time a graduate student at Stanford. “And one day I thought: ‘Well, what about this? What about walking and whether it really has an effect on creativity?’”

With the enthusiastic support of her adviser, Daniel Schwartz, a professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Dr. Oppezzo recruited a group of undergraduate students and set out to see if she could goose their creativity. Gathering her volunteers in a deliberately dull, unadorned room equipped with only a desk and (somewhat unusually) a treadmill, Dr. Oppezzo asked the students to sit and complete tests of creativity, which in psychological circles might involve tasks like rapidly coming up with alternative uses for common objects, such as a button. Then the participants walked on the treadmill, at an easy, self-selected pace that felt comfortable. The treadmill faced a blank wall. While walking, each student repeated the creativity tests, which required about eight minutes.

For almost every student, creativity increased substantially when they walked. Most were able to generate about 60 percent more uses for an object, and the ideas were both “novel and appropriate,” Dr. Oppezzo writes in her study, which was published this month in The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Dr. Oppezzo next tested whether the effects lingered after a walk had ended. Again, walking markedly improved people’s ability to generate creative ideas, even when they sat down after the walk. In that case, the volunteers who had walked produced significantly more and subjectively better ideas than in their pre-exercise testing period.

Just how a brief, casual stroll alters the various mental processes related to creativity remains unclear, Dr. Oppezzo added. “This is an acute effect,” she said, making it distinct from any long-term physiological changes that exercise might produce inside the human brain. “It may be that walking improves mood” as its primary effect, she said, and creativity blooms more easily within a buoyed-up mind.

Or walking may divert energy that otherwise would be devoted, intentionally or not, to damping down wild, creative thought, she said. “I think it’s possible that walking may allow the brain to break through” some of its own, hyper-rational filters, she said.