Have you been stuck lately?
Take a brisk walk for few minutes.
It’s been found that walking can actually help you improve brain function
Walking influences our thinking.
Steve Jobs when he was up against something stubborn or needed to think through things more thoroughly, he’d take a walk.
Stanford Study Finds Walking Improves Creativity
Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Wordsworth, even Aristotle were obsessive walkers.
The Science of Why You Do Your Best Thinking While Walking was explained in-depth, from Ferris Jabr in The New Yorker
.When we go for a walk, the heart pumps faster, circulating more blood and oxygen not just to the muscles but to all the organs, including the brain.
Many experiments have shown that after or during exercise, even very mild exertion, people perform better on tests of memory and attention.
Walking on a regular basis also promotes new connections between brain cells, staves off the usual withering of brain tissue that comes with age, increases the volume of the hippocampus (a brain region crucial for memory), and elevates levels of molecules that both stimulate the growth of new neurons and transmit messages between them.
The connection between wandering feet and a productive brain is so strong and so long-lasting.
Is, walking a relatively an easy goal for all of us ?
Shortbites with Lakshmi 