We often try to get a lot done from day to day, trying to fight the urge to relax and daydream because we see it as wasting time. With new studies, research show that daydreaming can effectively improve better thought process.
Everybody knows that working without any breaks can burn us out. Now new research studies show that one of the best ways to spend your breaks is to actually allow your mind to just wander:
[There is] some interesting new research on the link between resting state activity - the performance of the brain when it's lying still in a brain scanner, doing nothing but daydreaming - and general intelligence. It turns out that cultivating an active idle mind, or teaching yourself how to daydream effectively, might actually encourage the sort of long-range neural connections that make us smart.
While focus is important, it can be easy to get a case of writer's block; where trying to focus harder only leads to making things harder to get done. If this were to ever happen, step back and move away from your work and think about something not related to work at all. While you're at it, also begin a small work out routine - a lot of us usually daydream anyways when we exercise, plus it relaxes you once your endorphins get pumping. When doing this, make sure you are aware that you are daydreaming and not crossing the line into wasting time. To read on:
Intelligence and the Idle Mind [ScienceBlogs via Postbox Blog]
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