Discover active relaxation
There is a huge difference between active relaxation and passive
relaxation. When we play video games, play computer games, play
cards, work in the garden, walk the dog, go into a chat room, or play
chess, we are interacting with the unexpected, and our minds are
responding. All
of these activities increase personal creativity and intellectual
motivation. They are all active pursuits.
Active relaxation refreshes and restores the mind. It keeps it flexible
and toned for thinking. Great thinkers have known this secret for a long
time. Winston Churchill used to paint to relax. Albert Einstein played
the violin. They could relax one part of the brain while stimulating
another. When they returned to workday pursuits they were fresher and
sharper than ever.
Most of us try to deaden the mind in order to relax. We rent mindless
videos, read pulp fiction, drink, smoke, and eat until we're foggy and
bloated. The problem with this form of relaxation is that it dulls our
spirit and makes it hard to come back to consciousness.
I accidentally discovered the restorative powers of video and computer
games when I played some with my then-9-year-old son Bobby. What
began as a way to make him happy and spend time with him became a
brain-challenging pursuit. The complexity of computer football,
basketball, and hockey games now rivals chess and The New York
Times Sunday crossword puzzle. It requires stimulating recreational
thinking.
"Thinking is the hardest work we do," said Henry Ford, "which is why
so few people ever do it." But when we find ways to link thinking to
recreation, our lives get richer. We become players in the game of life
and not just spectators.
There is a huge difference between active relaxation and passive
relaxation. When we play video games, play computer games, play
cards, work in the garden, walk the dog, go into a chat room, or play
chess, we are interacting with the unexpected, and our minds are
responding. All
of these activities increase personal creativity and intellectual
motivation. They are all active pursuits.
Active relaxation refreshes and restores the mind. It keeps it flexible
and toned for thinking. Great thinkers have known this secret for a long
time. Winston Churchill used to paint to relax. Albert Einstein played
the violin. They could relax one part of the brain while stimulating
another. When they returned to workday pursuits they were fresher and
sharper than ever.
Most of us try to deaden the mind in order to relax. We rent mindless
videos, read pulp fiction, drink, smoke, and eat until we're foggy and
bloated. The problem with this form of relaxation is that it dulls our
spirit and makes it hard to come back to consciousness.
I accidentally discovered the restorative powers of video and computer
games when I played some with my then-9-year-old son Bobby. What
began as a way to make him happy and spend time with him became a
brain-challenging pursuit. The complexity of computer football,
basketball, and hockey games now rivals chess and The New York
Times Sunday crossword puzzle. It requires stimulating recreational
thinking.
"Thinking is the hardest work we do," said Henry Ford, "which is why
so few people ever do it." But when we find ways to link thinking to
recreation, our lives get richer. We become players in the game of life
and not just spectators.
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