Is Your Brain out of Shape?

The Dangers of an Unexercised Mind

We have a unique experience as humans to create. Not only to create things like machines but works of art, music, dance and theater. We create mental mind benders, chess, twister and un-endless games. We are the only animal to invent and build tools to exercise the mind. Some are so simple and some more detailed and challenging. A walk in the park is a simple exercise for the body. A clean and press a more precise and detailed exercise of the physical shell which we call home for our short time on earth. We are constantly bombarded with new physical exercise programs, a new gym opening on every corner. The exercise of the mind gets left   behind.

An unexercised mind is more prone to being unaware, unable to process stimulus, less likely to press pause to respond to a situation rather than react. Just as an unexercised body becomes overweight and unable to move efficiently, the unexercised mind is more prone to memory loss, dementia, zoning out and becoming less present in the world. So grab a Rubiks cube, find a maze to walk or solve, do the crossword in your newspaper (yes you may have to buy an actual newspaper), write a story, write a song,

doodle your dreams,

learn a language.… exercise the mind and find health and wellness for the whole self. Body and mind- one cannot flourish without the other- none more important than the other to find balance.. to find wholeness.