What mind wandering activities do you indulge in?
The mind wanders and the body? Are there activities that are associated to mind wandering?
Here is a potential list.
· Doodling.
· Colouring in.
· Walking and other sports such as running where attention is not the main focus.
· Kicking stones.
· Sky gazing.
· Hair twitching.
· Flying a kite.
There is useful distinction to be made I think between the mind wandering in language, i.e. as an internal voice, and the mind wandering in one altered state of consciousness or another. I find the internal voice most often takes off and takes over when I am working on a poem and let go of the force of reason. The latter experiences are also about letting go, but in a less voluntary sense. I easily drift into visually and aurally immersive daydreams when alone and looking out of a window; the window of a moving train is particularly good for this; it generates a lot of new ideas.
Our mind is a energy force for which we are utilizing for our creative action but at the same time we also desire to have a change for our relaxation & also to pass our time in a healthy manner .In this line our thoughts are wandering in the place where we have established an action for which it may be a part of our music ,or movie ,or the places where we find the exhibition of painting ,books ,& such other areas of our test .
This is my personal opinion
My 'mind wandering' is boringly related to the topics I am working on or some piece of writing I am engaged in producing.
There is useful distinction to be made I think between the mind wandering in language, i.e. as an internal voice, and the mind wandering in one altered state of consciousness or another. I find the internal voice most often takes off and takes over when I am working on a poem and let go of the force of reason. The latter experiences are also about letting go, but in a less voluntary sense. I easily drift into visually and aurally immersive daydreams when alone and looking out of a window; the window of a moving train is particularly good for this; it generates a lot of new ideas.
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Dear Warren & readers,
There is an old story hereabouts that may interest you.
Our local re-founder (Second to Wm Penn, of course) helped raise money to build the steeple of Christ Church downtown--the oldest Episcopal churches of the city. By the way, it presently contains pews where Franklin and Washington once sat for services. (Franklin, however, attended many different churches and, in fact, was brought up Presbyterian--which may explain why he left old congregationalist Boston at the age of 17. (As we have it locally, though, it is "well known" that Franklin was born in Philadelphia at the age of 17!)
In any case, Franklin became very frustrated with the steeple project. It was taking a very long time to raise the money and actually build the steeple. (it has since been completed.) He had planned to use the steeple for his electrical experiments with lightning. Franklin eventually proved that lightning is an electrical phenomenon by using it to charge Leyden jars, an early form of battery.
This made his name, especially among the devotees of the French Enlightenment, since if lightning could be conducted and controlled, that proved that it wasn't punishment from God!
Tired of waiting for the completion of the Christ Church steeple, Franklin conducted his experiments otherwise.
He decided to go fly a kite. (This has been standard American advice to discontents ever since.)
However, I think his mind rarely wandered.
H.G. Callaway
Hi Callaway and friends of mind wandering,
Loose strings of creative though.
Kites need the direction of the wind maybe the mind searches connections in order to find the missing link.
Kite flying....great activity.
Holly
Hi Stanley
mind wandering in your topics of interest might prove the assumption that an answer, solution or creative spark is needed and you are asking your mind to come up with something. Maybe it is when you take the courage to let go and wander that then you will wonder at the outcome.
Hi Geoffrey and all
I consider the possibility that all the senses are involved in mind wandering and the ones that give us the best ticket are the ones we go for the most.
The mind knows where to go but the journey is unfurls as we experience it.
This activity has many titles...day dreaming, spontaneous thought are some.
For a view of Mind Wandering seen as performance art please view it here:
https://vimeo.com/284896307
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