Yet another R

Relaxation is another creativity technique from the Mycoted team.
Counter to my usual technique of stressing out over every assignment and asserting that there is no time for exercise, I have made the effort to start the swim season early as a relaxation technique for this assignment. In fact I came up with the idea of the bed for my youngun in the pool by this method.

Like meditation, I think swimming calms my mind and I am surprised what ideas take the opportunity to dive right in! Whilst I was vaguely aware of the notion that relaxation is good for idea generation, I thought I’d get evidence by taking my moleskine along to the pool (this time the real one, not the virtual one) to record some of the ideas I had in the pool.

Here is a list of some of the random but sometimes useful thoughts that bubbled to the surface today….
- Make sure I use the words Refer, Reflect and Reconstruct in this assignment as I had decided on a different format.
- Maybe ideas come with increased oxygen to the brain.
- Don’t forget to collect my references.
- Make better use of the walks I take with my daughter and engage her more with the surroundings.
- Thinking is like swimming laps, sometimes it feels difficult and sometimes your body (or brain) feels strong and could go on swimming (or producing ideas) forever. You just have to tune into how you are feeling on a particular day and go with the flow.
- Sometimes my brain is so active in the pool I forget I am swimming, sometimes swimming is all I think about.
- Working people get a lunch hour so I shouldn’t feel guilty leaving my baby with grandma so I can swim, besides her and grandma have a great time together.
- Draw a picture of the baby bed idea.
- It was interesting that Tony Buzan in the book Use Your Head also touches on the idea that healthy body is a healthy mind, in the case study “An Impossible Dream – the Edward Hughes story”.
- The chapter on speed reading also interested me as I am a slow reader…funny that at school they teach you to read, but not how to read efficiently, they teach you about ideas but not how to have ideas!