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All of these, yes! Sometimes we just have to move. Reading Rebecca Solnit's "Wanderlust: A History of Walking" is a great reminder of how closely tied walking, writing—and creativity—have been. I've also written about some of these as ways of practicing and improving intuition here https://bowendwelle.substack.com/p/what-is-intuition-a-whole-and-open

and here

https://bowendwelle.substack.com/p/how-to-keep-from-fucking-up-your

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I’m a big fan of the Franklin Method. Check it out if you want to have a better experience of being in your body. It’s an anatomically and neurologically informed way of clearly and playfully being with your body and letting it lead the way. I’ve just done a short session and I have no bla-bla in my head at all (for now!)

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Annie Murphy Paul, I do alot of my "default mode" thinking inadvertently in the bath. But your 5 suggestions, esp the disonance one, is rather surprising.

thanks for the work that you do. big fan of your books since cult of personality testing

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"Simply moving the body through space is itself a loose kind of metaphor for creativity". - Love this!

Matter, itself, is a kind enactment of the imagination.

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