When we are out in nature, walking freely, the mind feels relaxed and begins to engage in the process of shuffling through all kinds of ideas without judgement or any deliberate direction. At times, it can be entirely silly, but fortunately, the mind doesn’t care as no one is watching. In this relaxed state, without even realising it, the brain processes hundreds of permutations for something that we might be trying to solve, and eventually, we are likely to run into a breakthrough. This is a very different state than the one in which you are paying deliberate attention to something specific.
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