"Rhythmic motor patterns generate sensations that entrain brain networks. Giving your brain something rhythmic and automatic to monitor helps release cluttered thinking. Going for a walk can help allow freer expression of calmness and creativity. Although separated by more than a Century, both Charles Dickens and Patsy Cline were onto something similar. They both advocated for walking after midnight. Cline's hit song from 1957 positions nocturnal walking as a soothing balm for heartbreak, whereas Dickens' perambulations appeased insomnia and unleashed creativity."
"A common approach to sleeplessness might involve simply staying at home and just waiting in futility for sleep to arrive. Insomnia, Charles Dickens wrote, "might have taken a long time to conquer, if it had been faintly experimented on in bed." Yet, it was "soon defeated by the brisk treatment of getting up directly after lying down, and going out, and coming home tired at sunrise.""
Rhythmic motor patterns generate sensations that entrain brain networks and help clear cluttered thinking. Giving the brain a rhythmic, automatic pattern to monitor releases mental noise and allows freer expression of calmness and creativity. Nocturnal walking alleviates insomnia by exhausting the body and reshaping sleep onset. Any locomotor activity—walking, running, swimming, skiing, rowing—produces rhythmic sensorimotor activation that releases behavior and fosters creativity. Imagination and a virtual dream world underpin creative narrative, supporting social engagement, fantasy, and sympathy across classes. Automatic rhythms provide a soothing, entraining stimulus that helps the mind organize thoughts and reduces rumination.
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