Simplesmente, levanta-te e anda... Para uma espécie de contempla(c)ção ou medita(c)ção ambulatória, móvel, activa, fortemente incrementadora de altos níveis de atenção, de atenção plena. Não só em termos cognitivos mas também, e sobretudo, sensitivos. Para vivenciar de forma mais profunda, para mais viver.
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It’s possible
to demonstrate the brain-changing power of simply getting up and walking about.
A straightforward experiment called the ‘Stroop’ task – devised by American psychologist
John Ridley Stroop – is used to test ‘cognitive control’, in other words, the
ease or otherwise with which you can direct and control your attention and
thinking.
[O’Mara 2019, 9]
It is as if the mere act of standing mobilises cognitive and neural resources that would otherwise remain quiescent. Moreover, recent studies show that walking increases blood flow through the brain, and does so in a way that offsets the effects of sitting around. Regularly interrupting prolonged bouts of immobility through the simple act of standing up changes the state of the brain by calling on greater neurocognitive resources, constituting a call to action as well as a call to cognition.
[O’Mara 2019, 10]
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LIVRO
O’Mara, Shane. 2019. In Praise of Walking – The new science of how we
walk and why it’s good for us.
London: Vintage.
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