Unhooking the everyday active mind is key to allowing the creative process to occur.
Its also a laid back way to chill, but it requires that one occupies the hands and the "busy" mind with an activity, at least for those of us not well versed in the oriental meditation arts.
The diy crowd will have experienced it as a pleasant "zoning out" when engaged with an activity that requires mindfulness as well, like using a lathe or dismantling an engine.
On that note, I have discovered that lurking in Windows 7 is a pretty good subsitute/alternative for getting dirty in the garage... MS FreeCell.
A game is considered a win if completed in 10min, in the beginning I had a few tricky 25min ones and yes I do use Ctrl + Z to undo any Cul-De-Sac's, but largely Im down to under 2m per game, with sometimes 9 or 12 games completed in a day.
Its not about a high score, but so far I have a winning streak of 5040 games in a row since 2013, in order to complete a tricky game you will need to unhinge that everyday mind and let intuition guide you, she whispers softly.
Sooo, whats in it for you, well as humans we look for patterns in everything around us, being mindful is also a way of avoiding danger in traffic and life in general and FreeCell hones that latent ability.
In the beginning, being a causual observer of my own mind, I found that I was searching for patterns, even on a walk to the shop for milk and bread.
I suspect this has become an automatic subconcious process due to my habitual FreeCell game play and in case you werent aware, this is a good thing, think of it as a personal "pattern recognition" software upgrade.
I bumped into a pattern recognition quiz at Higherperspectives and decided to give it a go, now it might just be one of those quackery quiz's traditionally found in womens magazines, but I figure it could be a measure of sorts, even a crooked walking stick is better than no stick at all.
Nice to know Im in the 4% of the population that ace's patterns.
How good was I before?
I dont know, it's possible I always was an adept... maybe you can trial a before and after for the rest of us.
I have a nagging suspicion that the pattern recognition ability is dormant in all of us that live in an urban environment, but that like any ability, will become much sharper with regular exercise.
FreeCell... who'd have thought.
Its also a laid back way to chill, but it requires that one occupies the hands and the "busy" mind with an activity, at least for those of us not well versed in the oriental meditation arts.
The diy crowd will have experienced it as a pleasant "zoning out" when engaged with an activity that requires mindfulness as well, like using a lathe or dismantling an engine.
On that note, I have discovered that lurking in Windows 7 is a pretty good subsitute/alternative for getting dirty in the garage... MS FreeCell.
A game is considered a win if completed in 10min, in the beginning I had a few tricky 25min ones and yes I do use Ctrl + Z to undo any Cul-De-Sac's, but largely Im down to under 2m per game, with sometimes 9 or 12 games completed in a day.
Its not about a high score, but so far I have a winning streak of 5040 games in a row since 2013, in order to complete a tricky game you will need to unhinge that everyday mind and let intuition guide you, she whispers softly.
Sooo, whats in it for you, well as humans we look for patterns in everything around us, being mindful is also a way of avoiding danger in traffic and life in general and FreeCell hones that latent ability.
In the beginning, being a causual observer of my own mind, I found that I was searching for patterns, even on a walk to the shop for milk and bread.
I suspect this has become an automatic subconcious process due to my habitual FreeCell game play and in case you werent aware, this is a good thing, think of it as a personal "pattern recognition" software upgrade.
I bumped into a pattern recognition quiz at Higherperspectives and decided to give it a go, now it might just be one of those quackery quiz's traditionally found in womens magazines, but I figure it could be a measure of sorts, even a crooked walking stick is better than no stick at all.
Nice to know Im in the 4% of the population that ace's patterns.
How good was I before?
I dont know, it's possible I always was an adept... maybe you can trial a before and after for the rest of us.
I have a nagging suspicion that the pattern recognition ability is dormant in all of us that live in an urban environment, but that like any ability, will become much sharper with regular exercise.
FreeCell... who'd have thought.
