How often are you intentionally encouraging your mind to wander these days? Intentional mind wandering is a powerful and valuable tool to tap into your creativity. Mind wandering often gets a bad rap; however, mind wandering used well can take you places your brain’s executive function won’t go.
When your mind wanders, you’re using your brain’s default network and you’re able to expand your thinking capacity.
My Forbes Coaches Council article, How mind-wandering can improve your thinking and well-being from September 20, 2023, shares tips on how to use mind wandering effectively. The article also explains the brain science behind mind wandering and why it’s so effective for dealing with our VUCA/BANI world.
Hi Liz, Great article.
Just wanted to introduce you to Wander120 – an app designed for those of us that need help to let ourselves mind-wander at the very time we need to – when we are experiencing brain fade after high level focused work.
Sometimes it is hard to ‘just let go’ so the app is designed with a thought distraction prompt, for a 2 minute mindful mind-wander from our work, to clear the mind and let the DMN do its thing, for refresh, and reset, and all the other activities it undertakes to give us those ah-ha moments!
Thanks, Anne! What a great idea for an app! I look forward to trying Wander120. Thanks for letting us know about it.