Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks
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Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks
Switching between different tasks, such as Albert Einstein using music for scientific inspiration, can boost overall productivity and creativity.
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Breaks are much more than just opportunities to recover. They are crucial for learning. They allow the brain to process information, move it into long-term memory and prepare it for new information (Doyle and Zakrajsek 2013, 69).[23] If we don’t give ourselves a break in between work sessions, be it out of eagerness or fear of forgetting what we we
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using a mobile phone for a break does not allow your brain to recharge as effectively as the other types of breaks
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Short (5- to 10-minute) breaks involving complete mental relaxation—no internet, no texting, no reading, nothing at all—are the best for enhancing what you’ve just learned, because the new information can settle without interference.17 This means you’re not being lazy if you want to take a short nap or just do nothing—instead, you’re being efficien
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It has been suggested that we should have a brain rest approximately every 50 minutes. The combination of breathing and body awareness is an excellent tool to focus attention on the moment, the here and now. Just stop, move, think about your body and breathing — this helps to still the constant mind chatter we all have.