Did you know that when you work on your creative project, you get he benefit of "Movement and Tangible Results"? This is something neuroscientists now believe we need, and often don't get in our push-button world. Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert, psychology chair at Randolph Macon College, says that making something creatively (she mentions a knit scarf) is the kind of physical activity that promotes what is called "cross-brain talking between executive-planning centers and those governing motion". (It means we get new brain cells that Lambert calls "heartier".)
"The irony is that some of these hobbies sound so simplistic," says Lambert. "Yet the neurochemical chain of events they trigger is so much more sophisticated and involved. It's like taking mental-health vitamins, building up resilience -- our ability to bounce back from hardship -- by reminding our brains that we can have some impact on the world around us."
What are you impacting in June, that your hearty brain cells will be talking about?