"Daily Rituals" by Mason Curry is a wonderfully researched book on some of the most brilliant creative human minds in history and how they derived their daily mojo through practicing certain habitual acts. A great audio book to listen to while doing the best daily ritual of all - "walking". As Nietzsche noted: "it is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth".
Daily walking is one of the great universal daily rituals to creative success uncovered in Mason Curry's fascinating, insightful, in-depth historical research.
Neuroscience research is demonstrating the act of walking (a fundamental process from thousands of years Homo sapien brain development & adaption) helps dampen those parts of the brain where anxiety/worry consume too much energy - freeing up more creative resources of the brain that bring solutions previously obscurred by obsessive negative concerns..
We're biomechanically designed for movement, to explore, expand the mind & body with new vistas, aromas, sounds - not to be sitting, endlessly sedentary infront of electronic devices dulling the senses. Movement, walking, travel enlivens us as we take in new sensory experiences from an ever moving changing environment - daily nomadic rituals expand creative possibilities, harnessing that connectivity to the larger biosphere rhythms permeating the wilderness world of nature that we too often seal ourselves up from inside small walled spaces of synthetic domesticity.
Early medico Hippocrates and other authors in history are often quoted "walking cures everyrthing"
https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Daily-Rituals-Audiobook/B00H571W1M
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