RSE students in the Neighborhood Walk® at RSE’s Yelm campus

– “Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk”
“…Exercise has long been linked anecdotally to creativity. For millenniums, writers and artists have said that they develop their best ideas during a walk, although some of us also do our best procrastinating then.
But little science has supported the idea that exercise aids creativity.

So researchers at Stanford University recently decided to test that possibility, inspired, in part, by their own strolls. “My adviser and I would go for walks” to discuss thesis topics, said Marily Oppezzo, at the time a graduate student at Stanford. “And one day I thought: ‘Well, what about this? What about walking and whether it really has an effect on creativity?’”

With the enthusiastic support of her adviser, Daniel Schwartz, a professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Dr. Oppezzo recruited a group of undergraduate students and set out to see if she could goose their creativity, ” quoting Gretchen Reynolds in the International New York Times.
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– “How Exercise Can Help You Live Longer”
“Regular Brisk Walking Can Cut Your 10-Year Heart Disease Risk in Half”

“Walking Also Cuts Stroke Risk in Elderly Men”
From Dr. Mercola – May 2, 2014.
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– UPDATE: March 5, 2015
“Why Everyone From Beethoven, Goethe, Dickens, Darwin To Steve Jobs Took Long Walks and Why You Should Too”
“Steve Jobs was famous in the area for his long walks, which he used for exercise, contemplation, problem solving, and even meetings. And Jobs was not alone. Through history the best minds have found that walking, whether a quick five minute jaunt, or a long four hour trek, has helped them compose, write, paint, and create.

Here are five reasons that walking is one of the best ways you can spend your time, and how it can help you think better, get more done, relate better, and live longer.
01. It will help make you more creative
02. It will help you stay healthy
03. It will help you be more productive
04. It’s a great way to communicate
05. You will be following in the footsteps of giants”
By Andrew Tate, freelance writer and neuroscientist who has worked on understanding the brain and how it learns in the UK, Switzerland, and the US.
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– UPDATE: April 8, 2015
“How exercise can make your BRAIN bigger: Physical activity ‘boosts areas responsible for balance and co-ordination'”
* Study: Exercising increases the amount of grey matter in the brain
* It makes areas of the brain that control balance and co-ordination bigger
* In the long term this could reduce the risk of falling or becoming immobile
* Previous studies show exercise can stave off Alzheimer’s and diabetes”
By Madlen Davies for UK’s Daily Mail.
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– JZ Knight and Ramtha on RSE’s unique Neighborhood Walk®
– The Neighborhood Walk® requires walking, which engages the activity of the brain.

– On July 6, 2003, JZ Knight shared for the first time her discovery of the Neighborhood Walk® and its effectiveness with the students of Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment.
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– In 2010, CBS News posted this story, which is presented at RSE to those just learning the Neighborhood Walk®: “Walking Great for Your Brain, Study Says”
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– Learn JZ Knight’s and Ramtha’s Neighborhood Walk® at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment.
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