How to train your default mode network 🧠

This is how you train your default mode network, physical exercise and free walking. In fact, exercise improves how your default mode network functions. It has been found that aerobic exercise can help prevent atrophy of key regions within the network and also help with the connectivity between different brain regions. Walking helps you untangle our thoughts, but how you walk matters. In 2012, psychology professor Angela K. Liang and her colleagues tested 3 groups of people. One group walked around in rectangles while completing a mental test. Another group walked around freely, and the last group sat down while taking the test. The free walking group outperformed the other 2 groups, and other studies have shown that free walking results in improvements in fluency, flexibility, and originality of thinking.