Take a long, deep inhale, feel your ribs expand, and now slowly exhale. The physical and mental benefits you just got from that breathing exercise are similar to the benefits you get from improving intellectual wellness. In other words, enhancing your creative abilities and expanding your knowledge is like a deep breath for your mind.
While intellectual wellness can be a lifelong pursuit, there are some benefits you can enjoy right away:
A Calmer Mind
A recent study from Queen’s University in Canada indicated that we have more than 6,000 thoughts per day. It may feel like even more if you tend to have a racing mind, or if your thoughts keep you up at night. While it may seem counterintuitive, NOT thinking for a while actually improves your intellectual wellness.
Meditation, deep breathing, and yoga help because they give your mind a break and keep it from churning. CBD can also help regulate your mood and your thoughts. To give your mind one less thing to think about, choose Next Evo Naturals Subscribe & Save option, and have your CBD automatically delivered.
A Better Outlook
No question about it, the last few years have tested our ability to stay positive. While it’s not realistic to have a sunny outlook every moment of every day, we also don’t want to get stuck in cycles of negative thinking. Intellectual wellness activities such as pursuing a creative hobby or learning a new skill take you out of a gloom-and-doom mentality.
It’s long been known that hobbies reduce stress, and it’s no wonder that the pandemic inspired a new crop of hobby seekers. According to a Lending Tree survey, 6 in 10 Americans picked up a new intellectual wellness hobby in the last two years, including crochet, writing, gardening and cooking. NextEvo Naturals CBD can also help boost your outlook, by calming and regulating the nervous system so negative thoughts can’t take over.
A New Perspective
From our music to our newsfeeds to our online purchases, algorithms curate what we hear, see, and buy. While convenient, our perspectives can become overly curated, so we’re only exposed to what we already like or already think. Actively pursuing intellectual wellness can keep our minds aware of and open to other perspectives, and expand our thinking beyond what’s curated for us.
There are brain benefits to new perspectives too - new ways of thinking keep your mind more “neuroplastic,” which is important for learning and memory. CBD also supports neuroplasticity, and can help boost your intellectual wellness efforts. To keep on theme and try something new, try NextEvo Naturals Chewable Mints. :)
With these tips and the added support of NextEvo Naturals CBD, you’ll enjoy that mental deep breath in no time.
