The Anatomy of Rest - Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07vq2by

Above is a link to BBC's Radio 4 episode called The Anatomy of Rest - Does the Brain Rest? 

In one of my interviews, I was told to listen to this interview.  I had asked the question 'Do you use directed teaching or a more play based approach? and she had told me that the brain is actually more active when we are daydreaming rather than concentrating on something, suggesting that a play-based approach would be a more useful method of teaching to use in my dance classes.  

The podcast says:

'You have areas of the brain that are consistently more active when you are doing nothing.'

'mind wandering shares the same processes as creative thinking.'

'mind wandering involves a lot of the processes that we use for solving problems and for coming up with creative ideas and planning the future.'

I find this so interesting and can definitely relate to this.  Usually my best/most intense ideas or thoughts come to me when I am lying in bed just before I fall asleep.

I can apply this to my professional practice, knowing that giving the children free play at the end of the session is fostering their creative skills.