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Using our creative minds is more like taking a drive in a Jeep on a back country road. Lots of twists and turns and getting lost—and we don’t know where we’ll end up. This can be unsettling for those of us used to living in logic, but it can be remarkably freeing as well. Creativity breaks through our old patterns and habits, injecting fresh energy into life.
When we’re focused on the future and on just getting stuff done, we fail to appreciate what’s in front of us. This can be really stressful: we’re always worrying about what we need to do next, and feeling chronically late and under-accomplished. Checking one item off our to-do list just means it’s time to move on to another.
Many of us, especially if we work in an office, spend hours every day staring at a computer screen. Then we go home and turn on the television or fire up Netflix, and spend another hour or three decompressing after the day. Of course, this doesn’t even count any time we spend one-on-one with our smartphones.
Our bodies produce chemicals called histamines when we come into contact with allergens. They’re a natural part of our bodies’ immune response, but can also cause trouble when overproduced. Histamines are naturally inflammatory, and lead to many of the unpleasant allergy symptoms that we experience, including itchy eyes or a runny nose.
