Top 10 Ways To Improve Your Brain Fitness |
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Brain fitness has basic principles: variety and curiosity. When
anything you do becomes second nature, you need to make a change. If
you can do the crossword puzzle in your sleep, it's time for you to
move on to a new challenge in order to get the best workout for your
brain. Curiosity about the world around you, how it works and how you
can understand it will keep your brain working fast and efficiently.
Use the ideas below to help attain your quest for mental fitness. Brain
fitness programs and games are a wonderful way to tease and challenge
your brain. Suduko, crosswords and electronic games can all improve
your brain's speed and memory. These games rely
on logic, word skills, math and more. These games are also fun. You'll
get benefit more by doing these games a little bit every day -- spend
15 minutes or so, not hours.
Daily meditation is perhaps the single greatest thing you can do for your mind/body health. Meditation
not only relaxes you, it gives your brain a workout. By creating a
different mental state, you engage your brain in new and interesting
ways while increasing your brain fitness. Your brain needs you to eat healthy fats.
Focus on fish oils from wild salmon, nuts such as walnuts, seeds such
as flax seed and olive oil. Eat more of these foods and less saturated
fats. Eliminate transfats completely from your diet.
Stories are a way that we solidify memories, interpret events and share moments. Practice telling your stories,
both new and old, so that they are interesting, compelling and fun.
Some basic storytelling techniques will go a long way in keeping
people's interest both in you and in what you have to say.
The
average person watches more than 4 hours of television everyday.
Television can stand in the way of relationships, life and more. Turn off your TV and spend more time living and exercising your mind and body. Physical
exercise is great brain exercise too. By moving your body, your brain
has to learn new muscle skills, estimate distance and practice balance.
Choose a variety of exercises to challenge your brain. Books
are portable, free from libraries and filled with infinite interesting
characters, information and facts. Branch out from familiar reading topics.
If you usually read history books, try a contemporary novel. Read
foreign authors, the classics and random books. Not only will your
brain get a workout by imagining different time periods, cultures and
peoples, you will also have interesting stories to tell about your
reading, what it makes you think of and the connections you draw
between modern life and the words.
Learning a new skill
works multiple areas of the brain. Your memory comes into play, you
learn new movements and you associate things differently. Reading
Shakespeare, learning to cook and building an airplane out of
toothpicks all will challenge your brain and give you something to
think about.
We
love our routines. We have hobbies and pastimes that we could do for
hours on end. But the more something is 'second nature,' the less our
brains have to work to do it. To really help your brain stay young, challenge it.
Change routes to the grocery store, use your opposite hand to open
doors and eat dessert first. All this will force your brain to wake up
from habits and pay attention again.
Brain training
is becoming a trend. There are formal courses, websites and books with
programs on how to train your brain to work better and faster. There is
some research behind these programs, but the basic principles are
memory, visualization and reasoning. Work on these three concepts
everyday and your brain will be ready for anything.
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