How to exercise your Brain
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Strengthening your Brain Power
Although your brain is actually an organ not a muscle, mental exercise does strengthen it. Whether it is reading, learning a new skill or language or playing games that test your mental acuity your brain will become stronger and more proficient. Even as we age we should do things that keep us in a constant learning mode.
Things you can do to increase your brain power
Luckily there are many things that can be done to energize our brains.
- A healthy diet will be a positive effect on our brain.
- Meditation has also been shown to help strengthen the brain
- Reading is a great form of entertainment and enlightenment
- Learn a musical instrument
- Exercise
- Learn a new language
- Writing
- If you are right handed then try using your left hand, and vice a versa
- Do puzzles and brain teasers
- Learn to juggle
- Take a course on Art History
- Challenge the way you look at certain things.
- Write a blog!
- Take deep breathes
- Read the classics
- Increase your vocabulary
Physical exercise will also benefit your brain
Physical exercise is also beneficial to your brain. It has long been known that exercise is something that helps fight stress and anxiety, which are an impediment to the thinking. Exercise also helps with memory and creativity.
Depression and brain power
Depression in the elderly can also present a problem to your brain's capacity to function at it's full level. Successfully treating depression can help you on so many levels.
Alcohol and its damaging effect on the brain
As you can imagine alcohol is bad for the brain no matter what age you are. If you are trying to stay mentally sharp then you might want to forget about the booze. Alcohol use, especially in alcoholics, shrinks the brain's volume and affects the ability to function. Sadly the effects of alcohol might linger long after the alcoholic has become sober.
Right and Left Side of the Brain
The left side is for logic, math and language whereas the right side is for face recognition, music and spatial abilities. From Washington Education
Eating nuts, especially almonds, are supposed to be great for increasing your brain power!
Best word of the day sites
- Merriam-Webster Online
- Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.
- Dictionary Reference
- Learn a new word everyday free on Dictionary.com, including its pronunciation, usage, synonyms, and example sentences. See today's word!
- Word of the Day | WordThink.com
- WordThink provides insightful and persuasive words you can use every day.
Keep your brain alive
Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness
Amazon Price: $3.23 (as of 06/01/2012)
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- A. The Brain is very sorry to hear about your husband. As for his medical bills, we recommend you speak to an estate planning or elder law attorney because each person's individual case may depend on particular circumstances.
- Drug bans hamper brain research, says neuroscientist
- By Kate Kelland | LONDON (Reuters) - Bans on drugs like ecstasy, magic mushrooms and LSD have hampered scientific research on the brain and stalled the progress of medicine as much as George Bush's ban on stem cell research did, a leading British drug ...
Watching TV doesn't exercise the brain!
Can you increase your IQ?
It used to be that the answer was no you couldn't increase your IQ number but that isn't the case anymore. Children and teenagers are the ones who are mostly likely to increase their scores but adults can to. One of the main ways to increase IQs is to increase your memory, read constantly on different subjects, engage in brain teasers and anything that makes the brain work.
Sites with good information about the Brain
- Brain Anatomy - The Anatomy of the Brain
- Understanding the anatomy of the brain is an important aspect of biopsychology. Learn more about the basic structure and function of different parts of the human brain.
- Slide show: How your brain works - MayoClinic.com
- Which part of your brain does what? Take a tour with this slide show.
- Discovery Health "How Your Brain Works"
- Every animal you can think of -- mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians -- all have brains. But the human brain is unique. It gives us the power to think, plan, speak, imagine... Find out all about this amazing organ.
- Brain Basics: Know Your Brain: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- A primer on the brain and brain anatomy for non-scientists, compiled by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Beef up your brain
brain buidling games
Beef Up Your Brain: The Big Book of 301 Brain-Building Exercises, Puzzles and Games! (1-2-3 Series)
Amazon Price: $6.30 (as of 06/01/2012)
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GrammaLinda
Jan 31, 2012 @ 5:54 pm | delete
- Reading and thinking about what we read is very important. Blessings.
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goo2eyes
Oct 19, 2011 @ 3:23 am | delete
- i write and read blogs/lenses a lot so this activity excercises my brain cells everyday. the tv is running behind me. i listen to the news but not watching.
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BizGuides
Oct 14, 2011 @ 2:45 pm | delete
- Extremely important as we age. Great lens!
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karmicchristian
Jul 14, 2011 @ 11:15 pm | delete
- A healthy mind in a healthy body! The brain needs to be kept active as we age. Great resource.
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