Mind

Some strategies to power up your ability to recall and retain important stuff.

TAKE FORTY WINKS

Sleeping is a great way to improve memory performance. it improves the brain’s ability to take in and remember new information. Sleep plays an important and key role in the consolidation of information in a long-term memory storage as well, so that information can be retrieved later on.

EAT BEANS AND GREENS

Both are loaded with magnesium, a mineral that helps regulate a key brain receptor important for learning and memory. Beans and greens shows significant gains in short and long term memory, working memory, and ability to learn. The magnesium supplement increases and strengthens the connections among brain cells. Get your daily allowance of magnesium naturally from dark green leafy vegetables, legumes and whole grains.

MOVE YOUR EYES

moving your eyes from left to right for approximately 30 seconds before learning information can improve recall by 10 percent. Although the underlying reason for improved memory following side-to-side eye movements is unknown, some believe the horizontal movement strengthens memory by engaging both the right and left brain hemispheres in memory tasks.

FOCUS, FOCUS AND FOCUS

Lack of attention and failure to concentrate are important reasons for forgetfulness. Increase the focus by taking a deep breath and spending a few moments concentrating on remembering the spot, looking carefully at the surroundings, and perhaps repeating details about the location out loud.

JUST IMAGINE !

To improve your ability to remember to do something in the future, visualize yourself doing the task you want to remember. It is easier to remember if people imagine something rather than people who had repeatedly recited along the instructions.

ENRICH YOUR ENVIRONMENT

A stimulating environment – rich in novelty, color, sounds, activities, and sensations challenges the brain keeps it sharp and helps keeping memory function strong. Surround yourself with old friends and make new friends; listen to music; hang beautiful pictures on walls; read up on the latest developments; get a massage; enjoy exotic new types of food; or take up a new hobby.

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Maintain a healthy body and mind – Sharpen Your Mind By Exercising It

Exercising body is very necessary to keep it fit and healthy… But in order to have a healthy body, a healthy mind is also necessary. Doing unique, random, different, and ridiculous things is a good way to exercise the mind and promote new ways of thinking about the world around us.

- Stimulate your ears differently.
- Stimulate your eyes in new ways.
- Learn about different people and lifestyles.
- Join clubs based on things you have no knowledge.
- Watch movies that you normally don’t partake in.
- Learn how to write backwards.
- Read backwards or upside down.
- Build ridiculous things like radios, legos, robots etc.
- Walk backwards.
- Learn to juggle.
- Attend churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, trade union meetings, places of worship and meditation.
- Play strategy games like Bridge, Checkers, Chess, Sudoko etc.
- Travel.
- Learn to read and write new language.
- Learn to play some musical instrument.
- Talk to someone you wouldn’t normally talk to.

Engage in stimulating mental activity to strengthen brain cells and nerve connections. Vigorously exercising your mind, regardless of age, is necessary for long-term mental health. Do not allow long periods to elapse without stretching, extending, and forcing your mind into new areas of stimulation and challenge.

Exercise improves blood flow, metabolism, energy, mental focus, people who have had long-term stress. It helps the brain start to re-grow new cells and helps them extend and connect better with other cells.

Always engaging yourself in some sort of new learning is very important. Challenge yourself to learn a hobby, computers, a new skill, or build a website. It is “the challenges” that will force your mind into a higher level of activity.

Mind-Body exercises promotes body awareness through the performance of precise physical movements that controls and balances your own body-weight. A mind-body exerciser never needs to be entertained while exercising. They never workout totally oblivious to the exercises that they are performing.