Including brain exercise games
Nature dictates the usual cycle of things: birth, growth, development, and decline. These are normal occurrences that we all have to contend with. Yet, despite these cycles, we still have some powers left in our system, not really to avoid the unavoidable but to delay the obvious. This is especially true on the aspect of decline or in people, the stage of getting old both physically and mentally.
Our brain can stagnate or even deteriorate when we no longer use it in creative or analytical thinking. It’s like a muscle where it can grow weak due to a lack of exercise and stimulation. As people say, we either use it or lose it.
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9 exercises for the brain
Listed below are five ways in which we can maintain the proper workings of our brain and prevent it from stagnating or deteriorating thus, allowing us to continue living healthy and productive lives.
Try and do all these as part of your healthy lifestyle. Brain training doesn’t have to a bore or something you do by yourself. Rope in as many different people as you can. Improving your cognitive functions is something that you will never regret.
Read
A good novel to read on a relaxing day is as good as eating healthy and nutritious food, but only this time our brain benefits the most. Aside from novels, informational books on general topics, politics, economics, or science can make us think and at the same time also make us good conversationalists. You will never know when you can use that bit of information that you have just read to close a business deal or simply to impress somebody.
Enrol in Online Classes
The need to keep pace with these fast-changing times and learning new skills is not only an option but is already becoming a necessity as well. Aside from the benefit of taking on-line classes during your most convenient and available time, it will also allow you to update your skills and align them with what the market really wants.
Being relevant because of your working knowledge in computer graphics or the extra inputs you’ve recently learned while taking an on-line writing course is beneficial not only to the brain but on the pockets as well. Learning new skills can allow you to land a part-time gig as a computer graphic designer or an SEO writer.
Do Crossword Puzzles
Even if this sounds monotonous, a crossword puzzle will force us to clean the cobwebs out of our heads and keep the gears moving once again. Remembering the synonyms or antonyms of a word or remembering the place where an event occurred can really make our brain run into full throttle and creativity.
Learn a New Language
Aside from forcing you to use the functions of the brain like memorizing words and analyzing sentence structure, learning a new language might prove to be useful on your next business or leisurely trip. This is also a good way to expand your perspective and learn a new culture altogether.
Teach
Even if you are not a professional teacher or lecturer, this should not stop you from imparting what you know to a willing audience. Your actual experience as a manager, for example, can be helpful to aspiring new employees trying to climb the corporate hierarchy.
You can act as a mentor to them or coach newbies and guide them towards a path that will lead them to success. An online coaching or mentoring portal is best suited for people who are still fully engaged in their professions but are more than willing to share what they know with willing learners. Teaching somebody allows you to think logically and systematically so that lessons are understood and well explained.
Meditation
Meditation is not all about controlling your breathing. It’s more about focusing your attention in a calm and controlled way. It has been suggested that by meditating daily, you could help reduce your brain age.
Playing memory games
Memory games are a great way to help reduce the age of your brain. Brain exercises like memory games are a great way to do this. Many studies have found that memory games help to improve your cognitive impairment.
Play Chess
Playing chess is a well-known way to improve brain health. It’s not just a game. Chess can help you to improve your memory, test your executive functioning, and help you to work out how your brain processes information at speed.
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Going out with friends
Meeting up with friends is not only good for your mental health it can also be a great way to prevent memory loss. Talking to other people uses a lot of brain functions that other activities just can’t do. Answering your friend’s questions can help with your processing speed and research shows if you add in physical exercise then all the better.
All these activities are meant to inculcate in us the value of continuous learning. Whether in our professional or personal lives, the need to learn something new and wonder at how things work must never diminish, even if we are maturing in the psyche or in age.
Being good or expert at what we do is no hindrance for us to be a beginner once again in other fields of expertise. Making our brains work thru the tips listed above will not only benefit us but, more importantly, allow us to help people and be a way to improve their lives as well. Indeed, we are truly old when we stop learning.
Laura x
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