Exercise Your Brain And Improve Your Memory
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Everyone knows that the key to a healthy body is diet and exercise. Many people obsessively work out every day to keep in tip top shape. So, if we’re so concerned with exercising our bodies, why do we often neglect to exercise our minds? Our brains are just like our muscles: use it or lose it. If we don’t do daily activities to help keep our brain in top order, we lose important skills; particularly the skill of remembering. So if you want to remember your mother’s phone number, your grocery list, or where you left your keys; start exercising your brain.
So, how exactly do you exercise your brain? There’s no brain gym you can get a membership to with “memory classes”, but there are things you can do on your own. Here are some things you can try to keep your neurons limber.
* Open a newspaper.
Sure, reading the paper might expand your knowledge, but if you really want to get your brain in shape, turn to the crossword puzzle. You can also try solving other puzzles that require using your language skills. These help you remember things by making you regularly access simple memories (i.e. certain words)
* Try the latest puzzle craze.
Go to a book store, go online, or look in the paper; you’re likely to find Sudoku puzzles. These are number puzzles that are becoming increasingly popular. They help exercise your brain’s deductive reasoning skills. Plus, they’re fun and incredibly addictive.
* Learn something new.
You’ve probably heard people say that learning something new pushes old information out of your brain. This is not only wrong, it’s just plain silly. The capacity of your brain is only determined by how much you want to put in it. Try learning a new skill or how to play a musical instrument. Learning a skill and continue to use it will keep your memory accessing skills limber.
* Books, games and services.
While there aren’t actually gyms you can go to, there are ways to get exercises specifically designed to improve memory. You can find these in book stores, online, and even in video game stores.
While it’s great to exercise your brain cells, don’t skip out on your trips to the gym. Keeping your body in good physical shape will help keep your brain healthy too. While cardio is the best work out to keep you healthy, you can still keep your memory if you can’t perform a strenuous workout. Even a simple walk for an hour a day can help prevent or slow memory loss. So get up and go as much as you can to keep your brain going.
Most people don’t worry about memory loss until they start to notice it slipping away, but the best time to start is while your mind is still sharp. You may not be able to bring your memory back, but you can keep it from fading. Regularly working your mind has even been shown to ward off Alzheimer’s. So if you want to keep your mind sharp, be sure to eat right, get enough rest, and exercise regularly.
Jeff Wilson
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December 13th, 2009 at 7:44 am
How can I improve my memory? Exercise my brain?
besides getting off the internet lol.
I feel like I’ve been a vegetable. My brain feels numb. How can I exercise it or put it to use
December 13th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Get a nintendo DS and get brain age 1 and 2 or brain boost they really get your mind working.
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December 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Well the only website that i can think of is freeerice.com. you can expand you vocabulary and a few other things while also helping the poor people over in africa
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December 13th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Ask for math questions from parents or friends and solve them as fast as you can.
Get Brain Age for Nintendo DS
Do more extra credit work
Easter Egg hunt
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December 13th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Ginkoba
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December 13th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
try this website: briangle.com
it has a riddles and trivia along with memory enhancing skills.
try also mindquiz if you have psp.
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December 13th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Get a book of logic problems. Thinking abstractly helps you remember facts and details better.
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December 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
do crosswords. start with easy ones if you are no good at them. And try hard, don’t cheat, and try and finish them! Soon you’ll do better and better, and do harder ones. it’s a good pastime, and a little addictive, and great for writing and speaking better!
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it happened to me
December 13th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
1. answer math problems (even just the easy ones but time yourself so your brain will work more)
2. try doing puzzles and riddles
3. sleep well (you should let your brain rest so it could function better)
4. don’t watch TV shows that focuses on stupid characters and other forms of stupidity (chances are you’ll subconsciously adapt to the stupidity you are exposed to and you don’t want that to happen)
5. don’t rely on the calculator too much
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December 13th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
You can do crossword puzzles OR just whenever you see words try to switch the letters around and see what other words are in there. It’s a good memory exercise.
Also play those games kids play where you look at something and then take it away and see how many objects you can find. I Spy Books are fun (I am middle-aged and I still look at my kid’s I Spy books from time to time!) or play Concentration with a deck of cards–turn them all facedown and then turn up two at a time and try to remember where the pairs are. Warning: You might feel REALLY STUPID at first, especially if you were good at this stuff as a kid, but you can improve.
Lastly, after you’ve been sitting on the Internet, do a few exercise that cross from right to left; e.g., touch your right toes with your left hand and vice versa. I recently read that this gets the two sides of the brain back in sync with each other, which doesn’t happen when we are on here.
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