Some Tips to Improve Your Brain Aptitude As Your Age
A strong memory depends on the health and vitality of your brain. Whether you’re a student studying for final exams, a working professional interested in doing all you can to stay mentally sharp, or a senior looking to preserve and enhance your grey matter as you age, there are lots of things you can do to improve your memory and mental performance.
It’s clear that some of our parts, like hips and knees, do wear out with use. The good news, on the other hand, is that the brain isn’t one of individuals’ parts. Without a doubt, the brain is considered to get better with use. So what’s the best way to use it to make sure development? This is the purpose behind Brain Power.
Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age; to explain, in clear and accessible terms, the research-validated, practical things that you can do, or stop doing, to improve your mind every year of your life. The book is based on the confluence of timeless wisdom, practical experience and the latest research. Contemporary science has established that you can improve your mind as you age, and you can begin that process of improvement now.
Some Followings you can do to improve your mind as you age:
Understand that your brain is designed to improve with use.
Embrace a positive, optimistic attitude toward aging. Stop commiserating, complaining and whining about getting older! Avoid negative self-programming. Eliminate phrases such as “I’m having a senior moment” or “I’m not what I used to be.”
Count your blessings every day. Keep a gratitude journal. Every night before you go to sleep let go of all your grudges and resentments. Laugh often.
Clarify your life purpose and focus on it every day.
Invest a minimum of 15 minutes each day in learning something new.
Oxygenate your brain with some form of enjoyable daily exercise.
Take pleasure in a healthy, wholesome diet of fresh, delicious foods. Stay hydrated, eat a healthy breakfast, take a high quality multivitamin/mineral supplement, minimize sugar intake and other high-glycemic foods. Never eat trans fats. As Michael Pollan advises, “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”
Surround yourself with loveliness. Endeavor to create a stimulating, positive environment. Listen to beautiful music, enjoy inspiring art and spend time in nature whenever possible.
Cultivate positive relationships. Invest in your social wealth.
Counter stress with a daily relaxation or meditation practice.
Establish by embracing a positive, optimistic, attitude toward aging. According to Becca Levy, Ph.D., individuals with a positive attitude outlive those with a pessimistic approach by an average of more than seven years! Find a guiding purpose for your life and cultivate gratitude, forgiveness and humor. Continuous learning is the true fountain of youth, so learn something new every day and embrace fresh challenges.
Much of what passes for senility and memory loss over the years is a function of the depletion of the supply of oxygen to the brain, so oxygenate your brain and sharpen your wits by creating an approach to exercise that you enjoy, and practice the simple principles of healthy eating. Surround yourself with beauty and a positive, multi-sensory, stimulus-rich environment. Invest in your social wealth, and practice meditation daily. Brain Power includes a free link to the brain wave synchronization technology developed by my co-author Kelly Howell. This free audio download will help you train your brain to effortlessly create the brain waves associated with deep meditation.
Envision the wonderful new world that would emerge if a critical mass of people applied these simple principles. And imagine the huge savings in health-care costs!
Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr penned one of the wisest statements ever made about aging, and life in general. His Serenity Prayer, adopted as a credo by AA and other groups, advises us to embrace: The serenity to accept the things we cannot change; the courage to change the things we can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
Besides some Other exercises by following one can have a better brain performance :
Don’t skimp on exercise or sleep
Make time for friends and fun
Keep stress in check
Eat a brain-boosting diet
Give your brain a workout
From the time when most of us were raised with ideas about aging that are inaccurate, such as the defective notions that our mental attitude is fixed at age five and that our brain cells demean yearly after the age of 30 — we tend to underestimate what we can realistically change. The Serenity Prayer reveals the secret of aging gracefully and intelligently — serenely recognize and squeeze the fleeting nature of life and the increasing vulnerabilities that present themselves over time — while wisely and courageously cultivating the vast possibilities of mind, body and spirit.