Increase Brain Activity
June 18th, 2007Increase your Brain Activity with 15 Ideas
These are 15 fun ideas that will increase your brain activity. It has been proven that the more exercise you give your brain the more it will grow and operate to new super levels. Are you striving to be more intelligent, more creative? Here’s a great platform on how you can achieve your goals.
15 Extra Ways to Keep Your Brain In Shape
“If you nurture your mind, body and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.”
- Brian Koslow
It’s simple, your brain is at the center of everything you do, all you feel and think, and every nuance of how you relate to people. It’s both the supercomputer that runs your complex life and the tender organ that houses your soul. So it is very important to focus on keeping your brain in shape.
By regularly engaging in the right activities, you can increase your memory, improve your problem-solving skills and boost your creativity. Here are some extra tips on how to keep your brain in top nick.
1. Just stop.
“Take 20-30 minutes out of your day to think about nothing. But don’t sleep – you’ve got to meditate. Sit still, reduce sensory input, and try to focus your mind on something like a calm scene or a color (to begin with thinking about something rather than trying to think of ‘nothing’ is easier). A study at the University of Kentucky revealed that subjects who took a late-afternoon test after meditating for 30 minutes had better scores than those who napped for the same time.”
“Lace up your running shoes and get moving. A study from the University of Illinois, US, revealed that aerobic exercise actually increases brain volume. They put two groups through different regimens - one did aerobic training three times weekly for one hour; the other group did just stretching and toning exercise. The aerobics group had increased their brain volume and white matter, which forms the connections between neurons.”
3. Mix it up.
“Exercise has long been hailed as an aid to brain-power longevity. But to ensure you’re not leaving the gas on in your eighties, vary your workout routines now. Try changing things up on a regular basis and you’ll stimulate your brain more because you’re not using the same pathway over and over again.”
4. Read a book.
“Choose from classic literature, science fiction or personal development books and give your brain a boost. Pick up a novel before your next flight or vacation. On top of the cerebral benefits, the escapism that comes from reading can be very relaxing. Reading helps you exercise your cognitive skills and increase your vocabulary. Do it regularly and you’ll be amazed at the information you absorb, which will make you a more interesting conversationalist.”
5. One-cup-manship.
“Swilling coffee could be the perfect accompaniment to the cryptic crossword. Austrian researchers measuring brain activity found short-term memory and concentration improved after consuming 100mg of caffeine - equal to an Americano. But after 40 minutes those guinea pigs were back to the dumbness levels of a twice-a-day Deal Or No Deal viewer.”
6. Engage in a debate.
A lively discussion can be invigorating. As long as you avoid letting it digress into an argument, you can have a lot of fun debating the pros and cons of an issue with a friend or colleague. Playing with your brain stimulates blood flow and strengthens the connections (synapses) between nerve cells in the brain. You’ll practice your quick thinking skills, logic and creativity. And developing convincing theories on the spot will help you in your career and in your personal relationships.
7. Grab the Brainbox 360 controller.
“Believe it or not, playing certain video games can actually be good for your health. You’ll develop stronger visual skills and make decisions 85% faster than non-gamers, say experts from the University of Rochester, New York. Gamers can read the newspaper, recognize a scene or pick out facial features faster in between fragging killer aliens.”
8. Subscribe to a daily newsletter.
“Make the most out of your web surfing. Whether it’s a “word of the day,” “quote of the day” or “this day in history” newsletter, receiving new information each day will add data to the hard drive in your head. The mental stimulation will increase your comprehension skills. The additional knowledge will also make you sound more worldly and intelligent.”
9. Curry favours.
“Tuck into a Ruby Murray tonight to clear the mental cobwebs. Scientists from University of California discovered that curcumin – a yellow-coloured compound found in the curry spice turmeric can slow the onset of memory loss. Small doses of curry could also help protect the brain against Alzheimer’s disease - at least that’s the effect in rats. Curries with a yellow tinge will have the highest curcumin count.”
10. Grab a cue and play pool.
“Rack ‘em up, grab a cue and concentrate on your strategy. Billiard players must focus on the immediate, blocking out distractions as they plan their next moves. Strategic planning increases mental clarity. Concentrating on the immediate helps keep your mind sharp. Furthermore, this game of angles demands that players think in terms of physics, something most of us rarely do in our everyday lives. And it’s a brilliant way to pass the time.”
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June 25th, 2007 at 8:42 am
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July 1st, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Excellent ideas. Nice to read some simple steps than can be so beneficial.
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:49 am
Another way, especially if you are concerned about cognitive decline and want to build up cognitive reserve as you age, is to subscribe to brain exercise software.
HeadStrong has a range of exercises as well as a currently free questionnaire and report on your cognitive difficulties - http://www.headstrongcognitive.com
July 2nd, 2007 at 3:07 am
The Brain is a muscle, and like any other muscle - use it or lose it!
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:19 am
If you’re a word maven, online scrabble against a robot. Workout!
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:39 am
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July 2nd, 2007 at 8:47 am
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July 2nd, 2007 at 10:46 am
I’m missing the study of music in this list. Music has been shown (check google for more information) to increase literacy in young adults and based on the complexity of instruments and having to coordinate finger movements with sound, music could have benefits in many other areas.
July 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 am
I love curry. >.
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July 2nd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Alternitively, you could just go for a 30-60min walk around town ad explore the backstreets and convuluted routes, Cambridge is a good place for that :D.
Sudoku and chess are good as well, just buy a book or a game and play every now and then during the week.
Don’t buy crisps, chocolate or any other ind of confectionary which you’re going to keep in the house or car. Basically forces you to eat fruit for a snack (unless you’re a cheese or bread/butter fiend).
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Brainbox 360? How about a DS Lite with Brain Age or Big Brain Academy?
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Oh please, playing pool will not make you smarter. All it will do is make you a better pool player. We don’t have a generalized machine for a brain: we learn tasks and assemble a store of experience which we use to understand what is going on. But the world is, for our purposes, limitless and infinitely interconnected and that’s the exact opposite of the closed, abstract world of billiards or plenty of other games which some people think make them smarter. But you can’t take that experience playing pool and help you solve other problems unless they involve knocking balls around. If it’s a choice between being hog tied in a sensory deprivation tank and playing pool, ok, playing pool is good for the brain, but better to be out in the real world doing useful things that get you somewhere. As the saying goes: train like you fight, fight like you train.
For some reason people have latched onto the physics aspect of pool–there’s frickin’ physics in everything you do and all the people I know who play pool don’t know dick about physics.
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Try juggling. It also help to grow your brain. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3417045.stm
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July 3rd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I hate pool. I wonder if bowling would do the trick?
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July 7th, 2007 at 4:13 am
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July 8th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
“Furthermore, this game of angles demands that players think in terms of physics, something most of us rarely do in our everyday lives.”
This is a misleading comment. Eveyone thinks in physics all day long. Walking, driving, seeing, ect.
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July 16th, 2007 at 2:44 am
To the guy who said the brain is a muscle (On-Line TV).
BOLLOCKS. That’s like saying the Electronic Control Unit of an excavator is the same as one of its hydraulic rams.
I’m glad he’s not about to trepanne my cranium cavity; I can’t do with TVs fiddling with bits of my body anyway.
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He forgot to mention that learning a foreign language, or learning to play an instrument will help keep your brain sharp well into your senior years, its not important that your learn the language or musical instrument, whats important is that you try to learn it
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