How to Sharpen Your Brain – 8 Brain Exercises. Have you ever seen a senile old man? He couldn’t remember some particular things, even his own home address. Miserable, isn’t it? Generally, declining in brain function due to aging is marked by degeneration of mind and memory.Besides the aging factor, other things that affect brain function are stress , chronic diseases such as diabetes, or alcohol consumption. So before too late, let consider to have healthy life style since youth and start training your brain.
Actually, brain exercises need to be done since the age of 25 years. Because you already preoccupied with the less varied work routine, making you’re not able to stimulate the brain development maximally. Here we will learn what can be done to sharpen your brain.
1.Learning foreign language
Learning other language beside your mother language will improve the brain activities. Especially, if you learn foreign language that has different letters like Japanese, Korean, or Chinese, it will increase the power of memory, because of many letters that must be remembered.
2. Games
Crossword, Sudoku, chess, memory game, logic game that need high concentration are able to train the brain to keep honed.
3. Having sex regularly
Having sex can release chemical compounds that improve brain power. Sex is a perfect form of exercise, which also improves blood circulation to the brain. It can reduce stress and tension, so that increase the efficiency of brain performance.
4. Math
Don’t imagine you have to do complex mathematical calculations. You can train your brain with a simple math like to calculate the amount of money spent today or to help your little kid doing the math’s homework. Never depend on calculator to solve your simple math problem. Because it will make you’re lazy to think.
5. Remembering the old memories
Remembering the old days can train the brain. Take the old picture albums, then remember things that happened in those days or people on that pictures. Moreover, remembering your favorite’s old song lyric also beneficial to stimulate the memory.
6. Learning Art
Learning music instrument or painting will optimize the left and right brain performance, therefore your brain will more active to absorb new things and improve memory.
7. Exercising the left hand
If you’re accustomed to use the right hand to do many activities, try to train your left hand as well. Medical facts prove that right hand is controlled by the left brain, while left hand is controlled by the right brain. The role of left brain is for doing analytical activities and the right brain plays a role in the creative side and imagination. So, when you always depend on the right hand to do everything, it makes your creative and imagination’s side which is controlled by the right brain decreasing. So, train your left hand as well to balance the both sides of the brain.
8. Reading
Being fond of reading books will slower dementia. In fact a lot of reading able to grow dendrite (one of the important nerve components in brain that functioning to collect information).
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