Improving Your Brain Power

Improving The Way You Think

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Stop Telling Yourself That You have A Problem Remembering Things!

Instead, tell yourself you have a good memory that is going to become even better with a little work, and then take steps toward that goal.

We compared the brain to a muscle up above. Of course, you know that the brain is not a muscle, but the comparison is a just one. Giving your brain regular mental ‘exercise’ will encourage nerve connections to grow there. Once these connections are established, they have the ability to help improve your memory.

Keep Your Body Active

Do some sort of exercise on a regular basis. If you are not used to daily exercise, walking is a good way to get started. Make sure that whatever type of exercise you decide on will increase your body’s need for oxygen, i.e., aerobic exercise. This causes better blood flow throughout the brain, and helps it to work more efficiently.

Make Sure You are Eating A Nutritious Diet

Plenty of fruits and vegetables for antioxidants, and fish to provide Omega-3 fatty acids can help to improve the memory.

Be Observant

If you consider yourself a forgetful person, perhaps it is because you need to work on being more observant. Have an inquisitive mind, and take notice of your surroundings down to the smallest detail. Of course, this is not a trait that you will be able to develop overnight! You will have to be diligent about making the effort to be observant.
Practice being more observant by perhaps looking a room in your home over carefully, focusing on every little detail. Once you think you have taken it all in, close your eyes and attempt to picture the room and everything it contains in your mind. Keep this up until you can do this exercise without leaving any of the details out. Visualization is a big help in remembering any sort of information.

Deep Thinking

Anyone who is familiar with the life and work of Albert Einstein could tell you that this esteemed physicist had a deep thinking technique that absolutely worked well for him. Einstein dubbed this technique ‘thought experiments’, and though it was not his own method, it worked extremely well for him.

Thought experiments were easy to accomplish and to understand, and they can work for you as well as they did for Einstein. Basically, you sit comfortably with a relaxed mind and start to visualize yourself in a certain scene. Most people choose a subject for their scene that ties in with whatever task they may be trying to accomplish on that particular day.

Once you have reached this point in the deep thinking technique, you will allow the creative power that naturally dwells deep within your unconscious mind to take over. You are creating what some would call a movie of the mind, and you will be watching what your unconscious produces.

In fact, you will be so deep within your subconscious mind that it is likely you will fall into a deep sleep. Einstein managed this interruption by clasping a rock in each hand, so that when he fell asleep, they would fall on the floor. The resulting noise would be enough to wake him from his slumber, and he would immediately be able to go back to his thought experiment.

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