Unfortunately, today man does not use his brain to its full capacity. However, you can try to change the situation by training this body daily. This is what will be discussed in the provided article.
About the brain
Brain training is a very important and necessary activity. Indeed, today scientists have proved that only by the age of 60 this human organ reaches its peak of development. Previously, it was believed that at this time, brain activity is already significantly reduced. Modern scientists have proven that brain activity does not depend on the neurons themselves (the number of which decreases with age), but on the quality of the connections between them. It is these connections that can be maintained and strengthened through active intellectual activity.
Advice from an American writer
At all times, people have known that the most important activity is brain training. It was about this that the American writer Dorothy Brand wrote in her book back in 1936. She provided some simple yet highly effective mind-boosting exercises.
- Everyoneyou need to allocate one hour a day, when you have to reduce speech activity to the maximum. Those. don't talk to anyone. If necessary, questions should be answered in monosyllables, clearly and to the point.
- For half an hour a day you need to think about one subject. Since at first it will be very difficult to do this, you need to start training from 5 minutes.
- A quarter of an hour a day you need to speak without using the words me, mine, me.
- You need to draw up an activity plan for two hours a day and strictly follow it.
- You need to set yourself 12 tasks for the day. All of them must be completed.
These exercises not only train the brain, but also make a person look at himself and the world around him more widely.
Morning exercise for the brain
The brain, like the body, needs to wake up to be active. In this case, morning brain training may be necessary. It takes about 5-10 minutes in the period immediately after sleep. All exercises should be done in a comfortable position. Also, everything is said out loud.
Exercise 1. Try to count backwards from 100 to 1 as soon as possible.
Exercise 2. For each letter of the alphabet you need to come up with a word. You need to do the exercise very quickly.
Exercise 3. You need to say 20 male names, each of which must be assigned a number (for example, 1 - Sasha, 2 - Oleg, etc.). The same must be done with female names.
Exercise 4. Try to number 20 different foods.
Exercise 5. You need to choose any letter of the alphabet and come up with 20 words for it, numbering each of them.
Most often, during exercise, a person's eyes are open. After all the tasks, you need to close your eyes for half a minute and open them again. That's all, the brain has "warmed up" and is ready for active work.
Neurobics
Brain training, i.e. a set of exercises invented for this, in science is called "neurobics". The creator of this science - professor of neurobiology Lawrence Katz - believes that you can use the achievements of neuroscience anytime and anywhere. Since these exercises are simple and accessible to everyone, and the benefits from them are enormous.
Exercise:
- Ordinary things should be done in an unusual way. To do this, you can wash your face in the morning with your eyes closed.
- Change in routine. Every day you need to try to go to work in different ways. Alternatively, you can buy groceries in a different place.
- Very well activate the brain of various kinds of travel. If it is not possible to travel far and for a long time, you can periodically go on a voyage to neighboring cities or villages.
- You need to solve puzzles, crossword puzzles and tasks as often as possible. At the same time, the level of difficulty of all tasks must be increased.
- One should always be interested in something new, unknown. So, it’s good to periodically learn new sciences or find new hobbies for yourself.
- Great brain training - watching TV. However, at the same time, you need to turn off the sound and try to pronounce all the dialogues,that occur on the screen.
- You should try to answer ordinary questions outside the box.
- Fantasy trains the brain very well. So, you can periodically come up with poems, jokes, stories. It doesn't have to be written down. As an alternative, you can “pronounce” various dialogues in your head with people you know or strangers.
Games
Great brain and memory training - all kinds of games. It can be checkers, chess, card games (they also make a person think!). You can also just play with your child. After all, for this you need to turn on your imagination, which is very useful for brain activity. It is very good today to use various gadgets and developments of programmers to train the main body. For example, it could be a NeuroNation application. Brain training, memory development, concentration improvement and logic development - all this can be found in this game. Feedback from people who have tried this application, as they say, on themselves, is only positive. All users were completely satisfied with the results.
About the hemispheres of the brain
All people probably know that the brain consists of two hemispheres. So, the right is responsible for intuition and creativity, the left - for logic and mathematical abilities. Ideally, when a person develops two of these hemispheres in parallel. However, you can try to develop certain qualities in yourself by training only the right part of the brain.
Righthemisphere
Training the right hemisphere of the brain can consist of the following exercises:
- We need to pay more attention to creative activities. So, you can go to the museum or take up painting.
- Need to think through the next day. In this case, figurative thinking is activated, for which the right hemisphere is responsible.
- You can also train your brain outside. You just need to look at people's faces and guess what they are thinking now.
There can be a lot of such exercises. You just need to try to use your imagination as much as possible. By the way, playing with a child perfectly develops the right hemisphere of the brain.
Left brain
Somewhat different may be the training of the hemisphere of the brain (in this case, we will talk about the left hemisphere). What exercises will be relevant in this case:
- You should try to solve as many crossword puzzles as possible.
- It's good to train the left hemisphere of the brain with mathematics. You need to solve problems, gradually increasing their complexity.
- You also need to solve logic problems.
It is worth saying that for the development of the brain, the body must also be involved (however, in a mirror image). If you need to develop the left hemisphere, you need to train the right arm and leg more. And vice versa.
Harmonious development
But still I want to say that it is better if brain training is carried out harmoniously. Exercises in this case are aimed evenly at ensuring thatdevelopment of both the right and left hemispheres. So, for this you can try to use your hands:
- Nose-ear. It is necessary to touch the left ear with the right hand, and the tip of the nose with the left hand. Next, you need to clap your hands and quickly change hands.
- Drawing. To evenly develop both hemispheres of the brain, you need to take a pencil in each hand and start drawing a picture in a mirror. Those. so that it consists of equal two parts.
- Ring. For this task, alternately with the thumb, you need to fold the rest of the fingers into the ring. You need to do this on both hands at the same time. For a more serious workout, you can come up with a tongue twister for each finger (this will also train diction).
Auxiliary pictures
To train your brain, you can also use pictures specially designed by experts. For example, it is possible to determine which hemisphere a person is “leading” with the help of a girl dancing on one leg. And you can train your brain using the "Traffic Light" exercise. So, the color in which the word itself is written, and the color that it means, will be different. It is necessary to read correctly what is written (and not the color that is written). The exercise at first glance seems simple, but it is absolutely not.
About vessels
If we talk about the human brain, it is its vessels that are of great importance here. After all, if they do not work properly or drive the blood away in insufficient quantities, this affects the mental abilities of a person. And iftraining of the vessels of the brain is an almost impossible action (no one has yet learned how to control them), then you can periodically clean your head vessels.
- Excellently clean the vessels of various kinds of herbal teas. To do this, you can take lime blossom, currant or strawberry leaves, oregano, St. John's wort, dried viburnum or rowan berries.
- Lemon juice and soda also work great in this direction. A teaspoon of these ingredients should be dissolved in a glass of water.
If the above remedies can be used frequently (even daily), then a serious cleaning of the vessels should be carried out no more than once a year.
- Horseradish should be grated, take a tablespoon of it and pour sour cream (1 cup). This medicine is taken for a month with meals, one tablespoon.
- Approximately 300 grams of garlic should be passed through a meat grinder and pour 200 ml of alcohol. Everything is placed in a tight container, closed and left for a week in a dark place. Further, the medicine is taken approximately 10 drops (diluted with milk) three times a day for half an hour before meals. Course - month.
