Mental workouts are good for you – these are a piece of cake.
The Cleveland Clinic suggests that mental workouts are just as important as physical workouts. Here’s ten simple suggestions from the experts at the clinic for keeping your brain in shape, without breaking a sweat:
- Challenge yourself with new activities. Try a crossword puzzle, take a class, or build something.
- Create to-do lists to help you remember appointments and activities.
- When learning something new, make sure you are not distracted. No multi-tasking. Give it your full attention, and use all of your senses to become familiar with it. For example if you are learning a language, isolate yourself from other distractions.
- Break an activity into multiple steps, and stretch it out over several days. For example, take a few days to learn how to program a new electronic device. (Frankly, I’m still working on setting up my TV remote after two weeks. But my brain is fully activated.)
- Be habitual. For example always put your house keys in the same place. Soon, you will never forget where you left them.
- Think about what you want to remember. Repetition is good. If you read this blog twice, thinking about each item, chances are most of it will stick.
- Get plenty of social interaction. Go to parties. Meet your friends for a drink. Use up your mobile minutes.
- Sleep. Wow, is this good for your brain! You know the difference between being a sleep-deprived zombie and a well-rested, chilled-out human being.
- Get some regular physical exercise. Even 30 minutes a day of walking helps a lot.
- Reduce stress. OK, this may not be as easy as the first nine but you gotta do it. Try some simple exercises – stop what you are doing, close your eyes, take a few deep breaths. (Don’t do this while you are driving.) You’ll be amazed how much better you feel in just a couple of minutes.
There are plenty of other ways to reduce stress. We recommend playing a casual game on your PC like solitaire or mahjongg. Stop by our site sometime – Brain Games Software – and see what we’ve got in the way of casual, stress relieving games.
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