7 powerful ways to boost your mental abilities

11/27/2019

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Science Story: 7 powerful ways to boost your mental abilities

Keeping your mind sharp and staying focused are vitally important for each of us. Our brains love challenges. These 7 tips will help your brain learn and broaden its capabilities. Try them on!

Like we practice skills and train our muscles, we must constantly train our brain to perform at an optimal level.

#1 Have fun with a jigsaw puzzle

The main benefit that you can get from a jigsaw puzzle is exercising the left and right sides of your brain at once. It's a mental workout that improves problem-solving skills. What’s more, it strengthens connections between brain cells thus improving short-term memory.

#2 Focus on one task at a time

Multi-tasking is not good for learning. It reduces your attention span, concentration levels, and short-term memory. After all, it is necessary to be actually where you are in order to achieve the best results. However, multitasking prevents people from this. Practicing single-tasking rebuilds your focus and attention.

#3 Learn new skills

Learning new skills help strengthen the connections in your brain as well. It’s about different things like learning to dance or to speak foreign languages. Is there something you’ve always wanted to learn how to do? Don’t waste your time and go ahead!

#4 Rest well

If you want to work hard, you must learn to relax and recover. If you don’t recover, you will burn out. Such a state may cause serious problems with physical health and mental wellbeing. It can damage your relationships as well. Real relaxation means calming down and truly enjoying the time without being ‘productive’ for a while.

#5 Exercise regularly

Physical activity stimulates chemical changes in the brain that enhance learning, mood and thinking. Nobody knows exactly which exercise is best. So you can choose whatever exercise you like. Don’t forget that household activities can count as well, such as intense floor mopping, raking leaves, or anything that gets your heart pumping so much that you break out in a light sweat.

#6 Try meditation

Meditation increases intelligence in many ways. It has been proven to sync both brain hemispheres. When the logical left brain and creative right brain begin working in harmony, problem-solving becomes easy, creativity multiplies, deep thinking becomes the standard, and focus and concentration magnify.

#7 Write down your thoughts

Writing is a brain-boosting activity that forces you to engage many different parts of the mind. Your regular writing activity can take almost any shape — begin recording your memories or creating a collection of poetry. Daily writing helps your brain stay active and engaged.

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11 Comments

carole winslow

Have done all of these for most of my life. Almost 73 and sharp as a tack. My motto has always been to try to learn something new every day.

Helga U. Williams

I am playing Team Trivia on a steady basis. There is not one night that I don't learn something new. Always very challenging, and I sleep well after every match! 👍😊

Helga U. Williams

deborahpmercer, I think learning foreign languages is one of the most challenging activity for the brain! 👍

saratoga

Great advice it all makes sense thank you

Rene Colmenares

Exercising is my favorite !!!

deborahpmercer

This was interesting and well-meant but I consider myself very mentally active, and I am an insomniac with a butterfly mind (okay I can focus when I'm playing chess) who thinks exercise is over-rated and am possibly the world's worst jigsaw (not) solver. Meditation also not for me and the mere mention of that ruddy word "mindfulness" makes me want to scream. But I am a compulsive writer and like learning new things (currently trying to learn Russian) so some of it was relevant to me. And we're all different.

Ian Swindale

I am Bipolar and one of the "triggers" that becomes apparent is the issue of doing one job then doing another job without having finished the first one, etc. What they say about this does not necessarily mean the person is Bipolar as there are many triggers that "awaken" Bipolar Disorder in someone.