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5 Best Brain Exercises
It’s important that you regularly exercise your brain to keep the neural
pathways open and your memory sharp. The neural pathways are the parts of
your brain which helps you recall information, solve problems and perform
tasks that you’ve experienced in the past.
When you exercise your brain, you’re stimulating the pathways so they’ll stay
vital and active. To accomplish the exercises your brain needs, you need to
change your routine once in a while and learn and develop new skills.
Mnemonic devices are some of the best ways to keep your brain stimulated
and active. Here are five of the best mnemonic exercises for your brain:
1. Acrostics – Acrostics involve making up a sentence where the first or
last letter of each word represents the items you want to remember.
One popular acrostic is, “E, G, B, D, F” – for “Every Good Boy Does Fine,”
to remember the lines of the treble clef in music.
2. Visual – Like taking a picture with your mind. Make them colorful and
three-dimensional to make the recall easier. For example, to remember
who was president when the first Atomic bomb was detonated, you
could picture Harry Truman in front of a huge mushroom cloud.
3. Chunking – This method is great for breaking up a long string of
numbers into chunks that are more easily remembered. For example,
telephone numbers are better remembered than a driver’s license
number because they’re broken down into three chunks.
4. Acronyms – These are words formed by taking the first letters of the
items you want to remember and creating a new word from them. For
example, to remember a grocery list containing “Laundry detergent,
Olives, Diapers and Eggs,” you’d form the word “L-O-D-E.”
5. Rhymes – Use rhymes you remember from school days or make them
up yourself. You may have remembered the rhyme, “Columbus sailed
the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred, ninety-two,” to remember when the
explorer began his fateful trip to the New World.
All of the above methods are great ways to keep your brain in shape and to
ward off such memory problems as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Keep in
mind that the more you work out your brain, the better you’ll be able to
process and recall information.
Challenge yourself in different ways. Learn a new skill, language or sport. And,
any exercise which requires you to use your hands can also exercise your
brain. Take up a musical instrument or some type of needlework to work out
the hand-eye coordination area of your brain.
Most of all -- be mindful rather than mindless. Get off the couch and try
something new.
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5-Brain-Exercises.pdf

  • 1. 5 Best Brain Exercises It’s important that you regularly exercise your brain to keep the neural pathways open and your memory sharp. The neural pathways are the parts of your brain which helps you recall information, solve problems and perform tasks that you’ve experienced in the past. When you exercise your brain, you’re stimulating the pathways so they’ll stay vital and active. To accomplish the exercises your brain needs, you need to change your routine once in a while and learn and develop new skills. Mnemonic devices are some of the best ways to keep your brain stimulated and active. Here are five of the best mnemonic exercises for your brain: 1. Acrostics – Acrostics involve making up a sentence where the first or last letter of each word represents the items you want to remember. One popular acrostic is, “E, G, B, D, F” – for “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” to remember the lines of the treble clef in music. 2. Visual – Like taking a picture with your mind. Make them colorful and three-dimensional to make the recall easier. For example, to remember who was president when the first Atomic bomb was detonated, you could picture Harry Truman in front of a huge mushroom cloud. 3. Chunking – This method is great for breaking up a long string of numbers into chunks that are more easily remembered. For example, telephone numbers are better remembered than a driver’s license number because they’re broken down into three chunks. 4. Acronyms – These are words formed by taking the first letters of the items you want to remember and creating a new word from them. For example, to remember a grocery list containing “Laundry detergent, Olives, Diapers and Eggs,” you’d form the word “L-O-D-E.”
  • 2. 5. Rhymes – Use rhymes you remember from school days or make them up yourself. You may have remembered the rhyme, “Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred, ninety-two,” to remember when the explorer began his fateful trip to the New World. All of the above methods are great ways to keep your brain in shape and to ward off such memory problems as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Keep in mind that the more you work out your brain, the better you’ll be able to process and recall information. Challenge yourself in different ways. Learn a new skill, language or sport. And, any exercise which requires you to use your hands can also exercise your brain. Take up a musical instrument or some type of needlework to work out the hand-eye coordination area of your brain. Most of all -- be mindful rather than mindless. Get off the couch and try something new. CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE 1% BETTER EBOOK