anti-aging

If you think you don't have time in your day to do any mind stimulating exercises, think again. There are many things which you can just incorporate into your normal day to day that will just be a part of it rather than take away your time.

Attention to detail

There are many details in our day to day that are quickly erased from our memory as it is considered irrelevant to us. What you can do is set an alarm every few hours to remind you to ask some questions to yourself along the lines of what the people you interacted with during the last few hours were wearing, their hairstyle, eye colour, state of their nails, if they are left handed or right handed, etc.

By paying more attention to detail we will boost our memory and your girlfriend will be really pleased that you noticed the new earrings.

We can even take this step a little further as you can make up explanations for certain irregularities such as smudges, bruises or stains. This in turn will give your creativity a nice push.

Drive differently

Once you have spent a fair amount of hours driving a car, you will realize that many of the motions will have become automatic such as shifting gears (pun intended). In order to snap our brain out of its routine we can do several things.

1. If you drive a car with automatic transmission, learn to drive with a manual transmission.

2. Drive a different car. Every car is different in terms of turning radius, length, clutch range, etc.

3. When in a country where they drive on the other side of the road, have a go. Changing everything around (stick shift, blinker levers, rule of preference, and of course side of the road and overtaking on the other side, will not only improve your driving skills but also your brain power.

Renounce technology

Every year technology advances more and more in huge leaps. Each of these improvements is aimed at making our life more simple. However, it is also fact that we only progress through overcoming obstacles. Our muscles don't grow unless we use them and our brains will deteriorate if we don't make the effort to remember, solve or analyse. If we let our smart phones do all the work of reminding us or solving all the problems for us no matter how small they may be.

Next time you are faced with a situation in which you can't remember something or can't work out something right away, give it a moment. Take the time to solve it with the great machine you have in your head rather that impatiently asking Google for the answer.

Word of the Day

This exercise is aimed at getting your creativity juices flowing by trying to incorporate a specific word into a conversation during your day. I recommend heading over to a site such as dictionary.com and taking their word of the day and attempt to use it in a sentence with someone, (naturally it has to be a part of natural conversation rather than "hey, I learnt a new word today, it's... "If you aren't able to implement it in a conversation, try in written format such as a diary, a blog post or an email.

Dolph Larsson is a writer focusing on the prevention of mental deterioration such as Alzheimer and dementia. To see some of the latest publications you can visit How to Improve Brain Power where you can read up on articles such as How to Increase Brain Power, How to Increase Mind Power, etc.

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How often have you heard someone say, "I don't look forward to getting old"? Perhaps you've even said it yourself.

Given that we're all going to age, what's the worst part of growing older?

None of us likes the thought of having our skin wrinkle and gradually become thin. Neither do we want to lose our hair. Fighting a spare tire is also pretty much a losing battle for many of us as we enter our 40s. Plus, we find our joints stiffening and our muscles sore in the mornings, making it harder to get out of bed-not to mention slowing our gait and putting us at risk of a fall.

Though these side effects of aging are unpleasant, the one most of us dread above all is the very real possibility that we'll experience a steep decline of our mental faculties.

To know we could lose our mind as we age is simply frightening.

With mental decline, there comes an unbearable isolation. To find your memory failing you, and possibly receiving the diagnosis of Alzheimer's, puts you at the mercy of others who decide your destiny. In many cases, those you most love no longer want to be around you for long because it's painful for them to see you in this state.

Aging and eventual death are the destiny of each and every one of us-there's no avoiding the downhill slope. But what we don't have to experience is the deterioration of our mental capacity.

Growing older simply doesn't have to include becoming decrepit.

The incredibly good news is that there's now a technology that can slow and in many cases halt mental decline. It can even sharpen your brain, with some reporting as many as ten points shaved off their golf score! Golfing is one of the great joys of many in their golden years.

Brainwave balancing fortifies the body against unnecessary aging because it gets to the root of the aging process-the control center for the entirety of our bodily systems, our amazing brain.

The average brain is considerably out of balance, which affects everything from the autonomic nervous system to the clarity of our mind. Balance the brain's hemispheres and lobes, and fuzzy thinking, indecisiveness, confusion, feeling overwhelmed, and depression vanish.

It's actually possible to rejuvenate an aging brain. You see, it used to be believed that brain cells, once dead, could never be replaced. This turned out to be a myth. We now know that we can generate new brain cells throughout our lives. Some of these new cells are actively involved with memory. Stimulating the brain with mental activity increases the number of neurons and reinvigorates our neural pathways.

In fact, the first evidence of the development of new brain cells was brought forward as far back as the 1960s, though current beliefs about the brain meant that this revolutionary discovery wasn't accepted until decades later. Now, we're all benefiting from the new science of neuroplasticity.

Balancing brainwaves not only boosts the brain's performance, improving memory and acuity, but it also helps the rest of our bodily systems to function in an optimal manner. In fact, the side benefits of training the brain with this noninvasive method can be huge in terms of the quality of our lives as we age.

Consider just one spinoff from balancing the brain-the way that many have found themselves spontaneously losing weight. One well-known star in the music world lost 55 pounds, an unexpected bonus of balancing her brain.

The advantages of such weight loss include reduced blood pressure and a healthier heart, improved sleep and the many benefits it brings to health, a strengthened immune system to protect against cancer, a lessening of the craving for addictive substances, and a desire to take care of ourselves by eating and exercising right-all of which impact the quality of our aging.

It's now widely recognized that stress also has a tremendous impact on our physical and mental wellbeing. When we're severely stressed, or stress is prolonged, the autonomic nervous system often becomes "stuck" in an unhealthy mode.

When this protective mechanism is either in constant overdrive or frozen, the effect on our physical and emotional wellbeing long-term is devastating. But with a balanced brain, the fight-flight-freeze response returns to normal, enhancing our state of wellness.

It comes down to this: Balance the brain, and you help balance your whole body. Cell replication continues at an improved level well into old age, accompanied by the mental alertness to enjoy a healthy, invigorating, joyful everyday life.

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