BETTER BRAIN, BETTER LIFE.

Experts agree there is more we don’t know about the brain than we currently know. But today you will be knowing some important aspects of this amazing " Natural Technology" which will help you in knowing this friend called Brain better. And I assure you once you know these facts, these will certainly assist you in doing better things in a better way.

So lets consider this article as a User Manual for brain and understand how to operate it in a much efficient way:

 MORE NUTRITION AND EXERCISE BUT LESS DIETING

Good nutrition is of utmost importance to brain health and functioning. Dieting can force the brain to eat itself, according to scientists.  Physical exercise is just as important for the brain as it is for the rest of the body.

Brain also needs exercises like body. Solving problems, puzzles, quiz etc constitute a good form of brain exercises. Make sure you keep supplying brain with all these to keep it fit and effective.

Also one can perform following tasks as an exercise for brain:

1. Test your recall. Make a list — of grocery items, things to do, or anything else that comes to mind — and memorize it. An hour or so later, see how many items you can recall. Make items on the list as challenging as possible for the greatest mental stimulation.
2. Let the music play. Learn to play a musical instrument or join a choir.
3. Do math in your head. Figure out problems without the aid of pencil, paper, or computer; you can make this more difficult — and athletic — by walking at the same time.
4. Take a cooking class. Learn how to cook a new cuisine. Cooking uses a number of senses: smell, touch, sight, and taste, which all involve different parts of the brain.
5. Learn a foreign language. The listening and hearing involved stimulates the brain.
6. Create word pictures. Visualize the spelling of a word in your head, then try and think of any other words that begin (or end) with the same two letters.
7. Draw a map from memory. After returning home from visiting a new place, try to draw a map of the area; repeat this exercise each time you visit a new location.
8. Challenge your taste buds. When eating, try to identify individual ingredients in your meal, including subtle herbs and spices.
9. Refine your hand-eye abilities. Take up a new hobby that involves fine-motor skills, such as knitting, drawing, painting, assembling a puzzle, etc.
10. Learn a new sport. Start doing an athletic exercise that utilizes both mind and body, such as yoga, golf, or tennis.

GOOD SLEEP | LESS ALCOHOL | NO DRUGS |

While you call it quits for the day, your mind does some serious work.

At bedtime, you shut down your computer, smartphone, and busy schedule—but for your brain, the workday’s just getting started. In fact, your brain remains highly active throughout your sleep so it can perform a host of functions that keep you humming through the day:

1. It empties your Recycle Bin - When you sleep brain trashes most of your bad thoughts and fears. And when you wake up you are all fresh to start your day.
2. It preserves your memories - The brain restores information that wasn’t ingrained during the day. Experts call this consolidation, and it’s important for protecting against further information loss as well as boosting your ability to learn.
3. It clears your toxins - Researchers at the University of Rochester found that during sleep, the brains of mice clear out damaging molecules.If we're not getting enough sleep, our brains don't have adequate time to clear out toxins, which could potentially have the effect of accelerating diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

Sleep deprivation can affect the brain in multiple ways and can affect memory, slow down your reactions and impair judgement. Drugs and alcohol interfere with the brains signalling mechanisms and have negative effect on the dopamine systems, which provide some sense of pleasure and reward. So take a good sleep for a healthy brain.

MINIMAL USAGE OF MOBILE

Try minimal usage of mobile phones as radiation from mobile phones may cause brain tissue damage, a two-year study has found.

Scientists discovered that emissions from handsets affect the delicate make-up of cells in blood vessels, and could be a health hazard to regular users of mobile phones.

AVOID MULTITASKING

Multitasking makes you less productive. When you multitask, your brain simply rapidly toggles back and forth between tasks. This results in decreases in attention span, learning, performance, and short-term memory.

Research conducted at Stanford University found that multitasking is less productive than doing a single thing at a time. The researchers found that people who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information cannot pay attention, recall information, or switch from one job to another as well as those who complete one task at a time.

TAME THE DRAGON

Think you’re in control of your life? Think again. 95% of your decisions take place in your subconscious mind.

So it becomes very important for us to control this tool called brain and the best way to do it is, is to stay positive.

Remember our brain is not designed to stay happy, as much as we wish. It saves the happy chemicals (dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin) for opportunities to meet a survival need, and only releases them in short spurts which are quickly metabolised. This motivates us to keep taking steps that stimulate our happy chemicals.

So it becomes important for us to think how to stay positive. Negativity will engulf you unless you build yourself a positivity circuit. To do that, spend one minute looking for positives, three times a day for forty five days. This trains your brain to look for positives the way it is already trained to look for negatives.

You may think there aren’t enough positives in the awful world around you. But any positives, no matter how small, will build a healthy brain for a better life.