The brain needs a workout the same as the body. When you flex the muscles of your brain, you’re helping to build pathways to memories from the past and you can recall them much easier.

If you want to maintain a healthy brain and keep building those neural pathways throughout old age, you’ve got to exercise your brain properly. Here are a few tips on exercising your brain so that you build those important memory muscles:

Make It Challenging

Any task that increases your knowledge can help flex your brain muscles. For example, you may want to learn a new language, game, sport or go back to school and take a class or two.

Make It Fun

If you’re not enjoying what you’re doing, it’s not likely you’ll be able to focus on it. Choose brain activities which are fun and challenging – games such as Sudoku and crossword puzzles are excellent exercises. Continue reading →

You must exercise your brain just as you would your body for the ultimate fitness and function. Research has proven that regular brain stimulation can keep the brain active and healthy far into later years – a great piece of news for our aging population who are worried about memory loss.

The way the brain works properly is to create new neural pathways which can connect with the stored information. When stimulated, the brain tends to create new pathways to a sort of savings account in the brain, where knowledge is stored and retrieved through the pathways.

When people maintain brain function by exercising the brain throughout their lives, a higher level of brain functioning is found. We depend on our brains to remember people’s names and faces and even the most minimal things such as where we put our reading glasses.

There are many ways you can keep your brain active and vital well into your later years. Here are a few that you may want to try: Continue reading →