Increase Your Brainpower - Two Basic Ways
By: Steve Gillman
Introductory comments by Royane Real
Author of: “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”
Are you interested in increasing your brainpower?
If you want to get much better use out of the brain you have, there’s a lot of things you can do that will increase your brain’s performance. On this site, I am putting together many articles and resources that can help you increase your brain power. When you use your brain in a more effective way, you will be able to think more clearly and remember better.
What are some quick ways you can try to increase your brain power? As the following article by author Steve Gillman suggests, your brain will respond in the short run to such actions on your part as breathing more deeply and drinking coffee. However, if you want to improve your brain power over the long run, you need to commit yourself to constantly exercising your brain mentally, and getting more exercise physically as well.
An excellent way to improve your brain power is to go to college and work hard to learn the course material. Read a lot about the subjects you are studying, and write several essay papers related to the topics that your instructors are teaching you.
Look for arguments you can make to prove your own point of view. Find support for your opinions if you decide to disagree with something you have read.
What if you can’t go to college, but you want to develop your brain anyway?
First of all, congratulate yourself for having the desire to improve the way your brain works.
Make a commitment to be curious about the world. Spend more time reading and listening and doing new things, and spend less time watching television mindlessly. Write and talk about what you have learned. Tell other people what you are thinking and learning about.
Look for ways to be creative. Take classes in subjects that you know nothing about. Learn new things constantly. Debate passionately with others. Learn new languages. Make friends with people who are already very smart.
Never pass up a chance to learn something new. Stay alive and stay interested in the world around you. The more often you engage in the act of learning, the more your brain cells will respond by making new connections with each other.
( The above introductory comments were written by Royane Real. If you want to learn more ways to boost your brain power, download my book: “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” at http://www.lulu.com/real )
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Increase Your Brainpower - Two Basic Ways
By: Steve Gillman
There are many techniques you can use to temporarily increase your brainpower. These include problem solving techniques, exercises in imagination, and stimulants like deep breathing or caffeine. Some argue that these don't actually increase IQ, but only temporarily improve performance. But since you can choose to use them all the time, including during IQ tests, the improvement can be permanent.
Of course, to do anything consistently and repeatedly over time is a difficult goal.
What if you want to make real and permanent improvements? Can you increase brainpower permanently, or at least as permanently as things can be for mortals?
Yes, you can change the physical structure of your brain, in order to improve its function. There are two basic ways to do it. The first is to physically build and strengthen your brain with mental exercises. The second is to strengthen it by doing certain physical exercises.
Mental Exercises To Increase Brainpower
Mental exercises do not just create temporary changes in your thinking. Exercising the brain has been shown in many studies to actually generate new neuronal growth. It has even been shown to halt the decline of mental function that often comes with age.
What mental exercises should you do? Ideally ones that you enjoy, because you will get more involved and be more likely to keep doing them. There have been many activities used to test neuronal growth that results from exercising the brain. No specific ones have been singled out as more effective yet, so we are left using our common sense.
Watching TV, for example, is not mental exercise, because it is too passive. Doing crossword puzzles certainly is good mental exercise, as is playing word games, arguing philosophy, or doing mental math while driving. Other possibilities include learning and using memory techniques, habitually redesigning things in your imagination, and inventing lyrics as you sing a song.
Physical Exercises To Increase Brainpower
Physical exercise has been shown to improve brain function indirectly. This is easy to understand. A better cardiovascular system means better blood flow, and it is blood that carries that much-needed oxygen to the brain. Of course, this better oxygen supply to the brain will persist only as long as you stay in shape. Are there physical exercises or activities that will make more permanent changes in the brain?
Yes. Activities which involve timing and coordination cause dendrite growth in the brain, resulting in more possible connections in your brain. Having more connections means learning and thinking can be more flexible and efficient. Physical exercise, then, can increase brainpower - if it is the right type.
Athletic activities likely to help include tennis, basketball, soccer, and tossing around a frisbee.
Less athletic activities that require a lot of coordination and timing will also accomplish the same thing. These include playing musical instruments, especially those that require precise timing, like piano playing. You can also try activities which involve hand-eye coordination, like painting or drawing.
Meditation, which is part physical and part mental activity, also changes the structure of the brain. Recent research shows that it increases the thickness of the cortex in those areas that are involved in sensory processing and attention - the prefrontal cortex and the right anterior insula. Other studies show that highly skilled musicians and linguists also have thickening in the relevant areas of the cortex.
Bottom line? Areas of the brain that you exercise grow bigger, from new neurons, and from bigger blood vessels and supporting structures like glia and astrocytes, and from increased branching and connections. It is clear that you can increase your brainpower by physically improving your brain.
Article source: http://www.articledashboard.com
Copyright Steve Gillman. For more on How To Increase Brain Power, and to get the Brain Power Newsletter and other free gifts, visit: www.IncreaseBrainPower.com
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