Helpful Insights to Improve your Memory

by Carol Gilmore | February 18, 2018 7:46 pm

To have a strong memory, your brain must be healthy. Are you a student studying for your exams, an elderly wanting to preserve and improve your grey matter or a professional interested in performing your work with mental sharpness? Know that you can do many things to enhance your mental performance and memory.

Boost the Power of your Brain at any Age

A person’s brain can adapt and change even during an old age. Such ability is called neuroplasticity. When properly stimulated, the human brain can create new neural pathways, change present connections as well as adapt and react in changing ways.

The ability of the brain to reshape itself is true in terms of memory and learning. The neuroplasticity’s natural power can be harnessed to increase cognitive abilities, improve your ability to learn new information and enhance your memory no matter how old or young you are.

Give the Bain a Workout

When you reach adulthood, expect your brain to develop plenty of neural pathways which help in quickly processing and recalling information, solving familiar problems and performing familiar tasks using minimal mental effort. However, if you choose to stick to these paths, know that you are not providing your brain the simulation needed to keep it developing and growing.

As with muscle strength, memory requires you to either use or lose it. Working your brain out more will result in better ability to process and remember information. However, not all activities are made equal. The perfect exercise for your brain should break your routine and make it difficult for you to use it as well as create new brain pathways. There are signs that it is working[1] and the results are apparent. Here are the main elements of great brain-boosting activities.

• They teach you new things. Regardless of how intellectually demanding an activity is, it should not be a great brain exercise if you already good at it. The activity must be unfamiliar and beyond your comfort zone. In order to strengthen your brain, keep learning and develop new skills.
• They are challenging. A great brain-boosting activity requires you to give you full concentration. You do not just find the activity challenging at a certain time. It must something that continues to require mental effort. For instance, try to learn to play a difficult new piece of music.
• They must be skills you can build on. Find activities that enable you to begin at an easy level and let you work your way up as your skills are enhanced, trying to push the envelope to let you stretch your capabilities. If a previously tough level begins to get easy for you, consider tackling the next performance level.

 

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