Mental Workout
Brain: an apparatus with which we use to think.
-Ambrose Bierce
Some great ways to exercise your brain are: doing more writing, read a book instead of watching T.V., solve puzzles, play card games, memorize items such as grocery list, poems, or bible verse’s, never stop educating yourself by taking adult continuing education classes in an area of interest and try computer memory games.
Even the Iphone has applications for daily mental workouts.
Because if you don’t use it, you lose it!
Mental calisthenics increases neuron connections, this leads to the faster functioning speed of the brain and the more intellectually stimulating output for others to ponder, thus stimulating their neurons too. Help yourself to help others be smarter!
Hey Lindsey!
ReplyDeleteWell put! There are so many ways that a person can mentally do calisthenics ... and as in muscle tone, if you don't use them, you definitely lose them!
I have always enjoyed doing puzzles, which my Mom started me on at a young age. She was mostly self-taught because she grew up in the era when going to school was not as important as helping the family on the farm (she was born in 1918 and made it through the Great Dust Bowl and the Depression). At one time, she went to her local library (decent sized, but not a huge city's resources) and began reading at the left side of the front door... ending about 14 months later, she said, at the right side of the library's front doors! She could do the crossword puzzle in pen and enjoyed brain teasers. When she passed away at age 72 from an aneurysm, her brain was still going strong!
MaryAnn