TURN YOUR BRAIN INTO POWERFUL THINKING MACHINE

10 AMAZINGLY SIMPLE TRICKS TO TURN YOUR BRAIN INTO A POWERFUL THINKING MACHINE

There are two basic principles to keep your brain healthy and sharp as you age: variety and curiosity. When anything you do becomes second nature, you need to make a change. If you can do the crossword puzzle in your sleep, it’s time for you to move on to a new challenge in order to get the best workout for your brain. Curiosity about the world around you, how it works and how you can understand it will keep your brain working fast and efficiently. Use the ideas below to help attain your quest for mental fitness.

 

1. Read a Book

Pick a book on an entirely new subject. Read a novel set in Egypt. Learn about economics. There are many excellent popular non-fiction books that do a great job entertaining you while teaching about a subject. Become an expert in something new each week. Branch out from familiar reading topics. If you usually read history books, try a contemporary novel. Read foreign authors, the classics and random books. Not only will your brain get a workout by imagining different time periods, cultures and peoples, you will also have interesting stories to tell about your reading, what it makes you think of and the connections you draw between modem life and the words.

 

2. Play Games

Games are a wonderful way to tease and challenge your brain. Suduko, crosswords and electronic games can all improve your brain’s speed and memory. These games rely on logic, word skills, math and more. These games are also fun. You’ll get benefit more by doing these games a little bit every day-spend 15 minutes or so, not hours.

 

3. Use Your Opposite Hand

Spend the day doing things with your non-dominant hand. If you are left-handed, open doors with your right hand. If you are right-handed, try using your keys with your left. This simple task will cause your brain to lay down some new pathways and rethink daily tasks. Wear your watch on the opposite hand to remind you to switch.

 

4. Learn Phone Numbers

Our modem phones remember every number that calls them. No one memorizes phone numbers anymore, but it is a great memory Skill. Learn a new phone number everyday.

 

5. Eat for Your Brain

Your brain needs you to eat healthy fats. Focus on fish oils from wild salmon, nuts such as walnuts, seeds such as flax seed and olive oil. Eat more of these foods and less saturated fats. Eliminate transfats completely from your diet.

 

6. Break the Routine

We love our routines. We have hobbies and pastimes that we could do for hours on end. But the more something is second nature, the less our brains have to work to do it. To really help your brain stay young, challenge it. Change routes to the grocery store, use your opposite hand to open doors and eat dessert first. All this will force your brain to wake up from habits and pay attention again.

7. Go a Different way

Drive or walk a different way to wherever you go. This little change in routine helps the brain practice special memory and directions. Try different side streets go through stores in a different order anything to change your route.

8. Learn a New Skill

Learning a new skill works multiple areas of the brain. Your memory comes into play, you learn new movements and you associate things differently. Reading Shakespeare, learning to cook and building an airplane out of tooth picks all will challenge your brain and give you something to think about.

 

9. Make Lists

Lists are wonderful. Making lists helps us to associate items with one another. Make a list of all the places you have traveled. Make a list of the tastiest foods you have eaten. Make a list of the best presents you have been given. Make one list every day to jog your memory and make new connections. But don’t become too reliant on them. Make your grocery list, but then try to shop without it. Use the list once you have put every item you can think of in your cart. Do the same with your “to do” lists.

 

10. Choose a new skill

Find something that captivates you that you can do easily in your home and doesn’t cost too much. Photography with a digital camera, learning to draw, learning a musical instrument learning new cooking styles, or writing are all great choices.

 

COMPLICATED PROBLEMS DO HAVE A SOLUTION

Hope the following story would Touch your Heart……. ..

Many Many years ago in a small village, a farmer had the misfortune
of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender. The
Moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s beautiful
Daughter. So he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgive the
farmer’s debt if he could marry his Daughter. Both the farmer and his
daughter were horrified by the Proposal.

So the cunning moneylender suggested that they let Providence decide
the matter.
He told them that he would put a black Pebble and a white pebble into
an empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from
the bag.
1) If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her
father’s debt would be forgiven.
2) If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her
father’s debt would still be forgiven.
3) But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown
into Jail.

They were standing in the farmer’s field. As they talked, the
moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up,
the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two Black pebbles
and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick a pebble
from the bag.

Now, imagine that you were standing in the field. What would you have
done if you were the girl? If you had to advise her, what would you
have told her?
Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:
1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag
and expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order
To save her father from his debt and imprisonment.

The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate
the difference between lateral and logical thinking.
The girl’s dilemma cannot be solved with Traditional logical
thinking. Think of the consequences if she chooses the above logical
answers.
What would you recommend to the Girl to do?

Well, here is what she did….
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble.
Without Looking at it, she drop the pebble in the field. Where it
immediately got lost among all the other pebbles.

“Oh, I drop the pebble,” she said. “But never mind, if you look into
the Bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which
pebble I Picked.”
Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had
picked the white one.

And since the money-lender dared not admit his Dishonesty, the girl
changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely
advantageous one.

MORAL OF THE STORY:
Most complicated problems do have a solution. It is only that we
don’t Attempt to think.

REMEMBER ALWAYS……
”The shortest distance between a problem and a solution,
is the distance between your knees and the floor.
The one who kneels to the Almighty,
can stand up to anything…..”

Beauty of a Woman

A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m a
woman,” she told him. “I don’t understand,” he said. His Mom just
hugged him and said, “And you never will.”

Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does mother seem to cry
for no reason?” “All women cry for no reason,” was all his dad could
say. The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why
women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he
asked, “God,Why do women cry so easily?”

God said: “When I made the woman she had to be special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,
yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her an inner strength to
endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her
children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone
else gives up,
and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without
complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all
circumstances,
even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and
fashioned her
from his rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife,
but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him
unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to
use whenever it is needed.”

“You see my son,” said God, “the beauty of a woman is not in
the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries,
or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because
that is the doorway to her heart – the place where love resides.”