Brain Power Tips

To keep our memory sharp, we need to remember to use our brain in new and different ways.  Much like the muscles in your arm will remain toned and defined by lifting weights, we need to do mental workouts to increase our ability to recall information.  Here are a few of the best memory improvement exercises.

When you make dinner tonight, use a recipe that you’ve never tried before.  This will require you to pay careful attention to details.  For a bigger challenge, purchase ingredients you’ve never eaten and try to make a delicious meal from them.  You can find many different ethnic recipes online to use the new foods.

If you get a daily paper, there is usually a section that contains a crossword puzzle, a word scramble or both.  These are easy games you can play to really make your brain think.  If you don’t get the paper, there are plenty of free memory exercises and logic puzzles available for free on the internet.

You can also create your own memory improvement exercises.  Try writing your favorite proverb or religious passage down on paper, only backwards.  Try learning a new proverb each day, only after reciting the one you learned the day before.  Name as many cities as you can that begin with the letter “M”.  Try to name each cable channel you have up to one hundred.  You can take these ideas and switch them around – making up your own mind games is good for your memory as well.

Finally, think of a task or appointment you have scheduled for the day.  Write down the steps you need to take to complete them, and say them out loud.  Now come up with an acronym using the first letter of each step.

There are many other memory improvement exercises out there; use the items listed here or search for others.  The best way will be up to you.

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