“Neurobic Exercises for Your Brain These types of exercises combine different senses to give your head a workout that is new and interesting. The senses, smell, taste, hearing, touch, and vision can all help to stimulate different parts of the brain.
They also promote an increase in the production of brain nutrients, which helps with memory. Some of them will seem strange at first, but if you do them regularly, they will help your gray matter stay healthy and alert.
Closed Eyes While Showering
If you shower with your eyes closed, you have to rely on other senses such as touch because you can’t see what you are doing. Touching will send different messages to your brain than seeing. Try it; you will find it an exciting experience, but remember to be cautious with hot water!
Use Your Non-Dominant Hand to Brush Your Teeth
By using your non-dominant hand, you are utilizing the side of the brain you would not usually use to brush your teeth. This exercise can cause a substantial increase in the areas of the cortex that process information from the hands.
Turn Things Upside Down
As you look at something familiar, your left brain labels the object then shifts your attention to somewhere else. By turning the object upside down, the other side of your brain is activated and tries to work out the different details of the object. Good things to use are a calendar with pictures on it, photographs of close friends or family, or even a small clock.
Change Up Your Mornings
Most people go through the same routine every morning, and this becomes automatic. But, when you do things differently, the brain will start to notice other things that it hadn’t noted before. Instead of getting dressed before breakfast, get dressed afterward. Or drive a different route to work, maybe even watch a children’s cartoon. Things that you wouldn’t usually do stimulate the brain.
Sit Elsewhere
Around the table, most members of a family have particular chairs and places they sit in. By moving to another seat, your brain will be stimulated to notice a different view. You could do the same in the lounge room. If you always sit in the comfy soft armchair, go and sit on the sofa instead.
You would be amazed at how strange it will feel at first to sit in a different position than you usually do. But it’s a great thing to practice now and then to change your perspective and make your brain work a little harder.
Use Your Nose
When you associate a particular smell with activity, new neural pathways will be alerted. For one week, have a bottle of scent or essence next to your bed, and when you get up, inhale the smell. Do the same after you have showered and again once you are dressed. You can change the scent from week to week.
Certain smells will remind you of something you have seen, done, or heard before, so the recall function of your brain will be exercised.
Scanning Store Shelves
Many who go to the supermarket are attracted to the items that are at eye level, which is great for the store because that’s where they usually put the things that give them the most significant profit. Instead, a standstill in front of a section of the shopping aisle and look at every single item, from the top shelf to the bottom. If you notice something you haven’t seen before, pick it up and read the label, then put it back.
How easy is an exercise that?!
The overall premise of these exercises is to do things differently than you would typically do. By switching things up and around, other parts of the brain are stimulated and alerted. Exercising your brain in this way also teaches you to try new things. Either way, the health of your mind will improve, and therefore your memory will improve.
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Conclusion
You probably think that was a tremendous amount of information to read and take in, but imagine what it will be like once you have mastered the art of reading fast? A book such as this would take mere minutes to read and comprehend and leave you plenty of time to move onto the next, or indulge in another hobby or interest.
There are always going to naysayers who claim the ability to read fast is nonsense, but it has been a proven skill over and over for decades.
Even the American military used the technique when training pilots back in the early days. Numerous American presidents have not only practiced fast reading but also encouraged their staff to learn the methods, so if they endorse it, there must be something real about it, right?
We took a look at the myths surrounding fast reading and showed that they could be debunked relatively easily. Perhaps those that are negative towards the skill are afraid they won’t be able to do it. Or maybe they are of the ilk that thinks it’s a skill only for highly intelligent or academic people. But these beliefs are so wrong! As said throughout, anyone and everyone can learn to read fast; they just need to practice.
Lifestyle definitely plays a large part in our ability to absorb information. If the brain is tired, it won’t function anywhere near as well as it should. Students, in particular, have a terrible habit of staying up all night to cram in information before an exam only to get there and forget what they have learned.
The most significant impact on our body and brain health is sleep. You need to get at least seven hours per night, and if you’re not achieving that, try some of the suggestions in this book to help you create the best possible environment for putting you off to sleep and how to deal with waking up in the middle of the night.
Best of all, in this book are the exercises that help you learn the techniques for faster reading and learning. They are simple yet highly effective but remember it takes practice to get it right up to the speed you want to be able to read at. Reading faster will dramatically improve your ability to learn new information quickly, which will open up your world on so many levels.
Practice, practice, and practice. Like any new skill, doing the techniques over and over will get you on the right track to becoming a master at faster reading. Then there will be no stopping you!
Resources:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90246412/3-myths-about-memory-
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83881/how-to-read-faster
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/323450
https://www.daniel-wong.com/2015/08/17/study-smart/
https://tim.blog/2009/07/30/speed-reading-and-accelerated-
https://ideas.ted.com/a-speed-reader-shares-3-tricks-to-help-
https://improveism.com/how-to-learn-faster/
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/these-10-scientific-ways-to-learn-
