Did you know you can improve your mood and emotional psyche with brain exercises Some psychologies believe so. How do you do brain exercises you ask Well, there are many strategies you can use and they say if you increase the temperature of your brain by one-degree you will prevent depression.
So, why not get the blood flowing up in your noggin, strengthen your memory and create a positive emotional mood all at the same time. Let me explain one brain technique that was introduced to me. First, like any other mind-brain exercise you need to be in a quiet place that you can concentrate.
In this exercise it is advised that you pick a shape and visualize it inside your head; I use the Buckyball now, or a Mathematica Design, where each line is part of the screen. Screen as in the type of screen on your window. Think of a grid shape at first to keep it simple.
Later you can use more elaborate 3D shapes and designs with lots of intersecting lines. Picture these in your mind, then simulate impulses at the intersections of the lines and envision connecting sparks from those intersections to all the other intersections of the design.
Tell yourself you that each intersection is a piece of memory or sliver of data or information and that you are connecting it to all the other intersections. In essence you are telling your brain that you are thickening the connections, whether you are or you aren’t in reality, if you believe you are, that’s all that really matters here. Remember this is only an exercise to help your brain.
I suppose if you hooked up an EEG or fMRI scan to this activity you would see areas lighting up – I wonder if you could even see the shape. In theory you might see something, I don’t know, but would like to know. Maybe nothing, but it sure helps cognition, memorization by association and recall.
The only real issue is that it is difficult to concentrate doing this for long-periods of time, so I just do it once in a while for 10-15 minutes, especially when my brain hits the wall. Power up with protein and carbs and then do it. Caffeine makes it easier on one hand to visualize, but harder to concentrate. Interesting
The screen shape is easiest and you can stack them horizontally at first, then vertically, then make a box grid. Later when you get better at it, do the harder to visualize shapes and work at moving information or sparks very quickly then pausing, then another from all corners of the object. This is just a brain exercise, nothing too tricky or paranormal, just exercising your noggin.
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