Your brain is just as malleable as the body depending on its input. Continue reading to learn about natural ways to get the most out of this incredible organ.
Feed Your Mind With Ideas Which You Would Like To Have Your Mental Attitude Reflect
William Walker Atkinson, an author from the early 20th century, wrote a variety of books on mental science.
He states,
“Mental attitude resembles yeast, in the sense that if you insert a single bit of the ferment in your mind, it will begin to work and grow other cells, until it finally fills your entire mind. It tends to reproduce itself. This is true both of desirable and undesirable mental ideas, but: a positive idea will tend to kill a negative one. Nature is fighting on your side. “
Positivity breeds positivity. Negativity breeds negativity, and positivity is much stronger than negativity.
Positive mental ideas to cultivate:
- Courage
- Masterfulness
- Activity
- Initiative
- Dynamic thought
- Self-esteem
- Assertiveness
- Continuity
Negatives mental ideas to avoid:
- Fear
- Waiting-for-orders
- Static thought
- Self-distrust
- Fickleness.
Put Mental Effort Into What Matters
Like any muscle, the mind functions best in short spurts, with time to recuperate.
We can only make so many decisions and have so many productive thoughts in a day. If too much of your energy is going into trivialities, the more important decisions will be harder to make.
The simple act of making decisions degrades your ability to make further decisions.
Setting up a routine for your mental thought process is just as effective as setting up a structured gym routine or a dietary regimen. The mind, like the body, responds well to and prefers routine.
When you’re mentally fatigued, you procrastinate, pick the easiest answer or choose arbitrarily, decide based only on immediate motivations rather than long-term goals, use simplified rules of thumbs or algorithms to make decisions, lose inhibitions and behave impulsively — you might even resemble someone who’s been drinking.
Practice a Musical Instrument
Playing a musical instrument engages practically every area of the brain at once, especially the visual, auditory, and motor cortices.
Playing music has also been found to increase the volume and activity in the brain’s corpus callosum, the bridge between the two hemispheres, allowing messages to get across the brain faster and through more diverse routes, which allows musicians to solve problems more effectively and creatively, in both academic and social settings.
Because making music involves practicing and understanding its emotional content, or message, musicians often have higher levels of executive function, a category of interlinked tasks that includes planning, strategizing, paying attention to detail, and requires simultaneous analysis of both cognitive and emotional aspects.
This ability also has an impact on how our memory systems work.
Musicians exhibited enhanced memory functions. They create, store, and retrieve memories more quickly and efficiently.
Studies have found that musicians appear to use their highly connected brains to give each memory multiple tags, such as a conceptual tag, an emotional tag, an audio tag, and contextual tag, like a good internet search engine.
Scientists have also found that the artistic and aesthetic aspects of learning to play a musical instrument are different from any other activity studied.
Learn a New Language
Learning a second language offers proven benefits for intelligence, memory, concentration and lowered risks of dementia and Alzheimer’s. It’s one of the best things you can do to improve brain health.
Take Lugol’s Iodine
Lugol’s iodine helps eliminate halogens and heavy metals from your system, which negatively affect brain function, and can even contribute to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Lugol’s iodine has been proven to increase IQ.
