GROW YOUR MENTAL MUSCLES In continuation of, “STAY PHYSICALLY FIT TO MAINTAIN PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS” I shall discuss improving our mental muscles. Exercising & playing Games Help the Brain • Improved blood circulation provides better energy to the brain. • Improved concentration & thinking. When you focus on a ball for long you improve concentration. When Sunil Narine foxes all batsmen with his deliveries, he is planning & strategizing. The batsmen are trying to read him. Apart from physical exercise, brain is also getting exercised for bowler as well as batsman. Sleep: 6-8 Hours of sleep is vital to de-stress & rejuvenate the brain. Pure Mental Activities • Reading: Reading helps exercise the brain. Greater variety in reading is more helpful. A person who does not read is as good as a person who cannot read! • Writing: Writing helps us to clarify our thoughts & become precise in our expression. • Teaching: Apart from gaining clarity about the subject being taught, the teacher has to anticipate & answer questions, which helps to improve in organizing our thoughts. • Visualizing: Before your mother prepares food tomorrow, she plans for it today. She visualizes. The more clearly she visualizes & the more she learns from her mistakes the more effective she becomes. We can all do this exercise, for most routine to more complex issues. By doing so we would become better planners & organizers. You don’t need a degree in MBA to manage the most complex of issues- just need consistent mental exercise in the field chosen. • Mind Games: Chess, Scrabble, Cross word, Soduku are all mind games which improve our thinking. Tests of reasoning are also quite interesting. Just as physical muscles atrophy by disuse, our mental muscles too atrophy. The only difference is that the fact is not so apparent. Watching TV is a poor mental activity in general. So let us resolve to exercise our mental muscles through a variety of ways, as suggested & reduce time spent watching TV! For more tips, visit facebook page No Frills Academy
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:45:40 +0000
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