Exercise Your Brain

Everyone understands the importance of exercise to physical health and exercise is also important to mental health, but you also need to exercise your brain to improve your intellectual health. Too many people get out of school and think that is the end of learning and studying for them but you do need to exercise your brain. If you exercise your brain regularly you can even prevent senility as you age.

You can exercise your brain in many ways. You can exercise your brain just by being curious and looking at things and thinking about them. You can exercise your brain by taking adult education classes at your local college or community center. You can exercise your brain by reading regularly and thinking about what you read You can exercise your brain by working to improve your memory by memorizing lists of things. You can exercise your brain by doing simple math problems which can really help your brain stay young and fit. You can exercise your brain by being creative by painting or doing sculpting. You can exercise your brain by learning to play a musical instrument. Basically, you can exercise your brain learning anything new.

The great thing is that in order to exercise your brain you don’t have to stop what you are doing and go someplace special if you don’t want to you can exercise your grain right where you are doing just whatever you are doing. You can exercise your brain right now by thinking of more examples than those are given here. Or you can exercise your brain right now by thinking deeply about what is being written here.

You can always exercise your brain by paying close attention to whatever you are doing. You will exercise your brain by taking it off automatic and not sleep walking through everything you do. You can exercise your brain by really looking at the people and things around you maybe for the first time in years and really seeing what is there and thinking about everything instead of just assuming that you know all about them. Who knows what you might see or hear or feel if you exercise your brain.

If you exercise your brain, it will help you stay young and live a longer and fuller life. If you exercise your brain, you won’t get stuck in a rut and just wile away your life in boredom. If you exercise your brain, you will feel happier and healthier. If you are a senior citizen, it is very important that you exercise your brain because it will help you preserve your independence longer and you will be able to function much better. There are so many ways to exercise your brain that you really have no excuse for not exercising your brain. If you exercise your brain you will be a better parent, a better spouse, a better employee a better citizen and a better person. So exercise your brain.