Increase Your Memory Capacity

Challenging your brain every day can have incredible long-term effects. Here are why it’s essential to keep your brain sharp. When you keep your mind sharp by challenging it to learn new things, your brain works harder. As a result, your memory capacity increases.

A well-known and exciting study that you can find on London taxi drivers and bus drivers: a structural MRI and neuropsychological analysis?—?PubMed (nih.gov)

It was discovered that London taxi drivers had a larger hippocampus than bus drivers. This is the area of the brain that forms and accesses memories.

A larger hippocampus emerged because the taxi drivers had the daily challenge of finding and navigating numerous streets on demand. They had to use their problem-solving powers in their brain.

The bus drivers, on the other hand, had to follow a set route. So there was no problem-solving involved.

Tip 1. Increased Cognitive Capacity

By regularly challenging your brain, you’re improving and strengthening the connective tissue in your brain’s neurons, which helps them perform better and quicker. One can challenge one’s brain in a variety of ways. For example

• Learn a new language.
• Puzzles that challenge you
• Learn Meditation because it allows you to gain complete control over your mind. It will help you to react to the world positively.

Tip 2. Keep Fit. 

There’s plenty of evidence that shows how important exercise is. It’s essential not only for a healthy body but a healthy mind also. Read my Blog Posts on my website to find out why and how to keep fit.

Tip 3. Read

Reading is one of the best ways to increase your mental capacity. Because of my dyslexia, I had never read an entire book until my 20s.

I didn’t know I was dyslexic until I was In my late 40s, but the teachers told me I was lazy- which I knew wasn’t true. I could have stayed in that mode, but I wasn’t happy that I wasn’t learning anything and wanted to be challenged. Then, I decided to bite the bullet and learnt to read correctly.

People who read books are better at recalling information than non-readers. That’s why you should read more books and publications on various subjects and challenge your brain!

Rather than wasting hours vegging out in front of a TV, which was easy to do. Or scrolling on social media mindlessly reading books instead.

Books are free at your public library or online.

Tip 4. Spend Time with Like-Minded People

Spend time with motivated, focused people who want to learn and grow the way you do. have fun with friends and expand your options by making new friends.

Take up challenges that include other people. Trip the Light Fantastic! Dancing is a social interaction that helps sharpen your brain while improving your coordination.

Tip 3. Play Games 

I like board games but only a little else. But you may be different. Research shows that when you participate in interactive, challenging games and activities with others, you’re 65% to 75% more likely to remain sharp and prevent memory disorders from occurring, such as Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

And that’s a great reason to start playing!

Tip 4. Get the ZZZZZZ’s 

Adequate sleep is so vital for not only refreshing your memory but healing your brain also.

The older I get, the more I suffer from disturbed sleep. Even if you do everything possible to improve your cognitive abilities, your brain won’t function as well as it should if you fail to get enough sleep.

My sleep routine is simple. I get up at 6 am. Then I try to get into bed by 9 pm. This is when I read for an hour and find that this helps me to sleep all night.

I feel so much better for it; getting quality sleep can help your brain recover after a frantic day. Try what works for you, and don’t watch TV or your electric device after 9 pm, or you may be awake all night!

Tip 5. Repeat

Stop cramming the information in your head! Instead, When you’re trying to recall something you’ve just read or heard, repeat the information out loud and write it down. This helps to imprint new facts in your memory.

This is one of the skills I learnt as a dyslexic, but for everyone, it’s a beautiful habit to get into enhancing your memory.

When you intake the information you want to retain, try this exercise. Just Repeat the information several times out loud. Don’t try to expand it; review it later.

Then bring that new information to mind every few hours throughout the day, which becomes embedded in your mind. And then you can recall the information at will. When you do this, you’re helping to improve your memory.

Tip 6. Make Schedules. 

We all know that time flies by, so time management is necessary if you want to advance in your personal and professional development. If I don’t make a schedule- stuff just doesn’t get done. Today’s business world is exceptionally competitive and busy, so making schedules is not an option. When you run off your feet, making a schedule will bring order to your brain and your day. You may be young or older, but drawing up a schedule will give you direction and purpose. 

Delay Natural Aging Mental Decline

The above six tips will help you expand your brain function if you apply them. 

Neuroplasticity is how your brain expands its capacity by applying tips like these. Neuroplasticity, called “brain plasticity, “ is your brain’s ability to undergo physiological or structural changes.

Delay Natural Aging Mental Decline

Although cognitive decline is usually inevitable with ageing, it’s possible to delay the symptoms and beat the odds of developing dementia and other forms of memory loss.

You can improve neuroplasticity by making an effort and doing simple, well-constructed brain exercises, as in my tips outline. As a result, you stand a greater chance of overcoming the decline of mental functioning that may occur with age, and that is GREAT NEWS!

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