Have you been searching for just the right brain tips, the ones that get you a raise, or fame and fortune?
A magic potion or a magic wand, or like the super villins of cartoon land, the machine which makes your skull twice as large?
Unfortunately, I have not discovered any brain tips like that either, but I have learned that the brain can be worked with, exercised, even trained, fed, and rested, to be the brain which provides the maximum level of neurons firing in tight synchrony, the kind of brain which grows new neurons, and new synapsess and dendrites because that brain receives novel challenge regularly. That is a brain tip that I can use.
The key brain tips involve awareness of recent discoveries about our brains which indicate that our brain grows new neurons (neurogenesis). Those neurons can become part of already existing circuits if we can challenge them with novel learning experiences within a certain window of opportunity.
According to what I am reading now, if the neurons are not challenged within that window, they are pruned, because the brain is an energy efficient organ, and keeps the operating system already in place nourished.
The good news is we can provide the challenge for those new neurons with novel learning experiences. Novel is the very important word.
What novel learning involves is learning a new skill, not more of the same skill. In other words, as a counselor, I cannot read another counseling text, and expect to cement those new neurons into an existing circuit. I need to learn how to play chess, play an instrument, or study a foreign language, or I need to use one of the new computer based brain fitness programs to exercise my existing circuits.
That is the kind of novel challenge which is key to neurogenesis.
Here is another brain tip. Our brains are incredibly plastic, and just love to adopt themselves to new activities.
In fact, the brain is a data seeking organ, and wants to perceive and learn, constantly.
It will respond to learning new skills by growing new dendrites on existing neurons and new synapses on existing dendrites, forming many new connections, which are the key to your super brain. The more neurons involved in a perception process, the more likely it is that our perceptions will be accurate, and the decisions we make in regard to those perceptions will most likely be effective in our lives.
So providing my brain what it needs in regards to neurogenesis and neuroplasticity are the two most important brain tips for today.
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Michael S. Logan is a brain fitness expert, a counselor, a student of Chi Gong, and licensed one on one HeartMath provider. I enjoy the spiritual, the mythological, and psychological, and I am a late life father to Shane, 10, and Hannah Marie, 4, whose brains are so amazing. http://www.askmikethecounselor2.com
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Oh man, the 8am grind has probably got to be rough. Getting to sleep at night can often be a tough thing to do that's for sure. Whenever I go to bed and I want to quiet all the thoughts going on in my head, it helps me to think about nothingness. Literally, I think of a black slab, and mentally I just repeat the word "nothing" in the background. Then, because something in the background will always tend to catch my attention, I try to systematically shut down all my senses, and focus on my breathing, repeating "nothing", and lying in a comfortable position. Ignoring the clock is also pretty important, as it will get you thinking again about time (but what you don't know can't hurt you in this case).
In terms of waking up, whenever I have to get up early I remind myself that I will not be as tired if I wake up with a positive attitude instead of "Aw, this is way too early." Time's what you make of it, it doesn't rule anything but what you want it to.
As for medicine, it'll work for awhile, but sooner or later you're gonna have to figure out mentally that you want to do it. It'll be much easier when you figure out yourself rather than let something dictate your mood.