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No matter your age, improving your memory and giving your brain a regular workout is an important part of maintaining your mental health and fitness over the long haul. Here are a few ways that you can work your memory while having a little fun at the same time.

1. Meditate. Stress isn’t good for any part of the body, especially the mind. Doing things to reduce stress, like meditation can help improve your memories as well as strengthen certain types of waves in the brain that can make you happier and healthier.

2. Play mind games. Whether you take mental “photographs” of your surroundings or try to do complex math in your head, keeping yourself entertained with these mental challenges can be a good way to pass time and ensure your brain stays nimble.

3. Sleep in. Getting enough rest plays a big role in your ability to remember and recall events, whether just in your everyday life or for more academic purposes. A good night’s sleep can be important and short naps can give you memory boosts throughout the day.

4. Challenge yourself. There’s nothing worse for brain health than being bored. That isn’t to say that some familiarity isn’t good, but your brain should be challenged as well. Try wracking your memory for things you may have forgotten or just work on learning something new and exciting.

5. Indulge in some chocolate. Researchers found a substance in chocolate called epicatechin that can have a big effect on memory, perhaps by boosting blood vessel growth. Have a little chocolate now and again for a treat and a memory enhancing boost.

6. Have a cup of coffee or tea. Properties in all of these substances can help you improve your memory. In tea, substances work to protect your memories while with coffee the caffeine can make your brain more agile and alert and better able to form new memories and absorb information.

7. Scan the room. Researchers have found that people are better able to remember something if they do so while moving their eyes from one side to the other slowly. They believe it helps to unite the two hemispheres of the brain, giving you double the brainpower to help you remember.

8. Change it up. When you get into routines, even in the way your home is decorated, your brain and memory can go into autopilot. Give it a challenge by changing around your home, taking a new route home or keeping yourself involved in a variety of novel activities.

9. Play a video game. There are loads of games out there that are designed just to improve your brain power, and many that are simply meant to be fun but that have the consequence of helping improve memory and cognition as well. No matter what age you’re at you can enjoy playing one of these games.

10. Browse the web. Some promising new research suggests that browsing the web can have the same benefits for adults as playing brain boosting games, letting you read about the latest news, do some shopping and keep in touch with friends all with the added benefit of helping your brain stay in shape.

This post was contributed by Amber Hensley, who writes about the online universities. She welcomes your feedback at AmberHensley1980@ yahoo.com

Speed mathematics is simply amazing. To the uninitiated it’s a great feat of mental power. To those in the know, it’s a series of maths techniques that allow you to pull off some of the most “demanding” of mental calculations.

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Meet Arther Benjamin.

Art performs mental calculations with an apparent instantaneous speed. Of course, he’s using techniques he practices and deveolops on a daily basis.

Perhaps you don’t want to be a stage mathemagician, but being able to perform these calculations at even a quarter of the speed Art does will certainly boost your confidence!

Check out the video of Art in action:

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I stumbled across this video earlier today and while it’s nothing to do with memory improvement I still wanted to share it with you.

It’s just over 4 minutes long but well worth the watch.

I came across a very interesting article today that suggests the right ear is the better ear for hearing.

Read all about it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8116321.stm

This video will show you how to calculate the following times tables:

6 times tables

7 times tables

8 times tables

9 times tables

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All you will need for this exercise are your hands. No need for pen and paper!

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A genius is someone who has mastered certain principles and “ways” of conducting themselves, so that they can achieve any desire they want. This is because there are certain laws in work which we are not aware of, yet which the genius has discovered through trial and error. Below, you will find the most important characteristics of a genius which are essential if you are to achieve your dreams, no matter how great they may be. Read the rest of this entry »

Continued from part 1

6. You must realise that a mentally quiet mind is crucial for success.

The argumentative, criticising, opinionated, egotistical and sceptical mind is the mindset of failure. It is better to learn from every situation by keeping a quiet mind which is free of all bias. This is because by criticising, you will also criticise the correct thoughts which have come from the subconscious.  You will therefore live a life which is devoid of the power of your own subconscious mind. In this case, your actions, behaviors, attitudes and thoughts will all be weaker and lead you to weakness. Read the rest of this entry »

Once every couple of weeks I’ll receive an email from someone asking for ways to tell if someone likes you or not.

Knowing if someone likes you romantically or not can be a difficult call to make on the outset, and that’s why we look at body language to help give us clues into what the other person is thinking. Read the rest of this entry »

In this post we are going to look at how to square any two digit numbers.
[private]Firstly, to square a number means to multiply that number by itself.

So 27² means 27 X 27

When squaring any number we need to either work up or work down from a BASE number. We acknowledge that a base number is a whole number closest to the number we want to multiply. So taking the above example of 27² we would use the base number of 30. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi all,

[private]I stumbled across a really neat video on youtube that breaks down multiplying large numbers into smaller chunks.

It’s not my video, someone elses so all credit due to the author.

Grab a piece of paper and give it a try, it really works.

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