Brain Fitness Everyday

I've recently started a fitness program... Well, doing that, I had a revelation, which was later verified and confirmed by several articles on the Internet. There is BRAIN FITNESS, too!!! Incredibly, you can work and tone the muscles of your brain, keeping you in a good shape for a long term.

So I've devised a plan in a few simple steps to help you keep your balance both physically and mentally, drawing a parallel between the two. My recommendation is to try it for a few days and later analyze what changes have occurred in your professional and personal life due to these operations.

These are the five steps of the program:

1. Increase your muscle mass!

The brain is, believe it or not, a muscle in the human body. He needs daily workouts to increase its capability and performance. As other groups of muscles need lifting weights, to force welfare of the muscles and produce actual change, your brain needs operations of thought: logic, association and differentiation. What does it mean? It needs at least an hour a day to look for new information, to accumulate and to perfection your mental capacity. For example: when you watch TV, try not to watch passively what happens in front of your eyes, but be actively involved, judge and empathize with the characters until you get the feeling that you've experienced on your own skin those events. Try to analyze the problem and find relevant solutions, imagine what would happen if you’d apply them. Search for difficult situations that require your mental abilities to the maximum. The human brain does not make the difference between imagination and reality, so your brain will perceive this operation as real and then you will feel you've accumulated some knowledge and life experience without having to actually go through it. This will increase the ability to solve new situations, you will get rid of the anxiety that accompanies the unknown and you will gain a considerable amount of self-confidence that will push you to success.

2. Tone your muscles!

After an intense work-out, you also need some simple exercises which will maintain the high tone of your brain. So, you need to find a few moments each day to judge some simple items, circumstances and problems. If earlier I've invited you to try to think as objectively as you can and try to identify yourself with the subject, now you have to do the exact opposite. Try to analyze a situation from your own perspective and make subjective judgments. Usually you should look for simple situations like: news, gossip, funny stuff etc. in other words something that doesn't require a big effort... something just to keep the "brain movement." Try to criticize certain aspects, situations and people, always seeking alternatives. For example: you see on the Internet a picture of a red evening dress, created by a famous fashion designer. Don't avoid it just because you don't like fashion or because you don't have an expertise's opinion. Try to analyze the pros and cons from your own perspective, issuing judgments like this: "I would wear it because..." and "I wouldn't wear it... because..." You'll feel mentally refreshed and you'll feel you are an important part of the world and your opinion counts. And so it is!

3. Nourish yourself healthy!

Every day your body needs food to be healthy. So the brain needs spiritual food, things that make it happy and makes you happy. So, every day you have to give yourself small rewards with the certainty that you deserve them. For example: a chocolate, a good movie, a cocktail or a perfume. An object or an activity that you really want and that will really make you very happy. In this way your brain gets the nourishment it needs to continue its work in an optimal way.

4. Clean yourself!

The shower is definitely an indispensable activity. Well, while you overly worry about cleaning the physical body, the spiritual is totally ignored. The spirit, the brain, must be regularly cleaned of useless thoughts, regrets or frustrations and anger. You simply have to clear your conscience so you can "travel light". Try to ged rid of accumulated negative energy through: sports, dance, small talks with loved ones, meditation etc No matter how you do it, you just have to make sure that your spiritual side is continuously released and you live your life with fresh forces. It's important to get rid of useless, old and painful things. Make your periodic "tehnical review" and you'll feel great!

5. Take care of yourself, be beautiful!

The aesthetic part is very important for all of us, whether we admit it or not... We are constantly concerned about what we show to others. The exercise which I propose is that every day you look in the mirror and name (mentally or verbally) three physical traits and three psychological traits that you love about yourself! Remember... you are not allowed to think about things that you don't like about yourself! You will see that while naming the three things every day, you'll get to find some traits that you never observed before. Only then you will truly discover yourself and see how much you have to offer!

And this is my recipe for mental health and performance. If you practice these simple steps for a while, you will see that you will begin to behave properly with yourself without imposing these operations. Good luck and remember: BRAIN FITNESS every day! ;)