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Your Brain Is The Master Muscle of Your Body

By: Gardar Gardarsson PNLP In its normal state a healthy human brain is constantly active. It's constantly busy monitoring, adjusting and repairing the body in order to make it function with optimum efficiency. Out of all that activity arises the mind which is also perpetually busy and active in associating, sensing, perceiving, retrieving and storing data in order to keep you alive and well in a competitive and challenging society.

One of the reasons it's so difficult for many people to focus and concentrate for long periods is this constant mental activity.

People can get extremely frustrated when their attention is constantly being interrupted by stray thoughts and emotions, but it's perfectly normal, and there are ways to remedy that.

Researchers have been telling us for years that the brain is a lot like a muscle. It behaves like a regular muscle when you exercise it. Specific mental exercises improve mental performance in specific areas of the brain.

Even though your brain looks like a mass of grey jelly and is very soft it behaves and reacts just like a muscle with rigorous mental workouts. You'll feel it as soon as you start exercising it regularly. Your brain will feel more powerful and you'll be able to do things with your mind that you can only dream of now.

Craig Ramey of the University of Alabama states that the brain and education are almost synonymous. Children acquire new skills by rehearsing again and again until they can do it automatically. We need to practice regularly, or else we lose them. "Use it, or lose it" is as true for cognitive mental skills as it is for muscles.

Brain plasticity is the brain's natural lifelong capacity for physical and functional change. Basically it is the mechanism that allows the brain to be molded or changed by learning and experience. Research has revealed that this ability to re-generate and re-structure brain cells is active throughout our life.

Mental exercise, scientists are finding, causes physical changes in the brain, strengthening connections between brain cells called synapses and actually building new connections. Such physical changes can occur within seconds, as when we shift attention, or they may take hours or days, as some memories are cast into the biological ingots that last a lifetime.

Researchers have found that you can build up specific brain areas by using exercises that affect those areas. There are programs available that use these discoveries to help the learning-disabled.

The mental patterns you use the most during your lifetime get more and more ingrained, habitual and fixed as you get older. In the terms of brain and mind activity, you become more of the same.

When you use your mind rigorously, the brain grows new dendrites. These are the thin branch-like structures that stimulate and carry information between brain cells. If you work hard on solving logical problems, language and math, you grow dendrites in your left-brain and it gets more connected and becomes more powerful. If you work on solving abstract problems, spatial and emotional you develop your right brain and it grows to become more powerful. If you work hard on solving future related problems, multitasking, planning ahead, prospective memory, meta-cognitive tasks you develop your frontal lobes.

The gym provides you with specially made equipment that allows you to train and develop specific muscles. The same thing works for your brain. If you want to develop certain mental abilities or make your brain more powerful you use "mental weights" to exercise specific areas of your brain.

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