Table of contents:
- 1. Provide oxygen through exercise
- 2. Relax
- 3. Do visual gymnastics
- 4. Work with Schulte tables
- 5. Train your memory
- 6. Cultivate Variety of Thinking
- 7. Change every day
2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Do this set of exercises at least three times a week and you will prolong the health and youthfulness of the mind.
1. Provide oxygen through exercise
- Check your posture, bring your shoulder blades together.
- Turn your head left and right, as if trying to look over your shoulder.
- Tilt your head left, right, forward, backward.
- Make several circular movements with your head clockwise and backwards.
Perform these exercises smoothly, without sudden movements.
2. Relax
Stress is bad for mental performance. One of the ways to relax is breathing exercises. Relieves tension, fills the blood with oxygen.
- Take a deep breath in and out.
- Breathe in your belly: inhale deeply, direct the air to the lower abdomen.
- Take three deep breaths in and out, hold your breath on the fourth breath.
- Take three deep breaths in and out, on the fourth exhale, hold your breath.
3. Do visual gymnastics
We receive 70% of information through the visual channel, so it is important to work with it.
- Direct your gaze as much as possible up, down, left and right.
- Draw a figure eight, an infinity sign, a circle with your eyes.
- Direct your gaze away from you, to the center. "Step" with your gaze up and down, like a staircase, counting to 10.
- Close your eyes by pressing your eyelids firmly, then open and blink frequently. Repeat five times.
- Close your eyes, cover them with your hands and hold this position for a minute.
4. Work with Schulte tables
develop peripheral vision, eye speed.
- Timed three minutes.
- Train with as many tables as possible.
- Gradually move on to more complex ones.
5. Train your memory
- After watching a movie or reading a book, retell the plot as close to the source as possible.
- Take any painting, look at it for three seconds, then move it away from your eyes and remember as many details as possible. Then check yourself. This exercise can be done on terrain as well. If you are in traffic, close your eyes and remember what you saw. Then open your eyes and check if you remember everything.
- Use mnemonics.
6. Cultivate Variety of Thinking
These exercises can be done with family or friends.
- Remember as many words per letter as possible.
- And now - on a certain topic (everyone is familiar with the game "Cities", but it can be expanded: transport, recreation, food, and so on).
- From one big word, make up as many words as possible using only the letters it contains.
- Choose synonyms and antonyms.
7. Change every day
- Read as much as possible.
- Walk as often as possible.
- Do several things at the same time.
- Change your working hand.
- Make it a rule to learn something new every day.
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