7 life hacking for brain development

Perform this set of exercises at least three times a week, and you will extend the health and youth of mind.

Elena Britova

Academic manager of the company «TransLink-Education", a certified trainer on speed reading and memory development.

1. Ensure that the flow of oxygen by means of physical exercises

• Check your posture, connect the shoulder blade.
• Turn your head left and right as if trying to see myself on the shoulder.
• Tilt your head to the left, right, forward, backward.
• Make a few circular motions of her head in a clockwise direction and in the opposite direction.

Perform these exercises slowly, without sudden movements.

2. relax

Stress is bad for mental activity. One of the ways to relax - breathing exercises. Relieves stress, fills the blood with oxygen.

• Take a deep breath and exhale.
• Breathe stomach: inhale deeply, the air is guided in the lower abdomen.
• Take three deep breaths, the fourth inhalation, hold your breath.
• Take three deep breaths, exhale on the fourth hold your breath.

3. Make eye exercises

70% of the information we receive on the visual channel, so it is important to work with him.

• Point the sight as much as possible up, down, left and right.
• Draw eyes, eight, symbol of infinity, circle.
• Aim look away from himself, to the center. "Tread" look up and down, like the stairs, counting to 10.
• Close your eyes, eyelids tightly pressed, and then open and blink often. Repeat five times.
• Close your eyes, cover their arms and hold this position for a minute.

4. Work with tables Schulte

Schulte table develop peripheral vision, eye speed.

• Race against the clock in three minutes.
• Train with the maximum number of tables.
• Gradually move to more complex.

5. Train your memory

• After watching a movie or reading a book retell the story as close as possible to the source.
• Take any picture, look at it for three seconds, then remove away from the eyes and remember as much detail as possible. After the test yourself. This exercise can be also done in the terrain. If you are standing in a traffic jam, close your eyes and remember what you've seen. Then open your eyes and see if you remembered everything.
• use mnemonics.

6. Develop variability thinking

These exercises can be performed together with family or friends.

• Think of as many words with the same letter.
• And now - on a specific theme (all the familiar game "Cities", but it can be extended: transport, leisure, food and so on).
• One big words make up as many words as possible using only the available characters in it.
• Pick synonyms and antonyms.

7. Me every day

• How can I read more.
• Walk as often as possible.
• Do several things at once.
• change working hand.
• Sign a rule every day to learn something new.