Twelve ways to sharpen your brain

It is a fact the our brain, like the other body muscles sharpens more as we use it more. More neurons are created to store newer experiences. More the number of these neurons, sharper it will be.

There is another similarity between the exercise of the muscles and the brain. If you continue to exercise the same set of muscles, they will grow stronger till some point and then the muscles becomes used to that exercise and does not grow after that. Similarly when we keep on feeding the brain same experiences time after time it stops recording them at a deeper level and stronger neurons networks are not developed.

On the other hand, if you exercise different set of muscles, then body will respond to that exercise better and body will have more muscle mass and same is the case with brain cells. When it fed with newer experience it becomes sharper. Newer experiences are recorded at a deeper level and for that you need to feed it with different experience which are not recorded previously.

The question is how to feed the brain with newer experiences. The answer is to do some activity to which you are not used to. Doing that requires more concentration and brain is feed with different impulses from the muscles or the sense organs which are being used. This leads the brain to record that experiences which add new neurons making the brain stronger.

Here are twelve simple activities which can sharpen your brain.

1. Drive to a place through a new route.


2. Ride a bike facing backwards while someone else is driving. Be careful it may be dangerous


3. Go for trekking to a new place.


4. Solve some puzzle.


5. Write or draw with left hand if you are right handed or vice versa.


6. Play carom board with your weaker hand


7. Play Chess especially with a player with who you do not normally play with.


8. Learn a new skill like Skating or Skiing or Salsa.


9. Paint.


10. Try something adventurous like rock climbing or scuba diving.


11. Meditate


12. Try some new Yoga Postures. You can visit my blog www.headfirstyoga.com for Yoga articles.