Mind Development – Mental Exercises

We know for a fact that a 30 to 45 minute physical exercise is good for the heart and our body. But after these physical exercises, it best that we should exercise our brains too to keep our memory sharp and to have a healthy mental or mind development.

Mental development is one of the most important aspects of our life which needs to be considered. Our brain controls most of our activities.

Try to imagine a healthy and balanced life. Physical activities when you wake up early in the morning and upon your vacant time, exercising your mental faculties.

Here are some simple mental gymnastics to improve our mind or mental development.

* Reading. Reading is the easiest and most educational way for a healthy mind development. Read topics which interest you.
* Crossword puzzles. Crossword puzzles makes our brain work, hence a good mental exercise.
* Number games like Sudoku. By looking and solving these number games, you will exercise your brain better.
* Learning new things. By learning new things, your brain stimulates better because you are visualizing and learning something new.
* Being happy. Being happy is the most important aspect of mind development.

Now that you know these simple mental exercises to improve and develop your mental faculties and at the same time a simple step towards mind development, try to have this routine once in while. It is of course best to do this in your vacant time.

Make it, as far as practicable, a habit. By doing this, you do not only enjoy, but at the same time, improve your mental development.

Mental Fitness – Brain Care

In the technological age in which we live most of us may seem to know more about how machines and computers function than we do about our own brains.

Yet when we refer to the human brain we are dealing with an infinitely more wonderful, living piece of machinery, one in fact so talented that it actually created those advanced technologies we are using today.

Our brains offer us equipment of great sensitivity and refinement, with unlimited potential for future development – and all that without having to be ‘plugged in’ to any visible power point.

Our brain is our guaranteed life time equipment that we are able to use freely, with a bonus of never having to pay for it, as long as we are able to maintain natural good health according to the familiar health rules and allow no habits of abuse to destroy its function.

So what can we do to look after our brain and to keep it healthy?

What are the unintentional as well as conscious habits that we must change if we are to avoid a breakdown of function both of the physical brain and of our mental faculties and enjoy mental fitness?

We have to be sure that we supply our mind and brain with nutrients, provide appropriate exercise and stimulation, oxygen, rest and other requirements required for general physical fitness. We also need to avoid the negative influences that can destroy brain tissue and degrade our mental fitness.

We need to eradicate any bad habit or behavior which may damage our brain and make changes or adjustments. We have to improve our personal disciplinary control over these and other factors such as our emotional and mental stress levels.

Find out all the known factors that are proven to be damaging in their affect upon the brain.

Learn how to retain your full faculties and experience good health and mental fitness in order to avoid the possibility of contracting even minor symptoms of mental disease. If left unchecked, it is possible that we will become another statistic to take our place in the increasing percentage of the population suffering from stress, poor memory, anxiety and other signs of mental breakdown or possible Alzheimer’s disease.

Retain your full faculties! Build a healthy brain and look after it if your want to enjoy mental fitness and fine health.

Sally Janssen is an writer and educator who from an early age trained in dual professions as both a naturopath and yoga teacher. She earned recognition as an exceptional exponent of Hatha Yoga and natural health therapist and gained an international reputation for her skills and her wisdom in Raja Yoga, the training of the mind.

At a time when Yoga was generally known only as an oriental system, she pioneered this new profession in the West, helping to found the International Yoga Teachers’ Association headquartered in Sydney and that established guidelines for professional teachers. As its President, she represented the Association both teaching and training teachers in Australia, New Zealand, England, Brazil, Switzerland, and India.

Her special teaching methods included yoga teaching for children in a system designed to be complementary to traditional academic schooling – extending beyond physical health education to include mental fitness. As well as establishing private studios at St Ives, NSW, and in Nedlands and Gingin Western Australia, she has contributed through television, lecturing and written articles as well as participating in international forums.

In her wonderfully readable book entitled Mental Fitness: The Complete Self-help Guide she presents simple ‘doable’ self-help practices that help to generate and maintain mental fitness just as the natural principles for physical fitness can be personally applied by us all.