Brain Exercises to Recharge Your Mind

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Heidi Hanna wanted to share her top 10 brain exercises for building a better brain.

These are 5 simple strategies she use every morning to jumpstart my brain and body, and 5 techniques she use throughout the day to recharge.

Morning jumpstart – movement, mindfulness, motivation,

meditation and mirth.

1) Get moving –

for brain exercises to work, the brain needs sustainable oxygen for energy.  So getting up and doing some simple physical activity such as stretching, walking, or even a quick cardio workout  helps! It can stimulate our energy and help us think more clearly. 2) Mind your mind –

Our brain is constantly narrating the world around us. And if we’re not careful, our survival instincts can pull us into “stinking thinking”. Spend a few minutes becoming aware of your inner dialogue and shift your mindset in a way that focuses on things that are positive.

3) Power up your purpose –

Consider your motivation for the day.  Before you even think about what you want to do today, spend some time thinking about who you want to be.  Now focus some mental energy in that direction.

4) Meditate –

Spend a few minutes really concentrating on your focus phrase or personal mantra for the day. Who do you want to be? Focused, energized, powerful, clear, kind, patient, present, engaged? See if you can actually feel the emotion that goes along with that power word or phrase. 5) See funny –

One of the best brain exercises to calm and sooth a busy brain is to find something funny. Humor triggers beneficial brain chemicals and actually encourages the reduction of toxic stress hormones. It also improves our ability to think clearly and rationally.

Daily Recharge – turn down the noise, take breaks, change your tune, balance blood sugar, move

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6) Our brain is constantly scanning the world around us to see what needs our attention. In today’s constantly connected, 24/7 work world we are being bombarded with noise competing for our energy.  And it’s not just sounds we need to worry about. Take a look at your environment, and identify ways you can turn down stimulation. 7) The human system is designed to oscillate, but if you look how most people spend their day, we are stuck in a flat-line! We perform best by focusing on a simple task for no more than 60 minutes at one time. We see vast improvements when we break projects up into smaller sprints rather than trying to push through yet another marathon.

8) Music is a great tool to shift the brain into a different state of mind. Different types of music can enhance unique brainwave patterns that actually stimulate the release of neurochemicals.  These are designed to support a variety of brain functions such as creativity and insight, focus and concentration, and memory enhancement.

9) One of the quickest ways to put your brain into fight or flight mode is to give it signal an energy shortage by going too long without eating. We are designed to eat something with healthy fat, protein and carbohydrate at least every 3 – 4 hours throughout the day. 10) Just because you got moving in the morning does not mean you’re done with brain exercises for the day! Studies have shown that even when people exercise vigorously in the morning, our health and performance suffer when we sit longer than 4 hours in a day. The best way to optimize our brainpower is to take breaks that includes some sort of physical activity.

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