Bon bon of welfare n.7 - Neurobica!
It is familiar and routine necessary to carry out the idea that regular physical activity to benefit our body oxygenation and also get toned and sculpted muscles, improve our capabilities and feel more healthy and fit.
if I told you that you can get the same thing, as well as the human body, for our brains? I'm not talking about the beneficial effects of physical activity, however, also causes on the mind, but a specific aerobic activity for it: the neurobica , indeed!
Neuroscientist Katz (in the mind Fitness, Ed Red, 2002) has developed this method since the discovery that neurons that inhabit our heads are more efficient in the number of connections that exist between them and thus between different brain areas. Because the optimal mental functioning is necessary to develop and foster the greatest possible number of connections between different brain areas specialized, and between them and the hippocampus, the area MP to learning. These links are not static and immutable, but are created as a response to sensory stimuli and behavior, then the greater the stimulus the more the links, but, because they create new ones, which must necessarily leave the mental routine, because otherwise our brain works in economics, leveraging pre-existing connections and known.
In summary, we can say that the secret to exercise is in full swing our head is to find solutions to new problems - developing creativity at the same time - and thus use all the senses especially in new ways.
So what are the possible exercises neurobici?
- remember the names with the five senses : when we know a person, to try to remember the name, we try to associate it with details that characterize it (colors, smells, tone of voice)
- Change hand: Use your nondominant hand to do daily activities like brushing your teeth, turn something into the pot, turn on the radio and if we have a little 'time to devote, you can even try to write something
- touch, smell, taste : explore the objects and the environment that surrounds us not only with their eyes, or try to feel the fabric of different clothes, to smell the ingredients in the kitchen, tasting new flavors and unusual associations, change seat at the table to try out new points of view.
- Change road: to try new routes to get to work or usual place or when we are in a new city to try to "get lost" to foster a sense of direction.
- Box Surprise: Take a box, fill it with small objects (coins, keys, pencil sharpeners, erasers, candy, etc ...) and have fun with your eyes closed and put a hand in it and guess quale oggetto state toccando.
- Chiacchieriamo! : si, lo so, questa è una cosa che ci piace e facciamo spesso, ma l'importante in questo caso è socializzare con persone nuove, entrare in negozi o bar dove non andiamo mai, scambiando opinioni e conoscendo gli altri.
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