6 Steps to A smarter Brain
By Dr Jill Ammon-Wexler
Best-Selling Author and
Pioneer Brain/Mind Researcher
© 2007 All Rights Reserved

Science has identified several ways to improve learning, memory, and intelligence. But still the most powerful method is to stimulate your brain with new challenges.

In short ... LEARN NEW TRICKS! And along the way, build increased mind power! Because either your brain is thriving and growing ... or it's suffering actual physical atrophy!

Either you stimulate and build your brainpower, memory, and intelligence, or it goes by the wayside! We now know that mental atrophy is NOT limited to old age!

** Can "Old Dogs" Learn New Tricks?
As adults, our brains develop through an active "connection" process.

As we challenge our brains by learning a new skill or information, our neurons (brain cells) join together into increasingly complex "neural networks." Your brain power increases as the complexity of your neural connections increases.

And the latest neuroscience findings have proven that it's never too late to improve your ability to learn and remember.

Age is not a factor because the brain, unlike any other organ in the body, can continue to perform better and better right into advanced age. It does not automatically begin to "wear down" like our other physical organs.

Recent research has even established that even early stage Alzheimer's patients can improve their ability to learn and remember. So age is no excuse for letting your brain fall into disuse.

** How Learning Builds your Brain
Years of research have proven that your brain, just like your muscles, also physically improves with exercise.

Laboratory (rat) research by Dr. Marion Diamond, for example, clearly demonstrated that virtually every learning experience creates new, and increasingly complex, physical neural connections.

And Diamond's post-mortem studies of Einstein's brain extended her findings directly to the human brain. She found that Einstein's brain differed in only one way from the "average" human brain. Like Diamond's "learning-enriched" rats, Einstein's brain also had an above-average density of interconnections among his neurons (brain cells).

And get this! NO ONE is born with such a "highly connected" brilliant brain! It's created by learning!

Learning any new skill builds the complexity of your brain's neural networks. But likewise if you stop learning, the connections to these networks are "pruned away," and your brain suffers a loss of complexity and refinement.

** Mind Power Strategies
Here's some proven ways to sharpen your mental edge:

(1) Exercise and build your memory, and you will increase your primary intelligence. Increased memory creates a superior ability to access the information stored in your brain. Plus, a sharp memory increases your ability to build even more neural interconnections.

(2) Study music. PET scan studies have shown that musicians have more developed "higher brain capacity" than non-musicians. Musical training stimulates the development of complex brain circuitry.

(3) Listen to music you enjoy to enhance your mental performance. Simply listening to music you enjoy activates portions of the frontal lobes and limbic cortex (feeling areas) on both sides of the brain. This encourages a "whole brain" higher state of intelligence.

(4) Develop a taste for Mozart. Studies with college students have shown that even short-term exposure to Mozart's "Sonata for Two Pianos" immediately increases the brain's ability to solve creative problems. Other studies have also proven that listening to Mozart actually raises one's IQ and brain functioning.

(5) Adopt a form of mental relaxation. Occasional stress is actually good for your mind -- and your immune system. BUT ... unbroken chronic stress causes actually brain damage. The hormones secreted in response to stress reduce the size of your hippocampus -- an important memory-related brain structure. Relaxation, on the other hand, enhances your brain functions.

(6) Build balance in your legs to exercise your brain's coordination and balance centers. The ancient Chinese slow-movement exercise of tai chi is excellent for this.

(7) Increase your mental "response-ability." Modern technology has brought us some amazing devices, including brain-wave engineered CDs, and mind-enhancing software programs. Research has provided proof of measurable improvements in memory, clarity of thought, speed of response, and general mental sharpness.

(8) Learn how YOU learn BEST. Modern learning experts now know that everyone does NOT learn the same way. Instead of struggling to fit yourself into an inappropriate learning method - determine what your mind's preferred learning technique is, and use it!

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