Your brain is the most powerful body organ. It can do anything: to give you a proper push for your personal development, to create a working atmosphere, to wake up your cleverness and inspiration. However, in most cases, we do not use all resources of our brains. We enjoy what we have: a mediocre cleverness, mediocre learning capabilities, mediocre striving for better results. In our everyday life, we use only 10% of what we can really do. But you should not limit yourself to 10%. You are capable of more, and you just need to wake up remaining 90%.

We all know that a brain is not a subtle substance, it is a muscle. It means, that you can make it stronger, thus develop your brain capacity. Regular exercises make you strong if you implement them regularly and do that properly. There are 10 effective ways that can help you make your brain stronger and develop your strengths.

1. Open yourself to new

The best way to wake up your mind is to start doing something new. It stimulates the brain activity effectively and makes you see new perspectives. Being children, we learn something new every day. As adults, we prefer to repeat one the same actions every day. We even do not want to change our way to home, as we have got used to the way we have been using for years.

2. Add physical exercises

The correlation between our body functioning and our brain functioning is very close. Brain affects the body, and the body affects the brain. Regular physical exercises enhance the way our bodies function. When you are physically active, you wake up your brain cells and become more intelligent. Another positive impact of exercises is that your blood starts to run in your blood veins quicker carrying all necessary elements in your brain.

3. Work on your memory

We frequently complain that we have a bad memory. Yet we do not put some efforts to improve it. Making your memory better, you train your brain and reveal new capacities. How can you enhance the memory? Start with small steps: learn phone numbers of your friends, learn new languages, and even try to learn pieces of writing by heart.

4. Develop your curiosity

Being curious helps improve the functioning of your brain. Do not hesitate to ask questions when you want to find out something. Listen to the answers carefully and analyze them. This will also help you raise your general background and intelligence, and make your brain generate creative ideas. Curiosity is also a good way to develop the understanding of spheres that are not related to your everyday activity. For example, if you know nothing about computers, do not hesitate to ask questions.

5. Eliminate stress

Stress and depression are the killers of effective brain work. It blocks all impulses that are responsible for memory, ability to perceive new information and analyzing skills. When you are depressed, you cannot concentrate on your tasks and cannot handle the problems. You cannot learn something new, but you always forget the things that you previously knew (what is even worse, as later you need to restore this knowledge). Cortisol, a hormone of stress, destroys the brain cells. So if you want to enhance your brain activity, eliminate stress and depression from your life.

6. Sleep well

For a sufficient life, you need a proper sleep. 7 or 8 hours daily is enough to keep a sustainable brain activity. Additionally, you may take naps during a daytime. Why do we need to sleep more than 7 hours, even if we feel quite comfortable with 5 hours sleep? The matter is that when we are sleeping, we firm up the information and memories. Besides, a full night’s sleep helps retain the energy that we have lost during the previous day.

7. Visualization

Our brain has got used to thinking by words. It is quite comfortable: you do not need to force yourself. But if you want to activate your brain, you need to change the way you think. Thinking by images and visualization changes your brain impulses.

8. Read consciously

Those who read are blessed. Reading helps perceive the information that is presented in a writing form. No matter what you read, you have various advantages:

• you encounter new visions of the world
• you find new words and new meanings of the words
• you develop your critical thinking
• you learn to analyze the information and find the most important ideas
• you meet new people, though they are imaginary and can learn something new that improves your life

Of course, to get all the benefits from reading, you need to read consciously. When you read, do not just look at the words, but practice your visualization abilities. Try to analyze every paragraph, read critical literature, and build your own comprehension of the world.

9. Play blackjack

Well, this is not the most common way to improve your brain activity thus it has multiple advantages. When you play blackjack, you need to activate your attention, count cards and do that quickly. For an inexperienced player, this is almost impossible. However, when you play regularly, your abilities to focus and evaluate a current situation.

10. Become a tutor

If you want to enhance all your personal skills, develop your intelligence and make your brain work more effectively practice tutoring. When you prepare for the lesson, you need to learn all possible information to be able to answer the questions. During the lesson, you need to be focused on the process of presenting information and analyzing the results of your student. You need to develop your abilities to explain information and define the most important points.

Your brain is always ready to work harder. Even if the first days of implementation of the abovementioned tips are difficult for you, you need to keep practicing regularly. In a few weeks, you will notice changes and feel that your brain is now capable of more.

Author’s Bio

Richard Nolan is a blogger and a private tutor, sharing his experience in spheres of blogging, self-growth, and psychology. Richard writes for numerous blogs and gives useful tips for bloggers, students, and teachers.