Brain Health for Sustaining Change
It’s been a while (a whole week) – I’m off my game and starting again on my 2007 resolution to post a blog everyday. As my excuse I’ve been working on preparing the Emergenetics ® Seminar announcement for the Seminar on the 26th of February. I have been having a bit of trouble figuring out which format to send the email out with. But with that excuse, I am starting again on my 21 days of creating this habit of posting a blog everyday.
As with every posting I want to provide you with value, but I would like to also post the information for the upcoming seminar. Today, I want to give you some brain exercises – these are part of the many games and fun you would experience in the Emergenetics® seminar on February 26th.
If you want to be able to use your brain optimally for change you need to keep your brain healthy. To do this you need to exercise and feed your brain things it needs. What most people know about their bodies is that their bodies need water to live. But what most people are not aware of is that our nerves and neuropeptides (brain material) are made up of oils. We need this oil for proper nerve conduction. The way we get that oil is through the different types of foods we eat particularly fish. The problem is oil is 100% fat and we as North Americans have a bad relationship with fats. There are good fats (unsaturated) and bad fats (saturated). If we don’t have some fat in our diet we will experience forgetfulness, disruption of focus, and disturbed sleep to name a few symptoms.
Another item to consider for brain health is daily exercise. Exercising you body – physical activity - will help keep you brain fit but there are a number of other exercises you can do to exercise your brain:
Seek challenges and learning that stimulates different parts of the brain – items like crossword puzzles, Sudoku or others offer challenge. Welcome new ideas, new pursuits, new activities into your life – change your exercise routines, type of exercise, the way you get to work, etc. By changing different parts of your life it acts in a way of maintaining a healthy brain. Here are some additional brain exercises:
1. Cross-Crawls. With your right hand, touch your left ankle. Now with your left hand, touch your right ankle. This is most effectively done standing up, but works sitting down too. This exercise is thought o integrate the right and left hemispheres of your brain. And by clearing the potassium and sodium that builds up in your brain when you concentrate, it will help you read faster and comprehend more (1).
2. Crazy eights. Make big “eights” horizontally (like the infinity sign) in the air with your right hand. Without moving your head, follow your thumb with your eyes. Make the eights as big as your peripheral vision will allow. Now do the same thing with your left hand. This may help integrate both sides of your body (1).
Tracy Slotin
CEO and Grand Sandmaster
The Executive Sandbox ® Change Consultants
www.ExecutiveSandbox.com
(1) Geil Browning, Emergenetics: Tap into the New Science of Success (New York: Harper Collins, 2006)
As with every posting I want to provide you with value, but I would like to also post the information for the upcoming seminar. Today, I want to give you some brain exercises – these are part of the many games and fun you would experience in the Emergenetics® seminar on February 26th.
If you want to be able to use your brain optimally for change you need to keep your brain healthy. To do this you need to exercise and feed your brain things it needs. What most people know about their bodies is that their bodies need water to live. But what most people are not aware of is that our nerves and neuropeptides (brain material) are made up of oils. We need this oil for proper nerve conduction. The way we get that oil is through the different types of foods we eat particularly fish. The problem is oil is 100% fat and we as North Americans have a bad relationship with fats. There are good fats (unsaturated) and bad fats (saturated). If we don’t have some fat in our diet we will experience forgetfulness, disruption of focus, and disturbed sleep to name a few symptoms.
Another item to consider for brain health is daily exercise. Exercising you body – physical activity - will help keep you brain fit but there are a number of other exercises you can do to exercise your brain:
Seek challenges and learning that stimulates different parts of the brain – items like crossword puzzles, Sudoku or others offer challenge. Welcome new ideas, new pursuits, new activities into your life – change your exercise routines, type of exercise, the way you get to work, etc. By changing different parts of your life it acts in a way of maintaining a healthy brain. Here are some additional brain exercises:
1. Cross-Crawls. With your right hand, touch your left ankle. Now with your left hand, touch your right ankle. This is most effectively done standing up, but works sitting down too. This exercise is thought o integrate the right and left hemispheres of your brain. And by clearing the potassium and sodium that builds up in your brain when you concentrate, it will help you read faster and comprehend more (1).
2. Crazy eights. Make big “eights” horizontally (like the infinity sign) in the air with your right hand. Without moving your head, follow your thumb with your eyes. Make the eights as big as your peripheral vision will allow. Now do the same thing with your left hand. This may help integrate both sides of your body (1).
Tracy Slotin
CEO and Grand Sandmaster
The Executive Sandbox ® Change Consultants
www.ExecutiveSandbox.com
(1) Geil Browning, Emergenetics: Tap into the New Science of Success (New York: Harper Collins, 2006)
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