30 days to a smarter and better brain: How to rapidly improve how you think

Everyone wants a better, and smarter brain to process information faster and have better memory recall. The most brilliant minds don’t have more brain power than the average person, they just use their brains more efficiently. Your brain’s health is a product of your daily habits. To optimize your brain, all you have to do is make slight adjustments to your routine. 30 days offer just enough time to realistically adopt new habits that can help you get smarter and think better, yet long enough to be challenging. In 30 days or less, you can adopt some of these habits to boost your brain power, improve your mental clarity and build a better brain. Start mind focus exercises Embrace meditation. There’s plenty of research that shows meditation increases the grey matter in your brain. Meditation can increase the thickness of regions that control attention and process sensory signals from the outside world. Yes, meditation makes your brain bigger (literally). Meditation is the art of silencing the mind. When the mind is silent, concentration is increased and we experience inner peace and more. But concentration requires a great amount of effort and time. In less time than it takes you to have lunch, you could be expanding your brain — literally. Just like building muscles, you can beneficially build the strength and even the size of your brain in the healthiest and most natural of ways. Meditation has been proven to benefit the brain. “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychology. The problem is […]

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