12 Weird But Easy Brain Exercises That Help You Get Smarter And Strengthen Your Brain

Each of your senses leads to a separate section in your brain. Thus your senses of vision, sound, smell, touch and taste are constantly stimulating your brain instigating nerve cells to nourish your brain with nutrients that improve memory, cognitive function, and stronger brain cells and reduce aging. However not using these or keeping your brain cells unhealthy could lead to a virtual traffic jam in your brain which leads to poor brain function. On the other hand, constantly stimulating such pathways of your brain with new stimuli or new experiences will actually improve your brain function which is why these exercises to make your brain smarter.

There is no need to perform some complex function or activity if that’s what you’re thinking because the new science of Neurobics invented by neurobiologist Lawrence Katz advocates activities that can be integrated and performed in your daily life. These are brain exercises fairly simple to perform without the need for any external support like technology. All you need is yourself.

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1Brush your teeth with your left hand

If you are right-handed, then brush your teeth with your left hand or vice versa. Research has proved that by using the opposite side of your brain can increase and expand parts of the cortex responsible for controlling and processing information from the hand. When you brush, open the tube with the non-dominant hand too.

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2Close your eyes while taking a shower

You need to shower with your eyes closed and surprisingly you may notice textures of your body that you won’t “see” which again sends back messages to your brain. The exercise here involves using your tactile sense to locate taps by feel, adjust water temperature, soap, lather and wash with your eyes shut. A bit of common sense is required here not to do things that could injure or burn you.

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3Switch your morning activity

Through brain imaging studies, researchers have observed that new tasks can stimulate and exercise large areas of the brain cortex. This indicates heightened levels of brain activity in several notable areas. When the tasks again became routine, the activity decreased. You can take a new route when walking your dog, listen to a new news channel, watch a kids TV show like Sesame Street. All of this activity helps your brain gain new experiences.

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