Do you sometimes feel that you just can't remember words? You know they're right at the tip of your tongue, but they won't come to mind for whatever strange reason. This happens as you age and can be extremely frustrating. The time to fight back is now.
Exercising your brain is as important as exercising your muscles if you want to stay healthy and young. Just about any game or puzzle, can help stimulate your brain and that includes playing trivia games and doing quizzes and other kinds of tests. Here are a few ideas of things you can do to spark your brain power and stay in the loop.
1. Crossword Puzzles: Crossword puzzles are available just about everywhere these days: in newspapers and magazines; you can buy crossword books; puzzles are available online at many game sites and you can usually choose puzzles by topic or theme and skill level.
2. Sudoku: This is a number game which can be quite challenging. The objective is to fill a 9x9 grid with digits so that each column, row and sub-grid (the "boxes") contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. Like crossword puzzles, you can find this brain-straining game in many newspapers, web sites, and magazines.
3. Brain Puzzles: You often find mathematics-based and logic "puzzles" in IQ tests and there are many books you can buy that help falling in this category that help you exercise your brain. Even if you don't know the answer outright, you can bet that you will wrack your brain trying to find it and, thus, improve it at the same time.
4. Brain Teasers: Riddles, brain teasers, quizzes, tests and mind puzzles all serve to improve your brain health. They are challenging and fun and something you should do everyday to exercise your brain.
5. Interactive Brain Exercises: These kinds of activities help you to build mental stamina. Look for optical illusions and online games where you match tiles/graphics by clicking on boxes.
6. Read: Lastly and perhaps, most important, READ. It helps keep words fresh in your brain and remind you of forgotten meanings and spellings, all things that dissipate with age. Better still, read about things you know nothing about but may have an interest in. If gardening, for example, is a passing interest to you, then why not pick up a book and read about specific plant species. In other words broaden your knowledge base and you'll be expanding and keeping your neural pathways strong.
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