You don’t have to search far to find ways to keep your mental acuity up to speed. Exercising your brain is an important activity for seniors and doesn’t cost a thing.

Stimulating your brain to help memory, prevent boredom and subsequent depression can keep your mind sharp and alert during your senior years. It’s also an important part of keeping your independence as you age.

Here are five fun and interesting brain exercise tips which seniors can use to rejuvenate their minds and stay sharp:

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1 – Use Your Imagination

Remember as a kid, how you would use your imagination to entertain yourself? It’s an important part of growing up – and as you grow older, it remains an important part of your brain stimulation. Continue reading →

You might feel that you have so much information packed in your brain (information overload) that some of it leaks out to make room for something new, resulting in some form of memory loss.

You know there’s nothing wrong with your brain and that you don’t have any health issues that make you forget things sometimes. But you don’t like the times when you can’t always hold on to the information you want.

Information like retaining the names of new people you meet is one example. Wanting to make sure you retain information when studying for exams or learning about new aspects of doing your job is another. You usually have a great memory, but you want to learn ways of improving memory.

Although the brain has amazing abilities, it is limited by what we put into it or don’t put into it. No matter how much cognitive prowess you have, you can limit your brain’s ability to function by having poor health or by going too long without getting the proper amount of rest or sleep. Continue reading →

In recent years, more and more research studies have been undertaken in order to find out the positive effects of Tai Chi on a person’s physical and mental health.

Researchers in both the East Asian medical and Western medical circles have come together to provide compelling evidence that Tai Chi has many medical benefits, including the improvement in balance, coordination, posture, medical disorders and even the aging process itself.

Tai Chi is well known to reduce stress, support heart health, and reduce depression and anxiety. Tai Chi also improves brain function and cognition, and Tai Chi practitioners have been shown to increase gray matter in the brain by 40%. It is even used by breast cancer patients to improve their quality of life.

Additionally, it seems that it may benefit memory as well. Continue reading →