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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
Vibrational medicine is a holistic way of using energy to treat and help improve the health of those who use it. It includes seven elements that make this way of treatment so popular.
Those seven elements are color, light, crystals and gems, sound, aroma, sacred geometry, and touch. The use of color for healing and other benefits didn’t suddenly spring to existence, but has been in use for numerous years.
You may even use a type of vibrational medicine when you use certain colors and not even be aware of the purpose or power behind the soothing ability of the color. You’ll notice that certain colors are more stimulating while others are calming. Sometimes, the use of color is for healing. Continue reading
New research results keep confirming what we have suspected all along – sitting is bad for us. But just how bad?
Even if you regularly exercise when not sitting behind your desk, it still significantly raises your risk for diabetes, heart disease (including strokes and heart attacks), obesity and even certain types of cancer.
For every two hours of sitting, you raise your risk of colon cancer by 8 percent, endometrial cancer by 10 percent, and lung cancer by 6 percent.
Diabetes
The Mayo Clinic did a study of how sitting affects blood sugar spiking and what they found was amazing. If the study participants went back to sitting after a meal, or ate while sitting at their desk, their blood sugar peaked and stayed there for two hours. Continue reading
