What The Brain Needs To Work

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-18 02:26

• Food. In order for the brain to receive all the substances it needs to work, you need to eat a balanced diet and drink enough water.
• Physical exercise. Everything is important: stretching, balance exercises, cardio loads, breathing practices.

The analysis of motor dexterity and awkwardness, made largely on the basis of N. A. Bernstein's research, demonstrates the fundamental similarity of the mechanisms underlying the dexterity of movements and resourcefulness in life situations. The combination of these components in patients with neurotic disorders at the psychophysiological and psychological levels, apparently, is not accidental.

It is also believed that flexibility exercises make the mind more flexible and plastic, and balance exercises make a person more balanced.

Communication. Active interaction with people is important. It is equally important what kind of people they are. Communication, which is beneficial to the brain and nervous system, saturates us with pleasant emotions and / or new thoughts and ideas.

Neurophysiologists note that the thoughts that we take for our own are actually 90% predetermined and conditioned by the thoughts of other people. We think that our idea of things and how we react to them is something of our own, but in fact it is a set of mental structures developed by others over generations. We often only reproduce and repeat them in order to stay in harmony with the physical and social environment that surrounds us.

Solve new, complex, interesting tasks. The brain is not a muscle, and it cannot be trained, it can only be developed. The rules that are good for fitness (increased workload, consistency) are not suitable for brain development.

You can teach a three or even a two-year-old child to read, just as we can teach a raven or a monkey to count to show this number in a circus. Does this kind of training develop the brain? A person who is a master at solving puzzles or logarithmic equations is able to solve puzzles and equations, this does not affect the ability to solve problems of a different nature.

The brain develops by forming new neural connections. The more diverse the tasks that the brain solves, the more new connections are formed, and the more cells are involved in the interaction. The resource of the brain expands endlessly, at any age, if it constantly solves new interesting problems. A correctly set task gives an emotional charge.

• Emotions. Contrary to popular belief, emotions help make decisions. Balancing the mind and senses is challenging. We have to weigh the pros and cons. This challenge motivates the frontal cortex to work more efficiently.
• Peace. Probably, you once observed the sea in a storm: it is impossible to understand anything, it is not known where the coast is and what is at the bottom. Another thing is a calm water surface. So it is with our thoughts when we are agitated (storm) and when we are calm. Yes, on the one hand, emotions are important to us, on the other - peace. Balance matters.
• Dream. Lack of sleep even in 15 minutes dramatically reduces performance and disrupts the functioning of the brain. On average, our body functions with the following alternation: 16 hours of wakefulness, 8 hours of sleep. It is known that this 24-hour (with slight variations) cycle is governed by a person's biological clock. They are responsible for the excitation of the sleep center, located in the brain stem, and the center of wakefulness, which is the reticular formation itself. For some people, the deviation from the 24-hour rhythm may be more significant. This leads to the fact that during the week they go to bed later and later, although they get up every day at the same time, determined by going to work. Getting up late on weekends allows the body to replenish the time lost to sleep on other days. There are also owls, larks and pigeons in their biorhythm.

Most living organisms on Earth are subject to rhythms that change their activity throughout the year, day, lunar month, etc. These cycles are maintained by an internal “clock” and synchronized with external factors such as ebb / flow, sunrise. Modern civilization and the associated uniformity of living conditions more and more dull the sensitivity of our body to the current time and to the most important rhythms of nature.

• Rest from information. Just as the body needs fasting days, the brain needs to be given the opportunity to digest and organize everything that you so actively cram into it: English courses, information from social networks, documentation for work. You need to take at least one day a month (preferably one day a week) to rest from any information. Do not read books, watch movies, or go to social networks. All communication and receiving information from the outside should be reduced to a reasonable minimum (it is clear that we cannot completely isolate ourselves, we have a family, work, etc.). This day is better to "interact with the eternal": forest, mountains, pond. You can't get out into nature - you can admire the sky, or some beautiful tall building. Or devote this day to creating harmony in the house. It is better to listen to silence or music on this day (if there is a vocal accompaniment, then it should be in a language you do not understand).
• Walks in the open air. And not only walks: sports games, jogging, cycling, gardening, just sunbathing. Everything is good, but what is fun is generally good.
• Desires. In psychoanalysis, it is "I want" that is the source of energy. When we crush "I want" with all sorts of "needs" and "why do you need this", we do not receive energy. Therefore, you need to allow yourself to want, and satisfy your desires. The brain should not be allowed to do extremely important and necessary tasks.
• The beauty. An aesthetic sensibility awakened by a landscape, music, color, or even a mathematical equation enhances brain activation.
• Surprise and admiration. More often than not, creative people retain the child's ability to surprise and admiration, and an ordinary flower can cause them the same delight as a revolutionary discovery. Admiration raises a person above the level of everyday routine, brings them to the threshold of creative inspiration.
• Necessary fooling around and having fun. At least sometimes.
• Routine. Consistency, cyclicality and order are important. This is especially important during times of stress. When the brain is not busy with the quest "where is the second sock", "am I going to run now or is it better to have breakfast?", "What dress to wear", it has time and energy to solve other problems. Plus, each of these minor issues is micro-stress. Chronic microstresses are more dangerous and, in comparison with acute (strong but short-term) ones, are more likely to cause neurotic disorders.
• Change. At the same time, it is important to periodically change something and do it differently than usual.
• "Meditative activity". This refers to handicrafts, painting, wood carving, flower care and other activities that bring satisfaction and peace. Everything that you do not for material gain, but just like that. It can be something "useless and meaningless" - for example, a drawing in the sand, which is immediately washed away by the wave.