Build a better brain with 10 simple exercises of Heidi Hanna, who has been a featured speaker at a variety of national and global conferences. Watch the presentation that includes her 5 simple strategies and 5 techniques to get started making a change. Source: https://couchkills.com/10-simple-brain-exercises/

1. Brain Exercises to
Recharge Your Mind

2.  In honor of World Mental Health Day, Heidi
Hanna wanted to share her top 10 brain
exercises for building a better brain.
 These are 5 simple strategies she use every
morning to jumpstart my brain and body, and 5
techniques she use throughout the day to
recharge.

3. Morning jumpstart – movement, mindfulness, motivation,
meditation and mirth.

4. 1) Get moving –
for brain exercises to work, the brain needs sustainable oxygen
for energy. So getting up and doing some simple physical
activity such as stretching, walking, or even a quick cardio
workout helps! It can stimulate our energy and help us think
more clearly.
2) Mind your mind –
Our brain is constantly narrating the world around us. And if
we’re not careful, our survival instincts can pull us into
“stinking thinking”. Spend a few minutes becoming aware of
your inner dialogue and shift your mindset in a way that
focuses on things that are positive.

5. 3) Power up your purpose –
Consider your motivation for the day. Before you even think
about what you want to do today, spend some time thinking
about who you want to be. Now focus some mental energy in
that direction.

6. 4) Meditate –
Spend a few minutes really concentrating on your focus phrase
or personal mantra for the day. Who do you want to be?
Focused, energized, powerful, clear, kind, patient, present,
engaged? See if you can actually feel the emotion that goes
along with that power word or phrase.
5) See funny –
One of the best brain exercises to calm and sooth a busy brain
is to find something funny. Humor triggers beneficial brain
chemicals and actually encourages the reduction of toxic stress
hormones. It also improves our ability to think clearly and
rationally.

7. Daily Recharge – turn down the noise, take breaks, change your
tune, balance bloodsugar, move more

8. 6) Our brain is constantly scanning the world around us to see
what needs our attention. In today’s constantly connected, 24/7
work world we are being bombarded with noise competing for
our energy. And it’s not just sounds we need to worry about.
Take a look at your environment, and identify ways you can
turn down stimulation.
7) The human system is designed to oscillate, but if you look
how most people spend their day, we are stuck in a flat-line!
We perform best by focusing on a simple task for no more
than 60 minutes at one time. We see vast improvements when
we break projects up into smaller sprints rather than trying to
push through yet another marathon.

9. 8) Music is a great tool to shift the brain into a different state
of mind. Different types of music can enhance unique
brainwave patterns that actually stimulate the release of
neurochemicals. These are designed to support a variety of
brain functions such as creativity and insight, focus and
concentration, and memory enhancement.

10. 9) One of the quickest ways to put your brain into fight or
flight mode is to give it signal an energy shortage by going too
long without eating. We are designed to eat something with
healthy fat, protein and carbohydrate at least every 3 – 4 hours
throughout the day.
10) Just because you got moving in the morning does not
mean you’re done with brain exercises for the day! Studies
have shown that even when people exercise vigorously in the
morning, our health and performance suffer when we sit
longer than 4 hours in a day. The best way to optimize our
brainpower is to take breaks that includes some sort of
physical activity.

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