by Ika Devita

Created on: October 12, 2008   Last Updated: October 20, 2008

Five Simple Things to Keep Your Brain Healthy

Being healthy is important for human's brain. It is not easy, but it worth so much. There are several things we could consider to be health. These things need efforts and strong will. Without the strong motivation, we will give up to do it.

There are several things must be fulfilled to be healthy:

1. Sleep in a proper time. Do not sleep less and do not sleep too much. The point is to optimize your sleep. When we sleep, our brain is also sleep. Consistently sleeping around 7 hours per night is optimal for brain health. This will recharge its power to do the next activity for the next day. Sleeping seems simple but it is quite important for our brain. I found it difficult to concentrate when I am lack of sleeping. So, have a good sleeping.

2. Work hard, play hard. When we use our brain to work, it is really tiring and stressful right? Well, we must make it balance between working and playing. Let's say, we work for eight hours per day. We must make it balance by use the rest of our time to play. Play means, we could spend our time with our children or we could take a walk with our family. We thankful for the nature and spend several time to enjoy it. This activity will refresh our brain and also reduce our stress.

3. Eat the right food. Several foods are good for us, but the other is not too good. We must choose which food is good for our brain. Walnut, for example, it looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. We now know walnuts help develop more than three dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

4. Be positive. I know this sounds ridiculous, but keeping a positive thinking on your mind will help you gain a healthy mind and soul. Our brain will be trained to take the good effect of many things rather that the bad one.

5. Play the puzzle games. Yes, puzzle games. Word search, amazing brain training, and mathematics will train your brain to think fast and right. It will fire the power of your brain and keep it works. I found it that when we are lazy to train our brain, it will become lame and can not be use properly. Well, it happens to me. So now, I am training my brain and keep it healthy by having a proper treatment like I have mentioned above.

So, those are five simple things to keep your brain healthy. Are you ready to rock?

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