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In exercising the body, we stimulate the brain's abilities and capacities. People who are sedentary by their habits or nature are less likely to be as receptive to mental challenges than their vigorously exercising counterparts. Put simply, if you exercise your body, expansion and improvement of your cognition, creativity, neural plasticity, memory and other brain/mind functions becomes easier, and can be achieved significantly more efficiently. While physical exercise is no substitute for brain training, the latter becomes much easier if the former is made part of the whole mind-body fitness regimen. This has to do with a combination of several factors: 1) Increased brain oxygenation; 2) Improved neurotransmitter activity and chemical balance in the brain; 3) Easier ability to focus on intellectual tasks when body is in a relaxing or relaxed state after physical labor; 4) Heightened consciousness following exercise; 5) Brainwave (entrainment status) activity post-exercise is signi...

CLICK ON THE PIC FOR HIGHER REZ Best Exercise To Increase Optimism - You Will Easily, Automatically, Rapidly, Re-Program Your Brainwave Activity . Friends and followers of The Braintenance Blog are familiar with the various notions of the subconscious, the ubermind, de-personalization, meditation, neuroplasticity, entrainment, cross-hemispheric intelligence, the electromagnetic and chemical properties of the brain and thought, intersynaptic neurotransmitters and their effects, pheromones, nature, nurture, changing synaptic chemistry, nootropic protocols and a host of other technical details and interesting theories relating to brain, mind, learning and feeling. What I want to do today, and during the course of these next several weeks, is to pass on to you the gift of increased optimism, based upon a three-step approach developed at McGill University . What you will need to do is: Take the optimism test This will give you an indication of how you compare to other people in your ge...

Note : We are currently in contractual negotiations with the bluebird to get him to be the spokesbird for THE BRAINTENANCE BLOG -- " The Bluebird Of Braintenance ." Two of the greatest variables which enhance creativity (which happens to be a close cousin of problem-solving ) are novelty and challenge. Novelty is simply doing something which is a departure or disruption from your usual routine, thought patterns or subject matter which consumes a great deal of your time ordinarily. By the way, novelty can be a departure from physical routine as well as psychological or intellectual routines. Challenge is the exercise of pushing your psychological, intellectual or physical envelope or self-imposed 'comfy cube' Where novelty forces you to focus on those different skill sets or muscle groups, challenge has to do with applying and exercising them. By analogy, novelty is like exercising a new and formerly neglected muscle group (i.e., exercising your triceps where you...