Forgetting things?

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Are you forgetting appointments, the name of people, films, or where you left your keys? Although not that important, it still makes us feel anxious. In these cases the loss of memory is not due to age, but to the fact that we are not using our brain properly. Our brain is like a muscle and it needs to be used so as to perform properly. It is true that exercise helps and that there are also vitamins and medicine to fight this problem, but we can also let our own brain do a bit of work on its own. We need to: stretch it, surprise it with unexpected novelties, take it out of its routine, distract it through the use of all our senses, If one does that the result will be a more agile and flexible brain, able to increase its memory capacity. You probably think that because you read, go to work and do exercise ocasionally, that your mind is stimulated, but unfortunately our life is full of routines. We go to work at the same time everyday, always using the same way. In the evening we watch the same type of television programs and at the same time everyday. All these routine activities make our brain work as if it was on automatic! To expand our brains we need to do things differently. For a change try to: Use the hand that is not dominant, Read out aloud instead of just to yourself Take a different way to go and return from work, Do different things, like going out for a walk in the countryside, smelling things as you go and looking around, Learn something new, like cooking, embroidery, yoga, or a foreign language. Tomorrow, remember to do things just a little bit different, for a change!