For a long time no one is surprised by such a paradox: we believe in great brain potential, but when memory and intellectual abilities weaken with age, we consider this phenomenon almost inevitable. But if we understand the liveliness of our minds, it is not at all the influence of heredity and not the gift of the gods, as people think. We can and are able to keep our intellect up to 80 years and even much higher.
If this is applied to our country, it is only a theory and, in the opinion of doctors, the guilt of everything is firmly mastered rule: with age I will forget everything and think worse. And you try, change this rule to another axiom: even at the oldest age I'll keep mashing and clear mind, because this is the norm. In addition, the rules of training attention and memory are very simple, and everyone can do it. Sometimes it's enough just to throw out other people's unnecessary problems from your head and not try to control 10 things at once.
Even Hippocrates dreamed of studying the brain in all its subtleties, we can not say that in this matter science has not particularly advanced. But there are still many mysteries and secrets. As you know, already on the 16th day after conception the central nervous system begins to be laid and then grows with a huge cosmic speed: already 6 thousand new cells are formed in a second, and such rapid growth lasts five months. At six months, the fetal brain has all its neurons that a person needs for later life. Next, the formation of different processes takes place, thanks to them the brain cells can "communicate" with each other, which is the basis of thinking.
The process of formation of memory and mental abilities, intensively occurs in the first 3 years of a child's life. At this age, the child perceives information from the five senses, and he needs to be allowed to "turn around" properly. Do not swear if your child builds castles from the sand, splashes in the water, listens to songs and tales, tastes toys, so he becomes attached to life.
Every day the cells of the brain die, and with age, when we get older, it happens faster. At 20 years a day, about 20 thousand cells die, and at the age of 40, as many as 50 thousand cells die. Recent data from scientists suggest that such a statement: "nerve cells do not recover," it can be challenged, since in some parts of the brain, brain cells are almost always renewed throughout life.
So to say "responsibility" for the production of new cells, carry stem cells. They are responsible for the maturation of the brain in the womb, later they also solve important tasks, cells in an adult can be transformed into mature neurons. Not so long ago, scientists discovered that new nerve cells appear in the brain region, which is associated with the properties of memory. But in this organism it is necessary to help.
If you feel that you are dizzy and often have a headache, you need to contact a neurologist. Previously, doctors explained to their patients that all this is happening, because less blood flows to the brain. Recent discoveries in the field of medicine have shown that the headache is due to complex processes in the body. At a certain age, it becomes more difficult for us to cope with such duties at home and at work as we are, we are very worried, we are very nervous, we are driving ourselves into a corner, and such neurotic disorders provoke a headache.
The second way to test yourself in whether you are solid is memory, it is necessary to pass a neuropsychological test that doctors offer. If these tests reveal disorders in you, then you must agree and begin the course of treatment, naturally under the supervision of the doctor.
What can I advise to improve attention and memory training? It is necessary to keep in the first place, under control of blood pressure, because hypertension takes first place among all risk factors.
Secondly, if a person is engaged in intellectual work, then the nervous tissue is preserved much better. Therefore, the brain needs and can be trained. English scientists have proved by their researches that the brain of gossips on a bench and people with phenomenal memory is arranged in the same way. And the fact that a person sizzles tirelessly with numbers and facts, then all this is the result of long trainings of the brain area, which is responsible for memorization.
Ideal "simulators" will be crosswords, books, communication with colleagues, friends, neighbors. This is only in the cartoon about the boy Mowgli, which the animals brought up, he developed as an ordinary person. In reality, children who are fed animals, in the brain, many functions fade and irreversible changes occur. Learn poetry and solve crossword puzzles with pleasure, and not through strength, otherwise from these exercises will not be any use.
The secret of success is marriage. According to scientists, if you celebrated your 50 years with your family, it means that until the age of 80 you will live in a solid memory. But the most important medicine for the brain is oxygen, the brain, when it senses a lack of oxygen, is one of the first to signal the body. If you become scattered and sluggish, figures do not converge and connect cases, then your brain needs to be recharged in the form of a walk in the park or in the form of vitamin supplements.
There are several rules, if basically at work you have a sedentary lifestyle, then you need to periodically perform exercises for the head, tilt it forward and backward, to the sides. This improves cerebral circulation and relieves muscle tension in the neck. And if possible, alternate the work of the mind with a five-minute warm-up.
Improve the thinking processes of aromatic oils of juniper, basil, rosemary. And for lazy people you can do this, drop a couple of drops of oil on the aroma lamp and for a whole working day your brain will be "stimulated".
An important role in the process of training and preserving attention and memory is played by the image of your food. Doctors advise that to preserve the clarity of the mind one needs to love all seafood and fish, because the inhabitants of the sea contain fatty polyunsaturated acids, and not just phosphorus, which make it more active that our gray cells work. It is useful to eat salads from legumes and vegetables with sunflower oil, sandwiches from rye bread with butter, walnuts.
Apple helps to concentrate, and grapes help to concentrate. Bananas contain vitamin B6, if we have a deficiency of this vitamin in the body, we all forget. Oranges, paprika and carrots slow the aging of the brain and body. Sunflower oil affects the vividness of the image. Vitamin complexes will help to improve memory, and here the main emphasis should be made on zinc.
Curious fact - a small hunger spurs our mental activity, but different diets act on the contrary. Freshen up memory is easiest in the kitchen, it is enough to open jars with spices, especially good bay leaf, cloves, coriander.
Psychologists have their secrets, how to keep facts or figures in your head for a long time. A reliable way is considered associative: through sounds, smells, sensations. A classic example would be if you show a person a picture of the forest and remove it, he also continues to see the picture, smells the grass, hears the rustle of leaves and so on. You can also remember events in life, and then "dry" schemes, the figures can be "revived".
Use the Cicero recipe. When the famous speaker was preparing his speech, he would walk around the house and in his thoughts place the key moments of his speech at the familiar places, and then recall the situation at home, and he already had the necessary associations in mind.
In order to better remember information by ear, you need to follow the movements of the hands of the narrator, for his gestures, for facial expressions, which usually performs the function of logical accentuation. But it's better not just to look or listen, but to do it yourself, because it's proved that we remember a third of what we heard, half of what we saw, and 100% remember what we have already "tried" with our hands.
Now we know what training is and improve the memory of attention. Do not rush to blame nature, that you have a bad memory, and you forget everything, you can improve your memory and attention, you just need to train and load memory. Or think more, here to whom, as you like.