Boot Camp for the Brain

As you continue to journal your dreams and goals, how often is exercise on your list? Daily maintenance for the body and for the brain is essential.

Whether you keep a steady diet of doing Sudoku or walk 2-5 miles every morning, you’re participating in a commitment to better health and longevity. Merely staying active, even if chair-bound there are ways to move and improve circulation. Simple stretches while lying in bed before rising enliven the body and the brain.

Many of us have parents or grandparents who suffer from Alzheimer’s and at one time or another considered the possibilities of being stricken ourselves. A recent study at UCLA monitored daily activities of 876 individuals, men and women aged 65 and up. Those who were found to be more active have a fifty percent reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s.

However, science will always prove the very fact that exercise is critical for a healthy lifestyle. Those stricken with a disease have a better chance of quality of life with some form of physical and mental exercise.

Let’s take a look at a woman who was diagnosed with arthritis 25 years ago and still lives to this day in a 3-story home. Family and friends try to persuade her to downsize to a one-bedroom flat, but she insists that the need to climb and descend the stairs keeps her in shape. Not only is she allowing her brain to communicate with her body to meet the demands of navigating up and down, but her body sends messages back to the brain of mission accomplished.

According to studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, strength training encourages the pulses of blood to the brain. Those who stay with a regimen of strength training excel in mental skills testing as well.

It has also been found that sedentary people who changed their habits and walked forty minutes daily, grew a larger brain after studies had shown their brains had begun to shrink. Thus, bigger brains can progress into the same state as a younger brain.

Just when you try to talk yourself into starting tomorrow instead of today, STOP! Remind yourself of the critical importance to oxygenate the blood and focus on optimal flow of blood to your brain. Your brain is waiting. Your body is waiting. Your dream is waiting, (unless it finds another dreamer).

Keeping that communication going between your brain and your body is always a work in progress. Focus, stamina and overall well being have a better chance. When you add it all up, it’s everything you must do to achieve your dream and happiness in your life. As always, recommended hours per week and type of activity should be discussed with your doctor. Have a plan and commit. YOU are the Key!

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