Studies have shown that diverse and mentally stimulating tasks result in more brain cells!  Also, a greater ability to bypass age-related trouble spots in the brain is quite apparent.

The more you work your mind, the greater your cognitive reserve.  The greater the reserve, the better ability you will have to withstand inevitable challenges of aging.  Keep in mind that we all begin to age way before fifty!

As a survivor of multiple traumatic incidents, and a stress management specialist, I have learned you can “retrain” your brain to accommodate any incident, or series of incidents that manifest in your life.  You can create new brain cells with new thoughts and habits.  Doing these things will begin for you a lifelong experience of stress management, better health, and will put you on the path to stay as sharp as possible. Exquisite breathing can really enhance these processes.

You are reading to find out about how to manage the stress in your life that may seem overwhelming and chaotic.  If you spend your life reliving your misery, or anger, and struggling just to swim in a pool of sadness, what does it accomplish? NOTHING. Time spent “mourning the past” just trashes any chance of peace and progress that is still available to you. We do have wonderful brains that can keep learning no matter how we have diligently tried to kill all the cells by the “party on” philosophy. I’ve been there too – big time.

There are bound to be some physical restrictions and mental problems that may increase with aging, and for some, those problems may inhibit to some degree some areas of retaining a sharp intellect.  Reasons for this decline might be a loss of neural connections, a blockage of blood supply, and perhaps decreases in nerve-signaling chemicals.  Memory can diminish with age, though only certain types.

Typically “learned skills” are so firmly wired in individuals, they typically do not decline unless you have a disease such as Alzheimer’s.

But for most people, the ability to keep that edge is dependent only on a few things.  The commitment to exercise (even moderately) is imperative, as movement is so crucial to brain health cognitive thinking, changes in aging can be the result of inactivity.  Refresh the brain on a daily basis with new thoughts, new information, and new habits.  If your memory, as you age, is suffering, it is probably your short-term memory. Some moderate loss is to be expected.

After all, this wonderful human machine clicks along for years and years.

So how are you going to keep your brain at it’s best?  BY GROWING NEW BRAIN CELLS!  Scientists believe certain lifestyle habits can spark the cells’ growth.  I believe the use of your oxygen combined with habitual thoughts (new thoughts for advancement preferably), will absolutely grow new brain cells.

In a nutshell:

1.  Pay attention to your mental and physical changes.

2.  Make sure you “exercise” your brain with new information.

3.  Exercise your body.

4.  Incorporate good nutrition in your life, as many memory

problems stem from vitamin deficiencies.

5.  Be the master of your own thoughts.  Thought manifest into

action, and your behavior becomes your life.

Learn to Exercise Your Mind and Manage Your Stress!

If you think you “never dreamed you’d be in this position”, overwhelmed in an ocean of stress, welcome to the space millions of people sharing today.

Technology is awesome.  Technology is tragic. Technology is also VERY stressful for almost everyone.  For the awesome and wonderful use we have available on the Internet, cell phones, games, music devices, and the plethora of things available to us, there are also horrific and tragic events that occur because of the technological advances.

When “access” is denied

You have certainly had a program or something you’ve written disappear. Has the power gone off due to an unforeseeable incident, disabling the computer or television? Just when you have a deadline to meet surely something has gone amiss with the computer or printer.  Perhaps your cell phone wasn’t charged, or you are out of satellite range just when you need to make a call.

These types of incidents can cause high anxiety and contribute to mounting stress.

Mind-Splitters

Technology can be disastrous too, for interpersonal relationships, whether it involves peers, partners, family members, or even strangers connecting.

Technology allows us to communicate with others and complete work rapidly, and that is a plus most of the time.

But this communication is less than reality, and is mind splitting and often human splitting!  Often we find ourselves so busy with our gadgets that we isolate ourselves from movement and one on one communication.

Have you ever seen a mother and child walking in the park and the mother talking on the cell phone and ignoring the child?  What about boyfriend and girlfriend strolling down the street, each with a cell phone to their ear?  Picture the guy or gal fastening the seat belt, before the engine starts, to call or text someone.  You’ve seen it happen!

Think of the lies procreated day after day between people on the Internet.  A little lie here, a little one there, does not amount to much, it seems.  Hearts have been broken and financial scams have increased by almost one hundred percent.

It used to be a human being stood before students to expound on lessons of history and human kind.  Now so many students sit in front of their computer, learning from the teacher on line.

Think of the conversations between teenagers, that parents never hear!  Plans made and “sexting” (the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between mobile phones) to each other.

“Where’s the Stress Management here?”, you may ask.

It is right here, and right now.  Simply put there are eight things you need to do to help manage these stresses.

1.  Exercise your mind.  Some things you simply have no control over.  For those things, look at the challenges differently.  Find an answer with a new attitude.

2.  Set your priorities.  Are any of the things above worth throwing yourself into a physical and mental turmoil?  Soon another challenge will come and the current ones will melt away.

3.  Stop saying negative things in your head or out loud.  Negatively will only make it worse.

4.  Remember, at any moment all of the “aids” to life we find in technology could be taken away.  TRY not to rely on them as much as you rely on your own capabilities!

Technology or Humans – Which will the race ultimately?  Think about it.  If we sacrifice our mental and physical health constantly worrying about the “flaws” in the things we use, and the “discomfort” they cause when not available or malfunctioning  , we need to step back, take a breath and remember who is in charge – you or the machine.