BRAIN POWER RATHER THAN BRAIN POWERLESSNESS (How to sharpen and shape your thinking process)

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I often ask some older friend I haven’t spoken to for awhile, “Well, we are older, are we wiser?” Inevitably they reply “No!” and I respond back, “Oh yes, I am wiser and so are you. We haven’t wasted all this living and not learned something.”

 

Yes, there is Alzheimer’s disease, but the percentage of those afflicted is small.  So pull out those crossword puzzles, write that family memoir, read books as often as you can.

            Sensitize your senses by creative mapping.  Eat blindfolded.  Feel the effect on your taste buds.   Shower with your eyes closed, it’s great for the balance.  Wear ear plugs (obviously not when you’re driving, you do want to hear those horns) and notice the difference it makes in your powers of observation.

            Keep a pen and a pad by the telephone so that when you talk you doodle.  I know all the jokes that have been made about this but do it anyway; it stimulates the brain.

            Take up juggling.  You may find you major in dropping what you are juggling but it will stimulate your brain, it really will.  If you do happen to get good, just don’t get any ideas about running away to join the circus.

            There is a term “theme observation.”  Now that you’ve read it, remember it and practice it.  Go out today and see how many times you can find the color green, beginning with grass and taking off there.  Record the number of times and a week later see if you can improve on your powers of observation.

            Change the speed of one or more things you do on what you can call a “speed change day.”  Faster or slower and note what you are noticing; in particular if you slow down something you normally do quite rapidly.

Mix your senses. How much does the color pink weigh? How does lavender

scent sound?

Buy some chopsticks and try to eat with them.  I did this when I was in China

and my chopstick skills were nothing to write home about but it was a new

skill and I could actually feel my brain cells tingling.

Write down the old cliché’ “If you don’t use it you’ll lose it,”  Put what

you’ve written on your refrigerator so you’ll daily see it.  Then go for it.

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Quotes from tomorrow’s One A Day blog entitled BE A RAINBOW SEARCHER AND FINDER

“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief is the blunder of a lifetime.” 

            What to do?  Go out the front door rather than hide behind it. Seek out new single friends if before this you have thought only in terms of couples, If it is a divorce and old friends were friends of both of you, caught in the middle some may feel uncomfortable and take the easy way out and ignore both of you. Don’t hold it against them or inside of you. Seek out new single friends.  There; I said it again…but I did so because it is part of a solution.

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MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THIS BOOK FOR BETTER LIVING ARE GOOD FOR ANY AGE. (This book is about dealing positively with the challenges of getting older and fosters the belief  that “If we would have new knowledge, we must get a world of new questions.”  (Susanne K. Langer)

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