Whether you are a student, a professional, sit-at-home parent or even retired, it's absolutely important to have a mind that works, keeps you active and positive all the time. It is important that individuals should keep themselves involved in some activity (physical and mental) other than their routine work/profession. It becomes essential for retirees, homemakers, even young kids to be constantly involved in something or else not just boredom and dullness, depression and other diseases have to be dealt with. There are many ways to keep those grey cells active and working, here are a few suggestions:
Read: Age old advice to keep one's mind busy is to keep reading -absolutely anything that u enjoy - current affairs, novels, fiction, technological magazines, spiritualism, nature magazines, or even comics will do. Idea is you should have some food for thought. While you must read things that please you, read some thought provoking articles too. You should be in touch with this fast-paced world, and things happening around you. That is a huge moral booster.
Learn: Take up some vocational/hobby course. There are ample of courses that be done by giving in just a couple of hours in a week, for ex. Photography, gardening, best from waste, creative courses, learn yoga and meditation etc. Choose what appeals to you. If you are a busy person or u can't travel for the course then online courses are available which hold live lessons in the form of webinars, so you don't miss a session and you stay committed. It will keep you busy and you'll be doing interesting stuff in your life instead of watching the idiot box, or wasting your time nagging and finding faults with everything else. Empty mind is devil's workshop.
Our brains have capacity to learn at every age and stage in our life. sometimes we feel that as we age, learning becomes slower than before, but that is because you stopped learning for a long time and then resumed again. But, once resumed slowly and steadily you will definitely become learner and trust me, its a great feeling and confidence booster.
Play online games: Yes! Easiest and most entertaining way of sharpening your mind and focus is to play online/computer brain games. Challenge your intellect play crossword, Sudoku, puzzles, word search and many others that are available for free on your smartphone. So now if you are waiting at the doc for your turn, or travelling - keep yourself busy by these motivating brain games.
There are a number of ways to keep your mind active. Discover yourself. Try your hand at many different things, find your passion. You may never know what you started as a hobby keeps you more occupied than your regular job. And the best part - you love it. All you need is some will-power to do it for YOURSELF.
Healthy Mind, healthy body!
