Did you know that the human brain is a complex and amazing organism? It's vital for life, yet there is so much that we don't know about it! One thing we do know though, is that if we don't exercise our brain and it's functions, our mental ability and capacity will decrease.
Mostly this is seen in old age (in cases like dementia and Alzheimer's) and when there is a brain injury or trauma; but to a lessor degree it affects every person in some way.
There are now many courses available on improving your memory, developing photographic memory or mental photography, but all of them revolve around using brain exercises to improve brain capacity, function and memory.
For those that just want some simple (i.e. free) and fun exercises, these can be found all over the internet. The benefit of these brain exercises is that as they get you to use new skills (such as in problem solving or lateral thinking) it creates new neural pathways and strengthens existing neural pathways in your brain. This opens up more and more of your brain capacity and part of that brain capacity is the function of memory. So as you improve your brain, of course you improve memory as well.
Online Brain Exercises
There are a number of sites on the internet where you can go and play some fun games. Often these will get harder as you progress through the levels. My two favourite sites are: braingle.com and lumosity.com. Both these sites have games, riddles, tests and trivia that will stretch you AND keep you entertained! I like them because they both have a lot of content in the one place.
But when you're not at a computer you can do puzzles in the newspaper such as sudoku or the crossword; and instead of watching TV all night, you could take half an hour out to read about a topic that is interesting to you.
Whatever brain exercises you choose to do, just the fact that you are exercising (and using) your brain will help you to improve memory and overall brain function. You can find more brain exercises to improve memory here.
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