Brain Tune Day One
Your first session of Brain Tune is waiting for you.
The link below will take you to Day One.
If you have any queries or comments, contact the author: gillian@brainandmemoryfoundation.org
I’d love to know what you think!
Kindest regards
Gillian Eadie
CEO Brain and Memory Foundation.
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About the Author:
Gillian Eadie, M.Ed, BA, DipTchg, LTCL, Churchill Fellow, HFNZCS
Gillian is an award-winning educator whose career includes 20 years as a school principal in prestigious private schools. She has established the Brain and Memory Foundation with her sister, Dr. Allison Lamont, PhD, MA (Hons), whose research into age-related memory loss has been internationally acclaimed and published by Verlag in 2008.
Their articles, books and memory programs are scientifically based on Dr. Lamont’s research findings. They focus on the key skills needed to keep brains active, alert and growing at any age. Jenny, their mother, had Alzheimer’s and seeing the devastating impact Alzheimer’s has on families has motivated both daughters to urge all baby boomers to take steps, while brain skills are intact in their 50’s, to develop the cognitive reserve that will buffer them against memory loss later in life. Gillian and Allison are baby boomers themselves, have addressed international conferences and have achieved book sales of “Seven Second Memory” in USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Zambia and New Zealand.
You can read more articles to help improve your memory and brain on our Websites: http://brainandmemoryfoundation.org;
To purchase your own copy of the life-changing book, Seven Second Memory, visit http://sevensecondmemory.com
Here’s the best news for Baby Boomers this year!
Latest US Study Finds Brain Training Linked to Decreased Risk of Alzheimer’s.
It’s a huge, 800 page study prepared for an NIH State-of-the-Science Conference “Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline:, but its findings are music to the ears of everyone over 50 who wants to keep a sharp, alert brain for the rest of their life. And who doesn’t!
Scientists, as you know, are very cautious about making promises but this is what they said:
“Of all the factors reviewed, including diet and dietary supplements, physical exercise, social engagement, and other leisure activities, only cognitive training was found to have a high level of evidence for being associated with a decreased risk of cognitive decline.”
This is fantastic news for Baby Boomers!
It means you don’t have to accept memory loss as a part of getting older.
You can do something about it!
‘Cognitive’ means brain and memory activities.
So, what the scientists are saying is this.
Although eating brain food, physical fitness and social activity are all really important,
‘only cognitive training was said to have a “high degree of evidence” in this report’.
These new scientific findings are of critical importance.
At 50+, you are confidently expecting to live a full and positive life, with plenty of time to enjoy the leisure activities you’ve promised yourself and your family during your busy earning years. You are entitled to those years – but more and more of us are being robbed of them through memory loss and Alzheimer’s.
But you can do something about that. Start today.
Sign up now for our FREE six-day Brain Tune course.
It will set you on the right path to brain fitness.
For further information, read lots of articles on this site, including Nine Secrets of a Sharp Brain After 55 and Keep that Boomer Brain Growing
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This article was reproduced with permission of its author Gillian Eadie, founder of the Brain and Memory Foundation. Gillian is an award-winning educator with more than 20 years as a principal at several prestigious private schools and is a Churchill Fellow. For more free help and personal advice on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and improving your memory, please visit the Brain and Memory Foundation.
Secrets of a long and healthy life.
This is not just crazy talk – I’ve seen bright, alert 100 year-olds who are still working!
And here they are.
Take a look at these lovely friends – bright eyes, alert minds, lots of laughs and knowing just how to get tourists on side.
What’s their secret?
This is what they told me (through an interpreter, of course>)
1. Simple food - rice, fresh vegetables, fish and a little meat, water and lots of green tea.
2. A life of hard work and physical activity – working in the fields, walking, maybe riding a bicycle, – but no car.
3. Keeping their brains active with Chinese chess, maybe mahjong and, let’s be honest, trying to make ends meet nearly all their lives.
4. And (they didn’t say this but I saw it for myself) enjoying life and laughing a lot!
OK – so it isn’t for everyone and we can’t help living in a time when everything is plentiful. And we love our cars!
But there are lifestyle changes you can make that will keep your brain alive and alert.
Think about your day.
Could you have spared 20 minutes today to think about your brain?
Or 4 lots of 5 minutes? It doesn’t seem much to help preserve your brain and memory for the rest of your life!)
Are you ready to start work on your brain fitness>
We’ll make it easy for you.
We have a Free six-day Brain Tune course which we’d like to send you.
Just because we care about Baby Boomers like you living to an amazing old age with brain and memory powers that will amaze your family and friends!
The course covers a screening test, things you can do every day to support your memory, brain exercises that will definitely make a difference, lifestyle tips and plans of action that will set you up for the future.
All you need to do is send us your contact details on the home page.
We look forward to hearing from you!
For further information, read Nine Secrets of a Sharp Brain After 55 and Keep that Boomer Brain Growing
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This article was reproduced with permission of its author Gillian Eadie, founder of the Brain and Memory Foundation. Gillian is an award-winning educator with more than 20 years as a principal at several prestigious private schools and is a Churchill Fellow. For more free help and personal advice on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and improving your memory, please visit the Brain and Memory Foundation.
Challenge your brain and improve your working memory!
Train Your Brain
Have you already tried these brainteasers on Twitter?
If not, try them now before looking up the answers!
1. The words below are all anagrams of other words, the initial letters of which form an anagram of another word. What is the answer?
bruise warned please listen veined trance
2. Starting with HATE, change one letter at a time until you have the word LOVE. Each change leaves the other letters in their original places and must result in a proper word. What is the minimum number of steps required to achieve this change?
HATE …. …. ….
LOVE
3. If today is Friday, what is the day that follows the day that comes after the day that precedes the day before yesterday?
4. If you were to spell out the numbers in full, (One, Two, Three, etc), how far would you have to go until you found the letter ‘A’?
5. Another Word Ladder
Change ONE to TWO in seven steps, changing only one letter in each three-letter word.
6. When Bob is twice as old as he is now, he’ll be four times as old as he was six years ago. How old is Bob?
7. Make the following correct with one stroke of the pen: 101010 = 9.50
8. How can you combine eight 8’s to make 1000?
9. Tune up your brain! Can you find a single five-letter word which can be added to each of the following letters to form 5 six-letter words?
10. The maker doesn’t need it, the buyer doesn’t use it and the user uses it without knowing. What is it?
11. Show how one taken away from 19 can give you 20.
12. There are three light seitches downstairs which light up three bulbs in the attic. How can you find out which switch lights up which bulb with only one trip upstairs?
13. A Christmas brain teaser. If snow falls from the sky at the rate of one drop of snow per second, how many drops of snow will fall over one minute?
Come on, you can do it!
Answers: (Don’t look unless you have to!)
1. The answer is ‘ANSWER’: asleep, nectar, silent, wander, envied, rubies.
2. HATE, DATE, DOTE, DOVE, LOVE or HATE, LATE, LAVE, LOVE or HATE HAVE HOVE LOVE.
3. Thursday
4. 1000: one thousand. Unless you in the UK when 101 = one hundred And one.
5. OLE, ALE, AYE, DYE, DOE, TOE, TOO, TWO
6. Bob is twelve (12)
7. 10 T0 10
8. Here’s one way but you might find more? 8+8+8+88+888=1000
9. Bangle, Tangle, Jangle, Mangle, Dangle
10. A coffin!
11. Write 19 in Roman numerals – XIX. Take I away and you are left with XX.
12. Turn on one switch and wait a minute or two. Then turn it off and switch on another light. Go upstairs and you will see one light on, one is still warm to the touch and one is still cold. Now you know which is which!
13. 61 drops of snow. We start counting from the time the first snow drop falls and the moment of time is 0 seconds. At the moment of time of 1 second, we have two drops of snow, and so on. When the moment of time is 60 seconds, we will have had 61 drops of snow.
Memory loss coming on!
One of my followers on Twitter posted this tweet and I could understand just how he felt! Sometimes life’s just like that - after a weekend partying, hitting the books for exams, going through a stressful relationship break up or just too much of everything!
I’ve seen lots of Twitter jokes about memory loss – like this one: Memory loss runs in my family – um, do I have a family? Or
When my doctor knew I had memory loss, she made me pay in advance.
But it isn’t really a joke because if your memory is being affected so much tht you are fogetting things, then the what is causing the stress needs to be taken seriously.
What are the warning signs of stress?
Rapid breathing, increased heart rate, withdrawal, headaches, chain smoking, chest pains, insomnia, ulcers, and reduced sex drive. These symptoms often lead to thoughts and feelings of despair or panic (I’m doomed, I’ll never succeed, I’m useless). And of course, stress can mean dollars lost, projects delayed, poor morale, arguments with friends, poor heath, and failure in your job. So, although the jokes are a bit of fun, stress bad enough to cause memory loss is far from a joke.
I’ve just moved house and taken up a new job so I’ve been feeling a bit stressed lately. How can I tell? I put out my mobile to be sure to take it to work – then left it behind on the table where I placed it so carefully. I wake up in the middle of the night with a To Do list rolling round in my head. I spend minutes searching for an important paper that is actually sitting on the desk where I placed it. Silly things that wouldn’t happen if I was thinking straight, and not stressed
There are many natural stressors in our lives, both positive and negative. A constant barrage of noise, being fired, facing fierce competition, the death of someone close or divorce cause a lot of stress for us. So do moving, starting a new job, making a large purchase, going on holiday, marriage…any of these circumstances evoke our emotions . while some are joyful, often the opposite is the case, causing worry, grief, or depression. All stressors cause tension and tension is the enemy of memory.
Time honored ways of reducing stress include:
- Relaxation: When anxious, find a friend, a book, or learn relaxation techniques. This can take the form of breathing exercises, a gradual relaxation of the body, or an imaging process. At first the mind technique you choose may take half an hour to ‘bring you down’, but once you become adept all it need is ten seconds or so.
- Time Management: Manage your phone calls and interruptions. Make a daily plan: this helps accomplish critical or urgent jobs, the ones that create the most stress and take the highest toll on memory. The simpler the management plan, the better
- Cut yourself some slack: Tell yourself that mistakes happen and the world hasn’t ended and that there is usually no one clear right and wrong way to do things, and so on.
- Assert yourself in a tactful, flexible way which makes your needs and wants known but does not casue agression and anger. Try using statements with “I believe…” or “I would like to try…” rather than “you…” This negotiating approach is much less stressful and more likely to be successful.
- Problem solving. Evaluate many possible solutions, then decide and implement the one that seems best. This frees your thinking and memory capacity.
- Risk-taking. Be willing to be embarrassed and non-traditional. Have fun. The discomfort of opening yourself up will gradually fade as you experiment by taking risks. As life becomes more satisfying, you can be more relaxed about the way your life is progressing; your stress will lessen, and your memory will improve.
If you feel stress coming on, take 90 seconds to:
1. STOP. Abandon what you are doing
2. RELAX. Free your mind of distractions
3. THINK. Identify your irrational and panicky thoughts and replace them with positive statements.
4. RISK. Break the routine; try something new.
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Please feel free to reproduce this article on your website. See our article reproduction policy for details. In brief, all you need to do is reproduce the article above and add the following credit footer including the links unaltered and then email us at brainandmemoryfoundation@gmail.com to let us know where you’re reproducing it because we’ll be excited to see it on your site! Please let us know if we can help in any other way. We want to get the word out.
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This article was reproduced with permission of its author Gillian Eadie, founder of the Brain and Memory Foundation. Gillian is an award-winning educator with more than 20 years as a principal at several prestigious private schools and is a Churchill Fellow. For more free help and personal advice on the human brain, sleep, brain food and improving your memory, please visit the Brain and Memory Foundation.
