Brain Fitness
Give Your Brian a Workout
Throughout life, your neural networks reorganize and reinforce themselves in response to new experiences. Body-mind interaction is what stimulates brain cells to grow and connect with each other in complex ways. The human brain can continue to grow and improve with exercise.
Challenge Your Brain
Scientists no longer hold the longstanding belief that we lose vast numbers of brain cells as we grow older. The normal aging process leaves most mental functions intact, and may even provide the brain with unique advantages that form the basis for wisdom. The aging brain is also far more resilient than was previously believed. Our brains continue producing new neurons provided it is stimulated to learn new things such as dance steps. (Referencee: PBS “The Secret of Life”.)
It is essential for mental fitness to challenge your brain to learn, particularly activities that you've never done before. Examples include dancing, playing Euchre or Bridge; or practicing Tai Chi or Yoga; or learning how to enhance digital photos or turn them into a photo collages. (A septuagenarian —our webmaster— created the collages for this website.) Of the many challenges to seek for fitness is one that exercises simultaneously both the body and mind and that is to dance, be it tap, jazz, ballet, clogging, ballroom or hip-hop. Stay fit and stay alert.