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 "Physical and mental exercise should be connected. Dr. Khalsa explains, "Combine physical exercise with mental stimulation like reading a book, listening to a book on tape, or listening to an informative show and then discussing it with someone else. Combine mental and physical exercise sometimes—riding. Ride on a stationary bike and read the newspaper or listen to a book on tape. You can actually make new connections in your brain this way. I saw a video the other day showing the neurons stretching out, looking for connections."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "His memory had deteriorated, and it took enormous effort to apply himself to any focused mental exercise. He was horrified to realize that for the past year he had been unable on most days to walk more than 100 yards before collapsing in exhaustion. He was essentially bedridden, and he was not prepared to live like that any longer.
Having received little relief from conventional medicine, Harry turned to alternative measures. He knew next to nothing about them, so he applied every ounce of spare energy he had to educating himself and evaluating his options."- Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) |
| "Like ancient Gaul, there are three parts: mental exercise, physical exercise, and mind/body exercise. Dr. Kalsa notes, "Aerobic reconditioning enhances mental function by 20 to 30 percent. The ancient art of brain regeneration, and innovative mind/body exercises derived from my 20 year practice of advanced yoga and meditation, are important in enhancing global brain energy."
4. The final phase comes from the forefront of anti-aging medicine. "Among pharmaceutical drugs used to help regenerate the brain cells is 1-deprenyl citrate." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "You might try this little mental exercise that I often give to clients who are anxious. On first glance it seems odd, but it works:
1. Know where you are. Imagine that you have called a travel agent and are now asking her to book you a flight, but you have no idea where you are!
2. Know where you are going. Again call the travel agent and say, "I am in Seattle but I don't want to go to New York or Miami; not to Atlanta, either. I also don't like London as a destination." The agent, in frustration, will ask, "Well, where do you want to go?"
3. Surrender to the process."- Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.) |
 "Proper mental exercise is also vital for a healthy attitude and illness prevention.
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 "Is not "mental discipline" or "mental exercise" a more appropriate term for the elaborate routines of yoga and for the Chinese breathing exercise in my narrative? The point is important since a phrase such as mental discipline points to wider issues: attitudes suggests that merely looking on the bright side is all that alternative medicine is able to recommend.
The wider issues are crucial to the word adequately."- Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) |
 "Furthermore, adaptogens have the ability to increase both the amount of mental exercise a person can carry out as well as the quality of that work. 5k, The following adaptogens enhance brain function and mental clarity: American ginseng, ashwagandha, Asian ginseng, dang shen, eleuthero, guduchi, rhaponticum, rhodiola, and schisandra. 5*. The following adaptogens prevent atrophy (wasting) of nerve cells in the brain: ashwagandha, Asian ginseng, and rhaponticum."- David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.) |
 "William Shankle and Daniel Amen's Preventing Alzheimer's, which combines traditional pharma meds with such things as "mental exercise," omega-3 fatty acids, red rice yeast extract, and coenzyme Q, to delay or prevent the diseases.
The king of the RX-plus genre is Dr. Steven Lamm, an internist and clinical assistant professor at New York University School of Medicine. "Staying young is the new American dream," he writes. "- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "Health isn't about some mental exercise; it's about actually helping people change their lives for the better. It's about showing individuals how to alter their health outcome so that they can be free of disease. You can't teach that unless you've done it.
Based on a survey of my readers, the vast majority of people I'm reaching with information have been able to make astounding health changes. Forty-three percent, for example, have been able to quit drinking soft drinks and more than two-thirds reported improved mental function and improved happiness."- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
 "He eventually overcame this affliction through mental exercise and sheer willpower.
In the 1920s, Soviet psychologists began studying a journalist named Solomon Shereshevesky in an attempt to plumb the secret of his near-perfect memory. Shereshevesky's unusual talent brought with it some crippling problems. Words in conversation, as well as random thoughts and memories, could trigger intense storms of sensory impression running the gamut of all five senses.
"I can't escape from seeing colors when I hear sounds," he recounted. "- Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "Diamond's experiment showed that—at least in rats—the physical mechanism of genius could be created through mental exercise. Did this principle apply to people? Diamond wanted to find out. She obtained sections of Einstein's brain and examined them. As she expected, Diamond found an increased number of glial cells in Einstein's left parietal lobe, a kind of neurological switching station that Diamond described as an "association area for other association areas in the brain." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "EINSTEIN'S THEORY OF GENIUS What sort of mental exercise would correspond in a human to the swings, ladders, treadmills and toys of Diamond's super rats? Einstein himself had some ideas on this subject. He believed that you could stimulate ingenious thought by allowing your imagination to float freely, unrestrained by conventional inhibitions. For example, Einstein attributed his discovery of the Theory of Relativity not to any special gift but rather to what he called his "retarded" development. Figure 1.2 Neurons stop reproducing after infancy." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) "He spends far more time these days absorbed in challenging mental exercise, and far less time being bored or anxious. According to Dr. Csikszentmihalyis theory, such a prolonged state of flow should, over the years, steadily increase the complexity of Poe's thought processes. METASTRATEGY Many readers no doubt would consider the memorizing of Latin scripture a refined form of torture. Each must seek his own path to autotelic discipline. I cannot tell you what your method should be, but I can provide some hints on how to find it." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.) |
 "I recommend, therefore, that all my brain longevity patients spend at least a couple of hours each day doing some form of mental exercise. This mental exercise can include anything from reading to playing cards to playing along with quiz shows on television.
Mental enrichment is especially valuable for older people, because the brain cells that are most influenced by it are the ones with the most dendritic branches; the mature brain cells of older adults."- Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory (Get the book.) "It consists of engaging in a mental exercise that evokes the opposite physical condition of the stress response. This opposite condition, discovered by Dr. Herbert Benson, is the "relaxation response." There are several mental exercises that can evoke the relaxation response. Most of them are just basic forms of meditation. For stress management, meditation is as powerful as a "wonder drug." I will discuss meditation in the next chapter. The remainder of this chapter will be about the three coping skills that can save your brain." - Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory (Get the book.) "Arnold Scheibel has noted that mental exercise "sets off dendritic fireworks." Specific yogic mind/body exercises are also tremendously beneficial to the physical health of the brain. They can literally help you to "build a better brain." Chapter 17 will describe the benefits of mental exercise. Chapter 18 will discuss mind/body exercises. Right now, we'll take a look at the value of physical exercise. Let's start with the bad news: Currently, millions of Americans are not exercising enough. And for that, many of them are paying a high price." - Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory (Get the book.) "I advise my brain longevity patients to spend at least one or two hours a day doing mental exercise. That's not very much at all. Consider that you would get about four hours of mental exercise just by reading the newspaper, talking about current events with a friend, playing along with Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, and then playing a game of Scrabble. That doesn't sound like too tough of a day, does it? Dr." - Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D., Brain Longevity: The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory (Get the book.) |
| "And I particularly impress upon them the importance of mental exercise.
MENTAL EXERCISE HELPS STRENGTHEN THE BRAIN
Regardless of your age, you can actually build up your brain. Like physical exercise, which creates more, stronger muscle fibers, working out your brain strengthens existing neuronal pathways and builds new nerve connections that sharpen your memory and mental edge. Let's review how these neural connections are made and then locked into your memory.
A thought, registered as a nerve impulse, travels along a neuron through its axon." - Dr. Julian Whitaker, The Memory Solution (Get the book.) |
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