Do you feel stressed, tired, fatigued, rushed, drained, zapped? Join the club. Add an economic crisis to multiple jobs, kids, elderly parents and a body-crushing lifestyle and lots of Americans feel whacked-over-the-head overloaded.
What's the antidote? Simple: use your body the way it's built. If you want your brain to work well, you first want to know how your brain works. Hint: it's not a machine. It is a living, wondrously inventive, rapidly renewing organ. You see your hair grow, your nails grow, but do you see your brain grow? That's what your brain does during rest, your body's rebuild-and-renew program. To get your brain to work better, here's rule number one: rest for success.
Ask the rats at UCSF. As the New York Times described, researcher Loren Frank found that rats sent exploring need to stop and rest in order to develop long-term memories. If you want to learn, you need to rest -- and that's not including people's first definition of rest, sleep.
When I ask humans about rest improving their brains, I get different answers. One reporter in Dallas explained, "I can't rest; I'm in the newsroom." A news editor in Sacramento told me the opposite, that she was so wiped by working early-morning hours, holding two jobs and raising a two-year-old that she forced herself to rest for an entire weekend -- to really sleep, and not do any work. Afterwards she felt rejuvenated, filled with new ideas and new energy -- in other words, rested.
So here are eight simple ways to get your brain in full working order and have fun:
So don't believe Woody Allen when he says in the movie "Sleeper" that the brain is his "second most favorite organ." Make it your favorite organ. Treat your brain as the creative, wondrously renewing center of your mind, and it will treat you well, working better and letting you laugh a lot more. When you use your body the way it's built, you'll change your appearance, your productivity, and your pleasure. Change your brain, change your life.
Follow Matthew Edlund, M.D. on Twitter: www.twitter.com/therestdoctor
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"Do you feel stressed, tired, fatigued, rushed, drained, zapped? Join the club. Add an economic crisis to multiple jobs, kids, elderly parents and a body-crushing lifestyle and lots of Americans feel whacked-over-the-head overloaded."
9. Stop watching Fox News.
10. Change your voter registration to Independent.
block or limit (un)necessary sensory input
like most news programs which are simply
filling airtime 24/7, repurposing content,
not really providing news.
it is and not through some small hand held device . Talk to your friend that's
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# 8 Turn of that there late night radio station that's got folks thinking there's
no tomorrow while they sell a ton of products. Take your head out of the sand
and just live life .
# 1. No more FOXXX News, Pat O'Leily, Rush Slimbaugh, Sarah Stalin, Liz Cheney, Sen. DeMent, Joe Lieberdouche, Eric Cuntor & Co. Inc.
# 2. No more Sharon Angle and/or Jan Brewer and/or Meg Whitman.
# 3 To Salem with Christine O'Donnell.
# 4.Say no to Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper, Sp(r)itzer and Parker and the like.
# 5 Switch from CNN to Dylan Ratigan
# 6 Cancel your subscription to the Noo Yawk Times.
# 7 Send Orly Taitz and Lou Dobbs to Moldova.
# 8.No more demagoguery-you-can-believe-in. Basta!
Drop addictions to TV, video/computer games. Do not try to eat all meat that you can buy.
Enjoy walks, nature, return to natural curiosity about the scenery around you. Do one thing at a time, without much hurry. Enjoy good books, have good hobbies.