Mental Workout

Meahq is all about helping you become the best you you can be. An important aspect of this is your mind. No matter what state your mind is in currently, it can be improved. Let's take a look at a few different things you can do to help keep your grey matter in tip top shape and increase your mental performance.

Games

A fun way to increase mental performance is by playing logic based games. There is the added benefit that they are also fun. Playing these games regularly will help expand your minds capabilities. Below we have listed a few such logic games.

• Mastermind
• Set
• World of Goo
• Petals around the Rose
• Sudoku
  
• Dual N Back
• Rubiks Cube
  

Any logic based game is beneficial so these are a few examples but there are many more you'll be able to find.

Meditation

Meditation has many benefits, and is not that hard to do. In fact, meditating after writing a journal entry or organising tasks for a project or that need to be done tomorrow is an awesome way to give your mind an opportunity to sift through data and work on problems.

Benefits include:

• An increased ability to focus
• An ability to get into deeper states of sleep, making you more refreshed
• Less stress and a more relaxed state
  
• Better problem solving. Meditation allows your subconscious the ability to stew over problems and solutions.
• Improved mental performance
  
• more...
  

Meditating can be done in several ways but we will outline a simple method that works for a lot of people.

First off, find a quiet place, a place with few distractions and where you can sit in a comfortable position (sitting in a chair is fine, you don't need to sit cross legged or in lotus position). Close your eyes and relax your whole body. Start off with your toes and work your way up to your head. Become aware of each part of your body and make sure it is comfortable, if it isn't, readjust yourself and then continue. Make sure your breathing is smooth and whole. You want to be breathing in full breaths all the way down into your gut. Breathe in and out slowly and fluidly. Now you want to quiet your mind. You will get better at this with practice so don't worry too much if you find this hard at first. Some people find it beneficial to focus on their heartbeat but you will find what works best for you. Now you want to hold this state and maintain it for about 1/2 an hour. Repeat daily and you are on your way to a healthy and strong mind.

Creativity and New Experiences

Giving your mind new material to add to its repertoire is important. This will increase your creative ability and make you a better problem solver. Everything you do will improve as a result. You should always be on the lookout for new things to discover or experience.

Playing creativity enhancing games is a good way to improve your creativity also.

Reading

Reading is awesome for the mind. This is true be it fiction or non fiction. If it is fiction it is also a good idea to take notes in our notes section. Writing down any points you find interesting or important will help your mind reinforce these in memory.

Reading also exercises your imagination which helps in a lot of areas including problem solving, planning and many more.

Exercise, Diet and Sleep

We're not going to elaborate on these too much here, you can find a lot of useful information about them in many other places. We are going to mention however that an important aspect of keeping your mind sharp is keeping these 3 elements well maintained. If you are interested in finding out more, google is a good place to start.