Muscle Optimisation

Working the Brain Muscle

One of the ways you can exercise your brain is by focusing on something, de-focusing, and then focusing in once again. This is almost like muscle work for the mind, it makes the brain alternate between stress and release and is therefore a strengthening process, almost as if you were lifting weights with your arm. In this case, it’s that web of neurons and synapses that you are working. Bursts of short duration and single point focus can improve concentration over time, and the time you are able to focus will also extend naturally. You can use a game which requires concentration, such as Sudoku app and alternate this with rest e.g. daydreaming, gazing out the window, scrolling through social media, sleeping. Give this a go, and see how your concentration and focus naturally improve. Do it every day, and you will see results quickly.

There are many muscles in the body - over 600 of them, with some scientists’ categorisation going up to as many as 840. A muscle is a band of fibrous tissue connected to the skeleton which has the ability to expand and contract. It therefore has the ability to move. Some people count the human brain as a muscle, too, and like all muscles it must be exercised in order to be at an optimum. The interesting thing about this muscle is that it can be exercised at the same time as other muscles - when at the gym, for example. You probably use the brain to daydream at this time. However, of all the muscles, the brain is the one that is most important to us, as it is our central control system and ‘hub’. Keeping fit both in the body and the mind are very important, therefore, and what we shall we looking at here.