10 Amazingly Simple Tricks To Turn Your Brain Into A Powerful
Thinking Machine

There are two basic principles to keep your brain healthy and sharp
as you age: variety and curiosity. When anything you do becomes
second nature, you need to make a change. If you can do the
crossword puzzle in your sleep, it's time for you to move on to a
new challenge in order to get the best workout for your brain.
Curiosity about the world around you, how it works and how you can
understand it will keep your brain working fast and efficiently. Use
the ideas below to help attain your quest for mental fitness.

1. Read a Book

Pick a book on an entirely new subject. Read a novel set in Egypt.
Learn about economics. There are many excellent popular non-fiction
books that do a great job entertaining you while teaching about a
subject. Become an expert in something new each week. Branch out
from familiar reading topics. If you usually read history books, try
a contemporary novel. Read foreign authors, the classics and random
books. Not only will your brain get a workout by imagining different
time periods, cultures and peoples, you will also have interesting
stories to tell about your reading, what it makes you think of and
the connections you draw between modem life and the words.

2. Play Games

Games are a wonderful way to tease and challenge your brain. Suduko,
crosswords and electronic games can all improve your brain's speed
and memory. These games rely on logic, word skills, math and more.
These games are also fun. You'll get benefit more by doing these
games a little bit every day-spend 15 minutes or so, not hours.

3. Use Your Opposite Hand

Spend the day doing things with your non-dominant hand. If you are
left-handed, open doors with your right hand. If you are right-
handed, try using your keys with your left. This simple task will
cause your brain to lay down some new pathways and rethink daily
tasks. Wear your watch on the opposite hand to remind you to switch.

4. Learn Phone Numbers

Our modem phones remember every number that calls them. No one
memorizes phone numbers anymore, but it is a great memory Skill.
Learn a new phone number everyday.

5. Eat for Your Brain

Your brain needs you to eat healthy fats. Focus on fish oils from
wild salmon, nuts such as walnuts, seeds such as flax seed and olive
oil. Eat more of these foods and less saturated fats. Eliminate
transfats completely from your diet.

6. Break the Routine

We love our routines. We have hobbies and pastimes that we could do
for hours on end. But the more something is second nature, the less
our brains have to work to do it. To really help your brain stay
young, challenge it. Change routes to the grocery store, use your
opposite hand to open doors and eat dessert first. All this will
force your brain to wake up from habits and pay attention again.

7. Go a Different way

Drive or walk a different way to wherever you go. This little change
in routine helps the brain practice special memory and directions.
Try different side streets go through stores in a different order
anything to change your route.

8. Learn a New Skill

Learning a new skill works multiple areas of the brain. Your memory
comes into play, you learn new movements and you associate things
differently. Reading Shakespeare, learning to cook and building an
airplane out of tooth picks all will challenge your brain and give
you something to think about.

9. Make Lists

Lists are wonderful. Making lists helps us to associate items with
one another. Make a list of all the places you have traveled. Make a
list of the tastiest foods you have eaten. Make a list of the best
presents you have been given. Make one list every day to jog your
memory and make new connections. But don't become too reliant on
them. Make your grocery list, but then try to shop without it. Use
the list once you have put every item you can think of in your cart.
Do the same with your "to do" lists.

10. Choose a new skill

Find something that captivates you that you can do easily in your
home and doesn't cost too much. Photography with a digital camera,
learning to draw, learning a musical instrument learning new cooking
styles, or writing are all great choices.

FROM.................VIJAY "wicketee"..............JAIPUR

Charge mobile with peepal leaves  

Its very Strange But True Very True.  

Now, you do not require any mobile charger to charge your mobiles. Only there is need to use green leaf of peepal tree and after some time your mobile will get charged..

No soon the people came to learn this development, they tested it and found encouraging results. If your mobile has been discharged and you are inside a jungle then you need not to use any charger. You Should pluck two peepal leaves and your work would be done.

It is very good idea and easy to charge your mobile. You would have to open your mobile battery and connect it with peepal leaf. After that without shaking mobile set you should set the battery in your mobile set. After some time your mobile would be charged.

Though it is unbelievable but as soon as the residents of Chitrakoot came to know about the discovery they could not believe the news. But when they saw it practically then the incident proved true.

Now hundreds of mobile holders are using this technique and charging their mobiles.  

Several persons including Sushil Kumar Shukla, Santosh Verma, principal of Mahatma   Gandhi School , Raj Karan Patel, Shyam Patel, Shekhar Dwivedi, Pramod Gupta, Manager of Gayatri temple, RN Tripathi proved the incident true.

Whereas according to the botanists, it is just changing mutual energy into electrical energy power can be saved in battery. Similarly, it is also possible. They said that it is the subject of research.  

  THANKS.........VIJAY "wicketee".....JAIPUR

Newton in romantic mood......


Universal law:

"Love can neither be created nor be destroyed; only it can transfer
from
One girlfriend to another girlfriend with some loss of money "



F irst law:

"A boy in love with a girl, continue to be in love with her and a girl
in love with a boy, continue to be in love with him, until or unless
any external agent(brother or father of the gal) comes into play and
break the legs of the boy. "



S econd law:

"The rate of change of intensity of love of a girl towards a boy is
directly proportional to the instantaneous bank balance of the boy and
the direction of this love is same to as increment or decrement of the
bank balance. "



T hird law:

"The force applied while proposing a girl by a boy is equal and
opposite to the force applied by the girl while slap.

BRAIN  DAMAGING HABITS

1.  No Breakfast
People who do not  take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.
This leads to an  insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.  

2. Overeating  
It causes  hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.  

3. Smoking  
It causes  multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High Sugar  consumption
Too much sugar  will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and  may interfere with brain development.

5. Air  Pollution
The brain is the  largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply  of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.  

6. Sleep  Deprivation
Sleep allows our  brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of  brain cells.

7. Head covered while  sleeping
Sleeping with the  head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease  concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.  

8. Working  your brain during illness
Working hard or  studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as  well as damage the brain.

9. Lacking in  stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the  best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause  brain shrinkage.

10. Talking  Rarely
Intellectual  conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain

The main causes of liver  damage are:

1.  Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.

2. Not urinating  in the morning.

3. Too much  eating.

4. Skipping  breakfast.

5. Consuming too  much medicine

TRUTH: 21st Century

Our communication - Wireless

Our telephone - Cordless

Our cooking - Fireless

Our youth - Jobless

Our food - Fatless

Our Labour - Effortless

Our conduct - Worthless

Our relation - Loveless

Our attitude - Careless

Our feelings - Heartless

Our follies - Countless

Our arguments - Baseless

LAST BUT NOT LEAST

Our BO$$ - Brainless

Our Job - Thankless

Our Salary - Very less .

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THINK...................???????????????

A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees .
The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone.

Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?

Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. Exercise - Half an hour's walk, at least five days a week; avoid lifts and avoid sitting for a longtime
3. Quit smoking
4. Control weight
5. Control blood pressure and sugar

Qn: Is eating non-veg food (fish) good for the heart?

Ans: No

Qn: It's still a grave shock to hear that some apparently healthy person  
gets a cardiac arrest. How do we understand it in perspective?  

Ans: This is called silent attack; that is why we recommend everyone past the age of 30 to undergo routine health checkups.

Qn: Are heart diseases hereditary?  

Ans: Yes  

Qn: What are the ways in which the heart is stressed? What practices do you suggest to de-stress?


Ans: Change your attitude towards life. Do not look for perfection in everything in life.

Qn: Is walking better than jogging or is more intensive exercise required to keep a healthy heart?

Ans: Walking is better than jogging since jogging leads to early fatigue and injury to joints  

Qn: You have done so much for the poor and needy. What has inspired you to do so?

Ans: Mother Theresa , who was my patient

Qn: Can people with low blood pressure suffer heart diseases?

Ans: Extremely rare

Qn: Does cholesterol accumulates right from an early age
(I'm currently only 22) or do you have to worry about it only after you are above 30 years of age?

Ans: Cholesterol accumulates from childhood.

Qn: How do irregular eating habits affect the heart ?

Ans: You tend to eat junk food when the habits are irregular and your body's enzyme release for digestion gets confused.

Qn: How can I control cholesterol content without using medicines?

Ans: Control diet, walk and eat walnut.

Qn: Can yoga prevent heart ailments?

Ans: Yoga helps.

Qn: Which is the best and worst food for the heart?  

Ans: Fruits and vegetables are the best and the worst is oil.

Qn: Which oil is better - groundnut, sunflower, olive?

Ans: All oils are bad .

Qn: What is the routine checkup one should go through? Is there any specific test?  

Ans: Routine blood test to ensure sugar, cholesterol is ok. Check BP, Treadmill test after an echo.

Qn: What are the first aid steps to be taken on a heart attack?

Ans: Help the person into a sleeping position , place an aspirin tablet under the tongue with a sorbitrate tablet if available, and rush him to a coronary care unit since the maximum casualty takes place within the first hour.

Qn: How do you differentiate between pain caused by a heart attack and that caused due to gastric trouble?

Ans: Extremely difficult without ECG.

Qn: What is the main cause of a steep increase in heart problems amongst youngsters? I see people of about 30-40 yrs of age having heart attacks and serious heart problems.

Ans: Increased awareness has increased incidents. Also, edentary lifestyles, smoking, junk food, lack of exercise in a country where people are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart attacks than Europeans and Americans.

Qn: Is it possible for a person to have BP outside the normal range of 120/80 and yet be perfectly healthy?

Ans: Yes.

Qn: Marriages within close relatives can lead to heart problems for the child. Is it true?

Ans : Yes, co-sanguinity leads to congenital abnormalities and you may not have a software engineer as a child

Qn: Many of us have an irregular daily routine and many a times we have to stay late nights in office. Does this affect our heart ? What precautions would you recommend?

Ans : When you are young, nature protects you against all these irregularities. However, as you grow older, respect the biological clock.

Qn: Will taking anti-hypertensive drugs cause some other complications (short / long term)?

Ans : Yes, most drugs have some side effects. However, modern anti-hypertensive drugs are extremely safe.

Qn: Will consuming more coffee/tea lead to heart attacks?

Ans : No.

Qn: Are asthma patients more prone to heart disease?

Ans : No.

Qn: How would you define junk food?

Ans : Fried food like Kentucky , McDonalds , samosas, and even masala dosas.

Qn: You mentioned that Indians are three times more vulnerable. What is the reason for this, as Europeans and Americans also eat a lot of junk food?

Ans: Every race is vulnerable to some disease and unfortunately, Indians are vulnerable for the most expensive disease.

Qn: Does consuming bananas help reduce hypertension?

Ans : No.

Qn: Can a person help himself during a heart attack (Because we see a lot of forwarded emails on this)?

Ans : Yes. Lie down comfortably and put an aspirin tablet of any description under the tongue and ask someone to take you to the nearest coronary care unit without any delay and do not wait for the ambulance since most of the time, the ambulance does not turn up.

Qn: Do, in any way, low white blood cells and low hemoglobin count lead to heart problems?

Ans : No. But it is ideal to have normal hemoglobin level to increase your exercise capacity.

Qn: Sometimes, due to the hectic schedule we are not able to exercise. So, does walking while doing daily chores at home or climbing the stairs in the house, work as a substitute for exercise?  

Ans : Certainly. Avoid sitting continuously for more than half an hour and even the act of getting out of the chair and going to another chair and sitting helps a lot.

Qn: Is there a relation between heart problems and blood sugar?

Ans: Yes. A strong relationship since diabetics are more vulnerable to heart attacks than non-diabetics.

Qn: What are the things one needs to take care of after a heart operation?

Ans : Diet, exercise, drugs on time , Control cholesterol, BP, weight..

Qn: Are people working on night shifts more vulnerable to heart disease when compared to day shift workers?  

Ans : No.

Qn: What are the modern anti-hypertensive drugs?  

Ans : There are hundreds of drugs and your doctor will chose the right combination for your problem, but my suggestion is to avoid the drugs and go for natural ways of controlling blood pressure by walk, diet to
reduce weight and changing attitudes towards lifestyles.

Qn: Does dispirin or similar headache pills increase the risk of heart attacks?

Ans : No.

Qn: Why is the rate of heart attacks more in men than in women?

Ans : Nature protects women till the age of 45.

Qn: How can one keep the heart in a good condition?

Ans : Eat a healthy diet, avoid junk food, exercise everyday, do not smoke and, go for health checkup s if you are past the age of 30 ( once in six months recommended) ....

Send it to all your nearest and dearest ...which should be many........ ..      

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जीवन का दर्शन हो \\

कोई नहीँ पराया , सारी
धरती को अपनाएँ \
नहीँ सताएँ कभी किसीको ,
सबको गले लगाएँ \
शांति , शांति हो , विश्व शांति हो,
प्रगती का सर्जन हो \\ 1 \\

मधुर रहे व्यवहार हमारा ,
जो औरों से चाहें \
विपदा में भी कभी ना छूटे ,
हमसे सच्ची राहें \
सत्य धर्म हो , सत्य विजय हो ,
सत्या हमारा प्रण हो \\ 2 \\

जिसका जो अधिकार हो ,उसको
हम क्यों भला चुराएँ \
हम मानव हैं , मानवता का
मन में दीप जलाएँ ,
कर्मयोग से जो कुछ पाएँ ,
वही हमारा धन हो \\ 3 \\

छल प्रपंच से दूर रहें हम ,
संग्रह पर अंकुश हो \
लोभ मोह का रोग निवारें ,
चित्त हमारा वश हो \
ऐसा हो सौभाग्या कि हमसे ,
औरों का पालन हो \\ 4 \\

जीवन में अनुशासन हो ,
तन निर्मल , मन निर्मल हो \
चन्द्र हमारी जीवन - दृष्टि ,
रोशन हो , मंगल हो \
मंगल हो , मंगल हो सबका ,
हर घर सुख साधन हो \\ 5 \\

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