5 Tips to Improve Your IQ

Today, we have a guest post from Holly McCarthy, she shares tips on improving IQ.

Just as the human body requires exercise to remain fit, similarly human brain also needs exercise to keep itself agile. If you use it in the right ways, you will become a more skilled thinker and increase your ability to focus. But if we abuse it with harmful living habits, our ability to think and learn will certainly deteriorate. Here are 5 simple ways by which anyone can get more productivity out of this grey matter of our body.

Brain Nutrition

Of all the things that you can do to improve IQ, keeping good overall health is the most important, especially a physically healthier brain improves all other IQ related aspects such as, memory, logic, understanding, and problem solving abilities. Just as nutrition is indispensable for a healthy body, similarly a sharp brain demands good mental nutrition. Take rich diet with a balanced intake of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. There are also many brain nutrition supplements like Omega 3 oil capsules that you could take to support mental functioning. But be careful that such external supplements should be taken only after proper medical consultation.

Sensory　Development

Our mind perceives and interprets everything happening around us. Our thoughts get crystallized in form of images, sounds, feelings and words using our senses. Thus by working on our sensory development we increase our perception. Take up activities that would present challenging scenarios to the mind such as attempting various IQ tests and solving word or number puzzles as these sharpen our mental faculty. Also try to do varied reading as that also provides different sensory stimulus to our brain.

Take proper rest and sleep well

Nothing makes it harder to concentrate than lack of proper sleep and rest. Proper sound sleep is most essential for rejuvenating human mind as that is the time when brain locks down our memories and processes them. So if you are not having enough hours of sleep, it retards our memorizing abilities over a period of time. Follow the age old principle of early to bed and early to rise so that you can make the best out of the early morning hours when the mind is at its tranquil, productive best.

Indulge in sporting activities

Playing games such as chess, sudoku and word scrabble, which involve strategic planning, have been proved to give the right impetus towards improving ones` IQ levels. Even some outdoor games that require intense hand – mind – eye co-ordination, like squash, tennis and ping pong are strongly recommended by experts as the rapid eye movements involved in these sports stimulate mental sharpness and boost your IQ.

Improve memory

Memory is the mental ability to gather information / observations and storing them in a way that we can access it later. Though it sounds simple, but actually the ability to memorize things is a complex process wherein different parts of the brain come into play. A powerful memory is essential for an improved IQ as well as success in life.

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This post was contributed by Holly McCarthy, who writes on the subject of become a certified nurses assistant. She invites your feedback at hollymccarthy12 at gmail dot com

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