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Music Can Change Your Mental Ability

Music is not just for relaxing and listening pleasure as there are people who are said to benefit by listening with music before or during studying. And did you know that playing music can change your mental ability? There was a research conducted in  Stanford University stating that musical training improves how the brain processes the spoken word.
And somebody told me also that if I want to learn better and think more proficiently, I should try learning to play a musical instrument because it helps our brain to think efficiently and accurately. Playing musical instrument has cognitive benefits according to the said research and so, if you want to engage in a hobby that will have a positive benefit to your mental ability, head on to musical instrument.

Some Mental Focusing Techniques

Mental focus is something that we should learn if we want to finish a task with flying colors. If we want to excel in your grades or in a project, having good mental energy is really a great help. So how we can have good mental focus? How we can develop this skill?
There are actually several mental focusing techniques mentioned in this article which we can try to develop good mental focus. The first is meditation which is a highly effective way of clearing the mind from extraneous thoughts so that we can focus in one thing or task exclusively. One usual way of meditation is contemplation of an actual or visualized object and the sensation of breathing. The objective of meditation is to achieve the higher state of consciousness.
The second technique that we can try is the Flow or the Zone which is very similar in meditation as it also makes use of breathing and visualization. However, this one involves creation of mental image of exactly what you hope your body will achieve. Then we need to identify our anxieties, fears, hindrances or distractions and put them all in a black box so that you will leave your mind free to focus.
And did you know that researchers even used brain scanning techniques like MRI in their aim to find out to what’s going on inside the meditating brain? Researchers discovered that alpha brain waves are dominant when our mind is highly focused. There is also increased activity in certain important parts of our brain when we are paying much attention to something!
It is also a fact that our brain can be stimulated by breath counting exercise, so if you want to improve concentration or have a mental focus, practice some breathing exercises!

Chewing Gum Can Improve Memory

Yes! Chewing gum can help to improve memory and enhance cognitive power. But to be more specific, it is not the gum that can actually improve our memory, but the act of continuous chewing or moving of our jaw. And gum of course induce the act of chewing, and can make chewing more fun!
The theory that chewing improves memory has some scientific basis because according to what I read, a group of Japanese researchers learned that the activity in the hippocampus, the area of our brain that is important for memory increases while people chew. And Dr Andre Scholey from the University of Northumbria likewise state that chewing increases heart rate and increased heart rate improves oxygen delivery to the brain which can enhance our cognitive powers.
Now we know the scientific reason why some people become more attentive and feel more alert when they chew gum and why does chewing can take away sleepiness. So the next time you feel slack when studying or feel sleepy inside classroom, chew some gum or move your jaw up and down to revive your cognitive power.