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Did you know that your brain profits from breaking your morning routine? Left/right exercises change the active half of the brain. E.g. The connections and brain sections normally active when brushing your teeth are resting, while the correspondent sections in the other hemisphere are suddenly dealing with the new task. New connections bring fresh associations.
So you might want to try these three easy to follow exercises:
Shower with closed eyes
Feel for the soap and shampoo for example. Your sense of touch helps your brain creating a map of your shower. Other senses come into weight when optical stimuli are missing. The smell of your soup will appear more intensive etc.
All with your left
Brush your teeth, brush your hair and shave yourself, or take the cup of coffee with the “wrong” hand. So right handed people use the left and left handed people use the right hand.
Wake up to a different smell
Instead of waking up to the usual smell of coffee, treat yourself a different scent. You could spray some of your favourite aroma in the air when the alarm goes off.
These exercises help you to notice things that you would otherwise ignore.
Kelly from the Healthcare Administration Degree page wrote me an email with a link to a long list of exercises you might enjoy. Build Your Own brain Gym.
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