The popular advocate for health has always been focused on physical wellbeing often times neglecting the fact that our brain also needs to be fit and alert. Most people overlook the fact that working out is not just physical but also mental.

There are basically three simple exercises that you can give your brain to make it healthy and fit: 1. Memory Exercises, 2. Puzzle Solving, and 3. Discovering New Things.

When you challenge your mind to remember simple things, like memorizing simple items on a list, you get the stretch your brain muscles. With a dose of daily memory exercise, the short term memory will surely improve. Just remember to keep your list short (the brain can only hold seven items at one time) and try to have fun while doing it.

Puzzle solving like jigsaw, crossword or Sudoku puzzle is one enjoyable way to improve and boost memory. Doing any of these activities will help in brain training. The concentration and focus they require are mental gymnastics your brain surely needs in order to stay fit.

When you constantly prepare and guide yourself to learn new things — be it something working with your hands like crafting, something physical like playing tennis or purely cerebral like philosophy there is an increase in the association and therefore connection between the neurons and your brain. Thus, the learning process improves and enhances the brain power.

These exercises are simple and easy in fact, you might have done them from time to time, yet they are effective ways to stimulate your brain and charge your brain power to stay sharp so that it can go on and on.