It is now known that training the brain regularly is a sure shot way of keeping it healthy all the way to a ripe old age. Training your brain helps the neural connections work properly, and also reconnects broken neural junctions. That’s right. As you grow older, many of your unused neural connections may dry up. There are ways to breathe new life back into these connections, or synapses, as they are called. Exercising your brain is one of the best ways of doing so.

Playing puzzle games is a great way of exercising the idle connections in your brain tissue. As you solve challenging puzzles, your brain demands more and more processing power from the idle connections, thereby forcing those to reconnect and absorb nutrition. As the synapses absorb nutrition, those grow stronger, and remain healthy.

Brainarena.com has excellent puzzle games that help to train your brain in a fun way. The games are easy to understand, and quite engaging. Try out titles like Triangle numbers, Smiley twins, Grid numbers, and Rock, paper, and scissors.  Just play these for about half an hour every day, if possible. You will not be disappointed.

Did you know that the right side of your brain works more than the left side? When you are absorbed in some kind of brain-intensive work, your left brain quickly “gets bored” and shuts off, leaving the right brain to deal with it. So, if you can make your right brain stronger with some exercises designed specifically for it, you should be able to do your day to day work much better. Here is one exercise designed to keep your right brain healthy.

Take a large piece of paper (A2 size will do) and a black pen. Sit comfortably in a chair and pick a subject to draw. It should neither be too simple nor too complex. Set a timer to ring after half an hour. That should give you enough time for the exercise. Now, start sketching the subject on paper. While drawing, try not to stop your pen too often. Simply look at the subject and observe it taking shape slowly. This act of moving your eyes with the movement of the pen is the aim of the drill. When the timer rings, stop drawing immediately, and see how much you were able to finish.

This is an exercise catered specifically towards giving your right brain a good workout. Try to do this at least twice every week. It should help keep your right brain healthy and performing at full efficiency all the way to a ripe old age.