Mental Exercise, how:

Mental exercises are activities that stimulate your brain, improve focus, memory, creativity, and cognitive flexibility. Here are several types of mental exercises, how to do them, and what they help with:

1. Visualization

How:

• Close your eyes and imagine a place (e.g., a forest, ocean, or a favorite room).
• Add sensory details: smells, sounds, textures, light.

Purpose: Enhances concentration, creativity, and remote viewing practice.

2. Memory Palace (Method of Loci)

How:

• Visualize a familiar place (like your house).
• Place items you want to remember in specific locations.
• Walk through it mentally to recall them.

Purpose: Boosts memory, recall, and spatial intelligence.

3. Dual N-Back Training

How:

• Use an app or game that presents sequences of visual and auditory stimuli.
• Remember a pattern that happened “n” steps back.

Purpose: Improves working memory and fluid intelligence.

4. Thought Watching (Mindfulness Meditation)

How:

• Sit quietly and observe your thoughts without judging.
• Label thoughts (“planning,” “worry,” “memory”) and let them go.

Purpose: Develops metacognition and emotional regulation.

5. Mental Math

How:

• Do calculations in your head (e.g., 37 × 12).
• Try estimating real-world problems (budgeting, distances, etc.).

Purpose: Sharpens logical thinking and numerical reasoning.

6. Abstract Pattern Recognition

How:

• Look at visual patterns, symbols, or sequences.
• Predict the next shape or logic behind the pattern.

Purpose: Strengthens intuition, analytical skills, and right-brain function.

7. Language Play

How:

• Learn a few words or phrases in a new language daily.
• Create rhymes, puns, or synonyms.

Purpose: Enhances verbal fluency and cognitive flexibility.

8. Sensory Deprivation + Internal Focus

How:

• Sit in a dark, quiet room or wear an eye mask and noise-canceling headphones.
• Focus on internal imagery or bodily sensations.

Purpose: Trains attention, remote perception, and internal awareness.

Shervan K Shahhian