Mind Games

A Healthy Mind = A Healthy You

The brain is the control center of your ENTIRE body! Mental stimulation improves brain function, preserve memory, and helps protect against cognitive decline to ultimately help you stay youthful inside and out.  It is important for all of us to take time out of our busy schedules to challenge our minds every day. If you continue to learn and challenge yourself, your brain continues to grow, literally.

The BEST part of this is there are so many fun and easy ways to stimulate your brain to experience the positive effects. Board’s games, quizzes, crossword puzzles, riddles and brain teasers are great games that you can start at a beginner level and work your way up.

There are many online resources available if you are looking to challenge yourself in an online interactive way. One of my current favourites is “Mastermind” and it focuses on memory retention. Check it out.

If you’re not a game junkie, not to worry I didn't forget about you! Learning any new skill provides the same mental stimulation your brain craves.Learning to cook, ski, dance are activities that require memory & learning new movements which are equally effective.

I could literally sit here and list off thousands of new activities you could challenge yourself with! The point is you need to find something new and different that YOUR curious to explore and learn. 

I came across this fun riddle this week! Let's put our minds to it and try to solve it:
I am a word of meanings three.

Three ways of spelling me there be.
The first is an odour, a smell if you will.
The second some money, but not in a bill.
The third is past tense, a method of passing things on or around.

Can you tell me now, what these words are, that have the same sound?

Comment below once you have figured it out! Play fair and don’t share the answer!

Check back next week when I post the answer.