给自己大脑充电的好方法

Have you ever felt exasperated when you bumped into someone at the store but absolutely couldn't remember their name? Sure, it happens to all of us.

你有没有因为在商店里遇到某个人却死活想不起他的名字而觉得又急又气？当然了，我们每个人都碰到过这种情况。

Despite being the strongest computer on the planet, our brains do lapse. It's hard to blame them really. As humans, we spend much of or existence stuffing our brains with stuff. Some stuff is worthless, some of it's meaningful, some of it, well, it's just stuff and there is an endless amount of it.

即使被称为世上最强劲的计算机，我们的大脑还是会忘记一些东西。这不能责怪它们。作为人类，我们花费了大量脑力，或者用东西填满大脑。有些东西毫无价值，而有些东西很有意义，只是有些，是啊，就是这些东西，越来越多，没完没了。

No matter how powerful our brains are, they need recuperation time, to be kept in shape, and even an occasional charge. Think of it as a tune up for your brain. Skipping brain maintenance is as silly as the person wandering the parking garage because they forgot where they parked. Is that you? Are you that person? Sure. We all are at some point. No worries, there is hope.

不论我们的大脑有多么强大，它们还是需要休息恢复的，保持状态良好，甚至偶尔的充充电。请把这看作是大脑的休养生息。忽视大脑保养是很傻的，就像有人在停车场里瞎走，因为他们忘记自己把车停在哪里了。你会这样吗？你是那个找不到车的人吗？没错。从某种程度而言，我们都有这样的问题。不过，别担心，还是有希望的。

Now I am not a brain surgeon and I am not going to suggest you do anything surgical or dangerous. I am however an astute student of human behavior, so I always look for simple ways to super charge my brain.

我不是脑外科医生，我也不打算建议你去做任何手术或者任何危险的事情。但我是一个聪明的人类行为学学生，所以我一直在寻找简单的方法来为大脑充电。Eat Almonds
Almond is believed to improve memory. If a combination of almond oil and milk is taken together before going to bed or after getting up at morning, it strengthens our memory power. Almond milk is prepaRed by crushing the almonds without the outer cover and adding water and sugar to it.

1. 吃杏仁
杏仁被认为能改善记忆力。睡觉前或起床后将杏仁油和牛奶混合在一起喝下可以提高我们的记忆力。杏仁露的做法很简单：除去外皮后将杏仁碾碎，然后加水和糖即可。Drink Apple Juice
Research from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) indicates that apple juice increases the production of the essential neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the brain, resulting in an increased memory power.

2. 喝苹果汁
伦威尔麻萨诸塞大学（UML）的研究表明，苹果汁能增加大脑中重要的神经传递素——乙酰胆碱的产生，从而提高记忆力。Sleep well
Research indicates that the long-term memory is consolidated during sleep by replaying the images of the experiences of the day. These repeated playbacks program the subconscious mind to store these images and other related information.

3. 睡得好
研究表明，通过重播白天经历的场景，长期记忆在睡眠中得以巩固。这些反复播放使我们的下意识记住了这些画面和其他有关信息。Enjoy simple Pleasures
Stress drains our brainpower. A stress-ridden mind consumes much of our memory resources to leave us with a feeble mind. Make a habit to engage yourself in few simple pleasures everyday to dissolve stress from your mind. Some of these simple pleasures are good for your mind, body and soul.

4. 享受简单的快乐
压力在榨干我们的脑力。压力之下的思考会消耗很多记忆资源，让我们感到脑力疲惫。养成习惯让自己每天都享受些简单的快乐，来缓解思想上的压力吧。这些简单的快乐对你的大脑、身体和精神都非常有好处。

Enjoy music you love

听喜欢的音乐

Play with your children

和你的孩子玩耍

Hug a stranger

拥抱一个陌生人

Appreciate others

感激别人

Run few miles a day, bike or swim

没有跑几里路，或者骑自行车、游泳

Start a blog

写博客

Take a yoga class or Total Wellness routine

上瑜伽课或者综合健身活动Fast for a day
Fasting cleans and detoxifies our body. It is known fact that heavy food not only causes stress on our digestive system but also drains our brainpower. Fasting relieves toxic emotions such as anger, grief, worry, and fears - before they accumulate and cause disease. By cleansing toxic emotions, fasting strengthens metal clarity with increases memory, concentration, creativity and insight.

5. 斋戒一天
斋戒能洁净我们的身体并帮助排毒。众所周知，过度饮食不仅会增加消化系统的负担，还会消耗大脑能量。斋戒能够缓解不良情绪，比如，愤怒、悲伤、忧虑和恐惧，请在这些情绪积累成疾之前排遣它们。通过清除不良情绪，斋戒能使头脑更清醒，并能提高记忆力、注意力、创造力和洞察力。Take Vitamin B-complex
Vitamin B-complex strengthens memory power. Eat food and vegetables high in Vitamin B-complex. Stay away from the starch food or white bread, which depletes the Vitamin B-complex necessary for a healthy mind.

14. 服用复合B族维生素
复合B族维生素能增强记忆力。吃富含复合B族维生素的食物和蔬菜。远离多淀粉食物和白面包，因为它们会消耗健康大脑所需要的复合B族维生素。

I don't believe these are that tough. If you find yourself increasing stumped, give a couple of these a try.

我相信以上这些事情并不难做到。如果你发现自己脑筋越来越不好使的话，不妨试试我讲的这些方法。

Exercise your mind
Just as physical exercise is essential for a strong body, mental exercise is equally essential for a sharp and agile mind. Have you noticed that children have far superior brainpower than an adult does? Children have playful minds. A playful mind exhibits superior memory power. Engage in some of the activities that require your mind to remain active and playful.

6. 练脑筋
体育锻炼对强壮的体魄很重要，同样，头脑锻炼对聪明灵活的大脑也非常重要。你有没有注意到孩子们的脑力远胜于成年人？孩子们爱玩游戏。爱玩的头脑表现出更好的记忆力。参加一些需要动脑的活动吧，让你的头脑保持活力和顽皮。

Play scrabble or crossword puzzle

玩拚字和填词游戏

Volunteer

做志愿者

Interact with others

与他人互动

Start a new hobby such as blogging, reading, painting, bird watching

培养一个新的爱好，比如：写博客、读书、画画、观鸟

Learn new skill or a language

学习新技能或语言Practice Yoga or Meditation
Yoga or Meditation relives stress. Stress is a known memory buster. With less stress, lower blood pressure, slower respiration, slower metabolism, and released muscle tension follows. All of these factors contribute significantly towards increases in our brainpower.

7. 练习瑜伽和冥想
瑜伽和冥想能缓解压力。我们知道，压力是占用记忆的大块头。压力越小，血压越低、呼吸越慢、代谢越慢，然后肌肉随之放松。所有这些因素对增加脑力有非常大的作用。Reduce Sugar intake
Sugar is a non-food. It’s a form of carbohydrate that offers illusionary energy, only to cause a downhill slump once the initial burst has been worn off. Excess intake of sugar results in neurotic symptoms. Excess sugar is known to cause claustrophobia, memory loss and other neurotic disorders. Eat food without adding sugar. Stay away from sweet drinks or excess consumption of caffeine with sugar.

8. 减少糖分摄入
糖不是食品。它是一种提供假想能量的碳水化合物，一旦最初燃料耗完它就只会让身体走下坡路。过多的摄入糖分会导致神经病症。已知过多的糖会造成幽闭恐怖症、失忆和其他神经疾病。吃东西的时候请不要加糖。远离甜的饮料或过多地喝加糖的咖啡。Control your temper
Bleached food, excess of starch or excess of white bread can lead to nerve grating effect. This results in a violent and some time depressive behavior. Eat fresh vegetables. Drink lots of water and meditate or practice yoga to relieve these toxic emotions of temper and violent mood swings.

13. 控制脾气
漂白的食品、过多的淀粉或过多的白面包会导致神经摩擦效应（nerve grating effect）。这会造成暴力行为和偶尔的沮丧。吃新鲜蔬菜。喝很多水、冥想或者做瑜伽可以缓解这些负面情绪和暴力倾向。Sex
Our sexual imagination often empowers our ability to daydream, which strengthens our brainpower with greater imagination, visualization and association.

12. 性
我们的性幻想通常赋予我们做白日梦的能力，这可以增强大脑的想象力以及形象化和关联的能力。Eat whole wheat
The whole wheat germs contain lecithin. Lecithin helps ease the problem of the hardening of the arteries, which often impairs brain functioning.

9. 吃整颗麦粒
完整的小麦胚芽含有卵磷脂。卵磷脂有助于减轻常影响大脑功能的动脉硬化问题。Eat a light meal in the night
A heavy meal at night causes tossing and turning and a prolonged emotional stress while at sleep. It’s wise to eat heavy meal during the day when our body is in motion to consume the heavy in-take. Eating a light meal with some fruits allows us to sleep well. A good night sleep strengthens our brainpower.

10. 晚上吃得少
晚上吃得很多会让你睡觉时辗转反侧并增加情绪上的压力。明智的做法是白天可以多吃些东西，那时我们身体处于运动状态会消耗掉那些摄入的热量。晚上吃得少而清淡，同时吃点水果，能让我们睡得好。夜晚优质的睡眠会增强我们的脑力。Develop imagination
Greeks mastered the principle of imagination and association to memorize everything. This technique requires one to develop a vivid and colorful imagination that can be linked to a known object. If you involve all your senses - touching, feeling, smelling, hearing and seeing in the imagination process, you can remember greater details of the event.

11. 培养想象力
希腊人掌握了想象和关联的原理来记住每件事物。这个技巧需要你拥有生动而丰富的想象力，与某个已知对象相关联。如果你在想象过程中用上了所有的知觉——触觉、味觉、嗅觉、听觉和视觉，那么就能记住那件事物更多的细节。