Take a moment to review your weekly business plan. How much time do you spend working to improve your brain function in order to improve yourself so that you can manage not only yourself, but also support your business & your family?
Many of you will answer this question with a big donut😲🥯
As a mentor to small business owners, I include brain growing activities for my mentees to support their learning and development. One of the activities is juggling. Why juggling you may ask?
✴️Learning to juggle grows brain networks for good.
👉It improves qualities such as hand-eye coordination, peripheral vision, visual reaction time, depth perception, visual reaction time, and neuromuscular balance⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
👉Juggling boosts the connections between different parts of the brain by tweaking the architecture of the brain’s “white matter” which describes all areas of the brain that contain mostly axons – outgrowths of nerve cells that connect different cells.
👉Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford have discovered that juggling changes white matter. They gave 24 young men and women training packs for juggling and had them practise for half an hour a day for six weeks. Before and after this training period, the researchers scanned the brains of the jugglers along with those of 24 people who didn’t do any juggling, using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging that reveals the structure of white matter.
👉They found that there was no change in the brains of the non-jugglers, but the jugglers grew more white matter in a part of the parietal lobe – an area involved in connecting what we see to how we move.
👉The same transformation was seen in all the jugglers, regardless of how well they could perform. This suggests that it’s the learning process itself that is important for brain development, not how good you are.
✴️Juggling sharpens focus & concentration
Juggling engages your problem-solving skills. You can’t just throw all the balls up in the air and hope everything comes together! This is why juggling is excellent for helping you master the art of concentration. The intense focus required for juggling can filter into other areas of your life that require the same type of close attention.
✴️Learning matters
Arne May of the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, who led Jan Scholz and his colleagues at the University of Oxford on juggling and grey matter, finds this result “fascinating”. “It suggests that learning a skill is more important than exercising what you are good at already – the brain wants to be puzzled and learn something new,” he says.
✴️Don’t use it, don’t lose it
The group scanned the jugglers’ brains again after four weeks without juggling. They found that the new white matter had stayed put and the amount of grey matter had even increased. This could be why, when we learn a new skill, we retain some ability, no matter how long ago we last practised. “It’s like riding a bike,” Scholz says. “Either you can juggle or you can’t. It takes a lot of training to learn, but once it clicks, you don’t forget it.”
✴️Other benefits
✅Inexpensive – any balls will work
✅Convenient – you can juggle anywhere
✅Portable – equipment required for is minimal
✅Effective (physical and mental benefits)
✅Stress relief – one of the quickest ways to take your mind off something as you have to focus on the activity
Happy juggling!🙂
Lov my life❣️
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If juggling is new to you, I recommend starting with a basic three-ball cascade (the most common form of juggling). Look at this video to help you get started.
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Research and further reading
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