New experiences are good for your brain
Since I work with Parkinson’s patients, I read and learn a lot about the brain. Not all of it has to do with fighting or curing or managing disease. Sometimes, I also learn about proactive ways to improve brain plasticity.
Shocking your system is one of those ways. In other words, new experiences challenge you to see, hear, smell, think, feel, taste, sense differently. They put your system on full alert.
This year, I am attempting to have one new or shocking experience every day (thus the title, Shock 365). Here are a few such ideas:
Swim in a creek
Walk in the snow
Speak to a crowd
Take a cold shower
Walk into new places
Eat a beignet (made locally)
Eat only fruits and veggies for 3 days
Go down the fast ride at the waterpark with my son
Watch a meteor shower
Walk barefoot in the grass in the rain
Worth Repeating
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you have to start young.
-Fred Astaire
