13 Natural Memory Boosters | Health Tips
By Vasant Lad, Yoga+
Do you find yourself forgetting appointments? Losing your keys? Remembering faces but not names? Memory lapses like these are common, especially if you’re over 40. But they don’t have to be. According to ayurveda, you can give your memory a power boost at any age. Try the tips below and see if they work for you.
Stay Active
At least five days a week, take a 30-minute walk in the fresh air, or do 12 cycles of the hatha yoga series known as the sun salutation. Add inversions like the shoulder-stand and plow pose to increase blood flow to the brain.
Breathe!
Two yogic practices–alternate nostril breathing and anuloma viloma–stimulate the left and right hemispheres of the brain and improve memory. Or try this exercise: Stand straight with your eyes gazing forward. Gradually inhale, constricting the epiglottis (located just behind the base of your tongue) as you tilt your head back, looking up at the sky at the end of the inhalation. On the exhale, keep the epiglottis constricted as you slowly bring your chin to your chest, looking down to the ground. You’ll know you’ve got it right if it sounds like the ocean when you hold a seashell up to your ear. Repeat this cycle 7 times.
Study Up
Memory is like a muscle–if you don’t use it, you lose it. Exercise your mind by memorizing a new prayer, poem, or Sanskrit scripture, reciting it every morning until you know it by heart. Then start learning a new one.
Feed Your Brain
According to ayurveda, memory-boosting foods include sweet potatoes, okra, spinach, oranges, carrots, milk, ghee (clarified butter), tapioca, and almonds.
Detoxify Your Body & Mind
A five-day mono-diet of kitchari (an ayurvedic rice and bean dish) will cleanse your system of ama (toxic residue), which can weaken memory–and lead to illness as well. To make kitchari, double rinse 1 cup each of basmati rice and yellow split mung dal. Add the rice, dal, and a small handful of chopped cilantro leaves to 6 cups of water and bring to a boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then reduce the heat to low and cook partially covered for 25 to 30 minutes. Eat kitchari garnished with freshly chopped cilantro and a teaspoon of ghee three times a day for five days to cleanse your body and mind.
Herbal Rx
Ayurvedic scriptures have a special classification for memory-boosting herbs: medhya (translated as “that which improves memory”). Some of the best herbs in this category include brahmi, jatamamsi, bhringaraj, and shanka pushpi, which can be found online or at Indian grocery stores. Here are a few ways to get these herbs into your system:
Make a Memory-Boosting Tea
Steep 1 teaspoon total of the four herbs listed above in 1 cup of hot water for 10 minutes. Strain and drink on an empty stomach twice a day.
Oil your Nostrils
According to ayurveda, the nose is the doorway to the brain, and thus, to memory. That’s why the smell of a particular flower may remind you of the day you strolled through Central Park in New York City, or why a waft of marinara sauce reminds you of family get-togethers. To stimulate the olfactory bulb (the nerve center in the brain that is responsible for your sense of smell) place 5 drops of warmed brahmi ghee (which you can purchase online) in each nostril at bedtime, lying down on your back with your head tilted up to the ceiling. Then inhale gently several times to help move the oil into the sinuses.
Save Your Orkut Account From Being Hacked
Disclaimer:- This information is provided for educational purposes only. We will not be responsible for any direct or indirect, loss or damage due to the use or misuse of the provided information.
The reason why i wrote this article, is because, many of my friends and relatives got their orkut account hacked, and their password compromised and ended up loosing their account. so i hope, to help others realise the threat and prepare their defences, there is no technique to completely guarantee 100% protection, but we can use these techniques to protect it as best as we can. i have been using orkut since october 200, and many hackers have tried to steal my password, but by following simple steps i was able to laugh at their faceHacking technique 1.. the easiest way to hack someone's orkut account, is to send them to a fake 'orkut duplicate site'... the victim thinks he got logged out, and then tries to log back in...... but instead the hacker steps in and steal your password
This technique is sooooo easy, that many hackers have created a number of fake sites, which look exactly like orkut, i often end up on such fake sites, but by using a simple precaution, save my password
How to protect yourself from this - whenever you see an orkut login page, check the addressbar, and make sure it says, Orkut.com or google.com (or orkut.co.in or orkut.com.br) if you have any doubts, simple close the window (/tab) and open orkut.com on a fresh page
Hacking technique 2.. now coming to a bit harder method, in this technique, the hacker send a virus (/malware /trojan) to your computer, that records everything you type, most cyber cafes, and public computers are already affected with such viruses, these viruses do not delete anything from your computer, they just sit there, and steal your passwords.
How to protect yourself from this most of the times such viruses enter from your 'internet browser' now, internet explorer is pretty safe on an updated, and orignal, windows system, but if someone uses pirated version of windows, you will probably get these viruses faster if you use Internet explorer on such 'pirated windows xp' (/vista) so, the safe thing to do is, stop using internet explorer, download, Firefox, or Google chrome they are safe, secure, absolutely free, and very very fast, i personally prefer google chrome, it changed the way i use the internet, this is just much much faster now.
These are the two main techniques hackers used on my orkut account, and hence i provided simple techniques i used to protect myself, two more things that experts recommend, is to keep an effective and updated antivirus, and firewall to protect your computer from threats,
Note:- This information is provided for educational purposes only. We will not be responsible for any direct or indirect, loss or damage due to the use or misuse of the provided information.
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