Contrary to popular belief, memory loss is not exclusively a phenomenon afflicting the elderly; it can happen to anyone. You can definitely do surgeries and touch ups to make you look 20 years younger. Unfortunately, this is not the case for your memory. If you are unable to take good care of your memory, then chances are you will suffer from memory loss at a very young age. For those folks who are in their golden years, suffering from memory loss is definitely not a surprise. As the matter of fact, memory loss is almost an inevitable fact of life for everyone. However, when a young friend said that she is suffering from memory loss, you can definitely imagine the shock and horror in everyone’s face. So to prevent yourself from causing any shock and horror to anyone and check out these top 3 reasons for memory loss and see how you can avoid them.

#1 Being inactive

The likelihood of you suffering from memory loss would be greater if you are not an active person. As you age, both our mental and physical states tend to deteriorate, but being inactive will only quicken the process. As a matter of fact, if you continue with this unhealthy habit, then chances are that you are going to suffer from memory loss at a very young age. Keep mentally active by brainstorming or even indulging in activities which involve greater use of your mind. Taking up new activities or sports can help improve the way your mind works.

#2 Not giving enough room for thinking

Just like how you would condition and tone your body to the desired build with physical training, so too should you devote some time to mental conditioning. As your brain does more exercises, it gets healthier and works better. This is why students are encouraged to do mind exercises or play mind related games regularly, to make their brains work faster and improve their memory power.

#3 Unhealthy intake of food and liquid

A healthy diet can go a long way in preserving your physical as well as your mental health, because it promotes better blood circulation throughout your body, which is essential for your mind to process information quickly. However, many people neglect the importance of doing so, at the expense of their mental health. Other than ensuring that you have a healthy diet, remember to get sufficient exercise done on a regular basis. Doing so will rejuvenate your body as well as help keep your memory fresh. Also, always include healthy foods in your daily diet that can improve your memory, such as blueberries, spinach and broccoli.

These are just some of the causes of memory loss. Research into the phenomenon is still ongoing even to this day, and experts are still at a loss as to determining the exact primary cause for memory loss. This is because there could be tons of reasons leading to it, such as environmental factors. The brain is a complex by itself, as such; it makes it almost impossible to find the true cause of memory loss.

What matters more is that you are able to follow the right set of guide to prevent yourself from suffering from memory loss. Have a memorable day ahead!

Anyone who’s ever lived through a panic attack or a severe anxiety disorder knows the extreme distress it causes, both physical and psychological.  The fear can seem overpowering and the physical sensations that go with it make many people think that they’re going to die.

they’re convinced they’re trapped and would give anything to find relief from their fear.

Perhaps worse is living with the dread that another attack might suddenly come out of nowhere.

That fear can lead people suffering from panic attacks to into isolation.  They want to avoid situations where they feel at risk. 

Gradually their life constricts around them.

Obviously people in this situation want release. 

When they seek help from a health care professional they’re often offered a prescription.  There’s no doubt that drugs are helpful, especially in the short term.  However, ideally they are only temporary measure, something to ease the symptoms while the underlying cause is addressed.

A Mistake You’ll Know To Avoid

Since anxiety attacks feel so overwhelming, sufferers automatically assume that they need to fight against these feelings and the experience they’re having.

This is very understandable.  The bodily reaction that drives a panic attack is the fight or flight response - the response that prepares us to respond to physical danger by either fighting for our life or running like crazy. 

The physiology is getting us ready us for battle, so naturally we feel like we should fight.

However with panic attacks, that’s exactly the wrong way to react.  By fighting against them, we’re giving them more power that they really have.

How To Escape This Trap

The trick that allows you to over come panic attacks is to go with their flow, even challenge them to do their worst.

That may sound counterintuitive.  Or maybe it seems simplistic.

The key is that with a panic attack, nothing bad happens.

If you’re about to be run over by a bus and just sit there, you’ll die.

On the other hand, if you do nothing when a panic attack strikes, you’ll still be alive at the end of it.  The sense of danger isn’t based on anything real. It’s a paper tiger.

The way to see that is to open yourself to the feeling of panic and the accompanying sensations and even welcome them.  Dare them to do whatever they can.  It may be frightening at first, but less so as you do it more often.

What many people discover is that this actually reduces the symptoms of fear, sometimes almost immediately.  As the saying goes “What we resist persists”.  Accept it and it loses its power.

Although this approach is simple and effective, it is a learned skill.  Practice and coaching help to become proficient at it.  But the beginning is just knowing that the risk from a panic attack is more illusion than real.

If you want to find out more about anxiety attacks Panic Attack Release is a great site.

And there’s a good review of a product that teaches this type approach at Panic Away Review

As in the Wizard of Oz, the man behind the curtain is not very frightening once you see what’s really there.

You can find out about a great way to get beyond Panic Attacks by clicking that link.

There are many drugs for anxiety attacks available these days.  These medications definitely bring relief to many people.  If you suffer from panic attacks, you may find them helpful.

Before I tell you a bit more about medications for anxiety problems  I want to be up-front about a bias of mine.  I believe these drugs are only part of the answer to be used as a short term measure to help while more permanent therapies have a chance to work.

Fortunately with proper therapy, the vast majority of people can free themselves from the terror of panic attacks.

These days, a therapist will usually prescribe a drug for these issues that is likely to be one of two classes: sedatives or antidepressants.

Most of the sedatives prescribed are Valium-type drugs.  The various medications vary mostl in onset of action and how long their effects last.

The choice of these drugs varies.  Everyone has a different response to a given treatment.  A therapy that works great for one person may cause significant side effects for someone else.

These drugs work quickly, so they are useful in “taking the edge off” if a person is going into a situation that they have had a panic attack before or if they feel one coming on.

The other major class of drugs is an antidepressant.  The frequently used antidepressants are serotonin uptake inhibitors.  

Serotonin is a chemical that is released in the brain as part of the way one nerve cell (neuron) communicates with another.  

Decreased serotonin levels may be a cause of depression and anxiety.  Serotonin uptake inhibitors raise the levels by slowing the resorption of the chemical after it has been released.

Most people have heard of Prozac.  It is a serotonin uptake inhibitor.  There are many others today.  Each has its own benefits and risks.

Often finding the medication that’s best for an individual is as much art as science.

One thing Prozac-type medications have in common is that they don’t work immediately.  Usually, it takes a few weeks to see results.

It’s clear, these aren’t drugs to take when you need quick action.

There are some other types of used, but they aren’t used often.These other drugs either cause more side effects than the ones I’ve mentioned here or they carry greater risks.

Even though the types of medications I talked about above usually don’t cause problems, you still should find out about the side effects of antidepressants used to treat panic disorders.  That link takes you to a page with more information.

Again, I want to remind you that it is a good idea to seek other ways of dealing with and anxiety disorder other than taking pills.   Drugs can be useful, but they shouldn’t take the place of learning other coping strategies.

One issue that can come up is what amounts to a psychological dependence.  

As I’ve mentioned, a person will use other forms of psychotherapy as well as the medications.  As they get better, they may tend to attribute all of their progress to the medication and not the other treatment they have been using.

This might make them nervous about stopping the medication since they think it’s the only reason they got better.

A skilled therapist helps work through this.  

Even before you start taking the medication, talk with your therapist about how long you’ll be on it and how you’ll come off it.

Use drugs for panic attacks wisely and they can be a great help.

Of course it’s best if you can get to the point where you’re fine medications.

You can read a review of an extremely effective way to do just that at Panic Away Review.

Get more information about anxiety attacks in general and how you can deal with them at Panic Attack Release.

To be a deep thinker you simply have to get in the habit of asking deep questions about everything around you. What is a deep question? Let’s look at a couple examples.

Suppose someone lies to you, and you simply explain it by saying, “He’s a jerk!” That may be true, but it is shallow thinking. Instead you might ask why he lied to you. A deeper question than that would be why people lie in general, or why it is wrong to lie. Related questions might include whether it is ever okay to lie, and if so, when.

To become a deep thinker then, you have to get in the habit of looking beyond the immediate questions raised. Fortunately it isn’t a heavy philosophical exercise to determine which questions are “deeper” than others. You will usually recognize them when you see them. For example, which is a deeper perspective, pointing out all the excuses a person makes for his or her behavior, or asking and exploring why people feel the need to make excuses?

Here’s a good rule to remember: The more profound questions are those which have wider application. For example, knowledge about a particular man’s personality, though perhaps useful, is limited and shallow compared to knowing the principles of psychology that apply to all people. Questions about a particular business are not nearly as deep as those about the principles of success which could be applied to all businesses.

Another rule: If one question or idea is an example of another, the latter is the deeper one. Water freezes at 0 degrees and becomes steam at 100 degrees. This is an example of the more fundamental principle that substances have three forms (solid, liquid, gas) depending upon temperature.

You can always start with “Why?” Like a child, ask it again and again, and question each answer. “Why do we force people to pay taxes?” Because they wouldn’t pay otherwise. “Why wouldn’t they?” They consider other things more important. “What are taxes for?” To serve the public good. “Who defines the public good?” The voters, by way of their representatives. “If the public votes for evil things are they still a public good?”

If you can remember to ask such questions often enough throughout your day, and continue doing it for a few weeks, it will become a habit. Making these “probing” thought patterns habitual is how you become a deep thinker. Carry a note to remind yourself at first, or put reminders on your schedule.

Being A Deep Thinker - The Use Of Language

Question even the language which you and others use, instead of taking it for granted. For example, what does “national defense” really mean? Does it mean protecting the borders, the government, the flag, honor, the people, or the rights of the people in the nation? These are very different ideas, and perhaps not always compatible, yet we often take for granted that we all mean the same thing when we use the words, “national defense.”

The metaphorical nature of language is essential to growing our range of expression. We refer to the “memory” of a computer, and by using this metaphor it becomes easier to understand and communicate. On the other hand, this use of metaphor can also limit our thinking. The sun “going down” is a small example. We know intellectually that it is the planet turning which causes this apparent effect, but our language creates the impression that the sun goes away each night.

Now, if we stop and really consider that the sun never sets, all sorts of new ideas come to mind. Solar panels in space would always be in the sun, and they could beam electricity down to us by way of microwave transmission. Someday, a “nightless farm” could fly around the Earth at a thousand miles-per-hour, growing vegetables in 24 hours-per-day sunlight. These ideas may not be new, but they only occurred after mentally questioning the idea that the sun goes down.

Finally, a deep thinker recognizes the representative nature of language in general. Words are only meant to point at things in reality. They are not things by themselves. While this may seem obvious, it is forgotten in common discourse. A man says that corporations are evil, for example, and another jumps to “prove” this idea wrong, rather than trying to see what the first man is pointing at with his words. Seeing the limits of language is actually a very deep thought itself.

You may recall the ancient puzzle called “Zeno’s Paradox,” which “proved” that motion is impossible. Because of the perfect logic with which it was demonstrated, some chose to believe that what we see as motion is an illusion. Much later, philosophers, mathematicians and physicists found acceptable challenges to the paradox, but the real lesson here is that logic isn’t infallible because language is imperfect, and if we are to more fully understand the world, we have to allow for that. A deep thinker, then, uses words as the valuable but limited tools they are, while trying not to let words use him.

Do you want to be a mind reader? Well, lets get the disappointing part out of the way: You won’t be able to hear the thoughts of others, and there is little evidence that anyone has ever had this kind of ability. Most of what passes as mind reading is a mix of nonsense and psychological tactics for creating the appearance of looking into the mind of another.

The good news is that there are ways to get a clue as to what is going on inside a person’s mind. Here are several techniques you can try for yourself. I will warn you though, that these can take practice, and are not always easy.

Reading Lips

Some people move their lips when deep in thought, mouthing the words they are hearing or repeating in their minds. If you train yourself in lip reading, you can pick up on their thoughts in this way. Undoubtedly many lip-reading deaf people already do this.

It is even more common for people to move their lips to the words they’re reading. Many of us do this without being aware of it. If you observe people reading books or newspapers, then, you might catch them doing this and with practice decipher the movements of their lips to know what they’re reading. What they are reading is likely related to what they are thinking at that moment (no big surprise there), so if you bring it up in conversation, it might appear that you have a way into his or her mind - and you do.

Reading Eyes

Eyes can tell us a lot about what a person is thinking because they simultaneously show us what the person is feeling and what they are looking at. Follow the eyes, and pay attention to the total facial expression, and you may gain some insight into how that man or woman feels about things. Is he fascinated by the buildings around him? Is she disgusted by the dogs in the street?

There is another way to read eyes as well. Our pupils get larger when we see something we like, or even when we imagine something desirable. You can prove this to yourself by watching your eyes in a mirror as you vividly picture your favorite person or place. Your pupils will get bigger in a matter of seconds. This is useful knowledge to have if you want a window into another’s mind.

For starters, if a man starts talking to you and his pupils get larger as he is looking at you, it is usually a clear sign of interest. This is also true if you see a man or woman looking at someone or something else. A pupil size-change can be due to a change in light (they get larger when it’s darker and smaller when it is brighter), but if you can rule that out, watching for this is a way to see what interests people, and who they like to look at.

More than that, you can suggest an image to a person, to see what happens with his or her pupils. Be vivid in your description. Does an imagined trip to a night club elicit a quick enlarging of her pupils while your description of your favorite mountain stream does nothing? You might want to suggest a trip to the club or find a woman who likes mountains.

The Easiest Way To Be A Mind Reader

Do you have a friend who is always talking about money problems? Then you have a clue as to what he is thinking. The easiest way to be a mind reader is to be aware of the things that your friends and acquaintances are repeatedly saying. What we say comes from what we think, and what we think is usually repeated again and again.

We all advertise our thoughts on our faces, in what we read, what we do and what we say. Pay attention and you’ll soon start seeing the clues.