Mental Exercise

Mental exercise is the act of performing a mentally stimulating task that is considered beneficial to warding off Alzheimer's disease and dementia. This practice is accepted by many cultures worldwide. Researchers have done studies finding that mental exercise, like reading and doing a puzzle, does not prevent Alzheimer’s, but rather delays the onset of the disease.

Read more about Mental Exercise:  Science Behind Mental Exercise, Effects On Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, Examples of Mentally Stimulating Activities

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    Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
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    That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
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