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Boosting Your Brainpower

Here’s a trick that an actor friend of mine swears boosts brainpower.

Next time you forget where you parked, here’s an idea that could get you back behind the wheel in no time at all.

Pinch your right nostril shut.

Yeah that right pinch your nostril closed.

Research shows that pinching the right one shut and breathing through the left boosts spatial memory – the part of your brain that helps with memory and navigation.

In general, you use the left side of your brain to balance your check book, carry on conversations and solve problems that require linear reasoning.

The right side helps you paint like Picasso and recognize faces; it controls spatial abilities.

The right side is also in charge of the left side of your body, but here’s the twist:

The left side controls the right side of your brain and vice versa.

So when you start breathing through the left nostril, it gives the right side of your brain a boost.

Try it

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