Your mind is very important in your performance in anything you do. If you are not utilizing the brainpower, your performance will not be at the base level possible. Taking your performance to the extra level will need boost from your mind.

The following ways will help you to boost your mental capacity.

Good nutrition

Your brain cannot function efficiently if you are not feeding it with good food. If you are feeding your body only junk foods, it cannot run smoothly. You need to provide your body and your mind with the necessary vitamins and nutrients. You will need to add more fruits and vegetables, lean protein and complex carbohydrates to your existing diet so that you don’t only have a healthy body but your mind is also able to work at its highest possible form.

Exercise

 Exercise not only helps you by improving your physical health but it will also help you to improve and strengthen your mental health. If you need mental clarity, you will need to exercise regularly because exercise will help you by relieving stress and anxiety. You will be able to put aside all the negative thoughts and feelings and emotions and that will help your mind to work without any distraction or restriction. You will be able to focus on the task at hand and provide it with your peak performance.

Keep learning

Learning will never end and when you start and keep learning, your mind is always working. That helps to maintain the quality of your mind and brain and also enhances the finer qualities. You can gain knowledge from different activities- it may be reading books; watching videos, documentaries and movies; learning a new trick; learning about something completely new. Your mind should have information and knowledge so that your mind’s horizons are always broadening.

Meditate

Meditation is very important if you want to boost the capacity of your mind and also to help yourself to perform at the peak level. Meditation will help your mind to become one with your body. Meditation is like cleaning up your mind and it works as a filter by removing the impurities that can clog your mental capacity. Your mind will be fresh and clean and it will be able to process information and knowledge more effectively and efficiently. You will be able to find out what are the things you need to keep away from yourself and what other things you should focus on. It will also help you to enhance your feelings and observations, which will help you to perform better in anything you want to do.

Limit TV time

When you watch the TV, you are engaging yourself in a completely mindless state, which means you are not using your mind in any way. Then, how can it help you to increase your mental capacity to boost your performance?

Limit alcohol and drugs

If you are using alcohol or any drugs to enhance your mental capacity to stimulate your creativity or reason to think in a different way, you need to be very careful with them. Otherwise, you can become addicted to them. You are using some chemicals to alter your mental state and capacity and it may not last long. It may not help you to improve your performance and it will definitely create some other side-effects that you don’t want in your life. If you want to completely clear your mind and focus on the things you want to do to improve your performance, you will need to avoid alcohol and any other drugs that promise you short-term goals in expense of long-term future.

References

1. Flow State Training Program | 300%-500% Improvement In Performance
2. The Unconscious Mind
3. Mind/body health: Job stress