By Akpeli Othuke Andrew
Our bodies don’t work too well without adequate exercise; neither do our minds! Ever go back upstairs to remind yourself of why you originally went downstairs? Are names, numbers and appointments you remembered effortlessly in the past becoming increasingly elusive? Do you sometimes wonder if you are ‘losing it?’
Doctors say that in most cases mindless hours in front of television, avoiding intellectual stimulation and exertion, resulting in the shrinking of our mind’s capacity, including our memory. ‘Brain fitness’ experts assures us that our brains don’t grow old from working too hard, but from hardly working at all. ‘Brain plasticity’- the capability of our mind to retain or regain flexibility is a matter of exercise.
When you just let your mind ‘vegetate’ and don’t stretch it with thoughtful reading, rational thinking, intellectual analysis and conversation, It loses plasticity and becomes old at any age. On the other hand, if you challenge your mind regularly, your brain gets younger as you get older (the problem is not how old your brain is, but how old your thinking is). Here’s is a great way to strengthen you’re your mind: ‘Study to [show yourself] approved unto God, a workman…that needed not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.’ The word ‘study’ in Greek text means to exert yourself mentally, to push your mind to study God’s word. Like a ‘work man,’ make it work! God promises that if you meditate on His word daily you will become ‘…like a tree planted by the streams of water…which yields its fruit in season and whose leaves does not wither. Whatever he does prospers’(Psalms 1:3 NIV). Don’t let your mind ‘wither,’ exercise and strengthen it by the Scriptures!
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