Seems like everybody these days wants to increase their brain power. Take a trip around the web, and you’ll see what I mean. Some people say the best way to increase your brain power is to eat protein in the morning. Others say it has to do with exercise. For others, meditation is the answer to making the brain function at its best. All of these techniques are useful if we are talking about a qualitative increase, that is, getting the brain you have today to work at its best. But what about quantitative increase? Can you make the brain you have today a bigger, better brain tomorrow? That would be an entirely different kind of increase in brain power! There are many ideas out there for improving your brain’s health and function – but LearningRx goes a step further: our mission is to increase your brain power by growing the brain itself, and encouraging it to making new connections. Instead of just a healthy brain, you’ll have more brains! It’s the difference between having one healthy child, and having twins.
Increase Your Brain Power: Just Like a Muscle
Is it possible to increase brain power, quantitatively speaking? Can your brain actually get bigger? Well… yes! It won’t grow in a way you can observe, but the brain training we do at LearningRx actually causes the number of connections in your white matter to increase. And with that, the power of your amazing brain also increases.
Let’s draw a parallel to general physical health: A qualitative increase (quality of life) can be achieved by eating right, sleeping enough, drinking enough water, and reducing stress. But your body will not get stronger by doing those things. You may feel better, and have more energy, but your capacity to lift heavy things or run long distances will not have increased at all. But if, in addition to eating right and drinking water and all the rest, you go to the gym and target specific weak muscles, you will begin to see your ability to run and lift increase. That is a quantitative increase – your body doesn’t just feel better, its ability to perform tasks has actually increased.
Increase Your Brain Power: Strengthening Weaknesses
The LearningRx program is basically a gym for your brain. We do encourage a healthy lifestyle, yet, based on recent brain science, we know that the best (and perhaps only) way to quantitatively increase your brain power is by training the cognitive skills so that they become strong and capable. Below is a video that shows one of the procedures that is commonly used in our training programs.
As you can see, LearningRx brain training is unique. This is only one basic version of the many kinds of training exercises that help our students improve their brains. Though the gains they see are primarily quantitative, there are quality-of-life gains as well. In fact, the comment we hear most frequently in the testimonials sent to us is “LearningRx made me / my child more confident”.
For more information on our programs, please visit our LearningRx brain training website or call us at 719-264-8808.
