Juggling really gives your mind a great mental workout and is not just for physical exercise.
Here Is How Juggling Will Make You Smarter:
Your intelligence should improve the more you learn to juggle. Your brain needs to keep active and by learning to juggle will boost the performance within your mind.
Your whole life will benefit from learning this unique skill as juggling targets both sides of your brain.
Here are some good guidelines for you to follow to make you smarter in no time.
QUICK TIP: A great way to start off juggling is by using a good quality leather juggling balls.
Leather Juggling balls have a good grip, are designed to last and a nice and bright design (making it easy for you to see whilst juggling).
Will Juggling increase your IQ?
Measuring your IQ is working out a person’s reasoning ability through a test. Then through this score your IQ is worked out.
Below are 2 ways your IQ will increase through Juggling-
Increase in White Matter in the Brain
Learning juggling will increase the white matter in your brain. This is determined by using your brain in a different way, whether it is juggling, or playing a musical instrument.
White matter is the communication with the brain and the spinal cord. If there is any damage in your brain it will affect memory loss and problem solving.
Research that has been conducted that Juggling over a six week period for half an hour a day grew more white matter of the parietal lobe, this is connected to how we see and move.
So increasing your white matter through juggling is a very positive to your brain.
Reaction Increase
If you have issues with your coordination juggling will help with your hands and eyes. What this does it helps you multi task and assist with your reflexes, concentration and reaction time.
Will Juggling help people with Alzheimers?
If you have Alzheimers or know someone that has this disease you would know that it slowly destroys your memory. Also over time also will affect your speech and respond to the environment around you.
Completing Juggling with Dementia or Alzheimers will this work for me?
Keeping your mind active is a important role with dementia or alzheimers in any stage that it is in.
Below are 3 ways Juggling will improve your dementia or alzheimers to maximise and improve your life.
Memory:
Juggling boosts the growth of neural connections and increases Grey matter in the hippocampus (left side).
There have been many studies completed that have seen an improvement in older people with their memory, as this part of the brain gives birth to new neurons. This is the only part of the brain that rejuvenates itself.
Focus:
An excellent way to improve focus is juggling as it teaches you to multi-task (doing multiple things at once e.g focusing on 3 balls at the one time).
This also improves your concentration skills as you are focusing on the direction, catching/throwing the balls improving your hand/eye coorodination.
Vision:
Overall eye health will improve by juggling. The other areas of your vision it helps is with is your:
Overall balance (helping you not fall and be more stable on your feet)
Ability to use your left and right hands equally well (not having one better than the other)
Eyes ability to judge the distance between two objects (you learn this by the movement of all of the balls).
Peripheral vision will improve, which includes everything you see off the side from your central focus.
What parts of the brain does Juggling involve?
Juggling is connected to the parietal lobe, which has two parts:
Left side of the parietal lobe: assists with the persons ability of spoken or written language.
Right of the parietal lobe: assists with the ability to analyse, identify or integrate visual forms e.g remembering what colour coffee cup you drank out of.
Will Juggling help my problem solving skills?
If you don’t enjoy mathematics than juggling is an excellent way to improve your problem-solving skills.
There has been research that learning to juggle after 3 months of practice increases 3% of grey matter in your brain.
This then has a increase in associated memory, learning and motor function within your brain.
Problem solving is based from learning which you identify a problem, analyse the issue, look for causes, and then implement a solution to the problem.
Having the extra grey matter from juggling is really valuable, and excellent for the development of the brain through solving issues.
Does Juggling increase Grey Matter?
Many MRI scans on the brain have been completed as a test on people around the world that are learning to juggle, usually before and after 3 month period.
This experiment was done for people who juggle and people didn’t juggle in this time frame.
The experiment witnessed the people who juggled had an increased grey matter within their brain.
From these studies if you want to increase your motor and visual skills, then juggling has proven to grow your grey matter, which would definitely benefit your health and well being.
Does Juggling Make your Brain Bigger?
If you are wanting to become smarter than juggling is a must.
Research in Germany has conducted when grey matter is increased in a person that juggles, the brain expands making the brain bigger.
If you are wanting to increase in grey matter (which will make your brain expand) than juggling will help with you with some of these examples :
Motor Skills: threading a piece of string, typing on the computer, opening bottles or containers, drawing, opening bottles or containers. (just to name a few)
Visual Skills: visual memory (remembering short term words or images), Convergence (ability for both eyes to work together to focus on a book/computer screen), visual thinking (being able to analyse and think about what you have seen.