Traits shown by dominance of Right hemisphere: They are creative in nature and they learn the things through visuals. They like the things when it is available physically. They give their best when work in groups as their creative ideas come up in that situation. They don’t perform well in schools as they are disorganized and can’t concentrate on a thing.

Traits shown by dominance of left Hemisphere: These children are socially inactive and least interested in doing outdoor activities. Children with weak right hemisphere are goal oriented and they set directions for themselves. They are academically sound.

But for the overall development of the child, both right and left brain should be balanced. Balancing the mind is important for the digestive, immune and nervous system of the children. There are numerous centers which operate various brain balancing programs for children. Parent should consult the mentors or doctors to determine which part of brain is active in them and how they can go for proper brain balancing.

1. The things we don’t use become useless for us. This context is the same for our mind and memory also. If we don’t use it, it will lose its power of understanding and recall. So, a person should always quest for learning new things that are out of their comfort zone. When the brain tends to learn new things and activities, our memory will become strong.
2. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise is a true saying. Having good sleep of 8-10 hrs will prepare the mind for new things. With sound sleep, a healthy diet is also necessary. A healthy diet includes fruits, vegetables, and omega-3 rich foods. Omega -3 is considered to be beneficial for brain health in some researches. The use of tea, coffee should be limited.

3. Try to organize the large data into small form by using memory tools called mnemonic devices. These devices create just an easy form to learn things.

Acronym:  An acronym is a word that is made up by taking the first letters of all the keywords to remember. Like RAM is used for Random Access Memory.

Visualization: It means to give an image format to the information we want to store.

Chunking: It means breaking the large information into small chunks. Basically used for remembering the numbers.

 Different people have different learning styles and they maintain their own format to store information.

4. Playing mind games like Sudoku, word puzzles and crossword will enhance the memory as they brainstorm the mind to get the information.

5. Repeating, organizing, and grouping of things and activities will enhance the memory skills. Repeating means doing things from time to time to make them permanent stay on our minds. Disorganization leads to stress so organized the data into that form which is suitable for you. Grouping means to keep the same things in one bag. When going to market, group the things to buy under different categories like fruits, vegetables, general items, etc.

6. Physical exercises are as important as mental exercises. It will increase the oxygen supply to the brain and reduce the loss of memory. Exercises that require hand and foot muscle co-ordination, are best for building brain health. Other activities like swimming, jogging, walking, rock climbing will help in brain and memory boosting.

7. And last but not least is, spending time with our loved ones, friends and family members will keep stress at aback. And when stress is less, the memory will be strong. When there is no clutter in the mind, then the things that we have learned will always remain on our minds.