Companies Turn To Brain Games To Tackle Work Stress!!!!

Employee engagement

As more and more jobs rely on knowledge work, creativity, and communication skills, it's not enough to have workers sitting at their desks -- they must also be mentally sharp, emotionally present, and free from distraction. The answer for some: brain training.

"The brain, is much like muscles in the body. If you exercise it, it gets better. You actually grow neurons. "If you can teach people how to manage those multitasking and stressful environments optimally, you're going to preserve their health."

"Usually, people don't engage in this type of activity until they're not functioning well.  Shirsa brings on an ability for employee to engage any time, any place, on their own terms without having to talk to anybody."

- Team Shirsa

How Does Employee Engagement Improves The Bottom Line?

In order to succeed in a hyper-competitive global economy, organizations must drive and maintain the highest performance levels and employee engagement.  

Employee Engagment

Companies have to leverage every possible resource available to create competitive advantages.  And without question, harnessing the power of people is by far the most challenging.

In simplest terms, great people form great teams that deliver amazing products and services.  But in order to deliver amazing results, people must possess the skills and be fully motivated to contribute to the organizations they serve.  

Giving employee the right tools and growing a high performance culture is more than just the right thing to do – these actions have significant financial consequences.

When companies harness the power of people, they realize the largest gains in productivity, and innovation.  

According other industry experts, engaged employees are not only more productive, but are more customer-focused, safer and more likely to remain a part of their current company.

Engaged organizations have 3.9 times the earnings per share when compared to companies with lower engagement levels in their same industry.   And disengaged employees are not just a non-factor. 

 Disengaged people erode a company’s bottom line while killing the spirits of colleagues along the way.  Disengagement costs more than $300 billion in lost productivity alone.

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Neurobis - Exercises For Your Brain!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably it happened to you to meet certain person and to not know his/her name, or to tell somebody about a nice movie and to forget the name of your favorite actor that is playing the main role. Many people stuck into such situation. Especially if you are a manager and you work with lost of people. The huge amount of information that we accept every day sometimes create problems with the memory. If you want better memory, and perform better at work you have to keep your brain active and in a good condition.

Neurobics

According to James Robert Watson, PhD neurobics (neuron + aerobics) are stretching exercises to increase oxygen and give your brain’s neurons more life by experiencing or participating in some new activity, place, or event. When you stretch your mind, it never returns to its previous shape. Research indicates that taxing the brain (making it ‘sweat’) with unfamiliar exercises can improve learning ability, memory, and problem solving.

Neurobic exercises differ from other brain exercises like logical puzzles, crosswords, sudoku, scrabble, etc.Why? Because they use human senses in a new way in order to stimulate the brain to create new associations between different types of information.

Neurobic can be applied by adults as well as children. It is used on children to increase their concentration in order they easily to gain new knowledge. Adults use it to keep their brain fit, because it you they don’t the brain functions to memorize and to solve problems will deteriorate.

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Ready To Test Your Exec­u­tive Atten­tion Capacity?

stroop test

Quick! say aloud what color you see in every word, NOT the word you read.

Expla­na­tion: 

The Stroop test is used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure men­tal vital­ity and flex­i­bil­ity, since per­form­ing well requires strong atten­tion and self-regulation capability.

Enjoy the day. You can enjoy many more mind and brain teasers with Shirsa.me. 

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Have You Tried Neurobics Yet?

Top tips for exercising your brain! Activities that you choose for yourself and gain pleasure from completing will logically produce a more positive effect on the brain than those which are forced upon you!

Neurobics

1. Do more than one thing at once. As we get older the brain becomes less efficient at multi-tasking. Combining activities such as jogging and listening to an audio book will force your brain to do two things at once, improving your ability to multi-task.
2. Listen to different music. Memorising the lyrics to songs that you don’t know will boost levels of acetylcholine in your brain. Aetylcholine is a neurotransmitter which plays a key role in projecting axons into many areas of the brain.
3. When looking up new words, investigate their etymology too. That is, look up their linguistic origins. Retrieval of tricky words will become easier if you understand their meaning and the context in which they are used.
4. Don’t just look, see. Being able to analyse visual information is really important in the 3-D world in which we live. When you leave a room, try to remember the exact location of certain items in it. This will train your brain to focus on your surroundings and actually see what is in front of you.
5. Get rid of your sat-nav! Relying on others to show you the way causes the brain to become lazy and won’t help you to remember new journeys. Going back to basics and using a map will exercise the part of the brain which is responsible for understanding spatial relationships.
6. Oxygenate your brain! Light exercise stimulates blood circulation which in turn increases glucose and oxygen in your brain. Sitting on the sofa means that the muscles won’t require additional oxygen from the brain.
7. Do every-day tasks with your non-dominant hand. This will stimulate interaction between the two hemispheres of the brain and cause new neural pathways to develop. Although some tasks such as writing will be tricky at first some people can train themselves to become ambidextrous!
8. Try neurobics. These are types of exercises which involve exposing your senses to new situations, combining two or more senses in a novel way. These include getting dressed with your eyes shut, using only visual cues whilst interacting with friends and relatives or listening to music whilst smelling flowers.
9. Mentally rotate. Mental rotation refers to moving things around in your head and is a visuospatial skill. Humans use this naturally when reading maps, using tools, playing chess etc. To practice, picture an arrow or other specific shape pointing right, then turn it around so it points left.
10. Perhaps the most important tip of all is to enjoy the exercises you are doing. Activities that you choose for yourself and gain pleasure from completing will logically produce a more positive effect on the brain than those which are forced upon you!

- Team Shirsa

Shirsa : A Complete Health package.

Shirsa has your brain covered......

Our comprehensive training program enhances brain health and performance using clinically validated tools designed by neuroscientists.  Through Shirsa users can experience benefits that include:

Shirsa Package

• Clearer and quicker thinking
• Faster problem-solving skills
• Increased alertness and awareness
• Better concentration at work or while driving
• Sharper memory for names, numbers, and directions

No matter who you are, your brain needs care. 

Invest a few minutes today, and you could reap the rewards for years to come.

Your brain will thank you.

- Sukhada Desai

"Smart" Foods To Your Daily Routine ~ The Science Of Eating

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How Do I know Which Exercises To Use In Shirsa?

Think about what you most want to improve: your Memory, Attention, Brain Speed, Critical thinking, and Problem solving. 

Shirsa Exercises

Start with the exercises in that category. Please note, however, that the exercises are complementary, and working in one category will likely enhance benefits in another domain. 

We often recommend that people begin with Brain Speed, since increasing the speed with which the brain can work with information is the foundation for all other cognitive skills.


- Sukhada Desai

Your Brain By The Numbers..........

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How much time does Shirsa takes in a day?

Brain training exercises

Shirsa exercises is designed so that you can spend as little as ten minutes to as much time as you like in it at any given time. 

Any training is better than none! 

A good rule of thumb is to follow the basic guidelines for physical exercises: As We do physical exercises to keep our body fit same way do brain exercise to keep your brain fit.

 Use it at least 10-15 minutes a day, and your brain will thank!!!!!!!! 

- Sukhada Desai

Is Shirsa Proven To Work? Have Studies Been Published?

Shirsa Proven to Work

Yes. Dozens of journal articles supports the impact of  brain training exercises on normal aging adults. 

These indicate that the Shirsa not only improves key standard measures of cognitive function (including speed and accuracy of processing, attention, and memory), they also improve key standard measures of quality of life (including health-related quality of life, feelings of control, depressive symptoms, and functional independence). 

If you are interested in learning more about our studies, click here. 

- Sukhada Desai

How Does Shirsa Achieve These Benefits?

Shirsa's exercises are based on a handful of powerful ideas. Unlike previous cognitive training, they do not try to fix a problem by practicing it—they don’t improve memory by practicing memory. 

Rewiring the Brain

Instead, the exercises start with elemental cognitive function by first improving the speed and accuracy of your sensory perceptions. This becomes the foundation for improved attention. Improved attention is the building block of working memory, and working memory is the building block of much else—immediate memory, delayed memory, episodic memory, executive function, reasoning, speech and language, visual-spatial skills, and so on. No one has taken this complete bottom-up approach to cognitive training before.

In addition, our scientists are experts in brain plasticity, the ability of the brain to re-wire and change. Each exercise draws on what experts have learned in recent years about driving change in the brain.

Training must be focused on improving speed to meet real-world conditions; it must intensively and progressively improve accuracy; it must adapt continuously and minutely (by thousandths of a second) to each person’s performance; it must be designed so the task gradually generalizes to real-world experience; it must be engaging in a way that stimulates neurotransmitters (chemicals in the brain that enhance attention, learning and mood) and that brings you back to do the exercises again and again.

- Sukhada Desai

What Benefits You Can Get From Using Shirsa?

Benefits of Brain training

Improving your brain’s performance has the potential to bring countless benefits to your everyday life. 

Both science studies and customer stories show Shirsa speeds up thinking, sharpens attention, and enhances memory—and these benefits lead to myriad others ... from safer driving to feeling more confident in conversations. 

If you’d like to read about benefits our users have seen,  click here.  For a description of the most common benefits of Shirsa,  click here. For a description of science studies and their results, click here.


- Sukhada Desai

What Is Shirsa???????????

Shirsa.me

We are very Glad to inform you that the beta version of our  portal shirsa: a personalized brain training platform' is live now. 

Shirsa means brain in Sanskrit.....

We all are very much aware about 'Shirsasana' (head down exercise in yoga), which improve blood circulation to brain, Shirsa  resembles and gives same effect of 'Shirsasana'.

Brief about Shirsa:

Shirsa is a personalized brain training program, which helps you to improve  your cognitive skills like speed, attention, focus, critical thinking, problem solving, visual perception, task switching, multitasking and etc, for all ages.

Shirsa provides solution in form of online brainy exercises, by which users can initiate growth of new neuron cell by regular exercising (10-15 mins a day) with shirsa.me

The solution provided by Shirsa has scientific validation, visit our site for more details, 

- Sukhada

How Can Brain Fitness Exercises Improve My People Skills?

people's skills

We all want to feel sharp and confident in social situations. But sometimes our brains don’t cooperate. We might not remember what a friend told us, forget names we should know, or have trouble understanding other people’s intentions, body language, or tone of voice.

These exercises can change that. They are designed to speed up and sharpen the brain structure responsible for processing, storing, and remembering information that comes in handy in the social situations we all face every day.

Use Shirsa exercise to feel more tuned in to people around you for more successful and rewarding social interactions!

- Team Shirsa

How Do Brain Exercises Help My Memory?

Memory

Memories are made up of what you sense – especially what you see and hear. When memory fails, it’s not because you forgot how to remember. It’s  because your brain isn’t processing what you see and hear very clearly, so can only store “fuzzy” pictures of an event.

Shirsa exercises improve your brain’s recording of what you see and hear. That helps your brain create memory during the event, making it easier to recall later.

It’s like tuning up a radio – if your radio is in tune, you can hear a song clearly and remember its lyrics. If it’s full of static, it’s hard to remember.

Shirsa  exercise tune up your brain!

- Team Shirsa

How Does Attention Relate To Brain Fitness?

Attention

Does it drive you crazy when you can’t remember where you put your keys? You probably weren’t paying much attention when you set them down.

When You really pay attention to something, you remember it better. Focusing your attention causes your barin to rlease special chemicals that strengthen learning and memory. It’s one of the clever ways your brain keeps track of what matters to you, and lets go of what doesn’t.

It’s all too easy to pay less attention than we intend to. We get out of practice. Re-training your brain to focus better is a key part of improving memory!

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Why should I exercise my brain speed?

When it comes to brain speed, every millisecond counts. How quickly your brain can process events around you determines how effectively you can react to and remember those events.

But with age (and certain cognitive conditions), the brain slows down. This slowing is minute, but can have major effects. When you’re driving, for example, a few milliseconds is all it might take to turn a near miss into a bad crash.

Brain speed affects memory, too. A slower brain is a “fuzzier” brain it has trouble creating and storing clear pictures of what you see, hear, and otherwise sense. That affects your ability to remember clearly later.

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Diet Sodas: Change Your Brain And Your Waistline!!!

Diet sodas may not be helping you lose weight , in fact, these and other artificially sweetened foods may sabotage your diet by confusing and rewiring your brain’s reward centers. This study from the journal Physiology & Behavior is yet another example of how lifestyle choices can alter your brain—negatively or positively.

Scanning diet soda drinkers' brains

The University of San Diego study followed 24 young adults: half the group drank at least one serving of diet soda every day, while the other half avoided the artificially sweetened drinks. These adults were then hooked up to brain scanning equipment while scientists fed them water alternately flavored by natural and artificial sweeteners—then the researchers sat back and watched what unfolded in the brain.

The results, according to University of California San Diego researchers Green and Murphy, were pronounced: “[Diet soda drinkers] who consumed a greater number of diet sodas had reduced caudate head activation. These findings may provide some insight into the link between diet soda consumption and obesity.”

You Have The Power To Improve Your Brain!!!!!!!!

Improve your brain

Scientists once believed that mental ability was fixed after childhood. But over the last few decades, neuroscientists have discovered that adults’ brains are constantly changing – growing new neurons and connections – in a process known as neuroplasticity. Shirsa takes advantage of the brain’s innate neuroplasticity to help shape it into a more effective, powerful organ.







Instead of teaching specific skills that may only be useful in specific areas, Shirsa targets core cognitive processes that underlie performance in many different areas. These processes include memory, attention and other abilities that are critical in the real world.

Experimentally tested & clinically proven

The results of training with Shirsa are measured experimentally in randomized controlled trials. A typical experiment begins by measuring each person’s baseline abilities with tests of brain performance. After several weeks of training, each person is tested again to determine how much the Shirsa training has improved cognitive function.

Human Cognition Project – Uncovering the secrets of the brain

 The Human Cognition Project combines the database of human cognition – Pivot run Shirsa members who have collectively trained  – with a network of scientists and top neuroscience programs in the world – all to better understand human cognition so that we do more to improve brain performance.

Personalized for you

Each brain is unique, and everyone has different goals. We at Shirsa understands this and uses a patent-pending technology to combine the powerful database of the Human Cognition Project with sophisticated adaptive training algorithms to create a training program that’s right for each individual.

Personalized training programs are designed to help you achieve your goals. Additionally, each exercise adapts to your skill level, driving the maximum amount of benefit for each day of training. The more you tell us about your priorities, the more we can customize the training for you.


- Team Shirsa

Can Your Brain’s Feelings Hurt Your Body, too?

Recent research shows that social rejection and physical pain are intrinsically linked in the brain.

brain feelings hurt your body

Dr. Naomi Eisenberger is revealing that the emotional benefits of socialization –acceptance, intimacy, friendship–are so crucial that any lack may hurt our bodies as well as our minds. Luckily, it’s possible that training can help improve emotional well-being.

How social rejection might affect physical pain

In an experiment published in the 2006 issue of the journal Pain, Eisenberger used 75 subjects to explore perceptions of physical pain in the context of social situations.

First, researchers identified each person’s unique pain threshold by transmitting varying levels of heat to the forearm. Subjects rated the pain level of each stimulus until they reached “very unpleasant.” This provided a baseline for personal thresholds of physical pain in normal situations.

Subjects then took part in a ball-tossing game involving three characters on a computer screen. One character represented the subject; researchers told everyone that the other two characters were played by real people (though the computer actually controlled everything). The subject was either socially included (the ball was regularly tossed to the subject) or not included (the ball was not tossed to the subject). In the last 30 seconds of the game, a new heat stimulus was applied and subjects rated its pain level.

Unsurprisingly, the non-included group reported 67% more social distress. More surprisingly, the same people who reported great social distress due to the game also reported higher pain ratings (based on threshold) at the end of the game—showing a link between social and physical pain.

Pain processing in the brain

Many fMRI studies have confirmed that emotional and physical pain both activate the brain’s dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Still other studies note that people who suffer from physical conditions such as chronic pain are also more likely to have emotional anxiety and feel social rejection more deeply.

In other words, emotional health contributes in many ways to living a full life. Luckily, scientists have already found indications that you can train and control your emotions.

Researchers suggests that better emotional control is something everyone can strive towards, even if you’re in perfect health. Some of the cognitive processes involved in emotional well-being—such as executive control, which helps us plan rationally and control impulses—can also transfer to intellectual abilities that you rely on at work and in school. Get access to Shirsa today: it could benefit you in ways you might not have considered!

- Team Shirsa

Poor cognitive development in the room full of people!!!!

The more carbon dioxide there is in a room, the worse your decisions might be! This is the result of a new study according to which our decision-making skills are greatly affected in closed rooms. 

Room full of Carbon dioxide

The team from the State University of New York examined whether high CO2 exposure at school or at work could have a negative impact on our cognitive skills. 

The tests showed that the subjects' decision-making had already worsened at 1.000 ppm, compared to subjects in a room with 600 ppm CO2. (Typical outdoor concentration = ca. 380 ppm, indoors ca. 1.000, packed rooms = up to several thousand ppm.) Results were particularly impacted at 2,500 ppm. 

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Did You had Your Breakfast Today???

Breakfast a important meal

Skipping breakfast before a day of school significantly reduced students' speed and accuracy on cognitive and memory tests compared with those who ate breakfast, according to a study recently published online in the journal Appetite.

Researchers compared the performance of 1,386 students from 32 schools throughout the U.K. on several Internet-based tests of attention, memory and reaction time. 

Compared with those who ate breakfast, students who skipped the morning meal had 7% slower power of attention, a measure of their ability to focus and avoid distraction. They also detected 7% fewer targets on target-detection tasks and correctly identified 9% fewer pictures on a picture-recognition test at a 9% slower speed than students who ate breakfast. Variability in response time, an indication of focusing consistency, was 10% more erratic in those who missed breakfast. Girls without breakfast were significantly more disrupted in their ability to focus than boys who didn't have breakfast, results showed.

Breakfast like a king

Test-score differences between the two groups were larger in those tested after 11 a.m. than those tested earlier in the morning. 

This theory is not only for kids but  true for all ages.

So It is always said.........

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Five Super Foods For The Brain.

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Now Choose Your Color According To Your Task!!!!!!!

While doing research for shirsa, recently i came across an article about the psychology of architecture, a neuroscience blogs, The Frontal Cortex by Jonah Lehrer. I was particularly drawn to his mention of a study conducted in 2009 by Ravi Mehta and Rui Zhu that compared people’s performance on different types of tasks whether they were in a room that was painted red, blue, or neutral. 

psychology of architecture

The researchers undertook the study because there had previously been conflicting research about how color affects cognitive tasks, with some studies finding better results with one color or the other. The Mehta and Zhu study uncovered the reason for these previous conflicts: people do better at different types of tasks in differently colored environments.

Specifically, they found that subjects in a bright red room do better on a detail-oriented task, while those in blue room excel at a creative task. 

Mehta and Zhu posit that this effect occurs because red puts people in a higher state of alertness and awareness, since red is associated with danger. On the other hand, blue is associated with things that may mentally relax us–like the sky and the ocean–so we have an easier time opening up for more creativity and imagining things.

This effect was not small; those in the blue room had double the creative output of those in the red room, showing that color may have a stronger effect than we would imagine. I think this is pretty interesting, as i never thought form this angle before going for painting for my office.  

Rather than i would  suggest everybody should paint their conference rooms in different colors depending on what types of tasks there are taking on?

- Sukhada

Subconscious Mind controls 95% Of Our Daily Activities

Amazing Brain

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Want To Get Rid of Memories Of Your Embarrassing Moments??

E arsing Memories

If you want to forget or wants to get rid of  any embarrassing actions which you may have done, than you're in luck: a new discovery reveals two ways that our minds can erase memories.

According to the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge, the brain erases traumatic and otherwise undesirable memories via two opposite mechanisms. The findings are published in the October 17 copy of Neuron.

In one method researchers have termed "direct suppression," the brain inhibits the processing of the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical for the formation of conscious memories. This interference prevents the memory from ever being recorded in the first place.

The other method, called "thought substitution," doesn't halt the memory from being recorded; instead, the brain alters its own wiring to replace the memory with something else.

"This study is the first demonstration of two distinct mechanisms that cause such forgetting: one by shutting down the remembering system, and the other by facilitating the remembering system to occupy awareness with a substitute memory," said Roland Benoit, the study's lead author, in a press release.

Researchers conducted the study with 36 volunteers instructed to remember and forget specific pairings of words. According to Business Insider, half the individuals were instructed to replace one word with a different word, while the other half were instructed to forget the word entirely. Researchers watched participants' brain activity while they repeatedly committed words to memory, then attempted to forget them.

The findings could have implications for a whole host of populations including veterans suffering from PTSD, or victims of traumatic crime.

- Team Shirsa

The Best Gift You Can Give It To Your Dear Ones On This Festiv Season!!!!!!

As festival seasons are rapidly approaching, and if you’re like me, you may still be struggling with deciding what ‘perfect gift’ you should give your mate or aunt or sister that could really mean something for them.  

In the Land of Plenty, it is sometimes hard to determine what those individuals that we love can really benefit from, and may really need.

I suggest that you consider giving them both a Dassehara  or Diwali gift and a New Year’s resolution, all at the same time: the gift for a stronger and brighter future.  If you suggest them Brain Fitness Programs that we’ve created to help restore and sustain your brain fitness at Shirsa. 

You should seriously suggest this programe, because it is actually proven scientific studies that unequivocally show that most people DO very substantially wake up their brains and improve their memories and very significantly improve the quality of their lives if they spend a little time each day working at these exercises. 

It’s SCIENCE we’re talking about!

Unfortunately, I can’t use this gift option myself now because I have already given it to ALL of my  brothers, sisters, and in-laws and even my husband  to most of our older friends,  because there is no better gift i could give them.  

What would be the greater gift than a personally stronger, livelier and more capable life, going forward, over the next months and years.  

So if you’re feeling especially kindly this festiv season… give your dear ones the gift of brain fitness.

- Team Shirsa

Why Do We Have Brain?

With all of the complex brain science findings out there, I really enjoyed this TED talk from neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert that goes back to one of the most fundamental questions about brains: 

why do we have them at all? Wolpert argues that the only reason we evolved our brains is because we had to move, not because we had to think or feel. 

This is a fun and thought-provoking talk that may get you thinking about your brain in a markedly different way! 

Incidentally, Wolpert is a compelling and humorous speaker, too

- Team Shirsa