JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tracy Alloway is a mother of two, an author, a psychologist and an all-around adventure seeker. To improve your working memory she suggests being proprioceptively dynamic.
Which for Alloway, means bring wrapped in silk and hanging upside down like Spider-Woman.
“The first part proprioception- you're aware of your body in space,” said Alloway while upside down wrapped in silks. She practices aerial yoga regularly. “So I'm aware that my feet are here, my hands are here and so on."
In order to improve your memory, Alloway says movement is key. She suggests doing exercises that work several body parts at once.
“You need the dynamic piece,” said Alloway while suspended in the air at SaltAer. “You need to actually be able to have that kind of movement and that movement is really what gets your brain working and gets it active. In particular, you're using the part of your brain known as your working memory," says Alloway. "You're working memory is thinking about all of these different movements that you have to process and piece together."
She suggests taking an active approach while with your children at the playground, “Don't just sit on there with your phone join them on the monkey bars. Join them on the swing. Do something that is causing you to move and be active. You really need to think about an exercise that causes you to put multiple pieces together so that you can actually be active.”
Alloway also suggests running barefoot. Your brain is focusing attention on what you're putting your feet on and it's causing you to pay more attention. She found that people's working memory improved by more than 20 percent, compared to when they run with shoes on.
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