Memory Improvement Tricks
Today I am nothing but a memory of yesterday-my mind always says me so. Our mind is extremely complex in its capabilities, everyday we are learning something new about our mind and brain, and it seems that full understating of our mind and brain would take many more years. And without a fully functional memory our mind can not perform even a simple task. Our mind has the power to temporarily shut down our memory, both permanent and temporary, depending on whether or not what it has experienced was a traumatic event which simply our brain just refuse to accept. It happens when our mind try to deny any reality and the consequence is severe. I don’t know if you have ever noticed that how our mind play tricks with us, specially when we try to remember a person’s name, our mind get flooded we many names and all seems to be real name of that person. I guess you have already understood the importance of an accurate and retentive memory which can perform even better with some exercises.
The key to have a retentive memory is to increase our ability to move our experiences from our short-term memory into our long-term memory. Basically our memory function based on five laws and those are:
Association – We always remember events or experiences that are associated with other similar events or things more than activities that are not associated with anything. For instance, you remember your computer password because it is the same as your last six digits of your phone number.
Images- Humans memories are recorded as images. Al most all of us learn to recall things much easier when we think in pictures or images.
Recency – Our ability to recall any events continue to diminish over time. That’s why experiences that happened long back are not that vivid to our mind in comparison to the events of the recent events. Its not that we forget the memory of past events slowly, it’s our ability to recall past diminish over time unless we take some action to recall it accurately.
Repetition-The more we repeat or experience any memory , the better it is stored in our long term memory for recalling.
The above mentioned are the only a few tips on improving your memory skills.At the end I like to share with you that the secret of power memory is association the memory with something and the repetition of of your memory when you learn something new.
By: Andro Mida
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Filed under Improvement by on Jul 16th, 2010. 