KidPower
Memory Enhancement
Would you consider that you have a good memory? Maybe you can’t remember whether you have or not.
Would you believe me if I told you that you do have a good memory, it may be the recall that doesn’t work too well. I bet on some days you can remember what you did as a small child but have no idea what you did yesterday. Right !!
Yes the memories are still there you just can’t recall them when you want them.
The good thing is that there are a few quick and easy solutions to help with this. The main reasons you can’t remember are –
- Stress
- Lack of Attention
- Lack of Exercise
Stress
You see someone walking towards you and you go into panic mode, you can’t remember their name and you hope that they don’t see you but they come up and talk to you and then you hope that during the conversation they may say something that will remind you of what their name is, but they don’t; however you make if through without having to say their name. Then you go home, sit down and pour yourself a cuppa – and what happens – their name pops into your head.
What happened here is that when you slowed your brain down and relaxed you accessed your memory banks and the memory of their name came into your mind.
Lack of Attention
Have you ever lost your car at a multi-level shopping centre? How many people have you seen wandering the car parks looking for their car?
That reminds me of a story – did you hear about the lady who lost her car, she took particular notice of the 10 on the car park wall, except when she finally found it she realised that 10 was the speed limit not the level.
Seriously, it is how much attention you put on something which governs how well you remember it. If you take particular notice of the car park level, where you enter the shopping centre, which shops are at the entrance, you will have no worries finding your car.
Lack of exercise
If your body is not in good shape then your mind won’t be in the best shape either.
There are specific exercises to stimulate your brain. During our workshops we show you how you can do this.
Do you have trouble remembering People’s Names?
When you are introduced to people and within a few minutes you don’t have a clue what there names are.
How much attention did you take when they told you their name? If you are at a party you were probably wondering what great foods they have there, or maybe if a particular person is there, anything but what the person’s actual name was. We are thinking of so many things at the same time and not concentrating. Try repeating their name during your conversation and then later repeat their name in your mind and this will help you remember them later.
Other ways of remembering we use tricks and have done all of lives.
For example - rhymeing - 30 days hath September
In what year did-Columbus sailed the ocean blue?
EGBDF — Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit
So if you want to remember something you can make it into a rhyme.
Who looses their keys or glasses
Organisation helps memory. - Who has a place for everything and everything in its place. If when you walked in you put your keys on a rack you would not have to remember where they are.
Not organised now, do you think you ever will be? So we have some tricks to help you.
If you paid attention to where you put them you would know where they are – sure but…. You have walked into home and popped them down and away you went. Where did you put them? If you walked inside and put your keys down on the table and in your head you imagined that the table exploded with the keys flying up into the air do you think you would remember where you left them.
Writing down important things to remember.
Who finds if they write something down they can remember it better. Would I be correct in saying that some of you would write a shopping list then leave it at home but you get almost everything on the list. The mere act of writing things down says to your brain this is important remember it.
Confucius said – “The strongest memory is not as good as the weakest ink”
So make lists, use an appointment book, perhaps a white board, my Mum has a white board up in her home so that she can keep track of where she has to be.
After returning from an outing where you meet new people write their names down and a few things about them and this will reinforce it in your memory.
Who has a good imagination , what you don’t remember????
Do this little exercise
Firstly I want you to shut your eyes for me and think of a dog.
Who saw a dog - Who couldn’t see a dog – but you know what a dog looks like.
Our mind works in pictures. You didn’t see the letter D O G did you, you actually saw a picture of a dog and everyones dog would have been different.
By using your imagination we can develop our memory as well. For example
We want to remember 6 items. Loaf of bread, carton of milk, bunch of flowers,
Telephone bill, cake of soap, chocolate cake…
By linking them into a movie you will remember them- for example
| Loaf of bread | See a loaf of bread |
| carton of milk | Pouring milk onto the bread see the bread getting all soggy |
| bunch of flowers | Then pouring the soggy bread and milk into a vase for the flowers and it spills over the top |
| telephone bill | You put the vase with the soggy bread and flowers and sit it on your telephone bill and it leaves a soggy ring on the bill |
| cake of soap | Then you take the telephone bill and rub it with a cake of soap and it gets all frothy with soap suds |
| chocolate cake | You put it on the table – the vase with the flowers with the milk and the soggy bread with the telephone bill stuck to it all soapy and you sit down it is all too much for you and you say to heck with it I will have a cuppa and a chocolate cake. |
The better your imagination is the easier this becomes and the sillier it is the easier it is to remember. Have some fun with this and you will be amazed at how many things you can remember doing your movies. Make up your own movie and then try will other items and you will see how easy it is to remember.
These are some ways to enhance your memory.
In our Workshops we also go into Memory Pegs. These are exercises for the brain to increase memory capacity. If you practice using memory pegs every day for 30 days you will increase your memory by 100%. When using these pegs continually, you can train your mind to be photographic. As we saw before with the dog we see pictures in our mind when we think of things. Using Memory Pegs we use visualization and imagination to create pictures to remember things and when you get good at it and you want to remember something you bring up the picture.
To find when the next workshop is on please go to our Workshop Page.
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August 13, 2011 11:47 am
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