Short Term Memory : Five Tips to Improve your Memory

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Five Tips to Improve your Memory – Self Help – Advice

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Did you know that maintaining the memory, in a sound state, is essential to keeping the brain healthy as well? Most often, your activities, to a great extent, rest on an assortment of information you recover from your memory bank. This information can be either short-term memory (which is a holding a small amount of information in mind like: remembering particular tasks that you have to do) or long-term memory (which is the ability to store information indefinitely so that you can use it again at a later date). While long-term memory comes without too much effort when you need it, short-term memory necessitates remembering information from the collection of things stored in your memory. This is why you must keep your memory in an excellent state so that you can accomplish productivity in your everyday activities.

The following are five tips for memory improvement:

1. You must always concentrate your attention on the required data that you want to remember. Even with interruptions around you, stay concentrated on what you are doing. The more you concentrated: the better the chances of remembering the data you want to remember.

2. Apply the best sense or senses when collecting data. This is what is called acuity in sensing your surroundings. For example, be attentive to the colours and specifics of a picture, or the specific sound or smell of what you want to remember. All your bodily senses are used to gather data depending on the situation at hand. While your sense of vision might be the most applied in assembling data, your senses of hearing, smell, taste, and touch are similarly significant and useful in recalling all kinds of things.

3. If you think that the material you are about to remember is going to be a little difficult to recollect then the best thing to do then, is to write it down. This can be useful in assembling very long and boring information, things like lecture notes, or a personal interview.

4. Remember to make sure that you have plenty of rest and sleep. You need it to keep you invigorated from the wearisome demand of work. So take time out to relax. Steer clear from stress and worry as much as possible. Also sidestep the tendency of saying to yourself, “I might forget it” because you’re a lot more likely to if you constantly say that phrase to yourself because this only increases your anxiety level.

5. As the body grows old, memory starts to diminish: but a robust memory will certainly improve the quality of your life. You can greatly strengthen the quality of your memory by constantly training your memory through reading and further cognitive undertakings like getting into the practise of deciphering crossword puzzles, or doing mental arithmetic The more you do these activities, the better memory retention is improved. Good luck!

About the Author

Dion Daly is a certified trainer in hypnosis, a master practitioner in NLP and TLT. He also has a degree in metaphysics.

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