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Short Term Memory : What is Short Term Memory and How Can We Enhance It Naturally?

What is short term memory? As scientists are continuing to study the brain and how it operates we are learning more each day on how the brain processes and stores memory. We are also finding out ways to give those processes a boost.

So what is short term memory? Simply put it is the memory function in the brain that most consciously holds and processes events, images, information, etc. It is a holding area of sorts for our brains to decide to either put those memories to use promptly and/or commit them to long term storage. It is both a filter and a workplace for things we are processing. Information in short term memory is most readily available for us to use and access compared to long term memory.

Trying to describe short term memory as an exact process in the brain is a bit trickier. Science is still working on the specifics of how this works and where in the brain it works, though they have made progress in both those areas.

Typically short term memory holds items for roughly a minute or so…there is some debate as to the exact duration. It has limited capacity too, being able to hold on average 5 – 9 pieces of data. This is where trying to describe short term memory capacity get fuzzy. Pieces of data can range from single numbers or letters to whole words or phrases that the brain treats as a “single” piece of data usually because it is familiar and has already been learned.

An example of this is a phone number. The number 485-553-1182 would be 10 pieces of data if each number were treated independently. However, grouping them into larger numbers works as well and reduces the number of “items” such as 48-55-53-11-82. The brain would now treat these as five items instead of 10 because the larger numbers are familiar and it knows what to do with them. So the amount of information held in short term memory is somewhat dependent on how that information is organized and if it is related to things already in long term memory.

When trying to describe short term memory enhancement most scientist talk in terms of technique. That is they look at skills a person can employ that make better use of the function. We’ve looked at one already and that is what is called “chunking”. Chunking is taking data and organizing it into larger chunks that can be treated as a single piece of data much like we did with the phone number above. This allows the memory to hold more information than it would if you tried to remember the individual components.

Another technique is by looking at what is short term memory capable of handling in terms of duration. Since the useful life of items in short term memory is seconds to a minute or so, a person must resort to repetition in order to keep an item in short term memory for a longer period of time. We already do this unconsciously on a daily basis such as repeating a phone number until we have a chance to enter it into the phone. While not a new technique, science has validated it as a way of “resetting” the clock on the memory before it expires. An additional bonus to this is that it also makes the item a more likely candidate for being entered into long term memory.

One last thing to consider when looking at what is short term memory is the physical processes behind it. Again, science is still trying to understand exactly how this works, but it is a given that it relies on nerve cells and neurotransmitters just like any other function in the brain. That may seem obvious, but it is important as this is also a factor in how we might enhance memory.

Studies are showing that since this is a natural brain process it can be affected by various substances just like the rest of the brain. Therefore, using things like Ginkgo Biloba, Ginseng, Bacopin, etc. which have been shown to enhance nerve function and L-Tyrosine and Aceytl L-Carnitine which help with neurotransmitter production and use can boost all brain functions including short term memory.

By looking at what is short term memory and how it functions we can better understand how to positively benefit it. From simple memory techniques to using natural supplements to enhance function there are things we can do to increase our memory ability. The more we learn, the more we come to understand that our brains like much of our body can be worked on and improved. We don’t have to just take it as it comes, but can attempt to improve it if we try.

J. Wall has an avid interest in natural remedies for the treatment of memory loss. He is a regular contributor to the Describe Short Term Memory section of http://www.memory-enhancement-guide.com, a site dedicated to improving mental ability and cognitive function.

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Cure Erectile Dysfunction – Naturally Using The Konov Principle : Memory Exercises

Article by sacha tarkovsky

ED, or erectile dysfunction, affects over 50% of men over 50, and as a man ages, that number raises dramatically.

The blue pills,have become one the world’s largest selling medicine due to this condition. However, all the blue pills have unpleasant side-effects, and some men cannot take them due to their need to take other medications, here is a way to cure ED which is little known and can be highly effective.

Can ED really be cured naturally?

The answer is yes! The method is the use of the Konov Principle, and learning about how to contact and engage your genetic memory.

The Konov Principle

First suggested by the Russian filmmaker and thinker, Sergey Konov, the Konov Principle suggests that each person can contact and remember (physically if not mentally) their genetic memory.

Genetic memory is akin to Rupert Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field, but more specific and concerned with the genetic storage of life events of each person.

By getting in conscious contact with one’s genetic memory, a person can trigger those responses the body made when it was young and healthy. A good example, when concerned with ED, is that one’s genetic memory has all the records of the body’s responses when it had no problem with ED.

By “remembering” via one’s genetic memory, one can induce those same responses, at least partially, and arrive at state where the body is receiving the same doses of hormones, and proteins it did when there was no ED.

Getting in Touch with our Genetic Memory

There are certain memory exercises that can be used to get in conscious contact with their genetic memory. For this article, here is the simplest one. By daily practice of this exercise, one will be able to recall his earlier pattern, and the body will respond to conscious will to repeat it.

While sitting in a comfortable position, one can practice breathing exercises to relax. This is a yogic exercise called “watching the breath”. While sitting comfortably, start mentally watching your breath. Feel and then see the air rushing in and out, and down to the lung, and into each small areole. Do this for about 5 minutes.

As you are relaxed, visualize you can see inside your body. Follow this new power and look into a familiar organ related to your problem, and in this case ED. Go deep into your body and come to the testicles. This is an obvious area, and indeed, the cells of the testicle are charged with male hormones.

Keep visualizing going deeper until you are in a cell itself.

Find the chromosomes (they are in the cell nucleus), and you can see them all twisted up together, as if strands of spaghetti.

Go deeper till you see the proteins themselves that comprise the DNA.

Go deeper still till all you see are the waves of atoms (as if watching the sea) and there you will notice pure intelligence. There is the place where the genetic memory is stored.

When you have visualized this, see the place when your body was at its very best moment.

You can see this as the area is surrounded by a bright and peaceful light. Now, simply gaze upon it, and when you feel you have irradiated that area with your thought, now remember yourself when you were young and virile. Recall your rock-hard erections, and burning libido. When those thoughts have become conscious, slowly go back to watching your breath, and then stop the exercise.

What have you achieved?

You have, if done properly and sincerely, stimulated yourself at the cellular, even molecular level. This, if repeated with sincere effort, will cause the body to begin releasing the chemicals and nervous impulses it did when you originally had them.

Your libido will naturally increase, and moreover, the contacting of your genetic memory with active thought will in full or part, cause your body to follow suit. You will find yourself feeling young and virile once again and cure erectile dysfunction naturally without medication.

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Restore Your Lost Youth – Naturally : Memory Exercises

Article by sacha tarkovsky

Is it our fate to merely be young in our teens till perhaps our 30’s, and then without any alternative, just join middle and old age?

Can we really restore our lost youth, naturally without surgery and expensive medications? We can, as our body is inexorably linked to our mind and those morphogenetic fields that determine our future.

The Konov Principle

Named after the Russian artist and creative thinker, Sergey Konov, the Konov Principle, once learned, will let you recover your youthful thoughts, and those thoughts will lead the body to a more youthful and healthy appearance.

This is because the body will respond to the mind’s instructions, and the mind always follows the morphogenetic pattern which it perceives.

How the Konev Principle Works

Based on the mechanism of genetic memory (which is grounded in morphogenetic field by Rupert Sheldrake who postulated the mind has all the records of what occurred in our youth, including the production of youthful hormones known as Human Growth Hormone (HGH).

By accessing the genetic memory, one can re-awaken the processes that took place in our youth, and at least in part, re-start them

Studies have shown that when we live a natural life in clean unpolluted air, eat natural food, and have an active life, we retain a youthful appearance anyway into old age.

The effects of modern life mask our genetic memories, and we begin to adopt life-styles that age us prematurely. The Konev Principle works to restore those essential parts of our genetic memory.

An good example would be where we watch a game of sports, say football, and recall it was a favorite of ours in our youth.

Something in the mind is activated, and we suddenly desire to play football again.

Granted, the body may not now be equipped to play, but the mind has perceived that playing is possible, and desirable. The Konov Principle is at work, as the genetic memory is accessed.

Turning Genetic Memory to Our Advantage

Having regained the desire for football, with the mind assisting the body, we might start a diet, go to a gym, and begin to bring the body into shape. Once started, the body will produce its own HGH, testosterone, and other enzymes that will aid the body in its desire to regain the lost youth.

You will look and feel younger. You will produce your own HGH, and you will find your health and appearance improving as collateral benefits to your effort.

Since all memories are stored in some mechanism of the brain (we assume) that is not fully explainable, we also then have to assume the genetic memory of physiochemical events that took place in our youth can be recalled (if not to mind, to the control mechanism that activates the endocrine system).

Pre-Mature Aging and the Genetic Memory

We age, and perhaps pre-maturely due to our shutting out the genetic memories of our lost youth, seek relief in creams, in beauty treatments and exotic medications, but in fact, pre-mature aging in only a symptom of forgetting our genetic memory.

Genetic Memory Exercise

With some basic relaxation exercises accomplished, and in a contemplative state, visualize yourself in your golden moments of youth.

Remember consciously when you were strong and in full recent growth, and see yourself again in that appearance. Visualize yourself as looking in a mirror, and see yourself as you were, not are. You can also visualize yourself as you wish to be,

This exercise, done daily for as little as 10 minutes, will relax you, but more importantly, will help you to open the doorway to your genetic memory (whether or not you can perceive it). Your body cannot help but respond.

Granted at 60 you will not look 30 again, but you will look a youthful 60, and that may mean 50, or less. You will look it and begin to feel it.

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