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Remembering How to Sharpen your Short Term Memory
Self Improvement
Most people go through life saying I can't remember. The fact is you can remember since the mind stores information for the rest of your life. The information stored in the mind includes from the first day your mind began to develop. One of the best ways to sharpen your short-term memory is start telling you that you can remember. Get in the habit of training your mind to think positive and give the mind room to do its job. I can't is one of the most negative words ever employed by use all. Turn the “I can't” around and say you can. If you have a hard time with this logic, thus picture yourself in boot camp with a mean drill sergeant pounding in your head everyday that you can remember. As you grow into this logical scene, you will soon feel strengths from positive reflections and powerful suggestions that you weren't aware of. You will be amazed at the new feelings.
You can also use the recall strategy to remember details of a memory. In other words, at what time you fail to remember details of a particular event, use your recall to pull up another memory that is associated with the first event. This strategy often helps to recover the first event you are trying to recall in the first place. For instance, you are trying to remember the day of your wedding, yet the date just won't come into focus. Retract the day, by substituting surrounding events, such as anniversary, honeymoon, and spouse to see what you come up with.
As you start to remember, take notes of the memories instead of moving ahead. In other words if you remember the date of your wedding, write it down now, repeat it, recite it, write it down again, and continue repeating, reciting and rewriting. You will soon remember the day of your wedding from their on out.
At one time, I had down the 66 books of the bible. Starting with Genus, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy and so on, I was able to name all 66 books easily by going through the bible to each book and repeating the titles. This was bizarre, yet interesting, since I lived with amnesia my entire life. Taking notes of what you recall or remember can help you restore memories, as well as repeating, reciting and rewriting the details as they come along.
As you remember information, you want to employ it into your life. The more you use the memories, the more the memories will stay fresh in your mind.
You can also avoid overloading your mind to regain memories. In other words, you can extract pertinent information to store in your memory and disregard other information that is less important. Sometimes this is the best solution, however you want to be careful to avoid missing information that you felt wasn't important at the time.
Creating associations is helpful for sharpening the short-term memory. Associations are new ideas that trigger the memories. For instance, every time I see a Chrysler Convertible Lebaron, my mind instantly goes back to the day I bought my car off the showcase. The memories continue up until the day I loose the car. As you can see, the association of the car triggered my memories that brought the memories back. Unfortunately, the memories leading up to the loss includes a series of bad memories, therefore the trigger is painful and eventful.
If you have a difficult time remember, where you put your keys, purse and/or other items…try putting the items in the same place everyday, since it will help you to remember where the items are at. As you can see repeating and back, tracking is idea for sharpening the short-term memory.
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