There are many memory techniques that can help you boost your memory retention and become more efficient at using your brain though using and practicing memory techniques. The study of Mnemonics is a way for you to learn techniques to enhance your memory of information that could be hard to recall. Some of the earliest things that we learn as children are based on Mnemonics. For instance the sing-song way that we are taught the ABC’s is a way to help us remember the song, and therefore remember the alphabet.
Mnemonic memory techniques are designed to make difficult information easy to remember. There are so many ways that memories are triggered, a song, a smell even a particular color can trigger memories. These memories are easy to remember because there are other stimuli working in the memory, rather than just the facts. For instance you may not remember the exact date that you last smelled your grandmother’s cooking, but you can certainly remember where you were, what it smelled and tasted like and what type of a mood you were in.
Today there are many things that we have to remember that may not have as many stimuli floating around. Passwords to ATM accounts, emails, computers, garage door openers, security alarms, the list can go on forever. So instead of just mindlessly trying to memorize these numbers, try grouping them or associating them with other things that may make it easier for you to recall. This type of memorization is a Mnemonic memory technique.
There are three main ways to use mnemonics. Imagination, Association and Location. These are the fundamental principles needed to properly execute mnemonics and build a better memory. Imagination is when you create something in your head. It doesn’t have to be true, but it does have to work to trigger a memory. Association is the process of linking different things together in your mind so that you can remember them. For instance, if Gary is wearing a green shirt, an easy way to remember Gary’s name is “g” for green, “g” for Gary. The third main method of practicing mnemonics is through location placement in your brain. An example of this could be the way your thoughts are already stored into the vaults of your brain. Your college memories are associated with the campus of the school you attended and that is where you memories of all of the people you knew from there get stored too. While your high school memories may be associated with a different place, like the cool halls of your high school building and all of the people you associated with then get stored there.
Using these memory techniques can help you develop your mind into a memory powerhouse. You’ll feel on top of your game and ready for anything once you get a handle on these techniques. Try them today and see how they work!
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Deja vu
How many times in your lifetime have you met a total stranger that seemed so overwhelming familiar to you that you just had to ask “have we met”? Chances are, you have had plenty of those experiences.
There are also those moments when you are so familiar of a particular place that even though you had never been in that area, you have amazing awareness of the entire landscape, buildings, and streets. Perhaps you visit a house and it feels as though you have been there dozens of times. These eerie and often strange experiences are sometimes attributed to a dream. More often, there is a firm sense that the experience actually happened somewhere in time long ago.
The French termed it Deja vu and it is an occurrence that has happened to countless numbers of people throughout time. These experiences may trigger all sorts of intriguing questions that so many of us have pondered at one time or other like, “have I lived before?”, or “have I been here before?”
You may be inspired to reach out to science in search of a logical explanation for your deja vu experiences. If this is the case, you will find that the subject of deja vu is linked into the category of psychological and neurological research. It could explain hallucinations, of, perhaps a neurological abnormality, as a symptom of a biological dysfunction. It is possible that you find your answers if you do indeed have a biological issue.
Subjects such as deja vu, astral projection, precognition, dreams, etc, have long been relegated to the fields of parapsychology and paranormal research. Here you will find fascinating accounts of deja vu experiences that are placed in specific categories and absorbed into broad domains of paranormal investigation.
Whether or not your deja vu experience originated with a dream or a previous involvement in another lifetime, what is important and should be acknowledged is the fact that your experience must have been successfully met and you will again go through the same successful outcome this time around. However, this may lead you to yet, another question, “why does this experience keep happening”.
From a spiritual point of view, re-occurring deja vu experiences will continue lifetime after lifetime until you understand and walk through the spiritual lesson. Therefore, it may be wise to intuit those issues that you have held inside since childhood. They may lead you to a better understanding of yourself. With understanding, we acquire the knowledge, compassion, and the wisdom to release the chains of bondage that we have placed upon ourselves.
The term “spiritual” may make some people as uncomfortable as the term “psychic” does for others, because these words tend to conjure up all sorts of images in our imagination related to those individuals who may have special powers beyond our own.
It is a shared opinion among the psychic communities that everyone is psychically endowed because the ability is a normal function of the mind. Like any organ or muscle in the body, it must be used in order to function at peak performance.
The basis of intelligent life is ones spirituality. Within our spirituality, beyond the layers of mind, is a wonderful, vast, reservoir of information of previous experience. Intuitive hunches, memories, and feelings surface to our consciousness through images, from the deep depths of the subconscious.
Deja vu experiences are, perhaps, those memories that remained dormant until you were ready to explore your inner self. Through the exploration of self, comes enlightenment of your spiritual purpose. It may also up all those self defeating issues that may have haunted you. The fact that you are having encounters of deja vu enables you to go forward in the synchronicities that they bring.
Currently Barbara Garcia is consulting via her private practice, through which she conducts exclusive readings for her clients, participates in paranormal investigations, teaches, and functions as an advisor for film and television. Garcia also counsels various areas of corporate strategic operations and employee management. Her website, http://www.Starmerge.com offers a wide range of services and an art gallery featuring her authentic psychic art automatism oil paintings from the 1970’s. Her clientele includes celebrities, business executives and law enforcement professionals, as well as private individuals who utilize her psychic information to enrich their lives.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Barbara_Garcia
There are also those moments when you are so familiar of a particular place that even though you had never been in that area, you have amazing awareness of the entire landscape, buildings, and streets. Perhaps you visit a house and it feels as though you have been there dozens of times. These eerie and often strange experiences are sometimes attributed to a dream. More often, there is a firm sense that the experience actually happened somewhere in time long ago.
The French termed it Deja vu and it is an occurrence that has happened to countless numbers of people throughout time. These experiences may trigger all sorts of intriguing questions that so many of us have pondered at one time or other like, “have I lived before?”, or “have I been here before?”
You may be inspired to reach out to science in search of a logical explanation for your deja vu experiences. If this is the case, you will find that the subject of deja vu is linked into the category of psychological and neurological research. It could explain hallucinations, of, perhaps a neurological abnormality, as a symptom of a biological dysfunction. It is possible that you find your answers if you do indeed have a biological issue.
Subjects such as deja vu, astral projection, precognition, dreams, etc, have long been relegated to the fields of parapsychology and paranormal research. Here you will find fascinating accounts of deja vu experiences that are placed in specific categories and absorbed into broad domains of paranormal investigation.
Whether or not your deja vu experience originated with a dream or a previous involvement in another lifetime, what is important and should be acknowledged is the fact that your experience must have been successfully met and you will again go through the same successful outcome this time around. However, this may lead you to yet, another question, “why does this experience keep happening”.
From a spiritual point of view, re-occurring deja vu experiences will continue lifetime after lifetime until you understand and walk through the spiritual lesson. Therefore, it may be wise to intuit those issues that you have held inside since childhood. They may lead you to a better understanding of yourself. With understanding, we acquire the knowledge, compassion, and the wisdom to release the chains of bondage that we have placed upon ourselves.
The term “spiritual” may make some people as uncomfortable as the term “psychic” does for others, because these words tend to conjure up all sorts of images in our imagination related to those individuals who may have special powers beyond our own.
It is a shared opinion among the psychic communities that everyone is psychically endowed because the ability is a normal function of the mind. Like any organ or muscle in the body, it must be used in order to function at peak performance.
The basis of intelligent life is ones spirituality. Within our spirituality, beyond the layers of mind, is a wonderful, vast, reservoir of information of previous experience. Intuitive hunches, memories, and feelings surface to our consciousness through images, from the deep depths of the subconscious.
Deja vu experiences are, perhaps, those memories that remained dormant until you were ready to explore your inner self. Through the exploration of self, comes enlightenment of your spiritual purpose. It may also up all those self defeating issues that may have haunted you. The fact that you are having encounters of deja vu enables you to go forward in the synchronicities that they bring.
Currently Barbara Garcia is consulting via her private practice, through which she conducts exclusive readings for her clients, participates in paranormal investigations, teaches, and functions as an advisor for film and television. Garcia also counsels various areas of corporate strategic operations and employee management. Her website, http://www.Starmerge.com offers a wide range of services and an art gallery featuring her authentic psychic art automatism oil paintings from the 1970’s. Her clientele includes celebrities, business executives and law enforcement professionals, as well as private individuals who utilize her psychic information to enrich their lives.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Barbara_Garcia
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