Each of us, to some extent, suffers from “memory lapses”: someone for a long time cannot remember where he put his glasses, the other why he came to the kitchen. If periodic memory impairments are not related to traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease or severe alcohol intoxication, then a few simple techniques will help you improve your memory.
10. Get enough sleep
Processing and storage of information obtained using the senses is carried out in a dream. Brain cells move from the state of receipt to the state of data storage during the fast phase of sleep. Thanks to this, everything seen and heard by a person in a day is combined with already existing memories and skills.
Researchers from the United States found a direct link between the occurrence of problems with memorization and sleep disturbance. In addition, they proved that the lack of a full night's rest prevents schoolchildren and students from starting school performance. From this we can conclude: all people need to get enough sleep, regardless of age and occupation. Otherwise, you can not avoid the periodic occurrence of microamnesia.
9. Use neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
NLP technology is gaining more and more supporters around the world despite the fact that many eminent scientists do not recognize it as a field of psychology. The main dogma of this method is that the boundaries of the possibilities of human reason are artificially erected by the people themselves, so it is quite possible to destroy them by auto-training.
In many ways, this technique works due to the so-called “placebo effect”. However, the effectiveness of NLP has already been confirmed by many followers of this teaching.
8. Focus on physical education
Another revolutionary discovery of American scientists in recent years - memory can be improved with the help of systematic physical activity. And who said that the brain is not muscle?
In fact, if you just run in the mornings or regularly engage in swimming, you will not notice drastic changes in the degree of effectiveness of your memorization. However, if you combine training with the other techniques presented, it is quite possible to improve your memory, because during physical exertion a person’s heart rate speeds up, due to which blood flow to the brain tissue increases, and this, in turn, enhances his productivity.
7. Play logic and strategy games
The habit of spending leisure time playing logical and strategic games with children or friends has a very positive effect on the process of memorization and the ability to concentrate. The most suitable option is chess and sudoku.
At the same time, action-packed computer games do not have a positive effect on memory, but on the contrary, with too often spending time in this occupation, a person gradually loses the ability to quickly focus and focus on some business.
6. Use mnemonics
As you know, artificial intelligence uses binary code to store information. If necessary, it extracts the necessary data in the most convenient form. Human memory in this sense is not much different from a computer. Our brain also archives information in a certain order.
The essence of mnemonics is the application of this property of the nervous system in practice. Using this technique, information encoded in a special way can be stored. Of course, it sounds a little incomprehensible, but in fact there is nothing complicated about it. This is just the use of banal associations. That is, for better memorization, you need to associate certain information with vivid visual or auditory images. So you can memorize large amounts of information and easily reproduce it.
5. Visualize memories
Scientists have proven that the vast majority of people have well-developed visual memory. Therefore, the linking of any images with certain information improves the process of remembering it. An example of such a process is the emergence of a person's strong emotions and vivid memories when viewing a photo album.
4. Use aromatherapy
Odor is not only a way to determine the degree of freshness of products. Bright aroma (both pleasant and not very) can serve as a powerful impulse for the emergence of memories that seemed to you long forgotten. Aromatherapy is one of the simplest and most accessible methods to improve memorization. Try to associate some information with a certain smell, and you will understand that this data will clearly pop up in your memory every time when this irritant acts on your olfactory receptors.
3. Learn something new
Human memory is comparable to a bicycle: if it does not ride, it will fall. Therefore, curiosity greatly increases the level of memorization. Moreover, the information may relate to absolutely any field of knowledge or creativity. Above all, do not let your brain rust.
2. Write notes by hand
Students nowadays increasingly turn to electronic media for help to save information. However, few of them know that the good old manuscript lectures contribute much more to the memorization of material. Of course, the iPhone of the latest model is a good occasion to boo before classmates, but if you are really worried about the development of your intellect, then limit yourself to buying notebooks and pens.
1. Use unusual fonts
Many people are aware of the fact that the quality of remembering the information given depends on the font of the text: some of them are “absorbed” by the user literally in one breath, and you feel tired after others after a few paragraphs. Therefore, in publishing houses and when creating Internet resources, a fairly limited set of fonts is used, accelerating the process of memorizing text.
However, the researchers also insist that it is better to read a complex and difficult-to-remember text, filled with an unusual, maybe even a bit pretentious style.