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It will start with some small incident like for­getting the birthday of a col­league. Then you will start to forget the birthdays of people close to you. After that, it will be the turn of the dir­ections to your favorite res­taurant and then god forbid, you will forget your own keys inside your home. We all suffer from moments of for­get­fulness but sometimes, things go worse that you find ways to make your memory better.

Although we are not all blessed with a pho­to­graphic memory, there are ways to at least improve what we are given and make us a little less for­getful. This is espe­cially true with people who are already growing older. As we age, the neurons in our brains also age. Some die while others perform slower than usual. This is why people who are older have faultier memories than their much younger counterparts.

But hey, as men­tioned, there are ways to improve memory. Here are some of them:

1. Use visuals or sounds

Depending on what kind of learner you are, people can either use visuals and sounds to remember something. For instance, if you are trying to remember a to-​​do list, all you need to do is stare at the paper and you will be able to see in your mind the list. There are people however who need to hear the list of their to-​​dos before they can remember everything that they have to do. To find out which technique will work for you, try remem­bering how you memorize in school. Do you read the words silently or read them out loud?

2. Use associations

Our brains also need help when it comes to remem­bering things. The easier we make the remem­bering task for the brain, the better it will be able to remember the information. This is where asso­ci­ations come in. Asso­ciating information with things that we already know or things that we can see is a technique that has been utilized in improving memory. For instance, have you heard of mne­monics? When mem­orizing a set of words, we often take the first letter of that word and then form a sentence or words from those letters. Asso­ciating the word that we are trying to memorize with the first letter makes it easier for our brain.

3. Visualize it

Do you ever wonder why pho­to­graphic memory is the term use for people with really excellent memory? This is because people who really memorize well or have great memories do not see one item or one information when com­mitting them to memory. They see a picture of the words in group. For instance, a person with a grocery list will usually memorize the items one by one but people who learned to improve their memories will memorize it as a whole. They will look at the list and visualize it as a whole until they can see the list in their mind’s eye.

4.  Eat right

Another important way to improve memory is to check what you eat. Your diet will factor a lot in your ability to memorize things. Eating nutritious foods will help your brain perform better and faster. This is espe­cially true when eating known brain foods like tofu, milk and fish.

There are many ways to make your memory better but the most important thing is to commit to the task and promise to improve it no matter what.

This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​01-​​24 14:13:18.