Automated Brain Tutorial 43
 YOUR BRAIN'S AMAZING MEMORY SKILLS

MEMORY PROCESS

YOUR AMAZING MEMORY SKILLS

    [1] Sensory memory

    [2] Information forgotten

    [3] Short term memory

    [4] Transfer (consolidation)

    [5] Long term memory due to repetition or perceived high significance

    [6] Information recalled if consolidated well as long term memory

    [7] Information recalled for a short time since it was not consolidated

    [8] Information forgotten if not repeated
    Your amazing ability to remember --- your priceless memory --- is actually a complicated process that involves several regions of your brain. When a "nerve impulse" passes through a cell in your brain or nervous system sending an electrical charge or "message," the chemistry of the cell itself changes!

    As you learn a new idea, the new electrical pathways that are initially created enable you to remember that new idea for a few minutes. To remember an idea for a longer period of time, you must pay close attention to it and consciously think about it many more times in order to make your memory process more efficient.

    Thus the information you want to remember must be repeated many times or be interesting to you --- so you will consciously "associate" it with something else that is already in your memory.

    A proven way to improve your memory involves training yourself to accomplish three basic skills: LOOK, SNAP, and CONNECT!

    The following THREE effective memory skills can be easily learned:

      (1) LOOK --- Actively observe what you want to learn!

        Slow down, take notice, and focus on what you want to remember. Consciously absorb details and meaning from a new face, event or conversation.

      (2) SNAP --- Create mental "snapshots" of memories!

        Create a "mental snapshot" of the visual information you wish to remember. Add details to give the "snaps" (personal pictures) meaning to make them easier to learn and recall later.

      (3) CONNECT --- Link your "mental snapshots" together!

          Associate the "images-to-be-remembered" in a "chain," starting with the first image, which is associated with the second, the second with the third, and so forth. Be sure the first image helps you recall the reason for remembering the chain.

    For more details about this exciting new process for improving or restoring your memory (your ability to remember), see the book summary/excerpt from the new book, The Memory Bible, by the UCLA brain researcher, Gary Small.

    If you use these three simple memory skills, the idea or thing that you want to remember will truly become a part of you since a relatively permanent physical/chemical change takes place in your brain cells through the "spaced repetition!" process of memory enhancement.

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