Memory tip for 5th of April 2011

Yesterday I told you about importance of what you eat in terms of improving your memory. Today I want to give you a tip that would help you to memorize materials which you want to learn for exams or similar stuff. The tip is: try to organize the stuff you are learning. When you study you will start noticing that there are some similar ideas, concepts and notions in the text. What you have to do is try to group, structure and organize these things into units and then try to remember them.

You need to organize the things according to the level of importance. Some information in the text will be very important, some less, some absolutely unimportant. So, you start putting the most important information with all of its’ ideas and concepts as number one in your mind, then going to less important and finishing with the least important. Sequencing is very important if you want to remember things better. Try to develop your own system of remembering and putting things in chunks or a sequence. In this way you will learn how to remember one thing after another. 

Read my previous posts:

Importance of healthy diet for your memory

Safeguard your memory by avoiding stress

Memory tip for 30th of March 2011

Yesterday my tip for improving your memory was to think in images and to develop your imagination. Today I wanted to give you a tip on what to do when you forget something. How do you remember a thing that you have forgotten? I do not want to say that I am going to present you some magic formula for remembering things, but it is quite useful tip for awakening your powers to remember things, which you might think are impossible to remember. 

So, if you have forgotten something try to remember where you were at the time when you could remember. Try to find little details that would lead you to remember a thing, an event, a name, an important meeting, who said what and etc. Thinking about details surrounding the thing make your memory work harder without causing stress. On the contrary, it eliminates the block that is usually placed on your memory when you try to remember something. Do not try to remember the thing exactly, but only details around it. This will help you to avoid the stress and the block. I hope you remember times when you forget something and the harder you try, the more difficult it is to remember what you need to remember. Don’t do that. Think about details surrounding the thing. And you will succeed. This information is in your mind, it simply has to come up. Just help your brain to retrieve it. Good luck. 

Read my previous posts:

Use your imagination to remember

Try to remember what you did today