We forget passwords from personal accounts, leave the keys on
the nightstand in the hallway, remember an important meeting five minutes before it starts. Is it possible to configure your brain to work without bugs? Certainly! It’s all about training.
Why memory worsens? There are many reasons: stress, lack of sleep, the head is busy with the calculations of the mortgage, and there is absolutely no time to eat normally. In addition, we trust many processes to the smartphone – it stores our memories: favorite photos, necessary files, phone numbers;The navigator shows us a route, we consider it not in mind, but with a calculator.
In daily reality, we no longer need to rely only on our own memory. And everything that is not used is lost. And the memory does not go alone. Together with her, we are left a calm dream and concentration of attention.
You can return the ability to memorize and even make it a subject of pride with the help of “fitness for the brain”, neuropsychologist Lev Malazonia encourages us. Only we will train we will not be biceps and triceps, but visual and auditory memory. At the end of the training, we will pay attention to the work “with heavy weight” – we will improve long -term memory. This is what a neuropsychologist offers.
We train visual memory
Since childhood, we know that «it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times». How to remember what once saw and took it to the «Important» section? Here are two practices.
«Artist without a brush»
You always wanted to draw? Create drawings without canvas and brushes, using only the imagination. Look at your favorite hibiscus or at any item you like. Close your eyes and imagine it in all details. Remember each detail and mentally layer by layer apply strokes to your masterpiece. Imagine how new objects appear in the picture, colors. Open your eyes, roll back with reality.
«Rozer in the text»
Take an unfamiliar book, a newspaper, even a string of a social network is suitable. Let the fragment be small. For example, how this paragraph. Open the text, read and close immediately. Try to recall the essence of what has been written. In the process of training, gradually increase the text fragments. And in a couple of weeks add a highlight: make an arbitrary letter and try to recall how many times it met in the passage.
We train the auditory memory
If you are a student, a regular participant in the glider, a lover of podcasts or work for reconnaissance, then the ability to remember an important superpower for you from hearing. Add a couple more practitioners to training.
«Wiretap»
You will need an online Dictor or any application capable of reading a text with the desired speed. Copy a fragment of the text in which at least ten words. This can be a list of terms on the topic studied, the names of colleagues, the city of the world or interesting facts. The application will voice it and save on a smartphone. You will get the opportunity to run this short track at any time to train to remember it from hearing. Listen to the audio recording until you completely remember it. You can’t peep into printed text. We train auditory memory!
«In the footsteps of Miss Marp»
You walk and know very well how many steps to improve your health per day? During walks in a park or on the way to the office, continue to train your memory and after a couple of months you will become a genius of perception of information by ear. Where to begin? Listen to what passers -by pronounces, remember random scraps of phrases. After a walk, remember the sequence in which you heard these phrases. The peculiarity of the technique is that the phrases are in no way related – associations and visual images will help to remember them. Therefore, at the same time you will develop associative thinking.
