Keeps it Ticking!

Are you one of those who have to set a reminder on her cell for every little thing? If you are, then it’s time to give your brain a bit of a boost! read more...

Here’s a quick test: What did you have for dinner last night? What did you wear to work yesterday? Which class is very interesting yesterday? What you talk with your girl friend? If you took more than five minutes to answer these questions, it’s time you started paying a little attention to your humble brain that’s always in overdrive.

SHOO AWAY STRESS

Nothing bogs down your brain as much as stress. A McGill research suggests that impaired memory has more to do with stress. In fact, chronic stress leads to depression. So, make sure that you don’t let anything negative dominate you. Take time out for yourself from work. Practice deep breathing and yoga. Meet old friends. Indulge in activities that make you happy. Stop worrying too much!

THE BRAIN WORKOUT

Keeping the brain active also increases its strength. Psychiatrist Dr.Sanjay Chugh says, “Solving crosswords and mind puzzles like Sudoku act like stimulants for your brain and can do wonders to enhance your mental ability.” If puzzles aren’t your cup of tea, try books.

FEED YOUR MIND

Since your brain is always on, it’s time to give it a special treat. After all, it also deserves the right balance of nutrients. Reduce your intake of foods high in fats and cholesterol. Vegetables such as spinach, broccoli and beet and fruits, like plums strawberries, oranges and grapes are good brain foods.

DON’T WEIGH ME DOWN

Obesity is a silent killer. We all know that. But did you know that excess weight can also cause brain drain? A study conducted at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm confirms that those who are obese are twice as likely to suffer from impaired memory in later life. Eat well (but moderation) and keep a tab on the diet balance. Make your workout your religion – walk, skip, cycle, swim, ride, dance, jog! And, perhaps most grey cells tick – tock – ticking away….. read summary...

Managing Time – Part 3

Another method by which one can remember things is by repetition. As a child one might have noticed the teacher asking the children to repeat the mathematical tables a number of times and then checking back whether they remember it or not. You may forget the way to your friend’s house if you go there once only. Once, but if happen to go there everyday for a week you automatically tend to remember it.

Creating necessary atmosphere and ambience during study time also enhances the memory. If you are sitting in a study room with variety of noises coming from outside your task of remembrance is made doubly difficult. Sit in a peaceful, cool and comfortable room. Don’t allow and extraneous factors to distract you and then a single reading might be enough to remember the subject for a long time. Blind reading without first trying to understand the underlying concept makes it very difficult to remember. If you have understood the concept thoroughly then you need not have to put so much of effort to remember the facts.

Human brain is the most complex organ and many researches have yielded very little on the thought and memory processes that take place in it. It is the single most disguising factor between man and an animal. However, most researches have proved that the capacity to remember or the kilo bytes of the human computer are limited. It all depends on how you put it to good use. Don’t go by the fake claims of quacks and glamorous advertising of medicines that enhance memory. Rather than doing good they cause harm with their endless side effects. As the capacity is limited, one should be a good manager of his own memory resource. Don’t try to remember everything and anything under the sky. It is impossible. Try to figure out the important from the unimportant and the ones to remember from those that are not intended. Surely success would be at your door step.

Know Your Power – 2

The other reason why you would remember something is that you want to remember it and remember it at any cost. Suppose you think the Newton’s Laws of Motion are very important for tomorrow’s exam and you would like to remember it. So you start reading with the purpose of remembering it. Hence you never forget it. The reason why you remember an algebraic formula and forget what Kene said to Abel just after their first meeting in Jefrey Arche’s “Kene and Abel” is that while you have read the former with a purpose the later was read casually. So while you are preparing for your exam don’t take anything casually, read with a purpose and you are bound to remember it.
Connecting and interlinking issues also helps in remembering things. Suppose the telephone number of your friend is 222365. It may be difficult to remember it just like that but it would become so simple and easy to remember if you link it up as a double Nelson over number of days in a year. Similar was a case with an equation called Bending moment equation in Engineering. The equation is E/R = M/I = F/Y. students had lot of problems in remembering it. Hence all easy way was developed to remember it as “Elizabeth Rani May I Frighten You”. So if you start linking up and connecting things than remembrance would be that much simple.

Know Your Power - 1

Can you recollect without making any effort as to what all you remember. Well, you may remember your name, your parents, siblings and your close relatives name, names of the staff in your office, your own address and telephone number and might be the address and telephone number of your fiancée, etc, but what makes you remember these things as against say, the date when you purchased your new shoes.

An analysis of these factors which make you remember certain things against others would go a long way in enhancing your memory or the capability to store which is one of the vital factors of success. The foremost reason why you would like to remember an event or a particular person is that you love them. Well we may always like to cherish and remember the moments which we have spent on a date but you had a quarrel with your neighbor. So the basic attribute that has to be developed to enhance the memory is to develop love towards the subject that you are studying. Love your subject as you love your girl friend, the chances are that in 99 out of 100 cases you remember it.

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