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Visualizing How to Sharpen Short Term Memory

Short-term memory is a storage compartment in the brain that stores memories for a very short time. Inside the short-term memory are small areas where everything you see, hear, smell, touch, taste and so on stores temporarily. The information captured by your eyes, ears, nose mouth and so on leaks through a channel of circuits and while you can't remember now, does not mean the memories are not still actively roaming about in your brain. In order to retrieve memories from the mind a trigger has to hit. In other words if a person says something associating with what you want to remember, or the television displays a picture that associates what you are trying to remember, thus you have a trigger.

Some of the best aids for calling up memories are using visualizations, imagery, associations and so on. You can use tactics such as organizing the thoughts to find specifics. As you find the specifics and categorize them, then start making the information meaningful, creating associations, learning the first time, relaxing, creating images, reciting and repeating, taking notes, reducing interferences, learning above average, escape traps, use strategies at peaceful hours, distribute your learning, alert, choosing, combine memory tactics, distract mind, note memories, use memories, and remember what you remember.

Consider the mind as a group of horses grazing in a pasture. Think of the horses each time they pass along a trail, considering the twigs, grass, and broken branches and the like trampled down. The short-term memory is those broken and tramped on elements in this visualization.

Neural traces are those twigs and other elements the horses have trampled on. Yet, while the memories are those elements they still exist and it takes tactics to pull them back to life. Ironically, the more the memories are frayed, the more likely you will pull them up along the way. For instance, if you buy a new computer it will take time for you to remember the keys, features and the like. After about a week your memory takes hold of your actions, observations and so forth. The memory is then stored in the proper area of the mind, and each time you type on the computer you will know the keys and features.

Through the process of visualization, you can form images in the mind that will help you to associate with memories. Give it a shot.

Visualize yourself going back to a time in your life. For instance, you are traveling to a new area where the scenery is captivating. As you travel the path, you notice people, cars, sounds, smells, actions, grass, mountains, and so forth. Now in your mind you know that you have visited this area. Yet, you just can't pinpoint the time in your life you were there.

Travel down the road visually and mentally as you capture each detail in the picture. As you continue the process the imageries, gradually you will start to recall details that leads up to the memories. Start repeating the details so that you can connect by associating the timeframe with additional objects that come into play. Take note of each detail in the visual that appears important. Write it down.

Now you can move from the general thoughts and visuals up to the specifics. Once you arrive at this portion of the tactics to remember, you can jot down the general ideas or associations that help you move toward remember, and gradually work into the specifics.

As you discover associations and details, make them meaningful by relating each part of the details and associations to your thoughts. This will help you to formulate new information. As you move along continue the processes until all your memories come together.