To Improve Your Memory

 

Monday, 29 July 2013                                           
 How To Improve Your Memory
Memory has three features . Registration ,Retention, and Recall. To have a sharp memory all these features have to be good. Just as you cannot take a sharp picture from a camera without focusing properly on the object to be photographed, your mind will not register clearly anything that you rad or see or hear unless you are able to concentrate on it.
And you cannot concentrate on any object, unless it interest you. We learn from whom we like if you do not lik the teacher of a particular subject, you are not likely to learn  from him/her. Unless you have learnt to like a subject, you cannot concentrate on it.

Very small children love books and love to read. But reading soon become unpleasant to many, whose parents force them to read and whose parents express their displeasure when the child does not get as many marks as they  expect them to get.
Thus parents help associate reading and studying with unpleasantness in the minds of children. As a result your mind is occupied with worry and tension. A tense mind or worried mind cannot do the job of even registration, age first step in the memory mechanism. You cannot concentrate on studies or for that matter on anything else.
He tension in your mind could be due to any unresolved problem in your mind pertaining to marriage love ,job security etc.
Tension due to unresolved problems could be reduced , if not eliminated by expressing about them to someone whom you trust. In the dark , even small objets cast long shadows that frighten even age brave. In the presence of light you can see the object in their proper prospective. So when you give expression to your fears and worries, they become less frightening.

Have you at any time read the Gita ? One of the main teachings in the Gita is to keep doing what you consider as your duty without bothering much about the result of that duty. Such an attitude reduces the tension and worry associate with actions. Once you are prepared to face failure  with equanimity, registration of what you see, observe or hear improves immensely in quality. There will be very few thoughts to disturb you when you focus the camera of your mind on an experience be it reading or listening
The second feature of memory is retention. This experts tell us, has much to do with the number and quality of neurons you have depends on.
The genes you inherited from parents at age time of conception.
The kind of food your mother had when you were in her womb.
The kind  of food ( and opportunities) you had in the first three years of your life to increase the number of neurons.

Most of the brain growth takes place before the age of three and very marginal growth may take place till the age of ten)  no brain growth takes place after the age of ten. The number of neurons do not increase. You can decrease the number of active neurons 1 fear 2anger and hatred and 3anxiety.

Every time you get angry for afraid or tense), you  destroy hundreds of neurons. Of course you have millons of neurons. You need not unduly worry about losing neurons.

Another interesting observation made by scientists is that though you cannot increase the number of neurons. You can increase the efficiency of the neurons by taking up study-experiences while in a relaxed state of mind This can lead to new receptors being formed on the neurons, resulting in increased efficiency.

There are many methods of relaxation. You can slowly and rhythmically utter a mantra like Om tat sat and relax . even by saying one two three in a slow rhythmic manner. It is said , you can relax well.

You can relax just by concentrating on your breath or even  you pulse. You do not have to count the breaths or heart-beats, but, just focus your entire attention on them. By listening to slow, rhythmic music also, you can relax.

Let us examine the third feature or memory, recall. Suppose you have hidden a box containing gold at the bottom of lake behind your house. If you wish to recover it. The surface of that lake has to be clear. Only then you can see where it si . suppose as soon as you reach the lake , you throw pebbles on its surface. What will happen? There will be ripples from every stone. These will interfere with one another and the surface of the water will very much disturbed. There will be little chance of your locating where you have kept your box.

Something similar happens when you get disturbing thoughts at the time of recall, whether while answering your question paper or trying to recall what you have already studied, if you ar tense you may not be able to recall. Learn to relax while recalling . the ancient practice of saying prayers(bhajans etc.) are good for relaxation. (curtesy “Partha”)

Quote from the true Charm and power of Vedanta

What is the use of enjoyment of pleasures in this body which is assailed by lust, hatred, greed, delusion, fear, anguish, jealousy, separation from what is loved, hunger, thirst , old age, death, illness, grief, and others evils,?  Maitrayani Upanishad.

One attains infinite peace when one realizes that Blissful . One Who is subtler than the subtlest, Who creates the World in the midst of chaos, who assumes various forms, and Who is the only one that encompasses the universe.

  But, if He exists?

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.

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