After thirty years, many begin to complain of a bad memory. Why is it getting worse? How can you train your memory? You will find answers to these and other questions in this article.
Our memory can deteriorate as a result of a traumatic brain injury, as well as other diseases, constant stressful situations, sleep disorders, alcoholism, smoking, taking drugs, reaching a certain age.
So try to exercise, get enough sleep and eat right. During exercise, brain cells are supplied with oxygen, which has a significant impact on memory, and such an important component of the daily routine as he althy sleep improves brain function. Try not to get into stressful situations, as stress causes huge damage to memory. Include complex carbohydrates such as legumes, whole grain bread, oatmeal, brown rice, lentils, and foods rich in fatty acids such as fish, fish oil, flaxseed oil.
The best way to develop memory is to train it. Read a variety of literature that is not related to your main activity, try to remember the lyrics of the songs you listen to, communicate more often with differentpeople, play mentally demanding games such as chess.
The best exercise that develops memory is breaking its usual boundaries, forcing the brain to find other ways. If you have never solved puzzles or crosswords before, then it's time to do it! You can study foreign languages or learn to play any musical instrument.
Memory is the process of imprinting, storing, reproducing information.
Memory happens:
- emotional, based on feelings and experiences;
- motor - on memorization and reproduction of actions, movements;
- figurative - on imprinting information with the help of auditory, visual or tactile receptors;
- logical, based on the thought process. A person is dominated by any of these types of memory. The main memory that prevails in a dancer is motor, in an artist it is figurative, in an actor it is emotional.
You can train your memory by doing the following exercises:
- Do things with your left hand instead of your right hand, such as brushing your teeth.
- Move your pupils up and down, left and right for about 30 seconds. Touch your left knee to your right elbow and vice versa.
- Draw geometric shapes on paper with both hands together: circle - right, square - left. After 10 seconds, change the pattern for each of the hands.
- If you need, for example, to remember the name "Ivan Vasilyevich", start remembering Ivanushka from the fairy tale "Ohbrother Ivanushka and sister Alyonushka" and the cat Vaska.
- Learn verses consisting of several columns, add a line every day.
- Memorizing the text, underline the main words and say them out loud. Read the text carefully. It should be clear to you.
- Remembering the phone number, break it into 2-3 digits. Identify number with birthday, age, anniversary, apartment number.
- While on the road, observe what is happening around, and then close your eyes and remember what you saw or heard.
Hope you can get great results in your memory training and learn that memory is something to cherish! Good luck!
