Some Easy Ways to Improve Your Memory
1) Avoid eating a diet high in junk food with a lot of sugar, refined carbohydrates and fried, fatty foods. Your brain cells can be easily damaged and undernourished so include a lot of fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fish in your diet.
3) When you are trying to learn and remember something important, say it out loud either to yourself or to other people. Making the effort to speak the words and hearing yourself say them will get more of your brain cells involved in forming the memory.
4) When you need to learn something new, a good way to understand it and remember it much better is to get a study buddy or a conversation partner, and try teach the other person what you are learning. This is a good way to signal your brain that what you are learning is important.
5) Learn how to create and use mind maps to organize your information. A mind map will show you at a glance how the different parts of what you are learning can fit together, and many people can learn better by using mind maps than by writing out notes the traditional way.
6) If you are having problems with your memory, ask your doctor or pharmacist whether any prescription drugs you are taking might be the cause of your memory difficulties. If any of your prescribed drugs are known to cause memory problems, ask if you can be prescribed a lower dose, or switched to another medication altogether.
7) Being depressed can interfere with your ability to form memories or to recall them later. If you frequently feel sad, or if your life feels blank and empty, have yourself evaluated for depression, and get treated for this condition if necessary.
8) Avoid using drugs and alcohol. These brain altering substances can interfere with your long term ability to think, learn, and remember.
9) Make up little rhymes and songs to help you remember important information. It’s often a lot easier to remember facts that have been made into a song or a rhyme, such as “Thirty days hath September, April, June and November”.
10) Practice staying present in the moment and paying attention to the details of each experience. This will help you to better remember all the details later.
11) Include a lot of berries in your diet that have dark red and blue colored skins. In an experiment where aging rats were fed a diet high in blueberries, their memory losses reversed and they grew new brain cells.
12) Your brain will learn and remember better if you involve as many of your senses in your learning as possible. Instead of simply reading about something, also talk about what you are learning, write about it, and even create a drawing, or painting or song, or do some other related activity.
13) When you need to remember several unrelated items, use the first letter of each word and try to make a word out of it that will help you remember them. For example, if you need to buy bread, milk, apples, ink and bananas, you could use the first letter of each word to create the word “BAMBI” to jog your memory.
14) Focus on doing one task at a time and concentrating on one topic at a time. When you try to do too many things at once, your mind will be distracted and it will be difficult to perform every task as well as you need to, and difficult to remember what you need to remember.
15) Many studies have shown that the brain benefits from regular physical exercise. Find some form of exercise you really enjoy, and make it a regular part of your life.
This article was written by self help expert Royane Real. To improve the way your brain works, get her new book “How You Can Be Smarter – Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” Download it today at http://www.royanereal.com