After thirty years, many begin to complain of poor 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 may deteriorate as a result of traumatic brain injury, as well as other diseases, constant stressful situations, sleep disturbances, alcoholism, smoking, taking drugs, reaching a certain age.
Therefore, try to exercise, get enough sleep and eat right. During physical exercises, brain cells are supplied with oxygen, which has a significant effect on memory, and such an important component of the daily regimen, like healthy sleep, improves brain function. Try not to get into stressful situations, as stress causes huge memory damage. Introduce complex carbohydrates such as legumes, cereal bread, oatmeal, brown rice, lentils, as well as foods rich in fatty acids: fish, fish oil, linseed oil.
The best way to develop memory is to train it. Read a variety of literature that is not related to your type of main activity, try to remember the lyrics of the songs that you listen to, communicate more often with different people, play games that require mental stress, such as chess.
The best exercise that develops memory is a violation of its usual boundaries, forcing the brain to look for other ways. If you've 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 a process of imprinting, saving, reproducing information.
Memory happens:
- emotional, based on feelings and experiences;
- motor - to memorize and reproduce actions, movements;
- figurative - to capture information using auditory, visual or tactile receptors;
- logical, based on a thought process.
In humans, any of these types of memory predominates . The main memory that prevails in the dancer is motor, in the artist - figurative, in the actor - emotional.
You can train your memory by doing the following exercises:
- Perform actions not with your right but with your left hand, for example, brush your teeth.
- Move the pupils up and down, left and right for about 30 seconds. Touch the left knee of the 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 recalling Ivanushka from the tale "About Brother Ivanushka and Sister Alyonushka" and the cat Vaska.
- Learn verses consisting of several columns, add a line every day.
- Remembering the text, emphasize the main words and pronounce them aloud. Read the text carefully. It should be clear to you.
- Remembering the phone number, break it into 2-3 digits. Identify the number with a birthday, age, anniversary, apartment number.
- While on the road, watch what is happening around, and then close your eyes and remember what you saw or heard.
I hope that you can achieve great results in the training of memory and learn that memory is what you need to protect! Good luck