Can Your Memory Improve?
If you’d really like to know if your memory can improve with age have a go at the following. Take a minute to memorise the following list:
Clock
Picture
Speaker
Statue
Toe
VW Beetle
Angel
Mountain
Guinness Book of Records
Rose
Now get a sheet of paper and recall as many as you can.
How did you get on. Note your score.
Now lets go on a journey in your mind. Take your time to really imagine the following, take a couple of deep breaths and relax. Aim to read this once and recall the ten items perfectly – You can if you think you can!
Imagine you are standing outside your house, facing your front door. What colour is your front door? Close your eyes and check. If you know this means you can visualise which is necessary for the following memory exercise. Now imagine going through your front door and into your hall. Look to your left and imagine you see a huge old CLOCK with a big smiley happy face again. As you continue to look around the hall in a clockwise direction look up on the wall and there hanging is the most beautiful PICTURE you’ve ever seen. Notice the gold frame, the image in the picture and the wonderful colours. As you continue to look clockwise around your hall you see giant state of the art SPEAKER and out of it is coming wonderful baroque music which makes you feel so good!
Now turn into your toilet (imagine one if you havent got one). Again look to your left as you enter the room and as you do, you get a real surprise as you see a STATUE of yourself staring right at you. With a smile on your face you turn clockwise and then your smile gets even wider as you see the giant TOE sitting on the toilet seat, doing you know what! As you look further clockwise to where the sink is you notice its actually a VW BEETLE which has been turned upside down – amazing!
From the toilet go back into your hall and then into the kitchen. As you go through the door you look to your left and there bowing down welcoming you into the heart of the house is the most divine looking ANGEL! Her wings embrace you helping you feel so so warm. As you turn clockwise you walk straight into a green MOUNTAIN which has just appeared on the kitchen sink! Well if you cant go through it you must go … around it and in a clockwise direction and there cooking on your cooker in a pot is your dinner, which tonight is … the GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS! And it surely will be a record if you eat it! So you wonder what its all about but alas you decide to sit at the table to figure it all out. Now this isent any ordinary table because its a layered table, each layer representing a petal of a ROSE.
Now go stretch your legs for a few moments. When you come back get a sheet of paper and recall as many of the ten items as you can. If you recall more than you did earlier then since you are now older than you were, it proves that memory can improve with age!
It’s all in the mind!
Sean M Kelly B.Sc. Dip (Appl.Sc) Mast NLP
Founder
MindMatters.com
Tags: exercise your memory, improve your memory, loci method, memory, memory pegs
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