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5 Steps To Improving Memory and Concentration

By Brian on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012 | No Comments

Why you should Improve Concentration and Memory Together

First lets look at what concentration and memory are individually. Concentration is when you direct your mental power towards a specific task or activity.Memory is the ability to recall past experiences info and personal relationships. In reality improving your concentration and improving your memory go hand-in-hand together. To improve one without the other makes no sense at all. If you improve your memory on its own, your results will be far lower and improvement far slower, than if you worked on your concentration and memory together.

I would like to show you to five easy steps to improving your concentration and memory.

Step one:
Be stress free and relaxed. You’ll find it far easier to concentrate and improve your memory in a relaxed state of mind. Try taking a couple deep breaths put on some relaxing music and forget about all your days tasks and worries. Only in a relaxed state of mind can we truly start to work on improving concentration and memory.

Step two:
Remember! To improve your concentration and memory you should be challenging yourself. Challenging yourself should also be fun. One of the keys to boosting brainpower is actually having fun. Science has now proven that laughter and fun activities enhance your learning ability greatly.

So put yourself in challenging situations. But keep in mind that improving your memory and concentration is supposed to be fun. So the next time you pick up a crossword puzzle and your starting to get frustrated, take a couple deep breaths and remember this is supposed to be fun. One of the best ways I find to improving my memory and concentration is to watch a comedy movie. Then after the movie I like to recall all the funniest moments. Sharing these moments with friends brings laughter to the table. It’s easy fun and a great way to boost my memory and concentration skills.

Step three:
Learn a new language. Learning a new language stimulates different parts of the brain and has now been proven to actually grow new neural pathways and tissues. This growth and development of the brain is called neuronal plasticity. Learning a new language brings a whole field of new challenges to the table. We are taken out of our comfort zone and into a new line of communication. Amazingly as many people say to start a new language can be quite difficult. But as time goes on your improvement rate increases at a faster rate. The size of your brain expands and creates new memory folders for your new language and the bigger it gets the faster it learns.

Step four:
Engage in exercises and activities that use the tips of your fingers. One of the best ways to do this is to learn a musical instrument. By using the tips of your fingers your brain is sending signals from the brain to the ends of your fingers giving your brain a mental workout. Your coordination will improve, concentration will improve and therefore your memory will to. Learning a musical instrument can be very rewarding and to some a lucrative trade.

Step five:
Be social. In a social environment our brains work overtime. The best way to increase concentration and memory is to be engaged in conversation you’re having. Too many times people find themselves in a social environment and just plain daydreaming. Be aware of the person you’re talking to, engage with them, reply to the conversation. By just being aware and engaging in the conversation, you will improve your memory and concentration. You’ll also have far stronger relationship with the people you converse with. Too many times people blame a bad memory on an actual lack of concentration.

So remember if you’re trying to improve your memory it is vital that you work on your concentration techniques at the same time. The two go hand in hand like peas in a pod!

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Your Memory: How It Works And How To Improve It As A Result Of Greater Social Contacts And Enhanced Group Interactions

By Brian on Thursday, June 9th, 2011 | No Comments

This is an article about your memory: how it works and how to improve it. Research increasingly informs us that more group engagement delays memory loss as we get older. This is not surprising because relating to other people exercises the memory at numerous levels. As we understand more about how memory operates we recognize that earlier experiences are steadily being recalled and associated with current perceptions and thoughts. When the resulting associations are themselves saved for future use, the memory is extended.

That is why solid social interaction with friends, family and community members can strengthen our brain health as we get older. It also reinforces the insight that social seclusion is a key risk factor for mental and emotional decline for seniors. Recently the Harvard School of Public Health reviewed data from the Health And Retirement Study which observed adults who were 50 years old or more. The subjects of the research completed memory tests every two years. The researchers also evaluated the social pursuits of study participants based on marital status, volunteer activities and contact with parents, children and neighbors. The outcomes showed that folks in their 50s and 60s who pursued a significant quantity of social activity also had the slowest rate of memory loss. In fact, when they were compared to folks who were the least socially active, those who had the greatest socialization scores had less than half the rate of memory loss.

When our aging friends say, “I really want to know how to improve my memory,” it is not difficult for us to suggest to them to get out of the house as often as possible. Sadly, the growing importance of social interaction occurs at a time of life when people are most vulnerable to isolation. Deteriorating health, decreasing traditional support systems, the increasing independence of younger children and relatives and cynical expectations about aging merge to bring about loneliness and depression, which lead to accelerating health decline, and so forth. This is not necessary.

Those who are dealing with these symptoms of aging are the least capable of assisting themselves to break free of the cycles that will inevitably take away the potential for a great quality of living. It is critically important that those who care for and about them intervene, if necessary, to disrupt the cycle of aging, isolation, depression and physical decline. This is not always easy in a community that values self-sufficiency and non-interference. However, if we value our aging populace we must admit that they are not as independent as they were, or as they think they are, or as they would like to be. We must find new ways to help them preserve their socialization opportunities and, thus, their memories. There are many ways to address the problems of aging and memory. Technology is one such means, and social resources can offer many others. Nonetheless, it is quite likely to be up to those of us who owe them so much to pay it back by considerately nudging them back into society when we see them slipping away.

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Humans Have More Than Seven Forms of Intelligence-which is Yours?

By Brian on Sunday, June 5th, 2011 | No Comments

An American professor of psychology, Howard Gardner has identified at least seven forms of human intelligence. Social intelligence is one of these seven. Social intelligence has two components. One is the ability to access one’s own emotional life or to ‘look into the inner self’. This involves the ability to understand and to control one’s own behavior and actions. For example, this happens when we feel stress or anxiety and the ability or self-awareness to not let these feelings interfere with the quality of a decision. Psychotherapists have a perfect understanding of these feelings and have deep insight into them. Philosophers and authors also have the ability to verbalise their feelings in an exact and self-critical way.

Successful politicians and religious leaders have horned this form of Emotional Quotient, or EQ very well. Good teachers and gifted parents with this ability can put themselves into another person’s position and work well with that person. They can do this very well because they are sensitive to the mood fluctuations, temperaments, motives and aims of people around them, and are able to measure them against their own emotions. A person who has very good social intelligence is able to therefore merge the two facets, that is, to ‘look to the outside’, combined with the ability to ‘look into the inner self’.

Together with the two facets of social intelligence, Howard Gardner has identified a range of other talents. The first of these is language, which is a universal ability of humans transcending all cultures, despite the differences. Poets, scriptwriters, editors and public speakers generally have a high degree of linguistic intelligence. The second is, logical-mathematical intelligence that is shared by all people. The third variety of intelligence is spatial orientation. This ability transcends time. It was just as important when early men hunted animals or crossed oceans to discover new land, as it is now when we need to drive safely on roads or to fly jets. This talent is also important in some professions such as sculpture, architecture. The fourth variety of intelligence is physical-kinaesthetic intelligence, which enables us to remember movements throughout our lives. Anyone who has learnt to play an instrument or ride a bicycle will never lose this ability. Finally, there is musical intelligence. Everyone has an innate ability to appreciate music and rhythm and everyone is a potential musician. We can readily convert tones, harmonies and rhythms into music. Musical intelligence comprises the set of tools we use to do this.

Other intelligence include the ability to use all our other skills and perception to memorise and make sense of the abstract, for example numbers and mathematical formulas. Our brains have a natural ability to think in pictures and this intelligence has in the past allowed early men to communicate. Examples can be found in cave drawings by primitive men, modern form of Chinese characters originating from pictures of animals or other forms of nature, and hieroglyphics used by the ancient Egyptians. In modern times, the ability to think in pictures or make mental movies in our mind has helped many to achieve incredible feats of memory as well as accelerated learning.

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