Great Tips for Recharging Your Memory
Memory can be a prickly thing, can’t it? Personally, I’ve always wondered how the same brain that can recall every single word of every single Janet Jackson, Fergie, and Shania Twain song can forget to grab milk. Especially when it’s the very thing I went to the store for in the first place. But there you have it, sometimes the brain is on our side and sometimes it seems to be playing its own game. And keeping the rules to itself.
It seems that, for me anyway, the busier I am… the more proverbial pots I have on the proverbial stove… the more apt I am to overlook this, misplace that, and forget whatever it was all together.
I read a super article about Recharging Your Memory on Prevention.com today. One of the suggestions hit home for me. I lost my cell phone a few days ago (a common occurance; it just can’t keep up).
I needed to leave immediately but since my husband sweats bullets when my cell doesn’t ride shotgun with me, I knew I needed to find it asap. The panic was quickly rising from my toes toward my head, and since I’m 5′3 - it’s a short trip. When I was pretty much waist deep in it, I took a deep breath and cleared my head. Then I retraced my steps and ….aha!…. it had been watching a documentary on King Tut with me. Sure enough, there it was next to my favorite chair - lingering long after the credits had rolled.
As the article says, “Re-creating the situation puts it into some context, which makes your memory work better.”
When you get a chance, check out Tips to Recharge Your Memory. Great stuff.
{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
You couldn’t jump and reach 5′3″.
And take better care of that dang phone !
Great article you found, I’ve come across some of those tips before but many of them were new to me.
I’m fairly young, so I haven’t experienced any severe decline in memory yet… but the slips are there every now and then.
In my experience, nutrition is really important - I love my fish oil pills! ~ I eat them like candy, after all they are just healthy fats in capsule form. The bottle says take 1 pill three times day… I take 6 pills 3x a day, and ever since I started doing this last year my memory has been rock solid.
Worth a shot ~ Jason
Mike - funny, dearest, very funny! I could totally jump and reach 5′3″ - I think.
Jason - great tip. I’m reading up on memory advice now, BEFORE I get older - hopefully I won’t become one of those people who enter a room and can’t remember if they’re arriving or leaving. I actually saw a great uncle do that once!
Thanks for the words of wisdom, Jason!
And, Michael….er…thanks? - Joi
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