Memory mine
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Memory is vital for human life and development. It allows us to learn from experiences, develop skills, and function in daily life. The document discusses the importance and types of memory, how memories are stored in the brain, and techniques for improving memory like concentration, association, rehearsal, acronyms, and maintaining brain health. Poor memory can be caused by diseases, lifestyle factors, or nutritional deficiencies, and while no medicines directly improve memory, a healthy lifestyle and diet are recommended to support memory function.
Memory mine
- 1. Do you know The Amazing mine of memories?
- 2. Memory is a wonder. It is very vital to support life. It is astonishing a new born baby recognizes mother. From there memory stores lakhs, crores of incidents, experiences, stream of info help to develop our personality. We depend on memory through out our life. Right from brushing in the morning, recognizing persons, items, places we come across in our daily life memory play crucial role hence we love it so much.
- 3. We are dreaded with the word forgot. For students it is a nightmare. How to catch hold of it, protect it and improve upon it? We must know what affect and protect memory is important to know. We may travel in auto talk to driver forget it with in minutes. We may be walking alone encounter closely with a snake on a rainy evening will create a impact on memory and remember life long. Why is it so? some we forget and some we don’t?
- 4. Memory is very clever forget unimportant things very quickly remember useful things for long. Memory store the info with lightening speed erases unimportant info with same speed. This is constant activity. When we travel we see many things but remember only very vital things. There are important steps about memory. Viz. 1. register, 2. concentrate, 3. store
- 5. •Register is 1st step the info not registered will not be in memory. •Concentrate is vital to register in memory more so while reading, learning etc •Registered info is stored retrieved in need. Some are easy to recall some need effort. Memory is broadly 2 types Temporary (Working Memory) Long term (By Rehearsals) Memory remember info for 3- 5 secs only. Eg. Hoardings. If you see an appealing one may be for 30-40 secs.
- 6. Many types of memories viz. explicit, implicit. Explicit are again 2 types Episodic - personal things like native place, education, experiences, issues, things, people Semantic - generalized issues like GK. Learnt from out side. Implicit also known as procedural memory about our skills. They are for life long – driving, cycling, swimming, computer, abacus are used when needed.
- 7. Where Memories are stored? Some parts are vital. Temporary memories stored in frontal lobe. If recall frequently stored in temporal lobe as long term memories specifically in Hippocampus. If temporary memory is not converted to long term they can not be remembered. If converted can not be forgotten easily. Hence they are crucial areas for memory any damage to these areas may result in memory loss of this long term memories.
- 8. When we learn we have to concentrate to register, recall in need as long term memory. Hence concentration while learning subject/ arts, studying, working, researching is highly essential. That is the key for good memory. Base for memory is registration, then retention & retrieval when in need. If registration is not proper memory is not strong. Insomnia, exhaustion, worry prevents concentration and registration.
- 9. How to improve memory? By heart is not good always but at times inevitable like learning tables. Let us see other methods Acronyms: Remembering info in short forms. Eg. VIBGYOR Acrostics: To remember long info select vital words and make sentence. Rhymes: Remember info as rhymes or songs Losai: Remember the order of info while lecturing Chunking: To remember phone no link it to place, person, incidence Rehearsal: Memorizing the info frequently. Association: Link it to a particular experience, incidence
- 10. Why our memory is reduced: many like Diseases like Alzheimer's •Nutritional deficiencies •Hormonal imbalance •Alcohol, smoking •Sleeplessness •Exhaustion •Anxiety •Secluded life •Depression •Loss of near & dear •Certain drugs •Accidents They can be corrected through proper treatments.
- 11. Any medicines to improve memory? Honestly no. but mostly emotions, lack of concentration, worry, depression affect memory. Some medicines may support temporarily. For memory boost concen- tration is very vital than medicines. Dhyaanaa, meditation reduces stress make us calm improve concentration and memory. For Alzheimer's medicines may support to some extent only.
- 12. Memory loss due to nutritional deficiencies can be corrected with walnuts, almonds, flax seeds, millets, green vegetables, fresh fruits, dry fruits like anjeer, khajoor, kish- miss help a lot. Ayurvedic foods with medicinal values like Brahmi, Mandukaparni, Sankhapushpi, Desi cow ghee help a lot especially in growing children, convalescing and elderly.
- 13. Learning a new language, Indian classical music, abacus, veda ganitham, solving cross word puzzles, participating in quiz programmes keep brain active improve memory. Daily Suryanamaskaaraas, Sarvaangaasana learnt from sadguru helps to improve memory by activating the brain function. Pranaayaamaa, Jala neti, sutra neti, nasya karma, Siroodhaara improve oxygen to brain cells Improve memory remarkably
- 14. For more info K S N Murthy Wellness Consultant 98480 13958 healthxlnc@gmail.com www.facebook.com/snanayoga Sreyas Ayurvedic Family counseling center