How To Remember Your Past

Sharpening Your Memory

I believe that visions can help you sharpen your short-term memory. The reason I say this is that through visualization you are able to see things that aren't necessarily there but are stored in your mind. For instance, at what time we lose someone that is close to us, we use visualization to see that person after the person is gone. We look at pictures of them and it takes us to that particular moment in time that the loved one was with us. I believe that your visions can be source of healing in this particular situation. Still, some visualization is real life images that drive you to the memories detail. Once you arrive at the detail, you can use associations to bring the memory to the front.

Visions are details of your memories. Visions hold the images that you remember, including thoughts, feelings, ideas, and the like. In order for you to be able to actually use visualization, you are going to have to be able to match the colors to the picture, use details to define the picture and use associations to connect the memories.

Visions can help you grow as well as sharpen your memories. Visions allow you to be able to see yourself at what time the memory took place. You will be shocked to visualize yourself then and now, you will realize that you yourself have changed. Take this for example, when I was younger I was a little trouble maker and I was a tomboy. However, now that I am older I am not a troublemaker and I am nowhere near being a tomboy even though I am still daddy's little girl. Visions of yourself can help you be a better person. If you look back on your memories and you don't like the person that you used to be you could use that to become a better person someone that you would want to be.

Let me take you for a walk on the beach and see what memories come to your mind. Picture yourself walking along the sandy shore barefooted as the sand gathers in between your toes. The hot sun is shining down on the sand making it feel like it is being preheated. The ocean, waves roll in one after another pounding at the shoreline, making ghostly white foams appears along the shoreline. You can see sailboats and jet skis shortly off shore; there are sea gulls everywhere and as you walk, they fly around you as if you are in a blizzard. There are dolphins jumping at the end of the pier giving you a feel of freedom. Now ask yourself a question, how this makes you feel. How does the waves in the background make you feel, how does the seagulls make you feel as you walk along the beach, do you enjoy being there, have you been there before, can you actually put yourself in that position?

Use the visualizations to consider past and present memories. This will help you recount events that took place in your life. If you can take these visualizations to the limits to develop and sharpen your short-term memories, you are one-step closer to using visualizations to sharpen the mind.

Other helpful tips for sharpen short-term memory includes, repeating, reciting, reviewing, previewing, writing thoughts down, and so forth. Writing is the best gift in the world for sharpening the mind, as well as healing the soul.

Some of our memories could be painful, which makes it difficult to face those memories that come to mind. Writing will help you to learn to cope, since blocking the memories, or fighting against the memories only sets the mind in a wrong direction