How Is Music Related To Sharpening Your Short Term Memory?
December 4th, 2008

Music can take you anywhere that you want to go. Older people use music to take them back to their childhood, back to the era that they are used to listening to music in. Average adults use music to take them back to their first date with their spouse. Younger adults use music to reminisce on memories that they have shared with their friends. At what time you use music to go back in time you are sharpening your short-term memory. As you listen to the music, you will be able to see how music has changed over the years. Songs that may have been at hit in the seventies may be modified and be a hit today but only in a younger version. It doesn't matter however; it all depends on what music holds in store for you and your memory.

As you listen to a song, you tend to memorize it over a period of time. The first time you hear it you know nothing about it but you like the tone of the song. The second time that you listen to the hit you begin to familiarize yourself with the words. The third time you hear the song you are able to sing the song along with the artist, and the fourth time that you hear the song you are able to sing it without the artist. Now do you see how music can help sharpen your short-term memory?

At what time you are trying to remember something fast, it is important that you go over it repeatedly until you have a firm grip on the subject that you are trying to remember. For instance, you see a friend at the store that you haven't seen in a while and that you want to go and see sometime. Therefore, you ask her for her address, she doesn't have a piece of paper so you have to memorize it. She tells you then you repeat it back to her, later after you get through talking you ask her to verify it again to make sure that you got it right, however this time you tell her the address without her telling you first. This is a good way to sharpen your short-term memory. In order to sharpen your short-term memory you must practice, you know the saying "practice makes perfect" however the statement is not true, since none of us are perfect.

Repeating is a great instrument for sharpening the memory. However, you can repeat too much and forget what you learnt. In other words, moderation is the idea tool for any area of life to enhance any situation, including memory.

Other tactics work well too. For instance, you could preview or review information you read to sharpen the short-term memory. The tactics work wonders for sharpening the mind.

Visual aids also promote memory. If you have difficult recalling information you can use visual aids, including music to help you remember what it is you want to remember.

Memories are always in the mind. No matter what you do in life everything you learnt, heard, smelled, and so on is in your mind. The mind is like a tunnel, and in each area of the tunnel, information is waiting for you to associate it with new information. Thus, associating objects, words, etc can help you sharpen the memory. Go ahead and walk through that tunnel, while using visual aids, music, previewing, reviewing, and so on. Remember, the longer you look at information the better the odds you will remember also

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