How To Sharpen Your Short Term Memory With Puzzles
December 3rd, 2008

Your mind is like a puzzle in which you have to put all the pieces back together. Depending on your age, you may have been here on earth for ten, twenty, thirty or forty years maybe even a hundred. Through all those years, your mind has stored pieces of your past and put them up for you to look back on. It is up to you to gather those pieces and discover the beautiful memories that you have.

Do you find yourself in a daze because something that someone did struck up a memory of something that has happened in your mind? It so then you witnessed a trigger, which brought on associating memories. This stimulus is a source you can use to recall the entire event. Sometimes triggers make a person feel like the same situation took place sometime before and you can't put the two together. All you have to do is think back to the memories you have of that moment and you will be able to narrow it down to that person. For instance, when I look at my son, I think about my niece. I basically, raised her for my sister even though I was younger than she was. I was sixteen years old raising a baby that was my sister's. I didn't mind then and I don't now because we are closer than ever. Nevertheless, as I look at my son, I can recall things that she did, that he is doing now. It's fun to look back on how fast children grow up. Every time that I do this, I am sharpening my mind. This is the process of association. The association memories or mechanisms help a person to recall each detail of their life.

Sharpening your mind is not hard to do, let me give you a few pointers. One day that you have some free time, go into your bedroom or anywhere that is quite, sit down on your bed and/or couch and just think.

Open your mind to all things that may come up in your memory. Don't block anything out. Look around the room and look at pictures, objects, and clothes and just think about where they originated from and what the objects offer toward your memory. As you look at pictures, think back at what time those pictures was snapped, and try to recall a few details, by observing the colors, specifics, and correlations. As you do this, you are allowing yourself to go back in the past and actually be in that setting. You will be able to hear the noise in the background, you will be able to smell the aroma in the air, and you will be able to smile in laughter. All the things that you do to look back on your memories are called sharpening your mind.

The more you practice sharpening the mind, the more likely you will not forget the next time your short-term memory snaps a shot. The short-term memory gathers information quickly and if you don't use it, right away, the information will leak into the mind, find a resting place and sometimes make it difficult to recall the information.

Memories are like puzzles so to speak. The less you practice in sharpen the mind, the bigger the puzzle. If you ever put together a 1000 piece puzzle, you know it takes time to complete and sometimes is difficult to figure out. Yet, as you keep putting forth the effort to put the pieces in place, gradually you will have a completed puzzle. Now, if you were to tear that puzzle apart and start rebuilding, it will become easier each time

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