How To Sharpen Your Short Term Mind
December 4th, 2008

Putting the Pieces Together to Sharpen Memory

Anytime that you do something to improve yourself you are also improving your mind. Sharpening the memory is a process to make your brain learn much better. As you sharpen your mind, you will be able to accept and learn things better than you were able to before. However, you have to understand that your mind accepts a lot of input such as voices that you here, things that you read, noises that you hear and the thoughts that you collect. Everything that you say and do goes through your mind. Therefore, it is very important that you try your best to take care of your mind so that you will be able to use it as a reference guide in the future to look back on what has happened in the past.

Your mind is like a computer, the reason I say this is because a computer gathers tiny bits of information and stores it on a hard drive until it can prepare a whole document. You in return, have to manually, save the information so that it will not be deleted. Whereas, your mind takes information that you feed it and stores it in a cavity so that you can retrieve it in the future. The good thing about that is that you have to do nothing about it; your mind does this on its own.

If you do not possess a lot of computer knowledge then let me try to explain it to you in another way. Compare your mind to a child in a room full of toys. A child has to clean up his or her room before they can go to bed at night. He or She gathers all the toys and puts them into the toy box one by one until the whole room is clean. That was the child's goal, right? Well the mind takes data that we gather throughout the day at work, at home, or any other place we may go and puts it into a cavity that we can look back on to sharpen our memory. This in return is like the child toys because once they are placed in the toy box they are there until the child goes back to play with them again. The mind leaves the memories that you give it in the cavity until you look back to see what you can find.

I hope that you understand my comparison between the two, however my overall message is that you need to do everything that you can do to help yourself be able to look back on some very important information that your memory may hold. You never know, there may be a completely new you just around the corner. Take the time to define yourself.

As you begin to compare things to memories, you will soon develop a pattern where the mind will become familiar with these tactics. As you can see this will only enhance the mind and sharpen the short-term memory.

The long-term memory accepts information that arrives from the short-term memory. Still, the short-term memory must be developed so that it processes information and holds it longer than a few seconds.

If you think of it, you may have watched movies where counselors or authorities used drawings to sharpen the mind of the person. The person was then able to identify the suspects in each case. This is because trauma overwhelmed the mind, which made it seem as though the memories were gone. The memories never leave the mind

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