Memories Robbed - How To Sharpen The Short Term Memory
December 4th, 2008

Self Help

Our memories are often robbed as we go through life facing traumas, dramas, actions, let downs and the like. While sometimes our memories are difficult to take, it is important to use the bad memories to your advantage.

If you allow the bad memories to remain repressed, it will prevent you from growing and learning. Some of the worst situations can be dealt with, regardless of what anyone believes. We can review Vietnam survivors and consider Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome and Disorders (PTSS/PTSD). Most of these men will repress their memories of the war. Most times, they live life with troubles, because they do not wish to face those memories. While the memories are bad, it is important to face them, otherwise the mind will continue to forget. I am a survivor. My memories were repressed, while I disassociated to escape the horrific pain I survived from injuries, and torture. I refused to allow these predatory events take control of my mind and life however and eventually faced the memories head on. I looked at the positive inside the trauma and drama.

Here I am now. I can talk about anything nearly, and can move ahead since I have faced my horrific memories.

If you refuse to face bad memories, you will not have the control to sharpen your memory. Don't let memories rob you of the good you deserve in life. To help you sharpen your short-term memory I can help you to understand short-term verses long-term memories and how they work.

Short-term memory take notes of things it sees, hears, smells, tastes, touches and so forth. The information processes swiftly and sends it to other areas of the brain. The information spreads out and it is lost fairly quickly. To sharpen the memory you will need to look at the details longer, so that the long-term brain takes notes of the information. Once it targets the long-term memory you will have sharpen the short-term mind.

The mind is a web of information, which travels through circuits, spreading about as it processes, moves, and finally rests. What it takes to call up those memories are triggers, which are delivered through associations. In other words, if you look at a picture of someone you know you will likely travel down memory lane visualizing various aspects of that person who is associated with your memories.

Anything can be an associating object that triggers the memories. For instance, you may see a hairbrush on a bathroom sink that a loved one who recently died had used at one time. The hairbrush is an association that triggers you memory, and the next thing you know you are traveling down memory lane. Unfortunately, pain will come from these memories, however if you refuse to repress the memories you will start to recall good memories.

To help you consider associations that link memories we can review a few interacting words. While some of the words may not make sense at first, if you continue considering the words and how they correlate you will soon see associations.

Apple/tree
Microphone/Jack
Serious/Funny
Object/Spoon
Calculator/House

Ok, what did you come up with, and how do the words associate? How do they trigger your memory? Taking the first two words, we can see association, since apples grow on trees. The second is also easy, since microphones often associate with jacks. Serious on the other hand, may throw you off balance. How can serious relate to funny. If a person is always serious, you can generally find humor in these people's habits if you listen and look carefully. Object and spoon associate since, a spoon is an object, while calculator and house at the present may not appear to associate. If you think harder, you will see that calculator and house has a lot in common, since you need a calculator to estimate mortgage

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