There are very few people who can be proud of an excellent memory. And it also gets worse with age and with some diseases. But there are certain ways and techniques that allow memory to be preserved and even developed. There are a lot of them, and everyone can choose from this complex what suits him best.
Memory and attention: communicating vessels
Specialists distinguish three types of memory: visual, auditory, and motor. The first two are responsible for processing, storing and reproducing information coming through the organs of sight and hearing. Motorized allows you to memorize actions, movements, and automatically. So the baby takes the first steps and acquires walking skills, and then unconsciously uses them all his life. The maximum effect is achieved when all of these types are involved. For example, when memorizing a rule or a poetic stanza, it is a good idea to write this text and say it out loud.
What is best remembered is what is interesting, or at least what is being paid attention to. And it is not so difficult to develop attention, and this can be done in an exciting game together with other family members. For example, collecting puzzles, looking at pictures from the series: "Find 10 differences", just competing in memorizing some details of the interior, landscape, etc.
Sort out and find associations
Another effective technique: analyze, break information into parts and memorize logical "pieces". It was not for nothing that at school the teachers exhausted the pupils with tasks of dividing texts into parts, coming up with headings - this really works, especially if logic is also involved.
For example, having figured out what electromagnetic induction is, then, on the exam, the student may completely forget the text of the paragraph, but if he understands the essence of the described phenomenon, he will still tell about it in his own words.
Teaching foreign languages, history, literature is often based on the method of association. Different epochs, rulers, poets are compared, words are found that are similar in sound and meaning in different languages, etc. So in everyday life, if you need to leave in memory, for example, someone's name, you should associate it with people we already know: but her name is, like the neighbor from the 3rd floor, who is always grumbling …
Repetition and self-organization
Try to memorize numbers, terms, addresses, phone numbers by repeated repetition. At the moment of repetition, you can imagine how you write it down. "Draw" the apartment number on an imaginary door, then this image will help to recreate the number "attached" to it.
Systematization is important not only at school or university. In any work, even in everyday life, it will be of great help. Those who keep diaries remember the events of their lives better, without even rereading what was written. Diaries help you plan and remember commitments for the day ahead.
Nutrition and folk remedies
Finally, there are foods that improve brain function and memory in particular. These are wheat germ, rich in vitamin E, nuts, eggs, cereals, vegetable oil, seeds. There is a lot of vitamin C in berries, polyunsaturated acids are found in excess in fatty fish.
Traditional medicine proposes to activate the brain function with tincture of clover flowers, a mixture of chopped horseradish, lemon and honey works in a similar way.
