A healthy lifestyle is the good way to go in battling memorization issues. You may not know it but what you eat and the things that you do everyday affect the way you perform mental tasks, such as learning and memorizing.
Just as you do regular exercises for your body which allows good oxygen to flow to your brain; it’s also good to observe good sleeping habits. Proper sleep (sleeping up to 8 hours) overnight is a good way to battle memory lapses later on. Also, it keeps you active on any memory-requiring activities that are going to go your way, allowing you to concentrate more.
As for a dose of your regular brain exercises, try the journey system. It’s a form of Loci system. So pretend that you have a box of chocolates, computer mouse, shoes and an apple to memorize. You take them with you as you travel along the highway going to the office since you’ll be taking the same route again going back home. This is important because it matters if you know an area very well or not. If not, then the journey system wouldn’t be too useful.
So imagine yourself driving to work. First, picture a box of chocolates replacing all the large billboards you usually pass everyday, imagine them hanging there, big and wide similar to a movie screen. Next, you approach slow traffic just beneath the overpass. Picture the cars passing on it as computer mouse cars traveling really, really fast in lanes. After that, you try to beat the time so you won’t go late and pass by your usual lunch place. Instead of a huge hamburger on the roof, you see a huge pair of shoes. And lastly, you reach the parking lot and greet the talking apple at the gate who is normally the polite old security guard. Silly, yet simple and effective.
So try to alter the normal things you see everyday to something extraordinary and unbelievable. Your memory cells will thank you for it.
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