Back with more memory exercises. I keep selecting them from a rich collection I have built up over the years. Some are just taken over and adapted, but most are “invented” during my psychotherapy work. If anything can be still invented today.
The photo
Look carefully at the photo from the bottom of this article for 30 seconds and try to memorize as many of the details as possible.
Put the photo aside, say or write the names of the objects you remember. Then mind your own business for a while. Anything, but memory exercises.
After about half an hour or even more, describe as thoroughly as you can, everything you remember. Repeat the exercise as many times as you want at intervals that you set, if you intend to improve your result.
To figure out how the stages of your memory work (encoding, storage, recall, retrieval, forgetting), try answering the following questions:
What helped you memorize more easily? Have you made connections with images from your life? Did you run an imaginary movie in which the all those objects appeared? Did you count and rank them? Or maybe you remembered shapes and colors.
Any memorization technique that helps you is good and right. I’m talking about the techniques of your mind, not the memory of your phone. Which is not to be rejected as long as you remember where you put your phone.
Shall we move a little?
It’s probably happened to you to start doing something and after two seconds to ask yourself: where did I want to go or what did I want to do?
No matter if you have experienced this or not (preventive) you can do the following type of motor memory exercises:
Write down the following and perform them in the indicated order:
Clap your hands three times.
Name a person who is very dear to you.
Draw a house.
Look around the room and memorize three objects.
Touch your left shoulder.
Place both hands on your knees.
Close your eyes.
Open your eyes.
Name the three objects you noticed.
Clap three times.
Repeat the movements in the same order after half an hour, an hour, or two, without reading the note.
Just like before, answer a few questions:
How many of the moves did you remember? Did you do them in the initial order? What helped you stick with the moves? How was the result after some time, after other activities that you took care of intervened?
For the motor memory exercises you can build your own schemes which can be even funny. Such exercises can be transformed into moments of active relaxation on a day when it seems that all things are piling up to demand their right to be solved. With a little imagination, you can turn them into games for meetings with friends or for children or exercises for teambuilding sessions.
You can make anything out of anything, important is to remember what you wanted to do.
