Good brain, good memory

1. Do you know
The Amazing
mine of
memories?

2. Memory is a wonder. It is very vital to
support life. It is astonishing a new born
baby recognizes mother. From there
memory stores lakhs, crores of incidents,
experiences, stream of info help to develop
our personality. We depend on memory
through out our life. Right from brushing
in the morning, recognizing persons, items,
places we come across in our daily life
memory play crucial role hence we love it
so much.

3. We are dreaded with the word forgot. For
students it is a nightmare. How to catch
hold of it, protect it and improve upon it?
We must know what affect and protect
memory is important to know. We may
travel in auto talk to driver forget it with
in minutes. We may be walking alone
encounter closely with a snake on a rainy
evening will create a impact on memory
and remember life long. Why is it so?
some we forget and some we don’t?

4. Memory is very clever forget unimportant
things very quickly remember useful things
for long. Memory store the info with
lightening speed erases unimportant info
with same speed. This is constant activity.
When we travel we see many things but
remember only very vital things. There are
important steps about memory. Viz.
1. register, 2. concentrate, 3. store

5. •Register is 1st
step the info not registered
will not be in memory.
•Concentrate is vital to register in memory
more so while reading, learning etc
•Registered info is stored retrieved in need.
Some are easy to recall some need effort.
Memory is broadly 2 types Temporary
(Working Memory) Long term (By
Rehearsals) Memory remember info for 3-
5 secs only. Eg. Hoardings. If you see an
appealing one may be for 30-40 secs.

6. Many types of memories viz. explicit,
implicit. Explicit are again 2 types Episodic
- personal things like native place,
education, experiences, issues, things,
people Semantic - generalized issues like
GK. Learnt from out side.
Implicit also known as procedural memory
about our skills. They are for life long –
driving, cycling, swimming, computer,
abacus are used when needed.

7. Where Memories are stored? Some parts
are vital. Temporary memories stored in
frontal lobe. If recall frequently stored in
temporal lobe as long term memories
specifically in Hippocampus. If temporary
memory is not converted to long term
they can not be remembered. If converted
can not be forgotten easily. Hence they
are crucial areas for memory any damage
to these areas may result in memory loss
of this long term memories.

8. When we learn we have to concentrate to
register, recall in need as long term
memory. Hence concentration while
learning subject/ arts, studying, working,
researching is highly essential. That is the
key for good memory.
Base for memory is registration, then
retention & retrieval when in need. If
registration is not proper memory is not
strong. Insomnia, exhaustion, worry
prevents concentration and registration.

9. How to improve memory? By heart is not good
always but at times inevitable like learning tables.
Let us see other methods
Acronyms: Remembering info in short forms. Eg.
VIBGYOR
Acrostics: To remember long info select vital words
and make sentence.
Rhymes: Remember info as rhymes or songs
Losai: Remember the order of info while lecturing
Chunking: To remember phone no link it to place,
person, incidence
Rehearsal: Memorizing the info frequently.
Association: Link it to a particular experience,
incidence

10. Why our memory is reduced: many like Diseases like
Alzheimer's
•Nutritional deficiencies
•Hormonal imbalance
•Alcohol, smoking
•Sleeplessness
•Exhaustion
•Anxiety
•Secluded life
•Depression
•Loss of near & dear
•Certain drugs
•Accidents
They can be corrected through proper treatments.

11. Any medicines to improve memory?
Honestly no. but mostly emotions, lack of
concentration, worry, depression affect
memory. Some medicines may support
temporarily. For memory boost concen-
tration is very vital than medicines.
Dhyaanaa, meditation reduces stress
make us calm improve concentration and
memory. For Alzheimer's medicines may
support to some extent only.

12. Memory loss due to nutritional deficiencies
can be corrected with walnuts, almonds,
flax seeds, millets, green vegetables, fresh
fruits, dry fruits like anjeer, khajoor, kish-
miss help a lot.
Ayurvedic foods with medicinal values like
Brahmi, Mandukaparni, Sankhapushpi,
Desi cow ghee help a lot especially in
growing children, convalescing and elderly.

13. Learning a new language, Indian classical
music, abacus, veda ganitham, solving
cross word puzzles, participating in quiz
programmes keep brain active improve
memory. Daily Suryanamaskaaraas,
Sarvaangaasana learnt from sadguru
helps to improve memory by activating
the brain function. Pranaayaamaa, Jala
neti, sutra neti, nasya karma, Siroodhaara
improve oxygen to brain cells Improve
memory remarkably

14. For more info
K S N Murthy
Wellness Consultant
98480 13958
healthxlnc@gmail.com
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Sreyas Ayurvedic Family
counseling center