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Effective Exercises For Improving Short Term Memory

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Brain Gymnastics
Exercises For Improving Your Short Term Memory

Everybody is aware that you should exercise to keep your body fit, but do they all know that you should also do exercises for your brain to keep your brain fit and healthy?

Our brain is like our muscles and it must be worked out regularly so that it is finely tuned, sharp and ready to put to good use. An excellent technique for working our brains is to do some specific exercises for improving short term memory. Our Short term memory is what is used to store information for quite short periods. Some examples of information we use our short term memory for include phone numbers, addresses and the names of people we may only meet once, and so on. By doing exercises for our short term memory capacity we can increase the amount of information that can be held in our short term memories and we can even increase the time in which it remains there.

The Peek A Boo Picture Game

A very good exercise for short term memory is a game where you look a picture. This can be any picture. It can be one you select from a magazine, it can be one of you and your family at your family reunion, it can be absolutely anything at all. You look at the picture for a few moments and then cover it up. You then attempt to write down every detail you can recall about that particular picture. Why not try this exercise yourself right now
Look at the picture……turn it over ….write about every detail you can remember….Then, look at the picture again. Did you get everything right? Did you get some details wrong? By doing this over and over, you will work your short term memory and this will help you to increase your capacity for holding on to short term information. This is a fun and interesting exercise for short term memory improvement and it’s one the entire family can play using the same picture or photo.

Audio Exercises

Just like the picture game, you can use audio clips to help exercise your short term memory. You can use literally anything at all. You can use a top ten countdown on the radio, you can use talk radio, simply anything at all. Make sure you record what you are listening to so that you can go back and check your work. Try to remember each and every one of the details you can by writing them down after the clip is over. Then, rewind and see how many details you actually got right and how many you missed or got wrong. By practicing this exercise over and over again you will significantly increase your short term memory power and this will enhance your ability to recall things you hear.

These are just a few examples of how to exercise your short term memory. These can be practiced anywhere, anytime. Don’t forget the more you practice, the better your short term memory will become and this has to be great news for those people who tend to hear something one minute only to find that it has gone in one ear and gone right out of the other. By doing this type of audio exercises for short term memory, hopefully they will be able to hold onto that information a little longer.