Using Sound Waves to Train Your Memory

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Okay, you’re headed off to the store when someone says to you please pick me up a stick of deodorant and a large chocolate bar. Which is more likely? You will forget the chocolate bar? Or, you will forget the stick of deodorant? Or, you’ll completely forget that they asked you for anything until you’re halfway home? If you are typically guilty of any one of those three there is help for you.

Auditory exercises are the good old-fashioned way of exercising your brain and training it to proper memorization. The good old-fashioned way is to simply practice memorizing things. For instance check out the website of your favorite radio station and see if it has a play list published. If it does then without studying the list quickly print it out and set it on the side.

Now you want to turn or the radio station and listened to the next five songs. Take a break during the next commercial and then when the song number six begins saying out loud the titles of the previous five songs. Don’t write them down. You want to save them out loud. This is an auditory exercise. Now go back to your play list that you printed out and compare it to do what you remember.

Although this will initially be very difficult for you will find that over the passage of time that you will become more and more efficient at memorizing the titles of the last five songs. As you become more accomplished than naturally you want to expand the challenge to the last 10 songs and then the last 15 songs. You will quickly discover that this type of auditory exercise and its benefits will quickly spill over into the rest of your life which will then become easier because you are forgetting fewer things.

Another type of auditory memory exercise can be a bit more pleasant for some people in that you do this with someone else helping you. Sometimes just the pressure of performing well with someone else present can help you do a better job in concentration. Have your friend or family member take a list of any kind from TV listings to Letterman’s top 10 lists and read it out to you.

Your job, quite obviously, is just to then repeat the list back to them. You may think that is challenging enough but once you have done this correctly one time then you want to repeat the list again from memory a second and then a third time. Again, this is all part of training the brain to file things properly.

Along the same lines anytime you are doing auditory exercises it would serve you well to repeat what ever you do have memorized over and over several times in order to better lock it into your memory. There is the additional advantage of training your mind to be more comfortable with memorization.

Never underestimate the power of your mind. No matter how much it may occasionally have you concerned because it seems that your memory is giving you more and more problems, short of extensive physical trauma your brain is capable of regaining much of its lost memory power if you only take the time to train it properly.

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