What are the different techniques to manage brain memory?

Mnemonics works best for me.

Gristly animal inset like….Gail! Never forget my MILS name that way.

doing braint games or puzzles keeps the mind muscle limber such as those offered by luminosity (see http://www.lumosity.com/).

The strategies used to teach gifted children may offer a clue. It is important to load the information in a variety of ways and make numerous connections to it using different paths (e.g., creating a number of different indices so you can locate the information in a variety of ways). In this way, you get many pathways to the information.

For example, for many people memorizing a poem is difficult, but if it is set to music and you learn the poem as lyrics, the music itself offers cues to where you are in the poem. I can recite the entire Lady of Shallot because I am so familiar with Lorenna McKennit’s sung version of the poem. Admittedly she blended two of the poem’s verses but you get what I mean.

So now I know this classic poem. I branch out and see classical paintings of many scenes of the poem, so now I have “mind-pictures” to accompany the story as well. This is now in my head and I have a number of different ways to retrieve it.

This can spin off in unusual ways. When I got an Indigo Girls CD and noticed that the artwork included a woman lying prone in a boat rather subtly placed with other doodles, I knew exactly what the referent was. When the Sting song about “fields of barley” came out, I could connect it back to the original Tennyson poem (“He rode between the barley sheaves with sunlight on the brazen greaves). It can even stretch to my having been offered barley tea at a Korean restaurant—I get a beautiful picture in my head to accompany the taste and smell of the barley.

I learn best by creating all sorts of links between information I already know and other information I want to know and remember. I have heard that some brain injured folks are still able to sort and recall information because they have stored it in a variety of ways, using a variety of senses, so they can get to the information using one or more pathways that have not been disrupted.

I use spider charts or mind maps; main point in the middle, then key connected points which can be connected to each other. I’m a student and they really work for me. They can be as detailed or as broad as you want.

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There are many techniques; I know few. But different techniques work for different people like medicines. I will tell you what I know.

What we were taught from the childhood, get up early (at least / about 1 & ½ hours before Sunrise), recite mantras or what you want to remember. This time is told to be very important, as we are fresh from sleep / rest, mind is calm, few thoughts in our minds, etc. so our mind is said to be in a good state to receive. Repeat daily.

I / we remember stotra or hymn by same technique. We use it for other things too, like tables in mathematics (1 to 30), etc. Recite everything what you want to remember daily, weekly, monthly,...once in a day. And, you will remember each word, in sequence. It does work. I wanted to remember one such “stotra”; I started it in Spetember / October 2010. I used to recite stotras in the morning or evening. Now today, I remember each & every word of it, and in the sequence. Today I remember 5 stotras of hundreds of lines, 10 / 12 aarti, and some more mantras. This is very easy technique & as far as I know it applies for everyone.

We often neglect our minds / inner things as compared to outer. We exercise to maintain good physique & health. So should we do it for our brain, mind, and soul. It increases our mind / inner performance, as physical exercise does outer physique.

In ancient India, many books / epics were used to transfer from generation to generation by means of memory. People used to remember them as there was no other way back then; printing wasn’t invented by that time. Schools, called Ashram in those times, were the place where the knowledge transfer used to take place. Children, about 8 / 10 years old, were admitted, taught by their “Guru“s. There were people who were hear for one time & remember it.

Below are couple of links which list some techniques.

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I highly recommend Tony Buzan s Master YOur memory and Memory in use.This are books what contain some technics haw to master your memory.Include that I am useing my self an another exercise.it is easy and efective.it is something like to imagine your room with eyes shut.It mean to complet your room by your imaginatione each item by another.I do this my self when I have got an time to spear.