The Memorygirl Matrix

Karmacat

"left is logical, right is romantic" (thats for which side of the brain does what).

"parasympathetic is passive" (the part of the nervous system that does the boring breathing in and out stuff).

Um, those are the two I use most often They're not really acronyms, are they? FACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Football, for the musical staves. Doowop doowop ... no, thats a song

groatie_queen

This business of the type of memory you have is quite complex at times!

Both I and my colleague have the same 'system' for working out the routes to our clients' houses. We print off the AA routefinder info, invariably prefer the map over the printed list of directions, but then translate the map into memos like "third on the left then second on the right!" and keep that bit of it in our heads.

My mum used to navigate her way through Glasgow using pubs as landmarks (turn right at the Grapes Bar, is still with me all these years later).

I find some things easier to remember set to a tune. I find numbers quite easy to remember in groups of 3 or 4 - but am very happy to leave 3.14etc to the memory experts!

Karmacat

My fingers remember phone numbers,but it can take forever to say them out loud ....

fantasia322

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Neuro Linguistc Programming - works on everything from phobias to goal setting, but most powerful for quickly changing your attitude towards stuff. As an alternative to say a talking therapy.

I used it to get over some post traumatic stuff after an assault - but then used it to get over loads of not useful stuff that causes low grade blah's in my life. Recently used it with DS1 who has serious overeaction to bees after a bee sting.

So uses are from huge phobias to little annoyances.

Worth googling for more info ................... anyone here know a practicionner who can advise on how to proceed.

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Memorygirl

Yep, I have a mate who is a Master Practitioner of Hypnosis & advanced Neurolinguistic programming and neurological repatterning, he already helped when someone wanted info about hypnosis.
He suggests this link
http://www.anlp.org/index.asp?pageid=15
Its an unregulated industry so care needs to be taken.

groatie_queen

I know what you mean KC, there is a keypad outside my department at work and I cn only remember the right combination by pressing the numbers, ie I remember the pattern they make as I press them but I have to actually do it to remember - a kinaesthetic memory I guess.

pavlovs_dog

Karmacat wrote: »

But this particular place is where I really don't get this kind of memorisation - and I'm sure you've heard it at *least* ten thousand times, MG, and I really apologise. But I just don't get how having to remember a picture helps you to remember a word. In my head, that equals *double* the amount of stuff to be remembered .... can you help?

i think a lot of it also depends on your learning style and memory. When i did my GCSEs and a levels in the early 00s the whole mindmapping thing was only slowly starting to come to the fore so it wasn't something i really bothered with.

My preferred method of revision was to re-write my notes time and time again, gradually shrinking it down until i just had key words on the page in front of me. By doing each concept in a different colour, my brain subconsciously came to associate each idea with it's colour. Although my memory is far from photographic, when in exams i could always visualise my revision sheets in all their colourful glory, and that in turn helped me to recall information.

I think once you get used to using that method your brain learns both without you really thinking about it.


another memory method is where you associate an idea with a room in the house and then you 'journey' through the house when you need to recall something. I went to see Russel Kane doing his stand up show and he seemed to be using this technique. He could go off on these H-U-G-E lengthy tangents and yet remember his train of thought perfectly because each aspect of his material was associated with a different room in the house.

EssexHebridean

LOL - well MG if you're ever in any doubt as to how to spell "necessary" - just remember that you should:
Never
Enter
Church
Eating
Spicy
Sausages
And
Raspberry
Yogurt

boddy

The guy who is teaching the EFT course Im doing the next two Saturdays is a NLP practioner based in Newcastle upon Tyne.


groatie queen./Karmacat Im the same with the key pad where I do my voluntary job and with phone numbers.

Memory_Girl

Alisonpennypincher wrote: »

That made me laugh out loud, and made me feel a bit better about my day .

But in all seriousness what you do fascinates me and although I love the idea of mind maps I can't draw for toffee, (serisouly i got a detention in school as my art homework was so bad, they thought i'd done it in the 5 minutes before the lesson started) so it scares me a bit too.

But i love the "mind" side of it and how it all works, could someone (read me) go to one of your courses, even though i do not need to learn mind mapping for anything particular i.e studying/work etc?

Course you can hon. Actually you have the same fear loads of people have when they start out - but if you can draw an arrow, a heart and a smiley face you've got enough to be getting on with. Jus think of it as doodling with a couple more rules applied:D

I think the real strength is when you combine multiple techniques together - the kids love how fast it makes it possible to learn.

Best of all its fun to find out what your brain can actually do

MG

Memory_Girl

groatie_queen wrote: »

This business of the type of memory you have is quite complex at times!

Both I and my colleague have the same 'system' for working out the routes to our clients' houses. We print off the AA routefinder info, invariably prefer the map over the printed list of directions, but then translate the map into memos like "third on the left then second on the right!" and keep that bit of it in our heads.

I do that

My mum used to navigate her way through Glasgow using pubs as landmarks (turn right at the Grapes Bar, is still with me all these years later).

I do that too:cool:

I find some things easier to remember set to a tune. I find numbers quite easy to remember in groups of 3 or 4 - but am very happy to leave 3.14etc to the memory experts!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Although obviously I am dead impressed at some ot the feats of memory these guys display - give me some good old common sense and a sense of humour any day:D

................ and do the music thing too:p

MG


You gotta love where these conversations go sometimes - from business, to bras, to brains ..........................

wonderful :T