Self Hypnosis Tips And Tricks To Develop Your Ability To Concentrate And Recall
In today’s fast paced society, we are constantly learning new information and we need a better memory to recall everything. Students need a better memory for studying and doing well on tests. Most people need a better memory to be good at their career, and we could all use better memories to remember important new facts. However, most people have a difficult time of remembering new ideas and facts. Memory deficiencies often happen as we age, but there are other factors that can affect our memories, such as stress, fatigue, depression, and difficulty concentrating. Fortunately, there are a myriad of ways to improve your memory using easy mnemonic techniques and hypnosis and memory enhancement.
Mnemonic devices are useful memory retention techniques. They come in the forms of words, pictures, or any other associations that help you link information and concepts together. Acronyms are a popular mnemonic device formed using the initial letters of words or word parts in a phrase or name. For example, let’s say you need to remember a shopping list of cheese, salsa, eggs, soap, and ham. You could use the acronym “CHESS” for cheese, ham, eggs, soap, and salsa. The acronym and the effort you put into thinking of it help you remember the list.
Acrostic sentences are much like acronyms. You can use acrostics to remember ordered lists or sequences of events. In an acrostic, you use the initial letters, syllables, or words of a phrase to remember another message. One acrostic sentence students learn in mathematics is “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” to remember the order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction).
Another popular mnemonic technique is known as the “Method of Loci.” The Method of Loci was used in ancient times to memorize speeches. In this technique, you link information to visual cues along a path. First, you think of a physical route you are familiar with, such as the commute to work or a walk through your house. Imagine yourself moving along this route, and identify landmarks that you pass by. Each landmark will correspond to something you wish to remember. Once you have your path and landmarks, you mentally associate a piece of information with each landmark. Another technique is the “chunking” method of memorization. This method is functional in memorizing a series of numbers, such as dates and social security numbers. For example, you probably remember your social security number as a set of three, two and four digit numbers, or three sets of three digits. Using the chunking technique, you break up a large amount of information into “chunks” that are much easier to handle and remember. Additionally, you can group information into categories to help you remember more complex things.
Now that you know these methods, you can use them when you are attempting to remember information. To successfully form a memory, focus on what you need to remember, taking a few seconds to process the information. You should eliminate distractions from your surroundings that divert your focus of attention from what you need to commit to memory. Write down the information, read it aloud, and try to use all of your senses when you are learning new information. If you can experience or associate the information with all of your senses, you will remember it better.
Stress can impair your ability to focus and remember information, so you must remain calm! To handle your stress, you may be interested in using hypnosis to improve concentration, memory and recall abilities. Although memorization tricks are beneficial, stress and lack of focus are the top reasons why people struggle with memory problems and can hamper your success using the techniques. If anxiety and concentration issues are the cause of your memory problems, you can use hypnosis to improve memory and recall abilities significantly. Your memory will be greatly improved by combining memorization tricks with hypnosis and memory improvement techniques. Self-hypnosis memory improvement techniques will help you de-stress and focus on information. Self-hypnosis and memory techniques help enhance your memory by increasing your awareness, so you will not forget things such as where you left your keys or wallet. Self-hypnosis and memory enhancement will also help you overcome stress that interferes with your ability to remember things, such as anxiousness during a presentation at work or a test. Many students experience test anxiety, but this can be overcome by hypnosis therapy. Likewise, many people “freeze” and forget information during public speeches, a problem that can also be overcome by self hypnosis memory improvement.
Hypnotherapy is the best way for people to commit information to memory because it calms the mind and increases the ability to focus. You can make hypnosis and your memory work together to eliminate your memory problems. Someday, hypnosis and memory may become inseparable as people discover how hypnotherapy can improve their lives.
Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in the practice of hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming since 1978. He offers hypnosis CD’s for memory and recall enhancement. Visit his Neuro-VISION Self-Hypnosis site for free resources & MP3 downloads, and his Video Hypnosis Blog for tips & tricks.
- Alan B. Densky, CH
Is there any good guide to learn “Method of Loci”?
Thanks in advance…
I heard a lot about self hypnosis but first time reading about it. Self hypnosis may be helpfull to enhance my memory.
The word “Focus” is used by people, books, articles and in the world on the average 1 Million times in the day all over, however Focus is still a misunderstood term. My dissatisfaction with the data available on the subject made me search some research journals and I was surprised by what I discovered.
In spiritual studies, FOCUS is known as the power everyone wants to develop stronger than others. The reason is like in a hierarchy in the workplace, where the boss on top have the power to control others daily goals in the workplace, likewise in the world, the most powerful person is the one whose FOCUS is highest in intensity. This is the reason why so many esoteric sciences tell us that sages have been trying to increase focus since billion light years. Sages spend many years on their lives in dark caves trying to develop this power.
If we take two beams of light and CONVERGE them (Inverted V), we can say the two beams are working in coherence. The point at which the two beams converge can be called as being FOCUSSED.
If we take both the beams of light and completely DIVERGE them, they can actually become a straight line. (Open the V). Now the beams are DIVERGENT. When we are doing some activity which is leading to a result or outcome, our focus beam is in CONVERGENT Mode and when are meditating the focus beam is in DIVERGENT mode.
So how this knowledge does helps us! In no manner whatsoever till now. Read on and it will make sense.
Focus point always needs to have an objective or an outcome stored in it to make any difference in our lives. So to say, if we are outcome focused, we can call ourselves focused.
We are daily focused on the outcome of the result (which is guided by positive and negative expectations), hence we are focused every minute, every day , every week on some outcome. Sadly most of these outcomes are negative outcomes.
The good news is that whatever is the subject of our FOCUS will get converted into Reality (by our own unconscious actions). The bad news is that when the subject of FOCUS is negative (our expectation of negative is mostly stronger than the expectation of positive), we are unfortunately INTENSELY focused on the Negative Goal. When it comes to a positive goal, there is something that comes in the way.
It has been known that if we can intensely focus on any goal, we can achieve it and unconsciously other people will help us achieve our goal. (The Universe will conspire to give us what we want). However this is not exactly true. Whenever we focus on the goals which we want so badly, we experience something called Scattering of Focus , wherein distractions and negative blocks reduce the intensity of focus and delay the achievement of goal or altogether cancels the goal. On the other hand, when we are focused on the negative outcome, we are highly focused and even if there are positive distractions (like positive inputs, positive thoughts), we continue to fear the worst (and hence FOCUS on the worst).
You must be thinking, What can happen incase I can reduce this scattering of focus. What will happen is that not only will you achieve your goals much faster and with least struggle, but also you will start becoming unconsciously more powerful over people who has lesser intensity of focus and you will unconsciously control and guide their goals in a way that everyone will unconsciously help you achieve your goals.
This will however happen in ways which are for the highest good of all concerned.
When we voluntarily concentrate on any goal, the so-called executive center in the front of the brain — the prefrontal cortex is in charge. But when something distracting grabs our attention, the signal originated in the parietal cortex, toward the back of the brain. While concentration occurs at lower frequencies, Distraction occurred at higher frequencies. As distraction was developed as a survival tool, it has more power over us and therefore distraction has a stronger impact on our thinking than concentration.
A lot of products teach us to increase focus, but very few teach us to reduce scatter. The moment we are able to reduce scatter, our focus automatically and effortlessly increases to the next level. I can guarantee you that if you put in 5% of the efforts of what you have dedicated to increasing Focus, you will radically improve your results and change your life faster than you can handle it.
I have found the best way to reduce scatter is to use techniques taught by Astromind Research at http://www.improve-focus.com . Also you can look for various Focus CDs on the internet, however I have not had any major breakthroughs with any of these CDs.
As a bonus in this article, I will explain what happens neurologically in the brain when we focus. As soon as we focus, all our resources are aligned with the goal. We become charged and determined to achieve the objective (unconsciously) and thereafter our unconscious or mind, immediately starts computing the various possibility in which it can take us forward towards the goal. The unconscious thereafter computes various computes various permutations/combination to make us take unconscious and conscious actions (a mixture of both) to make us achieve our objective.