Memory Code?
If you examined the mind and body reactions of those sitting for tests you would conclude they were going into mortal combat with the possibility of death. Their blood pressure, heartbeat and breathing are accelerating wildly, and hormones and neuropeptides are screaming to escape the imminent threat to their personal survival.
We are all scared of being judged regardless of being prepared. So what is new about that?
New research: we can remember only the major ideas or we can choose to generate a high level of details plus the key points. It is the difference between gaining the competitive-edge and being in the fast track with the Vital Few 20%, instead of siding with the Trivial Many 80%. Remember it as the difference between Skimming and Scanning.
Dr. Norman Weinsberger, University of California, Irvine, November 2006,
Journal of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory has produced the first study
linking the level of Acetylcholine (ACh) as the neurotransmitter responsible for the
amount of detail encoded in long-term memory. The nucleus basalis area of the brain triggers the acetylcholine (Ach) for memory priming.
Sounds Boring
The secret Dr. Weinberger reveals is the brain contains a Memory Code registering the intensity of memories based on how important they are to you.
Listen closely, when you are relaxed, you activate your Parasympathetic Nervous System which produces acetylcholine. During learning and memory activation, acetylcholine is excited. In fact Alzheimers Disease shows a shortage of ACh. The students who are stressed out show an excess of adrenaline (epinephrine), and a lack of Acetylcholine.
Frame of Mind
Your attitude, beliefs and expectations are cues for successful learning and Prime
your memory for retaining new knowledge. If you are afraid, stressed and tensed, you reduce your ability to access and retrieve your long-term memories.
There are three brain structures involved in memory formation:
Hippocampus for context, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, coded for unpleasant
memories, and Amygdala, consolidating memories for storage of context and unpleasant memories.
Knowledge Skills and Attitude
Three types of learning: Cognitive (knowledge), Affective (feelings and emotions
produce our attitude), and Psychomotor learning producing skills.
Speed reading involves all three in learning and memory. Our objective is reading
and remembering three books, articles and reports in the time your peers can hardly finish even one. Tripling your reading speed, and doubling your memory permits you to ace school and your career for the rest of your life.
Eric Hoffer Said
In a time of rapid change, it is the Learners who inherit the future. The Learned
(experts) find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
The recent SAT required for the first time a written sample by the student. Only 15% used cursive writing, while 85% printed block letters. Huh? No one writes
anymore since the keyboard. Shorthand is deceased because of their keyboard.
Cursive writing is used for signing checks and contracts; anything else is typed, right?
Conscious vs Nonconscious Mind
Many of you are aware that our conscious mind exists in a very narrow spectrum
of information. It has a bandwidth of about 40 bits of information per second.
Sound like a lot? Our nonconscious mind produces 11 million bits of information
per second. So What? This means there is more to learning, memory
and success than what we are conscious of. It consists of our sensory information, emotional feedback and even motor behaviors.
Self Communication
We have an enormous unused, untapped nonconscious mental capacity. It is not that urban myth of using only 10% of our brain, the truth is we activate less
than 1,000th of 1% of our ability to be successful in school and career.
Four Laws
1. Mental visualization: you own a mental movie screen that
drives your nonconscious, right hemisphere help make you
be a scholar in school and run in the fast-track for promotions in your career.
Remember, a single picture is worth a thousand words.
Creative Imagery is your personal system to live your burning desires.
2. Active Metaphors influence and persuade other people and
your own nonconscious to accept your suggestions and recommendations.
3. Target Affirmations at hypnagogic (before falling asleep), and
hypnopompic (on waking), day-dreaming and
meditation, permit cooperation from your nonconscious to
solve problems and produce effective decisions.
4. Using neurofeedback strategies by accessing Alpha brainwave
cycles per second is a technique to attain your goals in both relationships and career. It is easy, takes two-minutes, and produces astonishing results.
Endwords
Students often ask why we offer these consciousness techniques instead of limiting our efforts to our area of expertise, speed reading and memory.
We have used these powerful strategies to obtain success in relationships, influence
and monetary areas. If you have goals for your career beyond the dreams of avarice,
you will research this field of knowledge. Besides, we like hearing success stories
from our graduates.
See ya,
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H. Bernard Wechsler |