How to Increase Brain Memory

Your memory is not unlike any other part of the body, it needs exercise to stay fit and functioning at its best. You need to exercise the brain to increase brain memory power. Refresh the old memories by thinking back, do you remember any of the verse or songs you were required to memorize in grade school? If you have not thought of them recently you may have difficulty recalling those lines. However, there may be verse or words you remember from your youth because you have continued to recite them over the years. Some examples of these might be certain prayers, the words to the star-spangled banner or favorite Christmas carols. The continued use keeps them fresh in the memory and easy to recall.

As an exercise try to recall words from favorite songs of your youth, songs your mother sang to you, if you can't recall the words find them and refresh your memory. Memorization will benefit your memory.

We recollect ideas, events and people through memory association. People recall things by association of memories and even information from our other senses. I often hear distant train whistles late at night in bed, and it always reminds me of some of my best memories as a child. The family would visit a small cabin an elderly aunt had on Lake Pepin on the Mississippi river in Minnesota, the trains ran between St. Paul and Chicago on the other side of the big lake and I would here the whistles and see the lights on the swiftly moving passenger cars of the big trains racing south.

Most information in the human brain is in association with other related information. Connecting what you are trying to remember to a related item will greatly increase your memory.

Keeping your brain busy can be fun and a very enjoyable pastime. Brain teasers, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, word jumble, word find games and chess are all activities that challenge the brain and make it work. In the digital age it is very easy to let the brain be occupied by excessive hours of television watching, a passive brain activity. Being a couch potato offers no stimulation for the brain or the body.

As we age we are more prone to lose certain memories. Given the vast amount of facts, data, and information we are assaulted with on a daily basis most of us make unconscious choices to only remember selected items. It is a natural effect of this that we are not going to be able to preserve all memories, we can however be conscious of the memories we want to maintain and of those facts we can discard. If you have memories you can't clearly recall, write down those elements you do remember, this activity will spark associations and you will recall more of the events. Read the notes over the next day and you will start to fill in more of the details. Give your brain some exercise to stimulate and increase memory brain power.