Improve Your Memory Recall With Hypnosis
By: Alan Crisp
Introductory comments
By Royane Real
Author of: “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative”
Have you ever watched a television program where a witness to a crime couldn’t remember some crucial details of the event so the crime investigators decide to use hypnosis on the witness? Once the witness is hypnotized, lo and behold! Suddenly that person can easily recall the faces of the criminals and the license plate number of the getaway car!
Although the use of hypnosis on television shows is often exaggerated, hypnosis can actually help you in your daily life in many ways.
Even if you haven’t been a witness to a crime, you may find that hypnosis can help you to have a better memory. You can use hypnotic techniques to improve your learning and increase your brain’s effectiveness. You can use hypsosis to improve your self confidence and performance.
As the article below by Alan Crisp points out, many of the techniques that are currently promoted as ways to improve learning and intelligence are actually techniques that are related to hypnosis.
When using these special techniques to enhance learning and recall, the subject is deeply relaxed and focused. All the mental distractions that could normally interfere with learning and remembering are eliminated. This results in improved memory as well as a deeper understanding of the subject matter.
When a person is in a deep state of relaxation due to meditation or hypnosis, the electrical activity in the brain actually changes, compared to the brain waves that are generated in a normal waking state. This slowed down rate of brain wave activity can enhance the process of learning and recall.
If you want to improve your learning ability and your memory, you may find it very useful to learn how to create a state where your brain waves slow down. There are several ways to learn these techniques of enhanced learning. You can go to a clinical hypnotist, you can read a book, or you can take a course in self hypnosis or meditation.
(The above introductory comments were written by Royane Real. Get more ideas to help you improve your learning in her book “How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better and Be More Creative” )
Feature article:
Improve Your Memory Recall With Hypnosis
By: Alan Crisp
Have you ever noticed how you sometimes have trouble remembering something, and the harder you try to remember it the more difficult it becomes? Then later that day, when you'd forgotten about trying to remember, the name, answer or information you wanted just popped into your head?
The information was there the whole of the time of course but you were experiencing what Emile Coue called the "Law of Reversed Effect".
And of course we all know how the mind can wander when we are feeling relaxed and all sorts of memories can flow up into conscious awareness. This will happen even more easily using hypnosis.
How memory works:
The latest thinking on how memory works is that there is a three stage process:
- Accepting - a memory into your memory system and filing it away safely.
- Storage – Keeping it safe and in a place where it can be found easily when wanted.
- Retrieval – Finding the memory again and bringing it back into conscious awareness.
Types of memory storage:
There are thought to be two of memory storage:
- Short term or working memory
- Long-term or permanent (we hope) memory
And maybe two types of memory, 'Explicit' (which country do you live in?) and 'Implicit' (How do you tie a shoe lace?).
Using hypnosis to improve your memory makes sense. In fact, many accelerated learning programs such as speed reading and photo-reading actually use a state of altered consciousness similar to hypnosis. They won't call it hypnosis but instead they may talk about “Alpha” and “Theta” states.
So, hypnosis can provide a lot of help with improving memory because it can help to overcome some of the problems associated with poor memory such as:
- Good perception of the object or thought you want to remember in the first place;
- Having a good route and system of storage so you can find that memory again really easily and quickly when you want or need to;
- A system of linking one memory to others that may be in the same category or group (very useful for exams and tests).
However, once in a hypnotic state of mind, there are some really excellent memory techniques that can be learned, or as a hypnotherapist may say "installed". You will learn to use them far more quickly if the initial understanding is gained at both conscious and subconscious levels as in clinical hypnotherapy.
Alan Crisp DHP is one of London's leading Hypno-Psychotherapists and has a busy practice in Beckenham on the borders of West Kent, South East London and East Surrey. www.hypnoseek.com
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