Welcome to My World – Life – Memory – ‘Tis The Season!

December 14, 2016 allix999@gmail.com

Hello World! One of those days when life interferes. Did my Holiday Shopping this morning & just finished packaging for shipping. Don’t know why I didn’t shop online like I usually do, but I was at the Mall & got in the spirit, so I shopped, but I did the postage & label online. This grandma doesn’t wait in line at the post office! It’s so much quicker to simply drop the package while everyone else watches me in envy :). Well, they can do online postage too. Don’t know why everyone doesn’t. It costs the same thing. I do all my postage thru PayPal. Monster, Color, Illustration, Vector

Next project for my blog is to find affiliates soon. ‘Tis the Season where more money goes out than comes in so I need to find affiliates & get the ball rolling. Now that I’ve got the Pinterest issue resolved, I can do this. Will also work on “sidebars”

Now I want to share some interesting info I found on having a good memory:

Having an extremely good memory definitely comes in handy sometimes. Whether you need to recall small details from a previous conversation or you have to memorize key points for a presentation, your ability to do so depends on how good your memory is.

Everything from the types of food you eat to the quality of sleep that you get can affect your memory. Research has shown that it goes even further than that. In fact, you might be surprised to find that some of the most common, ordinary, everyday things you do affect your memory in one way or another.

The rhythm of your breathing.

In a recent study, scientists discovered for the very first time that the rhythm of an individual’s breathing pattern creates electrical activity within the brain, which affects the ability to recall events from memory. Study subjects who had their breathing tracked as they encountered objects were more likely to remember them later if their encounters occurred on their inhaled breath rather than their exhale. The effect completely disappeared when they subjects breathed through their mouths.

Want to enhance your memory by breathing better? Breathe through your nose — not your mouth.

Sexual intercourse (for women, at least).

Researchers discovered a link between sex and the growth of nervous tissue in the part of the brain associated with emotions and memory (the hippocampus). When a group of 78 women under the age of 30 were asked to recall people’s faces and abstract words, the researchers found that those who had intercourse more frequently were better able to remember the abstract words. Their frequency of sex, however, didn’t seem to affect their ability to recall faces.

So if you’ve been lacking in the romantic department of your relationship lately, here’s one more little tidbit of scientific evidence that contributes to the benefits of sex.

The number of doorways in your home.

Everyone has experienced walking into another room & forgetting why they walked in there in the first place. It turns out there’s a very scientific explanation for this, & it has everything to do with how the human brain automatically categorizes information by associating it with physical location. When psychologist Gabriel Radvansky asked several subjects to look at several objects of different shapes & colors before either walking into a different room or simply walking the same distance in the same room, those who walked through the door into another room had an extremely difficult time recalling the objects.

So it’s not your fault you always forget why you went into the other room — your brain literally functions that way! To prove that point even further, other research found that even just imagining walking through a door can make you forget!

Saving stuff on your computer.

We all use folders on our computers, bookmarks in our web browsers, & fancier web tools like Dropbox to save things we want to access later. But when you expect to be able to access some piece of information in the future, you’re actually a lot less likely to be able to recall it, according to one study. Instead of being better able to recall the information itself, subjects in study experiments were more likely to recall where they could access that information.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing since we are truly living in an information age where we have to prioritize what we want to remember. Knowing all of your friends’ & relatives’ email addresses off by heart isn’t nearly as important as being able to recall an interesting news article you read that would be relevant to bring up at your next work meeting.

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