Training of memory and attention

Without memory and attention it's impossible to live in this world.

Do not believe it?

Well, imagine that you do not notice anything that is going on around, do not remember any names, events, routes, you can not concentrate when someone tells you something.

In my opinion, it's just awful.

Therefore training of memory and attention is something a normal person who wants to become a part of our society should do, especially if nature has deprived him of good memory and attention.

Training memory and attention is what every person needs

I think if I asked you what picture you imagine, when you hear the word "training", the overwhelming majority would begin to describe the gym and sweat on sports equipment and simulatorsof people.

It is so, pumping your body, getting rid of fatty deposits, you can and should, but the buttocks and the press - not the only thing that you can train.

Another body, which with the help of special exercises can be done even better, is the brain.

The brain is very cunning: if you do not load it for a long time, it starts to be lazy, and your memory and attention suffer, first of all.

Remember how hard it was for you to return to school after the summer holidays, how hard it was to focus on pairs in the teacher's words, and the preparation for classes was generally turned into hell, because remembering information was incredibly difficult.

But, the more you did, the easier it was for you to remember the new information, and the process of preparing for the pairs took less and less time.

The development of memory and attention must be done at any age, because their quality depends on your success at work and in everyday life.

What determines the effectiveness of memory and attention development?

One person is lucky: they are given by nature a good memory and ability to concentrate their attention on details.

And if a person with good natural data is not too lazy to conduct training of his memory and attention, then he can achieve great success in life.

But some need to work hard to expand the possibilities of their memory and attention.

When preparing this material for you on one of the forums, I read a complaint from one reader that, it's all nonsense: the development of memory and attention is a waste of time, these exercises do not help.

The author of the material( practicing psychotherapist) was not too lazy to respond to the girl and popularly explained that some exercises are not enough, you need to act in a complex and gave the incredulous young lady some more useful tips that I gladly share with you.

So, you can increase the memory and attention efficiency if:

1. Set one task for yourself, not several.

   You are not Julius Caesar, do not try to do everything at once.

   If you are talking to someone, then listen to the interlocutor, and do not climb along in your phone.

   Dissipating your memory and attention to several cases at once, you reduce their effectiveness.

2. Eat right.

   If you are poisoning your body with one muck, then how can you demand high efficiency from your brain?

   The brain needs fruits, vegetables, nuts, dried fruits, fatty fish, liver, beef, greens, eggs.

3. Do not overload your brain.

   You know how to most effectively train the muscles in the gym: such a system of "training - a few days of rest - training."

   With memory and attention all the same.

   Tired brain is not able to work effectively.

4. Do not eat all the information.

   We are living in the world of information attacks, and our brain is so strange that it seeks to remember all kinds of muck, but easily forgets what is really important.

   To fix this, do not overload it with unnecessary information.

5. More physical activity and walking in the fresh air.

   This helps to saturate the brain with oxygen, improve performance and increase brain activity.

   And, of course - no cigarettes and alcohol in large quantities.

Training memory and attention without interruption from ordinary affairs

Man - the same lazy creature as the brain under his skull.

As soon as he hears the word "training" immediately withers before your eyes."It's so difficult," "I have absolutely no time and energy for this" - this is not the whole list of stupid arguments that people lead, that they do not want to develop their memory and attention.

And yet, even lazy people can train their brains without allocating a separate time for this.

You can do this with:

1. Read.

   Let you have a habit of reading at least 20 pages from the book before going to bed.

   And do not just read it, but remember what you read and( for example, on the way to work) retell yourself what you read. Hiking in the shop.

   Yes, shopping can be turned into a training of memory and attention, if you do not take with you a list of purchases written on the leaf, and learn it by heart.

   Let at first you forget something to buy, but gradually the ability of your brain to remember and concentrate your attention will expand.

2. Chatting with people.

   First, listen carefully to the interlocutor, not to miss anything that he says, and secondly, carefully consider it, trying to remember the color of the eyes, clothing elements, etc.

   After the conversation, scroll through the head all the details of the conversation and the appearance of the interlocutor.

   So, you can train both visual and auditory memory.

Simple and understandable ways to train attention and memory

Here are a few simple ways with which you can stimulate the development of your memory and attention:

1. Moving along the street, try to remember the numbers of cars passing by.
2. Take a leaf and write down the names of the characters of your favorite TV series, as well as the actors who play them. Check how many mistakes you made.
3. When preparing new dishes, try to memorize the recipe to cook next time from memory, and - without looking in the recipe book.
4. Learn by heart poems, lyrics, foreign words.
5. Walk constantly on new hiking routes and look at the buildings that you see.

How to develop photographic memory?

And to increase the efficiency of both hemispheres helps to alternately perform routine tasks( there is, comb, write, etc.) then left, then right hand.

5 effective exercises for training memory and attention

For those who are not lazy to develop their memory and attention, I offer several effective and simple exercises, performing which at least several times a week, you can achieve excellent results:

1. Remember the location of the dashes at the top of the picture, and then, closing it,add the missing lines at the bottom of the picture.
   
   
2. Within a minute, remember the list of words:
   • elephant;
   • hut;
   • river;
   • mother;
   • blizzard;
   • seine;
   • tiger;
   • school;
   • sled;
   • train.

   And now, reproduce this list on paper without peeping on the screen.

   Words can be used and others, gradually increasing their number.

3. Find the record of some poetry readings.

   Listening to the stanza of each of the poems, try to reproduce what was heard.

   Gradually complicate your task, trying to memorize at once 2 st stanzas.

4. Look carefully at the picture for a minute:

   
   And now, in alphabetical order, reproduce the names of the animals that you saw in the picture.

5. Look out the window.

   Focus on one of the twigs of the tree that you see, and in a minute, reproduce on the paper its image, the arrangement of leaves, the angle of inclination, etc.

Also, we want to offer you a lot of interesting online exercises,

built on the basis of exciting games

for the development of memory and attention:

A simple and enjoyable exercise to develop memory and attention - solving crosswords and puzzles.

If you travel a lot, then be sure to bring a collection of crossword puzzles and solve them at your leisure.

As you can see, this is not such a difficult task - training of memory and attention of , especially, if not to be lazy.