Continuation…
Dr. Shanker Adawal
How to improve our
mental faculties
Part
2
Similarly numbers can be
remembered more easily by thinking of them in various ways. Suppose you want to
retain a telephone number which is 1025. This is one thousand plus its one –
fortieth. Or, 1025 is 10-2-5; 10- 2*5. Thus in 1025, 10 occurs twice, once in
ordinary form and then once in factors (2*5), so in this telephone number 10 is
repeated in a peculiar form. Or, think what you would do if you happen to find
a purse containing Rs. 1025/-. You would perhaps spend Rs. 25/- at once to
celebrate the lucky day, and would deposit the remaining Rs. 1000/- in the bank
which, at the ordinary interest rate of Rs. 2 ½ %, would give you an annual
income of Rs. 25/- with which you can celebrate the anniversary of the lucky
day every year. You can fix any number in so many different ways in your mind.
You may also try to retain
a number or a name in your memory by its visual or auditory image, i.e., by its
sight or sound. It is found by experiments that some people have better memory
of the visual images and others of the auditory ones. If you are of the visual
type, see that name or number clearly written in your imagination; if you are
of the auditory type pronounce it again and again listen how it sounds.
The famous book How to
develop a good memory by Robert H. Nutt is based on the same principle of
associating or `hooking’ the thing to various other things.
In various men there is a
vast difference in the ability of remembering faces. Some would recognized a
person whom they met only casually several months ago, while others would not
recognize a person with whom they had dealings or a long talk a few days ago.
It depends on the outlook and nature of a person; and the men who badly fail to
recognize old acquaintances are not always below average in memory or
intelligence. Some greatest philosophers are known to have poor visual memory
like that of faces, while they remember the subject matter of books they read
long ago. Some other people are of the reverse type. They can recognize people
seen long ago, but have got poor intelligence and cannot make great scholars. The
type of people called introverts (thinking and introspective type) are
engrossed within their own minds and habitually pay little attention to the
faces of the people they talk with, so they do not recognize them when they
meet again. People of the other type, the extroverts, think very little and are
engrossed in the things around them, and so observe the features of the new
people minutely as a matter of habit or nature. So they naturally remember them
better.
Those who do not remember
faces well, would probably find that it is not their habit to look people in
the face while talking. They can improve their memory of faces by paying more
attention to the appearance of the people they come in contact with. If you are
of this type and want to retain a person’s face in your memory observe it
carefully while talking and note the peculiarities of its features and compare
it with your other acquaintances with whom he resembles in some way. Note his
expression, his way of talking, the way of dressing and his personality. Most
people have some peculiar traits and can be remembered by those peculiarities,
if minutely observed.
Reverting to the practice
of self help suggestion, it would greatly improve your memory, and similarly
you can employ it to improve other mental qualities, such as courage, self
confidence, cheerfulness, imagination etc. procedure is the same as describe in
the foregoing pages, but actual self suggestions would vary from case to case.
It does not matter what words you use and in what language you speak. It is the
thoughts that matter. Imagine and feel yourself to be what you want to be. Draw
the picture of the desired qualities in your mind by appropriate suggestions.
For example, for will power and self confidence you may say: I can achieve such
and such thing. I will achieve it. My will power is getting strong,
irresistible. I am going to be a man of iron will etc, etc.
Similarly undesirable
qualities and bad habits can be removed. In practicing self help suggestion for
removing undesirable qualities do not say that such and such quality is being
removed. Think of the opposite good quality. For example, do not say, `I am not
gloomy, as this will merely brings the idea of gloominess to your mind, `I am
cheerful and happy’.
Continue…
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