Continuation…
Dr. Shanker Adawal
How to improve our
mental faculties
Part
1
Now we shall discuss
various mental and physical cases separately. First let us come to the mental
domain. Self suggestion is certainly most effective in this sphere. First let
us take memory.
It is definitely proved by
experiments, on the hypnotized subjects that all our past memories are buried
in our subconscious mind, so what has once slipped from our memory, has not
left us altogether. It is still in our mind, though in its deeper strata. Grown
up people when hypnotized can clearly recall the happenings of their early
childhood. The same basis is used in the lie detection tests or narco analysis
tests. What is true of hyponotic suggestion is true of conscious self help
suggestion to a great extent.
Memory can be greatly
developed by self help suggestion. Students and other people requiring the use
of memory should practice self help suggestion for this purpose. General
procedure has been as described above. Self suggestions for this purpose should
be something like this, `My memory is improving, it is getting better and
better everyday; everything I read would be fixed in my memory and will remain
ever fresh in my mind’ etc.
One of the tasks of
suggestion should be to counteract the effect of negative self suggestions. If
you have always been affirming that your memory is weak, your thoughts will
greatly affect, it adversely. This adverse effect also will be counteracted by
the positive self suggestion of improvement. Worries and despair tend to blunt
our mental faculties, and hope and enthusiasm render them strong.
Interest and attention
have got much to do with memory; you should create interest in your work and
read everything with full attention.
The next thing is
association. You can remember a thing better if it is associated in the mind
with many other things. If a junior school child is told that the population of
Calcutta is 40 lac, in order to retain this fact he would probably try to fix
it in his memory by calling it aloud again and again `the population of
Calcutta is 40 lacs- the population of Calcutta is 40 lacs- the population
of….’ But if I have no remember this fact, I would associate it with the all
India population of 40 crores. I would think about it in some such way:
`Calcutta’s population is
one hundredth of that whole of India. If all the people of seven lacs of
villages and other towns decide to live in cities like Calcutta, there would be
only 100 cities in India. If Calcutta’s population breaks up into villages it
will make 10 thousand medium sized villages, etc.
Obviously this is a better
way of remembering. But it implies the existence of some other knowledge in my
mind that India’s population is 40 crores, etc. yes, the more we know the more
we can learn and remember. But still even those who do not know much should try
to fit a new fact into their existing knowledge and try to relate it to the
various known facts in various ways.
Suppose I went to retain
the name of a person in my memory, for examples, take Jagdish Chandra. I would
establish it in my mind in some such way: Jagdish Chandra is the name of a
distant relative of mine. He is such and such sort of man. This Jagdish Chandra
is the opposite of him. Or Jag and dish – a jug of water and a dish of sweets.
Jagdish in a way stands for the very necessities of life- food and drink. How
can we forget Jagdish Chandra. Or Jagdish in Sanskrit means God. We cannot
forget God’s name. It would be a great sin to forget Jagdish and hence Jagdish
Chandra. Of Course some of these things would sound absurd, but their very
absurdity helps us to remember them. In this way, absurd or logical, you can
associate any name to many other things in your mind. The more associations you
establish like this, the easier it will be to remember.
Continue…
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