# Principles for remarkable memory 

*"I forgot!"*
You might have said it thousand times filled with  embarrassment and self-reproach. In attempting to remember studies, lists, statistics, names, and faces, you have always depended on the old tiresome method of repetition to engrave them on your memory- and it went blank on you at the critical moment you need it. 

This is all unnecessary. We all posses  magnificent mental capacity for great memory but neglect and use of wrong methods have caused our brain to deteriorate. Our memory is the most wonderful instrument in the world. And one only need to know how to use it.

This post  is intended to equip your mind with the tools you need to exponentially improve your memory,  allowing you to accomplish greater things with less effort than you ever dreamed possible. 

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A better memory is an extension to our mind. And your mental power is largely wasted unless you learn how to use it. 

 It doesn't take a genius to be a master of memory. Anyone with average intelligence can posses quickly an accurately  memory. Training your mind is so easy, swift and certain by using the methods below:

## 1.Law of Association 

Truth is, human mind works through association and no one can change it. We remember through relation, through entwined associations of ideas. All mental action and development are based on association of ideas and use of our visual faculty.

Memory is formed through *brain paths*. **Brain paths** are formed by our five  sense, that bring impressions upon our brain. If these paths are strong, you remember, if they are faint, you forget.Memory is simply our ability to recall at will impressions made upon the mind. In order to make  a stronger brain paths you will need to **learn how to associate and visualize your ideas.**

## 2.Visualization 
Nature has endowed our *visual sense* with greater capacity for impressing the brain than any of our other senses. An impression made on the brain by the sense of sight is many times stronger than one made there by any of the other senses. Our ability to use **visualization is invaluable to have a great memory.**There are three natural principles of mental operations by which visual impressions are formed to be strong. 

### I. Exaggeration

Exaggeration is to mentally enlarge, or magnify the objects or ideas to more than it's actual proportions. 

For instance, if you want to remember a specific car in a busy traffic, you will be more likely to hold the impression, if your imagination makes you see the car as larger than any other cars around or even bigger than the buildings around.

**Exaggeration** is the most practical principles, and the use of it allows us to make lasting impression on the mind. 

### II. Motion

*Motion* - Our minds has always been strongly attracted to motion of every kind. No wonders why more and more of us opt out for video rather than reading or wave our hand to get attention from a friend in a crowd. Something moving will always attract our attention.  Visualizing motion  enables us to put the plain picture into a movie, instead of seeing just giant car, visualize a giant speeding car or flying car , just like a film -  allowing for increased power of the minds ability to retain and recall them.

###  III. Use unusual associations. 

*Unusual Associations* - Out of ordinary and unusual occurrences in life impress us strongly than occurrences that we are in the habit of seeing. So, take advantage of the fact things out of the ordinary impress us more than those that are usual. Make your visual association unusual, make your association as ludicrous and grotesque, but not too much.

Use this visualization and association methods in order to improve your memory exponentially. Next time you have a list to remember or if you wish to remember key concept from your reading, associate the ideas with what you already know and try forming a visual image of the concept of the list you are trying to remember. And make sure your visualization  is enlarged, ordinary , and is motion - try visualize it like a film forward and backwards. You'll be impressed by your ability of recalling them . 

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