Health, Memory

Better Sleep Video

You are in the right place to watch the Automatic Weight Loss, Better Sleep Hygiene video. You’ll notice that it is from the final part of a video made for my Genius Material clients. Sleep is not only vital for organising and storing new memories, such as those gained by [...]

Emotional intelligence, Memory

Why we forget

Your brain automatically tends to let go of older information in favour of more recent information. On top of that your brain filters out information based on what it believes to be important in the moment, in other words what’s important to your survival. So even though you are receiving [...]

Emotional intelligence, Health, Memory

Stressed over the Advanced Diploma exams?

If you’re feeling stressed over your Advanced Diploma exam, you’re hardly likely to be studying efficiently. So the sooner you get on top of that stress, the better chance you’ve got of passing your exams. You’ve heard me say it before, physiologically with pretty much the same as we were [...]

Memory

One of the Best Memory Improvement Strategies

It’s official! Moving your body is one of the best memory improvement strategies. Manuela Macedonia and Thomas Knosche at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have discovered that language students remember significantly more words when they are taught with movement to accompany them. What’s [...]

Memory

Chunk, drink and move for better memory

Human beings naturally tend to remember information at the beginning and the end of chunks. It’s the bit in the middle that can sometimes be a bit murky. So try tackling the tricky bits at the beginning or the end of your revision session. You could also write them at [...]

Memory

How do antioxidants improve memory?

Exercise may be good for you, but all that hard work and strain on your body creates free radicals – that is to say, unstable molecules, missing an electron, and seeking to steal one from the nearest available source – often the cells of your body, thus rendering those cells [...]

Health, Memory

What is it about exercise that helps you to improve your memory?

What’s going on when you use your muscles and how can that possibly improve your memory and help you to pass exams? To answer that question, we’d have to look at how you make energy, and where it’s made. Our muscles are the means by which we move about – [...]

Health, Memory

Where’s the evidence that exercise will improve your memory?

That’s a good question, and indeed there is ample evidence to demonstrate how you can improve your memory through exercise. One such study was of British civil servants. Guess what they discovered? A British study, repeated in other countries, took 10,000 civil servants aged 35 to 55. They rated their [...]

Health, Memory

Exercise will improve your health and improve your memory too!

Aerobic exercise cuts down your chances of getting age-related dementia by 50%. It cuts your risk of Alzheimer’s by a whopping 60% and if you were to walk 20 min every day, your risk of stroke by 57%. But did you know, it will also improve your memory and keep [...]

Memory

Get better grades by paying attention

Cast your mind back to the last time that you were introduced to somebody whose name you realised immediately afterwards you couldn’t remember. On the other hand, think of a time when you were introduced to somebody you were very interested in. You had no problem remembering their name did [...]