Memory is built up in layers.
M'reen
Whatever has
Mountain Dew got to do with Memory, Learning and Confidence?
Written by M'reen
Mountain Dew was his language, his experience, his
security.
My computer programmes, chocolate, purchased and created
aids belonged to the confused world.
Memory.
While memory is built up in
layers
it is stored in bits in apparently random places and re-created each time it is
recalled. I understand that a CD or DVD does not store information in a
sequential pattern but in various segments across the disk; and yet the music
or film is recalled in perfect order.
If you load information: a,b,c,d,e,f,g onto a disk and a little later your delete b, c and f then the next pieces of information you load will fill up those
empty spaces first and not necessarily in linear order.
I think that this is one of the ways that a creative
combination of ideas can emerge – eureka!
Additionally you can think of memory recall as a chain
that has been re-build using out of sequence parts that are linked.
If a link or segment is missing or defective then the
whole cannot be recalled.
In such I cases I would say, “I read something somewhere
that said something along the lines of ….”
They say that if you want to really know a subject then
you teach it as you have re-built the memory chains many times. Into this
statement is built in the detailed learning layers of the subject
so that you can explain or demonstrate it externally and
that repetition of knowledge
is build with repeated practice.
Learning to ride a bike requires
different layers of skill and confidence.
Repetition or
habit is one of five proposed learning gateways to the mind.
For these reasons when Turbo Charged Reading you would
elicit the information in sequence;
each layer building on the last and also being efficient
in time as you do not elicit information
that is not to be used at this time. In addition with each
success you are building confidence.
There is also the state and none state theory of memory –
but not now.
Followed by: where memory is stored; is it confined
within your scull or in every cell of your body?
However, right now we are concerned with the memorising
of information, clearly and long term.
Does memory come before learning?
I leave that for you to debate.
Learning is acquired in layers, by practice and with
increasing confidence.
Confidence is being able to perform a skill whereas self
esteem is having secure inner regard.
Learning can enter the mind / body by a proposed five
routes.
(1) Trauma, (2) Habit, (3) Hero worship (think pop stars,
advertisements etc), (4) Authority figures
(think parents, law, religion etc)
and (5) Alpha (in hypnotherapy we use the authority of the self
during the alpha state to access the other four areas of
learning.)
The learning state of alpha is natural and starts to
initiate as soon as you close your eyes or focus increasingly inwards on a subject,
novel, film, conversation etc. In doing any of these activities
you could be considered to be in an enhanced environment.
Each time you experience something your brain immediately starts laying down
the foundations for its memory/recall and this requires
a new neural network – or extra space on the CD. This is
a purely physical matter; think of someone who’s been confined to bed and you
recognise that their muscles atrophy or an elderly person
who’s hormones have altered and therefore does not have
the capacity of the young or of a person
who’s family history predicts a ‘weak’ heart; if any of
these people increase their exercise then new muscles and veins etc are
created. The great ‘they’ took a number of mice from their boring cage
and put
them into a cage with interesting activities. The enhanced activity mice stayed
in this enriched environment for shorter and shorter periods of time so that
eventually the scientists found that the building of neural networks started as
soon as the mice entered the enriched environment.
It is not simply a case of use it or lose it but also of
continuing or starting to build your abilities.
With Turbo Charged Reading, after you have poured all
that information into your inner mind
and submitted a request to access certain information
that satisfied your purpose that is to be accessed for your first layer of
learning recall you then get out of the way and give your neural network the
chance to organise itself and create the necessary new neurons.
Confidence.
I was engaged to help a 13 year old get past his problems
with algebra (the fact that algebra is a complete mystery to me is irrelevant).
My intent was to find the point just before his problem;
that is to the point of his security before things got
confused. I moved forward (or in fact backwards)
to fractions as the first point of insecurity, the
frightening quagmire with no way out.
I used my then skills, my ingenuity and we got nowhere. I
then grabbed the empty bottles
of Mountain Dew he and his father had been drinking and
put a fraction of water in one of them.
Mountain Dew was safe, it was part of his understanding and it had nothing to do with
fractions.
Light dawned and very rapidly he was able to bring into
his confidence the things his teachers
had been trying to teach him. I find it
interesting that when you work with critical incident de-briefing you take the
person back to their point of confidence before the trauma, or series of little
traumas, and ‘lock’ them into their confidence. Another description of this is
to ‘anchor’ them in the safe experience of themselves before the distressing incident
or the last straw that broke the camel’s back if there has been a series of
accumulating stresses.
How is this
expressed in Turbo Charged Reading?
By building up the sequence of Turbo Charged Reading from
choosing the book onwards
by using the language with which you are most familiar,
and this is expressed as using ‘your primary and
secondary learning modalities’.
In English that means starting with the simple and
building into the more detailed of each stage
using the first and second
learning styles that suits you best.
This input is then incrementally built upon as your
knowledge (learning), security (confidence)
and memory (recall) is extended (enhanced).
Primary visual
learners often create
Mind
Maps as a way of eliciting and recording the information you wish from your
written material as an excellent and efficient way to store and recall
information. Therefore we start creating mind maps during our first session as
a mind map covers the learning styles (your safe language/experience) of being
visual – I’ve seen some that are works of art.
For those who
learn best by hearing (aural) I tell stories that build up a progressive dialogue
in your mind and these stories are copied onto an MP3.
For a paper record primary aural learners would probably prefer bullet points
or
Business
Progress Mapping. (Scroll down for an example)
For the kinaesthetic
learners beating a rhythm or walking as you read or listen is helpful;
think of the rhythm of the alphabet, your two times
tables etc. I even encourage TCR to create a rap as they turn the pages of
their book or dab down the page on their screen.
For those of you who use olfactory and gustatory points of reference
I’m afraid that you’ll have to add these anchors yourself
and are encouraged to do so.
As we usually learn and remember and recall using multi
senses then mix and match to taste.
So with our Turbo
Charged Reading partnership we start with the end in mind
and start by building
in incremental layers to ensure your success. M'reen
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading
YouTubeHow to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading
YouTubeEmotions when Turbo Charged Reading
YouTube
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