Post by shyamwestwind on Apr 13, 2010 12:41:57 GMT
Hi Everyone
I believe there are many amongst us who have problems with our memories. We tend to forget quite a few things in our years of senior citizenship.
We would have started to talk about something, but someone or something barged in and lo !! ........... we've forgotten what we wanted to say !!!
What doe we usually do when this happens ? Most of the time we'll tell ourselves " Aw. I'll think of it sometime later ........... it'll come back to me later "
We never, usually, remember it later and we think its unimportant and forget the whole incident.
THIS, MY FRIENDS, IS THE WORST THING WE CAN DO TO OURSELVES.
Jog your memory, keep thinking about what it was that you wanted to say or do ............. keep at it, no matter how long it takes and no matter how trivial it seens........... DONT REST TILL YOU GOT IT BACK IN YOUR MIND AGAIN !!!
I've always practised this and I find its been worth all the jogging . I have never lost my subject oof conversation and believe me , its very very rewarding and satisfying .
I keep telling everyone I know not to treat these "temporaryy losses in memory" as something trivial . It is very important to keep our memory ALIVE and Living.
Try it out friends , you'll be much the happier for it.
S M I L E !!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe there are many amongst us who have problems with our memories. We tend to forget quite a few things in our years of senior citizenship.
We would have started to talk about something, but someone or something barged in and lo !! ........... we've forgotten what we wanted to say !!!
What doe we usually do when this happens ? Most of the time we'll tell ourselves " Aw. I'll think of it sometime later ........... it'll come back to me later "
We never, usually, remember it later and we think its unimportant and forget the whole incident.
THIS, MY FRIENDS, IS THE WORST THING WE CAN DO TO OURSELVES.
Jog your memory, keep thinking about what it was that you wanted to say or do ............. keep at it, no matter how long it takes and no matter how trivial it seens........... DONT REST TILL YOU GOT IT BACK IN YOUR MIND AGAIN !!!
I've always practised this and I find its been worth all the jogging . I have never lost my subject oof conversation and believe me , its very very rewarding and satisfying .
I keep telling everyone I know not to treat these "temporaryy losses in memory" as something trivial . It is very important to keep our memory ALIVE and Living.
Try it out friends , you'll be much the happier for it.
S M I L E !!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Shyam,interesting stuff indeed mate,i know the feeling exactly when you just seem to have these sudden lapses of memory & for myself being the wrong side of seventy they do come more frequently than i would like to admit to, 
however!!!!i have found the perfect answer when the 'War Office'!!!! reminds me of a particular instance or possibly an outstanding chore or even an event coming up,i tell her to liken my brain to that of a computer with a low storage capacity & that because "Ole Simmo" may seem quite a little lacking in memory from time to time i.e birthdays,unimportant chit-chat,dustbin day when the bins need to be put out plus a whole range of seemingly non urgent functions it is due to the fact that he's memory storage has reached its capacity & all of the useless info being received actually goes straight into the recycle bin never to see the light of day again while the vital info such as "doing music"!!! be it spending countless hours editing midis,practising songs,visiting music stores,keeping the beer fridge topped up & all of those similar day to day activities that keeps the mind active.Thats Simmo's take on the subject,must go i've just remembered its dinner time,
