Simple Tricks to Sharpen Thinking and Memory Skills

                  

                       Simple Tricks to Sharpen Thinking and Memory Skills

Using these memory-enhancing techniques can help improve your ability to learn new information and retain it over time.

1. Repeat

One of the golden rules of learning and memory is repeat, repeat, repeat. The brain also responds to novelty so repeating something in a different way or at a different time will make the most of the novelty effect and allow you to build stronger memories. Examples of using repletion include:

• Taking notes.
• Repeating a name after you hear it for the first time.
• Repeating or paraphrasing what someone says to you.

2. Organize

A day planner or smart phone calendar can help you keep track of appointments and activities and can also serve as a journal in which you write anything that you would like to remember. Writing down and organizing information reinforces learning.

• Try jotting down conversations, thoughts, experiences.
• Review current and previous day’s entries at breakfast and dinner.
• If you use a planner and not a smart phone, keep it in the same spot at home and take it with you whenever you leave.

3. Visualize

Learning faces and names is a particularly hard task for most people. In addition to repeating a person’s name, you can also associate the name with an image. Visualization strengthens the association you are making between the face and the name. For example:

• Link the name Sandy with the image of a beach, and imagine Sandy on the beach.

4. Cue

When you are having difficulty recalling a particular word or fact, you can cue yourself by giving related details or “talking around” the word, name, or fact. Other practical ways to cue include:

• Using alarms or a kitchen timer to remind you of tasks or appointments.
• Placing an object associated with the task you must do in a prominent place at home. For example, if you want to order tickets to a play, leave a newspaper ad for the play near your telephone or computer.

5. Group

When you’re trying to remember a long list of items, it can help to group the items in sets of three to five, just as you would to remember a phone number. This strategy capitalizes on organization and building associations, and helps to extend the capacity of our short-term memory by chunking information together instead of trying to remember each piece of information independently. For example:

• If you have a list of 15 things on your grocery list, you can group the items by category, such as dairy, produce, canned goods, and frozen foods.

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS :- DYSLEXIA

SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS :- DYSLEXIA

Learning to read - the child, despite having normal intelligence and receiving proper teaching and parental support, has difficulty learning to read.

Milestones reached later - the child learns to crawl, walk, talk, throw or catch things, ride a bicycle later than the majority of other kids.

Speech - apart from being slow to learn to speak, the child commonly mispronounces words, finds rhyming extremely challenging, and does not appear to distinguish between different word sounds.

Slow at learning sets of data - at school the child takes much longer than the other children to learn the letters of the alphabet and how they are pronounced. There may also be problems 

remembering the days of the week, months of the year, colors, and some arithmetic tables.

Coordination - the child may seem clumsier than his or her peers. Catching a ball may be difficult.

Left and right - the child commonly gets "left" and "right" mixed up.

Reversal - numbers and letters may be reversed without realizing.

Spelling - may not follow a pattern of progression seen in other children. The child may learn how to spell a word today, and completely forget the next day. One word may be spelt in a variety of ways on the same page.

Phonology problems - phonology refers to the speech sounds in a language. If a word has more than two syllables, phonology processing becomes much more difficult. For example, with the word "unfortunately" a person with dyslexia may be able to process the sounds "un" and "ly", but not the ones in between.

Concentration span - children with dyslexia commonly find it hard to concentrate for long, compared to other children. Many adults with dyslexia say this is because after a few minutes of non-stop struggling, the child is mentally exhausted. A higher number of children with dyslexia also have ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), compared to the rest of the population.

Sequencing ideas - when a person with dyslexia expresses a sequence of ideas, they may seem illogical for people without the condition.

Autoimmune conditions - people with dyslexia are more likely to develop immunological problems, such as hay fever, asthma, eczema,and other allergies.

BENEFITS OF ALOE VERA JUICE FOR HEALTH

Benefits of Aloe Vera Juice for Health

DIGESTIVE CURE:   Aloe Vera is very useful for curing bowel problems due to its high anti-inflammatory properties.Aloe vera also helps in the growth of good bacteria in the gut, this keeps all digestive disorders at bay.                                                                                         FOR MUSCLE AND JOINT PAINS:                                                                           Applying the gel externally can ease muscle and joint pains.  But do not forget to use freshly prepared gel.                                                                                                                       For Heart Reflux:                                                                      Having severe digestive problems? Drink Aloe Vera juice as it reduces symptoms of heart reflux and stabilizes the alkaline levels of the body. It has soothing effect on the stomach walls and reduces heart burn and discomfort.Due to its laxative properties; it also treats constipation.                                                                                                               Reduces Cholesterol level:                                                          Aloe is great for maintaining the cholesterol level by reducing triglycerides. Include fresh Aloe juice in your daily diet to maintain your cholesterol level and increase the level of good cholesterol.By reducing cholesterol you are protecting your heart from damage.                Healthy Weight Loss:                                                                  You must have taken slimming tablets or tried all the exercises and diets to lose weight. However, you didn’t get the desired results. Do you want to lose weight naturally? Aloe vera juice is the easy and natural weight loss solution. It reduces weight by stabilizing the metabolic rate, reducing lipid levels and helping burn fat.                                                   For Dental or Oral Hygiene:                                                      Studies have shown that regular consumption of aloe juice improves oral health and hygiene. It reduces gingivitis and plaque formation. It provides a relief for cold sores and mouth ulcers.

Washing the mouth with aloe juice improves the oral hygiene. A study from the Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology reveals that the local application of aloe vera juice improves the periodontal health post dental procedures like root canal and scaling. Another study from the Journal of Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine shows that aloe juice helps to reduce oral lichen planus, a common dental problem.                                 Fights Diabetes:                                                                          Aloe Vera is good for diabetes patients because it helps to regulate the blood sugar levels when consumed regularly. However, consult your doctor before you start consuming the aloe juice.You need to have the dose prescribed by doctor so that it doesn’t interfere with the medicines you are having to curb blood sugar.                                                         Helps to Detox:                                                                              Mix 2 teaspoons of fresh Aloe Vera juice with 1 glass of water and drink it everyday early in the morning. This will help detoxify and cleanse your system. Aloe juice helps to treat ulcers and detoxify the digestive system.                                                                         Maintains Gum Health:                                                                Applying fresh aloe gel directly to the gums reduces the pain and inflammation. Since, oral hygiene affects overall health, it is important to curb gum bleeding and inflammation. If gum bleeding is due to bacterial infection, aloe juice helps to fight infections and makes your mouth clean and fresh. No doubt, so many toothpaste and mouthwashes are made of aloe vera extracts!                                                                                                                       Reduces Eye Irritation:                                                                           Create your own natural eye wash with Aloe Vera gel. Mix 2 teaspoons of aloe gel in a cup of water. You can also add a teaspoon of boric acid. Use this eye wash to reduce the reddening and irritation in the eyes.                                                                                 Fights Common Cold and Cough:                                                   Those who suffer regularly from cold, coughs, flu, stuffy nose, bronchitis and other respiratory disorders, Aloe Vera juice is the best natural solution.The Vitamin C content of aloe vera juice ensures protection from common colds that occur with environmental changes.

PLAN YOUR MEAL TO BURN EXCESS BELLY FAT

                           PLAN YOUR MEAL TO BURN EXCESS BELLY FAT 

While planning your meal, here are a few tips on how to make the best diet plan to reduce belly fat for yourself:

1. Always eat something healthy after you wake up and before you work out to start up your metabolism and keep it revving.

2. Make salads the main star of your meal, since they fill up your stomach and don’t have too many calories.

3. Go easy on the store-bought dressings or better still, skip it altogether. Whip up something yourself that is much healthier and tastier without any additives.

4. Drink lots of water throughout the day. This will prevent water retention and will help to flush out any toxins from your body.

5. Do not entirely skip carbs. Instead, try to eat a limited amount of carbs every day to keep your body’s need for carbohydrates in check. For instance, if you like roti cut it down to 1 roti instead of 2 or 3.

6. Always go light on dinner. Dinner is the time when your body starts to wind down for the day, so stay away from anything heavy. Plan a light meal for the night, like a clear soup, a piece of chicken with half a cup of salad, or maybe just a fruit or a glass of milk.

7.  Last but not the least, plan on getting enough sleep. Sleep early since you’re having a light dinner. Staying up late will make you feel hungry again and you’ll need to eat.

ANGER MANAGEMENT

                                                       ANGER MANAGEMENT

Preventive Techniques

• Practice Relaxation, meditation or the like stress releasing or dissolving techniques.
  Practice Holistic Integration Technique (HIT) the simplest and natural Meditation Technique. Use Guided Somato-Psychic Relaxation (DSPR) Technique.
• Try the Who Am I technique
• Improve yourself, develop yourself continuously. Break your Personal Rules of Living regarding anger. Be optimistic, positive and have hope
• Live in the present ( here and now) as far as possible.
• Be aware of yourself, your anger patterns. Find the root cause of your anger – it will be fear or lust or attachment.
• Develop self-confidence
• Accept yourself as such. When you accept your negatives, deficits, you do not have any internal conflict at all
• Be simple, open and authentic
• Love yourself, love others. Unless you love and forgive yourself, you cannot love others or forgive others.
• Develop equal-mindedness in the opposites: good and bad, positive and negative, virtue and non-virtue.
• Avoid over sensuality.
• Avoid revenge, hate and hatred. Avoid mugging up stress.
• Don’t be perfectionistic:
  Inability to accept errors & mistakes of self and others, non-compromising behavior, inability to cope up with failure and longing for success in all and everything etc. creates tension.
• Avoid looking for the negatives in yourself and others.