Q&A for How to Increase Memory Power

Try re-reading what you'd read. Taking notes as well as rewriting the information in your own words can also help.

Certainly. Increasing your memory power will make it easier for you to remember the things you have studied. It will also make it easier for you to organize your daily schedule, reduce anxiety, and increase confidence. All this will make your studies more effective and efficient.

No, playing games doesn't impair your memory. Games can be good mental exercise, especially if they're challenging. Just make sure you're doing plenty of other things, too.

Try to find motivation about it. Maybe you can find something it has in common with your interests, or you could find a way to convince yourself you need to do well in order to succeed.

Yes watching TV decreases memory power, because it sets the brain on a lower mental state where your conscious mind isn't actively working.

Find a dark, quiet place and use candles around you to feel relaxed and calm. Picture bad memories or anything else negative leaving your body and your body will lead you to meditate. For more detail, check out our article on how to meditate .

Yes, it can, but it also depends if you are watching something good. Then it might increase.

By brain power, it is presumed you are referring to intelligence, which comes in a variety of forms such as IQ, EQ and common sense, intuition, etc. This is what education is for, as well as getting decent experience in a wide range of areas. It is also about challenging yourself to work out problems drawing on your learning and experience. However, there is as yet, no magic pill that will do all this for you. Accept that everyone can improve the different types of intelligence with dedication, willpower and effort.

All of your brain works, as it is designed to do. There are some silly myths about using very little, born of bad popular science writing. We need all of our brain to engage when performing all activities from pouring milk into your cereal to dreaming at night. Your brain works all the time, to keep you alive and engaged.

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Watching TV may decrease your memory. It depends on what you are watching. Make sure you are not watching it for a long period. Playing video games will not decrease your memory.

No, there is no evidence that spending time on social media affects your memory.

Eating dark chocolate (70% or more) helps a lot. It helps with your whole brain. Also, be sure to eat a balanced, healthy diet and drink enough water to stay hydrated. This will make your whole body function better and will therefore help your memory.

No. The only things that reduce your brain power are taking poor physical care of yourself, mental and physical illnesses, not challenging your brain on a regular basis, and chronic stress/burnout. Strategy games challenge your brain and contribute positively to its health and functioning. (Things that aren't challenging but make you feel good also contribute positively, in moderation. Your brain needs a balance of work and rest to function at its best.)

No, this will not happen as long as you keep exercising your brain.

No, although listening to music can be distracting when you're trying to focus on memorizing something.

If you have to remember things. Yes. It probably does. If not, probably not.

Every twenty minutes, look up for twenty seconds at something that is about twenty feet away.

If you are forgetting things a lot more you should see a doctor, they can scan your brain if it is bad. But with the formula and vocabulary words, you can write them multiple times so that you remember.

Yes. Our brains comprehend a data and it takes time to imbibe a new information. Facebook throws new information continuously, which makes it harder for the brain to try and derive a meaning to it. Irrelevant data is stored incompletely in our memory.

Review it every day.

Many who practice yoga do so simply for the physical benefits. Meditation, on the other hand, may not have any direct physical benefits.

Try to converse with people more often and while doing so, try saying their names out loud. Also try to greet them by saying their names out loud like "Good Morning Sam!". You could also try to notice some distinguishing feature of the person or think some trait that you associate with that person. This could spark up the memory of that person. Baseline: Saying the name out loud will help.