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| The ability to recall events in your life is a part of life itself. Your memory is vital to your success and happiness. And yet, the actual truth about the subject is shrouded in confusion and mystery. Without memory, we are lost. In this article, you will travel along the timeless quest for answers about memory, and you will discover the key that will help you unlock these mysteries. Is memory stored in the brain? How is memory retained? Why are some memories hidden from you? |
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| Your mind Your mind — it can be your finest asset or your biggest liability. It can be a source of inspiration or frustration. How many times have you forgotten where you parked your car? Or where you put your keys, your purse, your wallet? Or forgotten someone’s name two minutes after you were introduced? Forget a birthday or anniversary and you may find others forgetting about you. Lets take a look at one of man’s oldest mysteries — MEMORY. Understanding memory means understanding how the mind works. Why do some memories escape you while others go on to haunt you? Ancient ideas The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, believed that memory was physically stored in the brain. And those memories, each, over the course of a lifetime, made an impression on the tissue. Aristotle’s theory falls apart when you consider how little time it would take to “cover” the brain with memories. The space is limited and yet the capacity for memory seems almost infinite. And the unexplained nature of memory further eluded Aristotle as evidenced by the fact that he believed all of man’s feelings were located in the heart. Bumps on the head In the 19th Century, Franz Josef Gall, a neuroscientist, began spreading his ideas about memory. As a young boy he noticed that children with good memories also had, what he called, “prominent eyes.” This childhood observation led Gall to the conclusion that memory was stored in the brain. He went on to theorize that the brain contained centers that controlled mental functions, not only memory, but obscure qualities like “marvelousness” and “adhesiveness.” He even believed that he could diagnose and treat a person’s problems by feeling the bumps on their head. Gall was convinced that by examining the skull, he examined the “mind.” By the late-nineteenth century, the public believed that if there were bumps they needed to be concerned about, they were most likely on Gall’s head. His ideas became an international joke. In the final analysis, the field of the mind hadn’t moved ahead at all. A bolt from the blue The year 1950 saw the publication of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health written by L. Ron Hubbard. In Dianetics, Ron explained discoveries about memory and the mysteries of the mind that were so far ahead of their time, the world is still catching up. Ron discovered that the mind was, in fact, a collection of mental image pictures. Through experimentation, he found that the human mind is capable of taking 25 pictures per second. At that rate, the mind is recording 1500 pictures a minute. Dianetics explains that it’s not just the visual record — but many more perceptions are recorded, as well: temperature, smells, sound, mood, heartbeat, muscular tension, motion, and dozens of different perceptions. As Ron later discovered, there are 57 different perceptions. Multiply that by the number of mental image pictures you record in sixty seconds, and that’s nearly a hundred thousand concepts committed to memory in one minute! The awesome power of human memory Ron also discovered that the data in memory is cross-referenced. A woman sees a car, that picture is cross-referenced to other pictures of cars she has in her memory as well as all of the other information that she has about cars; models, colors, how to drive them, and so on. Each mental image picture is made up of millions of bits of information. So, the mind is taking in trillions of bits of information every hour. Just within the last half hour or so, your memory has grown by nearly 18,000 mental image pictures, or something on the order of 7 trillion bits of information. Given that, is it possible that all memory resides somewhere in a few pounds of gray matter? How are your memories stored? Scientists have long maintained that there are five senses — sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. And yet, as we’ve mentioned, in Dianetics those are just the beginning. Exactly how are all of these memories stored in the mind? In Dianetics®, Ron made one of the first major breakthroughs on the subject of memory storage with the discovery of something he called the time track. The time track explains exactly how we store memory. Ron discovered that every moment of life is being stored in the memory. And not only that, those pictures can be found stored on the time track, in the order they happen. These files also contain all of the sensory perceptions that have been recorded. As Ron explains, some people may remember an event in their lives, but they don’t hear sounds, see color, or feel temperature. And yet, all of those sensations are there, filed right along with the rest of their memories. Ron discovered that the ability to recall those senses varies from person to person. And so, the riddle that so many had tried to solve — how memory is stored in the mind — is finally answered in Dianetics®. And by reading the book, you will learn much more. Hidden memories What happens when you try to remember something and you come up blank? Are there parts of your life that you just can’t remember? Certain ages? Why are some memories hidden from us? Memory can be so elusive that, through the years, people have concocted many unusual ways to hold on to it. They used to tie knots in a handkerchief as a reminder about some event, and some practiced the old tradition of rubbing an old man’s bald head to tap into his stored-up knowledge. Or they tried the old trick of tying a string around their finger. Nowadays, they cover their desks with sticky tabs with notes scrawled on each. And some still tuck into bed with a book under their pillow in hopes that the information will somehow seep into their memory while they sleep. None of these strange solutions really prevent memory from escaping a person’s grasp. Remembering names To many, remembering other people’s names is a source of immense frustration. There are actually whole schools of thought devoted exclusively to this problem. For example, if two people using a memory system were to meet on the street, the interchange might go something like this. In an effort to remember a woman’s name, Sandy, a man might make a mental scribble, sketching a beach scene around her. To remember his name, Carl, she might reciprocate by painting a mental picture of him sitting behind the wheel of a car. Again, a complicated method developed because of an inability to remember. What’s the real problem? Memory systems don’t really address the problem of memory blockage. What is the source of memory disability? Do some memories just dissolve? Or vanish? Or is there something covering them up so that you can’t get at them? In Dianetics®, Ron likens the time track to a piece of motion picture film. The camera’s rolling and everything’s recorded, from the earliest moments of life. But he discovered mysterious blank spots, where there appeared to be nothing. Where did the memories go? Ron found all but two kinds of memories are stored in the standard memory banks. Moments of pain and moments when a person was rendered, to a greater or lesser degree, unconscious, are stored in another part of the mind. That’s why there are blank spots — those memories are filed elsewhere. What damages the human computer? The mental recordings of painful experiences react on a person like hypnotic suggestions and shut down memory like a computer virus, or a short circuit. By applying the procedures in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, you can get rid of your reactive mind. And that accounts for why Dianetics works. It doesn’t just try to overcome the problem. Dianetics gets rid of the problem at its source — the reactive mind. Improving your life Man has, for hundreds of years, tried to understand the elusive subject of memory. Each effort failed because they didn’t understand how the mind worked, and had no way to get rid of the reactive mind — the destroyer of memory. They would have given anything to possess the knowledge in Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. As L. Ron Hubbard wrote in Chapter 1: The extent, storage capacity and recall ability of the human memory is finally established by Dianetics.” Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health has been 100 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and there are more than 20 million copies in circulation, in 53 languages and more than 150 nations. And today, in addition to the book, there is a DVD (or video) which shows how Dianetics technology works, plus a series of lectures with a live demonstration from L. Ron Hubbard on CD, and a home study course that can be done on-line to get you started. The course also gives you unlimited free access to professionally trained Dianetics consultants who will answer your questions on-line. Millions have found Dianetics® improved their memory. Find out what it can do for you. |
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