I have a bad memory and it's bugged me all my life. I've heard hypnosis can help. Does it actually work?
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if a professional does it. it is best through therapy. helped my sister remember her past abuse. now she is in the healing process finally.
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I too, have a difficult time with retaining information, but I found the easiest way for me to keep anything in memory is to write out the answers to questions as I read them...that and a good night's sleep are very helpful to me, I hope they will help you as well.
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I found that if think about all the things that I found destressing in past dreams just before I go to sleep. that they do not appear that night.  It's sort of facing your fears. When your sleeping your hidden fears in your subconcious come forward in your dreams. But if you face them while awake, then they are no longer in your subconcious etc.\nTry it, it works for me. If not then your best bet is to see a professional.
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I've done a lot of research on this issue. The simple answer is:\n1. Adopt good eating habbits: Eat a potato, mellon or such other stuff regularly. It deals with the physical aspects of your memory.\n\n2. Adopt good nervous habbits: This way you can do a work with dedication.\n\n3. Drink water more and more, atleast 8 glass daily.\n\n4. Sleep good enough.\n\n5. Change your reading habbits: like take every question easy....stroll through the stuff before digging into it......and make good revision routine......\n\nIs the answer sufficient?
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practice and practice. \ndo mind games, memory games, the more you practice your memory, the better it gets. works for everybody, young or old\ngood luck
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i used to be heavy into that shit and it is reallly really bad, my firend had a seziure the sooner your friend stops the better. i auses a terrible memory prblem and we dont even know the long term effects because its so recently been adop[ted as a problem. email me if u want to know more
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Hello..There are really great remedies that increasing and improving the process of learning,remembering,that is your memory power.I would strobgly recommend you to try the herbal solutions,100% proven in ages like Gingko Biloba and Guarana(they are mirraculous).The best form are tinktures or capsules,you can find all in a herbal boots etc. Another great herbal solution used in the whole Latin America is the tea MATE.If you eat healthy and take supplements in form of Vitamins would be even powerful combination.Walk a lot and sleep well..Good luck!!
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Firstly...by getting it in your conscious. Hypnotherapy...self or help from psychiatrist. Then dealing with it there. It's in your subconscious because you are repressing it due to trauma. But yes, it will effect your life until you come face to face with it, and forgive yourself
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Well it depends on if you want to improve your long term memory or your short term memory - they're separate entities.  I suggest looking into some psychology texts in your local library.\n\nMemory is all about practise - it's like learning your times tables when you're young.  Repetition is a good way to do it, but is more suited to memorising something specific.\n\nRemove as many outside distractions as possible when trying to learn something, or else your focus will be split in several directions.
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I just have to be blunt. Past life regression is BS. So is hypnosis. The best way to cure a phobia is to decide that you are not going to let it control you! You conquer IT! If you have a fear of flying, for example, ask yourself why. Do you fear for the rest of the people on the airplane? Or do you think that it would only crash if you were on it? I used to feel this way - but then I realized that if God would be on the scene to keep the other passengers safe, then He would keep me safe as well. Fly! Scared of heights? Well, I would be scared to walk on a catwalk building a skyscraper - and who says I am required to ever do that anyway? But if I had a fear of heights, I would gradually climb higher, inch by inch, realizing that every inch of the way, I was only one inch higher than I had been before and it's no big deal. Those are just a couple of examples. In summary: face your fears. That is the only way to conquer them. And you will!
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Sounds like you have a horrific childhood past and it's blocked. Did you know if a parent does something wrong the child represses these memories the most. I don't know what it is or who did what but sit a think as far back as you can. Writing is especially good when your in these kind of moods. I MYSELF FIND THAT i write stuff I had forgot about.
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I believe that it can.  Where hypnosis can be effective is in helping you recall.  What I mean is that it helps you get out of your own way.  I doubt the language was truly forgotten and that being around the language again would help refresh the memory.  Language in many ways is a habit that we acquire and sometimes we just need help in getting back that habit.  Where I can see hypnosis helping is in allowing us to reacquire that habit.  We don't have to think about what language we use, we just use it.  It is done on the subconscious level.  Automatically.  Where the difficulty comes in is where we have to stop and think about it.  This can cause us to think that task of relearning something might be more difficult than it is.  Your question allows me to make the following assumption that there is a base of knowledge and you are just trying to get that base back.  It would be different if you were trying to learn it the first time.
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Here are some things that can cause memory problems:  sensory overload (we are inundated with too much information and our brains aren't wired for it), some medications, normal aging memory loss, depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar, anxiety about the ability to remember and people getting on your case, too much to do/remember.  Seeing the psychiatrist and getting on an antidepressant that works for you will help.  If you are really worried see a neurologist for a memory test.  One thing that will help is yoga and meditation.  These help to center yourself and slow down your thoughts and find an inner peaceful place.  Then energy and thought flow is effortless.  Good luck.
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It is not unusual for people to remember past lives while under hypnosis.  I was once fascinated by such books as "The Search for the Girl with the Blue Eyes" (Stearn) and "Audrey Murphy (Bernstein)," where Ruth Simmons was placed into a hypnotic state to recall past lives.\n\nMy sister was once part of an age-regression experiment and recalled that her name was "Helga," married to a man named "Hans" and died in an avalanche.  The session was recorded and played back to her after the experiment.  She was particularly shocked at her accent and detailed knowledge of an earlier life in a foreign country.\n\nAfter many years of searching, I believe I have found the answer.  At least it has satisfied my deepest concern and curiosity:\n\nWhile I have no hard proof, I am absolutely convinced that these detailed accounts are "remembered" by the spirits (or demons, if you will) that previously have inhabited these various individuals.  People only live once but spirits have the ability to exist throughout many generations of the human lifespan and can be summoned under hypnosis to recall their previous hosts.\n\nIt is a rather disconcerting thought to realize that my sister (an atheist) harbors one of these entities.\n\nJohnny
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Memory is not well understood in humans. It doesn't seem to work like a computer, for instance. It isn't clear why some more or less random events are remembered, but other more significant ones are not.\n\nAlso important are the slow creeping in of false memories. This can happen in cases where a person tells the same story over and over. Slowly new details are "remembered" which in fact did not occur.\n\nThere are ways, I believe, to inhibit short term memory. But that won't help you. There are also people who have stopped the process which converts short term memories into long term ones, which is a terrible condition as they can remember their past but every thing that happens after a certain date is quickly forgotten.\n\nECT - electroconvulsive therapy, commonly called "electroshock therapy" can remove memories. ECT is not as bad as it sounds, but still isn't something to take lightly.\n\nUnfortunately there is no way to erase specific memories. What are lost are bits and pieces of things, without any real pattern connecting them.
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I've been accused of having "selective amnesia". I've forgotten by whom. But given what I know of amnesia, some people remember some things and not others. Some people remember nothing at all. So ... The correct answer to your question, given amnesia and the way it works with various people, would be ... Yes & No. And I'll trust that we all remember that fact in the future. lol ;-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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There is no sure fire cure. Hypnosis has helped people, exposure and medication. Some fears can be caused by a chemical imbalance in the body although this called paranoia and not a phobia