Context is Everything!

Sometimes, linguistic context is everything. It's how you understand the significance of a given word, right? When I was a kid, we played a game where the words "coffee pot" were substituted for two versions of a homonym, and you had to think what the words were. So my ma would say, "I java pot the ball" and "I drove java pot the tunnel" and I had to think the words "threw" and through".

And sometimes it's how you acknowledge people. Bear with me, here.

My business office is very private. It's pretty separate from the house; it's downstairs, behind the garage, with its ain door to a private patio. The terrace is accessible lone by a gate to the presence pace and stairway up to the chief deck and yard, which I can see from both my desk and the couch where I sit down to "read". No 1 ever come ups in unless I ask for them. Even my hubby bank checks the telephone line to see if I'm occupy before he come ups down, and he come ups from the inside; there's never anyone except the cablegram cat or the telephone cat on the patio, and that's because I've called them. When I work, the lone other animal there, besides me, is my cat, Creature. That is, my business business office is very private, and very safe -- which is important, because Iodine necessitate to be completely procure in the outer human race so that I can concentrate on the interior human race for/with my clients.

Last Wednesday morning, I was in my office, doing a reading/NLP session for a client. I had my eyes closed, paying stopping point attending to the interior landscape, and was therefore not particularly aware of what was going on in my office. All was well. We had gotten to a topographic point where my client was affecting 1 of his large issues, which, frankly, he would rather have got avoided. (This is how many issues acquire to be large issues — when they're little issues, we avoid them because it's easier or more than comfy to avoid them than to cover with them. That allows them turn unchecked, attracting other experiences like the 1 that caused the issue in the first place. But I digress.)

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! Went the dorsum of the terrace door.

Oh, my God! I practically screamed into the telephone, and then apologized to my client for blistering his ear as I rushed to the dorsum door. There was a adult male standing there! And all the possibilities of who this could be flashed through my head (PG&E? PacBell? The cablegram company? But I haven't called any of them. A new neighbor? But why would a new neighbour come up to this obscure, protected door?)

"Who are you?", I asked the stranger.

"Steve", he answered, with a slightly aghast look, as if to say, "you idiot!" — and immediately his very ordinary characteristics morphed into the alone 1s of one of my best friends from decennaries ago, as if all my experience of him suddenly populated his face. (Actually, we've known each other since we were adolescents and have got stayed in touching all these years. No, I haven't seen him in 5 years, but he really doesn't look different from how he looked then.) It's just that I talked to him the eventide before, on his place phone, in NC, to state "thank you" for the birthday nowadays he sent, so I "knew" he was place in NC. Since I didn't anticipate him, I didn't "see" him. I explained that I was really "out there" from doing the reading, and he readily forgave me.

How make you forestall this from happening? How make you guarantee you acknowledge someone? I'm not 100% certain you can, but I have got a couple of ideas.

The first 1 come ups from my late father, who was a physician in a little town in NJ, with a immense pattern which spanned the state. Almost everywhere we went, person would say, "Hi, Doc!" and he'd look momentarily blank, and then greet whomever by their name, and inquire them something relevant to their lives. Once I asked him about that clean look, and how he remembered everyone, and here's what he said: "When individual says, "Hi, Doc!, I cognize it's person from my practice, so I "see" them in the business office — and then I cognize just who they are, their name, what they make for a living, children names, all that stuff."

So the first fast one is to widen the ocular framework of your memory, to see person in the linguistic linguistic context in which you met.

The 2nd fast one is from "memory experts" who state us to visualize someone's name stamped across his or her forehead.

Put the two together, so you see the person's name, stamped on his or her forehead, in the context in which you cognize each other, and you'll be all set!

Memory and Visualization

Who want to remember better? I guessed many of us would probably raise our hands. Almost all human beings want to remember better especially the stuff we need to use. Our children need good memory for helping them in school. Almost all brain processes need memory to help relating the known which is already in memory with the unknown which is the new things we learn. Therefore learning memory techniques can help enhancing our development of growth in life. Do you know that your memory needs visualization? It needs something to help remembering. The process is not just trying to associate the tings you want to remember with the things you already remember and never forget, at least during the time you want that memory. In this article we will learn how to make use of visualization and help the memory process.

How do we remember things? We associate the things in my memory and the things we just learn. The way of association depends on the technique each individual use. The tip is that people remember pictures better than words. However, most people are used to remembering in words and use this technique all the time when they need remembering. The result is that they often forget what they want to remember and complaining that their brain does not work well. Some think that because they are too old to remembering stuff. It is not the brain. Neither is it their ages. It is the technique. If we learn to remember in picture or we can call visualization. We can remember better no matter how old we are. Now. How do we use visualization? Get ready. This is four steps on using visualization and making your memory better.

Step 1 Organize what you want to remember.

Normally what we want to remember are not only a few sentence or a word but in stead we need to remember a series of story or principles or may be a chapter of lesson we just learn. All of the contents need to be in order. Some may not require that but it is easier if they are organized in order. For example, if we want to remember the names of the first ten presidents of the United States, we would rather need it in order although the teacher may not require that. Write it down in paper. If it is already in the text book, take the note out the major headings. Organizing the materials will help the process to be smoother and more effective. Make them in sequence and order.

Step 2 Build house files.

Build them in your mind. Try to make the picture of your five favorite rooms. May be the first room is your bed room. This will be your bed room file in your mind. Look for the position that you can put your memory and will never forget. Pick up five places. For example, the first position is at your TV, second at your bed, third at your right stool, fourth at your drawer and fifth at your mirror. Now we have five places to store our memory and we will never forget since we live with this every day. Do the same with other rooms. Make sure that we apply the same procedure of picking up the five areas so that we do not mix up the order of the areas. If you do this with five rooms, we have twenty five places to store our memory.

Step 3 Visualize of your contents and put them in your house files.

Picture your contents. For example if you want to remember the name of George Washington, you may visualize your friend, George. You have a friend named George, right? You see George diligently washing tons of tons of dishes. Once you visualize this, you will never forget. Put this image onto your first house file which is you TV. Now every time you start remembering the name of the first presidents of the United States, you see your friend George washing tons of dishes in your bed room TV.
Do the same with the rest of the contents. The more outrageous the pictures are, the better you can remember the contents. Put them onto your house files. Make sure that they are in order as you have arranged previously.

Step 4 Practice and review them until you get all.

Like any other learning processes. You need to practice and review until you are good at it. "Repetition is the mother of the skill." As I remember Tony Robbins said. Make sure that you do this often enough.