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Still remember our childhood days? Me I don’t remember some, the first day in school, my first classmates, my first teacher, my first friend in school, and my first playmate. Human consciousness and identity –our lives- are bound with memory. Our memories make us who we are.

Remembering is effortless and instinctive for most of us, sometimes I forget how difficult and important an act it actually is. Why do we remember some events so clearly and others are not? Why does memory decline as one ages? Can we really boost our memories? So, I research this topic for I am also very confused why it happens to us.

Our brain is man’s organ of thought, speech, emotion and memory. It is the body’s control center. The brain has the jelly like consistency. It reveled that our memory has two major forms; one form is concerned with knowing how or knowledge with motor skills, the other is concerned knowing what, or knowledge of facts and events. Once our memory has been acquired, once it has been in a stable store for more than an hour, memory can maintain itself by using the proteins that are already available.

Here are some tips on how to improve our memory;

• Stimulate your brain’s neutral circuit to grow by using your memory to the utmost. Challenge your mind, learn a new skill and develop it to the fullest.
• Filter data. Determine what is the most important and concentrate on remembering them. Do not try to memorize everything.
• Recite. Saying ideas aloud is an effective way to convert short-term knowledge to long term memory.
• Use mnemonic device to help you remember a list of facts or steps in a procedure.
• Take vitamins that are essential for the proper functioning of memory.
• Drink enough water. Research has shown that dehydration affects memory, causing confusion and thought difficulties.
• Get enough sleep. Lack of sleep directly affects the brain impairing concentration and storing of information.
• Stay off the booze. Excessive alcohol intake has an extremely damaging affect on memory. Studies have shown that small amount of alcohol interferes with the ability of remembering.
• Do not smoke. Smoking rubs the brain of oxygen and it affects memory.