The Link System
As stated earlier, by using your senses, you will be exercising the dynamic
relationship between your left and right brain and thereby
increasing the overall power of your brain. Imagine, for example,that you have been asked to shop for the following items:
a silver serving spoon
six drinking glasses
bananas
pure soap
eggs
biological washing powder
dental floss
wholewheat bread
tomatoes
roses
Instead of scrambling around for little bits of paper (everyone has
either done it himself or seen others desperately fumbling through
their pockets for the missing slip) or trying to remember all the
items by simple repetition and consequently forgetting at least two
or three, you would simply apply the Basic Memory Principles in
the following way.
Imagine yourself walking out of your front door perfecting the
most amazing balancing trick: in your mouth is the most enormous
silver-coloured serving spoon, the handle-end of which you
are holding between your teeth, as you taste and feel the metal in
your mouth.
Carefully balanced in the ladle-end of the spoon are six exaggeratedly
beautiful crystal glasses, through which the sunlight reflects
brilliantly into your bedazzled eyes. As you look with delighted
amazement at the glasses, you can also hear them delicately tinkling
on the silver spoon. Going outside into the street, you step on
the most gigantic yellow and brown coloured banana, which skids with
a swish from under you. Being a fantastic balancer, you barely
manage not to fall and confidently place your other foot
groundward only to find that you have stepped on a shimmering
white bar of pure soap. This being too much for even a master, you
fall backward and land seat down on a mound of eggs. As you sink
into them, you can hear the cracking of the shells, see the yellow of
the yoke and the white of the albumen, and feel the dampness
soaking into your clothes.
Using your imaginative ability to exaggerate anything, you speed
up time and imagine that, in a couple of seconds, you have gone
back inside, undressed, washed your soiled clothes in a super
biological washing powder, which allows pure, shimmering water
to leave the washing machine, and then visualise yourself once
again on your way out of the front door. This time, because you are slightly tired by the previous accident, you are pulling yourself
along towards the shops on a gigantic rope made of millions of
threads of dental floss, the rope connecting your front door to the
chemist's shop.
Just as all this exertion begins to make you feel hungry, wafting
on the warm wind comes an incredibly strong aroma of freshly baked
wholewheat bread. Imagine yourself being dragged by the nose as
you salivate extraordinarily thinking of the taste of the freshly baked
bread. As you enter the baker's shop, you notice to your amazement
that every loaf on the baker's shelves is filled with brilliantly
pulsating red tomatoes, the baker's latest idea for a new food fad.
As you walk out of the baker's shop, noisily munching on your
tomato and wholewheat loaf, you see walking down the road with
the most amazing rhythm the sexiest person you have ever seen
(really let your imagination go on this one). Your immediate
instinct is to buy the person roses, so you dive into the nearest
flower shop, which sells nothing but red roses, and buy the lot,
bedazzled by the greenness of the leaves, the redness of the flowers,
the feel of the flowers as you carry them, the feel of the thorns, and
the fragrance from the roses themselves.
When you have finished reading this fantasy, close your eyes and
run back through the image-story you have just completed. If you
think you can already remember all ten items in the shopping list,
get paper and write down the list that you wanted to remember. If not, read
through this chapter again, carefully visualising on your mind's
inner screen, in sequence, the events of the story. Wirte down the list when you feel confident. Note that the process of visualizing could take some time, so be patient and try it. It only gets better and better as you try.
If you got 7 or more correctly, you are already in the top 1 per cent of
scores for the memorisation of such a list. And you have now used
the basic keys for unlocking much of the limitless potential of your
brain.
Practise the Link System on a couple of lists of your own
devising, making sure that you use the Basic Memory Principles
throughout, remembering that the more imaginative, absurd and
sensual you can be, the better. When you have had a little practice
with the Link System, move on to the next lesson.
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