20 • January 2017 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.


Creativity Sparks Memory Improvement Weird Facts & Fun Trivia - 4 Fun Facts about Beer


by Chance Massaro, M.A. • powcom@sonic.net ~ www.MemoryBackGuarantee.com


periences, prejudices and ex- pectations. The same neurons which remember, create! This is why eyewitness testimony in court is often flawed. It is also why it is a waste of time to ar- gue with someone about what they remember as opposed to what you remember: surety in a memory is NO sign of accuracy.


Remembering is a creative


act! Memory is not like a film or a digital recording; memo- ry is an amazing result of the body/mind miracle responding to the inner and outer world with chemicals and electric- ity. Each of us creates our own memories based on our life ex-


So what?! You May Ask So you can easily and joyously improve your memory by do- ing creative things. Note now: I did not say do creative things well or beautifully, I said doing creative things will


improve


your memory. Nowhere in your body is it more true, “Use it or Lose it” than in your brain. Age doesn’t degrade memory lack of use does. Your brain will actually trim neurons and parts of them which are not be-


ing used. But if you paint or draw or tell jokes or tell stories or write poems or tell people about the details of a walk you took you will be using neurons you want to keep and soon ex- perience a great improvement in your remembering whatever you want.


Suggestions for Supercharg- ing Your Memory


• Collage: rip pictures out of magazines, what do they say to you? What do they reveal? Make up a story about the pic- ture: the goofier the better. Doodle: scribble big on paper, find shapes of familiar things and/or


imals, use color to accentuate emerging shapes, tell a story about the shape.


• Interpret abstracts: Look at


renderings (recognizable sub- jects of painting or photogra- phy) as color, lights and lines, look at abstract art and explain it as though it is something rec- ognizable, tell what it reveals for YOU.


• Buy weird toys at garage sales: imagine how they came to be or who would love to play with them.


• Watch That Gesture: The average 95 y/o person makes over 85,000 movements a day, most are repetitive: watch your movements, stop in the middle of a common movement and embellish it.


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• Make a batch of personal gods: The ancient Babylonians are said to have made new gods when the crops were poor or if battles or babies were lost, and kept the gods they had created if circumstances were favorable. Try that. The Hindus and Dao- ists have dozens of gods, the Greeks had a village of VERY human gods and the Catholics have their saints. Try all those vestments on for size. Invent!


• Rearrange Context: What would it be like if your children really were monkeys?


How


would your office look if your coworkers really were bozos? How would you live if you home were a drive through? Imagine trees dancing through the soil. See fish swimming in air.


The oldest known recipe is for a 4,000-year-old beer made by the Sumerians.


In the 1980s, Anchor Brewing re-created these ancient Fertile Crescent suds.


Sumeria’s neighbors, the Egyptians, built the pyramids under the influence. Workers at Giza received about four liters of beer a day, according to Patrick McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania.


Beer (in part because it contains antimicrobial ethanol) was a healthier drink than polluted Nile River water.


Ethanol, the intoxicant in


beer, is a powerful antiseptic, but not a good cold remedy. The optimal blood alcohol content to kill germs would be more than 60 percent. Alas, that’d kill you, too.


Salud! Researchers at the University of Western Ontario found that micronu- trients called polyphenols in one 12-ounce (0.35-liter) bottle of beer create protective levels of plasma antioxidants that can prevent heart disease.


But at three bottles a day, the cardiovascular benefits of beer are reversed by the pro-oxidants your body creates as it metabolizes excess ethanol.


“Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work


when people are watching. ~ Dogbert’s Motto”


Scott Adams 20 • January 2017 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. “One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.” ~ Sophocles


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