MEMORY AND RECALL
Perhaps the most valuable thing that we possess is our memory. It allows us to learn from our mistakes and thus enables us to continue to grow. Its contents help to dictate the attitudes and behaviors that we utilize when we face the world. Your long-term memory is perfect. It is the bank, the permanent storage house for all the information that you have ever paid attention.
There are things that come into short-term memory (usually only seconds long and never make it into long term permanent storage. If information gets into long-term memory, you have it forever. However, you recall of that information can mess up sometimes. The problem is in recall, not in memory. We remember millions of things for every one thing that we forget.
There are an unlimited number of ways to remember things and there are only three possible ways to forget. One way that we forget a thing is called the "tip-of-the-tongue" syndrome. In this situation, under pressure, the brain produces High Beta Waves and the filter closes down, and the information comes up and hits the filter. The harder you try to remember the tighter the filter closes. It is only when you finally relax and move into Alpha and the stress goes away that the filter opens up. The other main way that we forget things is when we create a block to remembering. Often we do things by saying, 'I have a terrible memory,' and then agreeing with that suggestion. In rare circumstances we can create a mental block to prevent ourselves from remembering something that is too painful to handle right now. Forgetting is the anomoly. Remembering is what the mind is designed to do.
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