| Imagine that you have just put on a pair of | | | | memory stop firing when the skill no longer |
| blue-tinted sunglasses. If you were to look around | | | | serves a purpose? Anthropologists report that in |
| the room and describe what you see, everything | | | | cultures where people do not learn to read or |
| would appear blue to you because it's being | | | | write, photographic memory continues throughout |
| filtered though a blue lens. | | | | adulthood. If this is true, then is our educational |
| But is this reality? No, it's your perception of | | | | system actually creating limits and barriers to our |
| reality. We only see, hear and experience life | | | | genius potential? Perhaps our kindergarten |
| through the perceptual filters of our senses. This | | | | curriculum should consist of memory development |
| is why life (and reality) is always subjective. Our | | | | classes ... and leave the ABC's for later when the |
| senses are always at work, filtering out what we | | | | child can learn them at a glance. |
| believe to be false or what is beyond our ken. I | | | | Please don't think that because you are able to |
| once read a story about how the Indians | | | | read this page your memory skills have been lost. |
| responded when Cortez landed his ship in the new | | | | Remember, everyone has a perfect memory. |
| world. The author claimed that the Indians couldn't | | | | This is true whether you are one year old or |
| "see" the ships in the harbor because their minds | | | | ninety-one. Your mind absorbs everything that |
| were incapable of conceptualizing such vessels. | | | | happens to you and processes this information, |
| They had no frame of reference. (This point was | | | | consciously or unconsciously, through the five |
| recently demonstrated in the movie What the | | | | senses. It is the process of retention and recall |
| Bleep Do We Know?) | | | | that needs improvement, and here again, it is |
| Are you one of those people who is afraid to | | | | subject to the realm of your belief system. If |
| stretch your perception of reality? | | | | you truly believe that you have a perfect |
| What if you believed that your brain had already, | | | | memory and a faultless recall system, the brain, |
| instantly, scanned this page several hundred times | | | | being a servo-mechanism (goal oriented), will |
| and that you already knew everything written | | | | continue to modify your skills until this becomes |
| here? You are simply reading this page again | | | | your truth. This is why using mental imagery and |
| because you've refused to believe that it's | | | | affirmations is so important. They can help your |
| possible to recall these words in detail. | | | | program your brain to accept its "truth" on the |
| Did you know that every human being has a | | | | subconscious level. Once that happens, your world |
| perfect photographic memory? It's true. | | | | is infinitely better because you have created a |
| Unfortunately, photographic memory lasts for | | | | new paradigm of what's possible for you. You |
| about one-tenth of a second, then almost all of | | | | have removed your limitations and accepted a |
| the information is consciously forgotten. Young | | | | new reality. |
| children have photographic memories that last | | | | So, today, why not change your world from the |
| much longer. However, the ability disappears as | | | | inside out? Knowing you can is simply a matter of |
| children grow older. Why? Is it from lack of use? | | | | believing you can. |
| Do the neurons that generate photographic | | | | |