So simple but well written, crystal clear special for beginners. I find it to be a perfect guide until we are more familiar with all the meditations. Thank you so much for all the energy, work and love that I can feel through this whole post. Can we only by the meditations on a CD? I was looking for the ones that you download to your phone. Hello Julie, Thank you very much for sharing.
After my progressive work shop in Brussels , I bought 6 or 5 meditations and started to medidate daily , choosing randomly. After my long week retreat in Malta, I am meditating daily whith the energy centers 7 , which is the one we did in Malta.
I am not yet well organised whith the walking meditations , but I already loved them every time I tried. You inspire all of us and give such joy and hope , you are the living evidence of miracle existence. Thank you again. Sending you a wagon of love! Thank you for all the information! Great help to choose what meditation I want to try. Do you have any experience with that?
Thank you so much for your time explaining all the meditations. I knew some of the meditations and practice them, but here I have all of them in one place. I had no idea about half of them. Great job! All the best in your healing journey! Hi Julie, Thanks so much for this! How were you able to imagine yourself without pain? But what about when — mentally rehearsing the future and — during the elevated emotions, or — when blessing the energy centers, or — when asking this intelligence for a sign etc.
Wonderful thoughts, but still t h o u g h t s. Is this totally wrong, only keeping me in beta waves?? Also, when doing your own meditation, I thought I did a good job, and really liking it, having enough time for all of my mental rehearsals… but naturally I mentally went — again with thoughts- through the parts of my meditation.
Again is this totally wrong and counterproductive, as this would never get me to reach any slower brain waves that are needed for making any physical changes in the body?? The point of the meditations is to lower our brain waves by focusing on that space around us, as you mentioned it correctly, and by doing so, entering our subconscious mind. When you are in that state, all the energy that you are normally giving out towards external things in your environment is now available for you and your body.
Thanks for your reply. Any suggestion, how you have done and how you currently do this, without ANY thoughts, ever? Thank you so much for sharing this incredible information. But I also want to know about Generating abundance meditation. Thank you for all of this detailed information. I am reading Becoming Supernatural and so far working through the meditations as he talks about them in the book.
The feelings of heightened emotion and gratitude have made such a difference mentally. A lot of it is too personal to throw out here, but I definitely worked through some past trauma in one particular sitting.
I am looking forward to working my way through some of his other meditations and will definitely keep looking back on this guide you made to help me decide which ones will best suit my needs. Much love. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The healthy drink you need this summer. Everything you need to know about derivative baths. August 24, Healing.
B e prepared to tap into an incredible healing power thanks to these life changing meditations… Yes, they have changed my life.
That sounds almost too good to be true, right? So now ask yourself: What energy would your dream self broadcast?
About Joe Dispenza Joe Dispenza is an author and speaker who wrote 3 books on the power of the mind to heal the body. That sounds quite crazy, right?
Before we start: The meditations of Joe Dispenza can seem a little odd at first. The 5 steps of the meditations These different stages are what make the meditations from Joe Dispenza so unique.
The breath We spend a lot of time stuck in survival mode, represented by our first 3 chakras. Becoming no one, merging with the quantum field Now you should start disconnecting from your body. The Meditations, detailed one by one. The short ones:. The Morning Meditation and the Evening Meditation 23 min each. Steps: They both come in one package. The Morning meditation is one of my favorite ones.
I love to do it in the morning with the sun rising. Rest and Renew 17 min. No steps This meditation was designed for mothers, women who give a lot to others and rarely take some time for themselves. Trust me this one is a MUST have.
I also chose not to become official in my Facebook relationship status until we were engaged. Breakups are hard to digest. Heather Sequeira. No one should judge you on what you decide to do post-breakup. Usually, girls remove their ex soon after the breakup, but she is totally different. This can draw him in and even consider getting back together with you. If you need to see a therapist, then do. Make sure you have the consent of your spouse.
We took plenty of photos together. Aside from social media stalking, many ex-couples continue to actually communicate—trying to stay friends. He brought along love letters I'd written him and read them out loud at me through sobs as I sat impassively on the couch. Of course, every relationship and every breakup is different, and if your ex is in some way harassing you, you should without a doubt block him or her on Facebook and all other social media. Tread lightly when posting about your divorce.
Sometimes you do it for likes, sometimes you do it to almost not be forgotten. You should only do it foSocial Media. Sat Aug 28, at am ET. Drag people down a rabbit hole of mystery if you want to.
But it's not just that. It's constant, lasts at least 2 weeks, and can Russ wished Paola well in her achievement despite the messy breakup they've been going through. You can read here for the differences one faces while dating and being single. This is a bonus tip, which I recommend you use only in rare situations. Even if you block, hide, and unfriend, you can still beI'm currently doing that right now to my ex.
This is why you MUST block her social media after a breakup. I dated another guy who didn't want to feature me on social media either. Fast forward 3 months, we have had no contact whatsoever no texts, calls, social media and I decide to check his When you're dating, it's not unusual to post a ton of pictures of you and your partner on Facebook and Instagram. Find out the benefits of stopping all communications with your ex so that you can heal yourself and move on, with or without him. Put them on your iPod and go for a jog instead.
Here's how to deal with having photos of your ex on your social media. And jealousy or inappropriate communication between people. Other times, their post-breakup pain will manifest in a different way, and you'll see that they're experiencing a lot of self-doubt. Although you can be sure that the other person has moved on, there's no point in having it rubbed in your face. The federal government and 46 state attorneys general are suing Facebook, accusing the social media giant of D: Breaking up is hard to do when you're still connected on social media.
It doesn't hurt to let him know very subtly that you're back on the market. An alpha male is just done with her and moves on. The love may be gone, but the digital imprint your ex left on your life lingers on. A person who is happy after a breakup isn't wallowing in heartbreak and misery. People have the habit of going to Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites and expressing whatever they have in mind.
Your value as a man will rise a bit higher in the mind of your ex this way. Take the case of John Cena. Do not give in at any cost. After my last relationship ended, I was consumed by anxiety, like most of us are after a breakup. You've got better things to do my man. Note: This tip is based on advice from Detroit-based dating coach Lisa Schmidt. Given their affordances, social media are discussed as potentially unhealthy enablers for online surveillance after relationship termination.
When it comes to handling a break-up, many people say that "women break up harder, but men break up longer. Take a ton of photos on your trip and post them to social media. Because when it comes to announcing your breakup via social media, you can very honestly do it for you, baby. That was almost two years ago, and we never saw each other, spoke, or texted again. Remember that social media is a 'highlights reel' of most people's lives and not always an accurate reflection of the moment.
Your ex won't either. What guys feel after a breakup isn't that different than what women feel after a breakup, but it isn't always that easy to decipher. He is generally quite active on social media and he is used to post pics or stuff on a regular basis. I really struggled through my first year of medical school. I was taking copious notes, highlighting my lecture notes, and spending hours reading my textbooks. Then, in my second year, I discovered the world of evidence- based study techniques.
Turns out researchers have been studying this for decades, with hundreds of experiments done on mostly students to figure out what strategies work best for understanding and remembering. When I discovered this, I reoriented my study and revision strategies around testing myself. The more I tested myself, the more I remembered. This gamification of studying and testing in particular made it more motivating and enjoyable. Other than testing myself more, another game-changing innovation was understanding spaced repetition.
Once I discovered the power of these evidence-based study techniques, I ended up doing better in my exams, while working and stressing a lot less. Because of all this copious free time, I ended up starting my YouTube channel while I was in medical school. How has the education system got away with expecting students to take exams to determine their future life prospects without ever actively teaching you how to study?
But perhaps the most essential process — that of distilling, learning and memorising the content — is left up to you. Before reading this chapter, I highly recommend going back and reading chapter 3 so you are comfortable with the idea of SAAD study techniques.
The SAAD framework gives you a base to understand why these revision techniques are so effective. But you have permission to keep your pastel highlighters! She pointed to the title, written once in pastel highlighter and lovingly written over again in fineline biro, the classic mark of an aesthetic Year 9 queen.
Each flashcard was, as my oh-so-modest-self believed, beautiful. Tiny curled handwriting in full sentences. Every word had been laboured over, each flick of the pen in time to the pop music I was probably singing along to at the time. My friend turned each one over in her hands to be met with more pretty squiggles and long lines.
The block text was perfectly arranged. The flashcard suddenly froze in her hand. She looked up at me. I could not recite a single card back to you from memory. After all, I had copied up sentences line-for-line.
That was me early in secondary school. Turns out, aesthetics are not scientifically backed to improve grades. I genuinely did not understand why flashcards were useful. It turns out that I was missing the very point of flashcards. Instead of testing myself, summarising information and making my life easier, I was rereading diluted content which I may as well have read from a textbook — and saved myself a lot of time. I have a deep respect for highlighters, especially pastel ones.
This chapter will show you ten scientifically backed SAAD revision methods which are less pretty but much more functional. But for the sake of your exams, do the following too.
As I went through school, I realised that doing well in an exam requires three main stages of studying. Whenever you come to revise, ask yourself which of the three stages below it fits into! The process of understanding begins in the classroom. You need to be able to not only recall information but use it in new scenarios, so leverage the people and resources you have for that subject until you get it! One of my biggest pieces of advice is to use class-time to just listen.
During my A levels, I would skim over the lesson content in the textbook beforehand to familiarise myself with key terms. For the rest of that hour, I just listened, asked questions and tried to grasp the concept. The second step is learning. It is one thing to finally understand something; it is another to be able to recall and retrieve specific information from the concept when prompted.
When we read a textbook of concepts, we find ourselves nodding our head in agreement. The textbook makes sense. In fact, it seems easy. And yet suddenly, turning to an exam question on that very topic reveals the horrifying conclusion that you do not, in fact, know this information.
Memorise, test yourself on, and learn, the content. The third step is application. This is where you test yourself, pick up practice test papers and attempt to prove your knowledge in the way exams will reward you for. Practice papers elevate you from knowing the information to using it in the very specific way that exam boards want.
In this chapter, we are going to cover ten revision techniques which are tried and tested to help you thrive in the exams. Some of them require more time, others need a bit of creativity, but all of them work. They will take you through learning the information to applying it in the way you are going to need to do in your exams and assessments.
All of these techniques hinge on creating SAAD revision, as discussed in chapter 3. Can you remember the elements of SAAD? Take a second to look away from the page and remind yourself. The process of actively recalling it is beneficial to long-term retention. Spaced repetition is all about revisiting the same information at specific points in time to combat the forgetting curve of human memory.
Recall information many times at the start and progressively less often as it enters your long-term memory. Instead of looking at the information on my flashcard, I write a question to force myself to produce the information myself.
Association means building on your prior knowledge. These techniques invite you to make connections between different topics to give you rich retrieval cues for the information. Passive revision gives you a break. The harder your revision is, the easier the exams will be.
Future You is already thanking you. Before jumping into memorising content, here is a top, top, top tip to guide your revision! It has a long list of points from the people who write the exam papers and tells you what you need to know.
The specification becomes a checklist of items to guide your revision. Spec-tacular job, team. This is one of the best things I do to guide my revision! Subjects like English literature are essay-based, so they require different revision methods to subjects like science which require you to apply your knowledge to short-answer questions.
With some subjects, you can start anywhere. For example, geography allows you to study ideas, to some extent, in isolation — jumping across the map or from oxbow lake to volcanoes. Do you need to memorise facts? Do you need to solve problems? Do you need to write essays? Get clear on how you will be marked and how your subject works! What are the different parts that make up this subject, and what do they require you to do for revision? Here are some examples.
Requirement Action Be confident analysing and 1. Memorise the names of using different literary devices, enough literary devices and e.
Practise writing pieces and including literary devices Know the conventions of 1. Memorise conventions different forms of text, e. Practise writing pieces using poem, short story conventions 3. Practise analysing texts of each form Know quotes from the set text 1. Memorise quotes and use them effectively to infer 2. Practise analysing these meaning quotes in an essay. You can similarly diagnose individual topics, chapters or exam papers within a subject to identify what you need to be able to do, and how you can tackle it.
This chapter will give you techniques to help bridge the gap in an effective way. Diagnosis done. Specification printed. Tentative smile on. Flashcards One of the most common and most commonly abused revision techniques. Flashcards should be three things: short, meaningful and connected. Short, as in, short-short.
As in, a few words on one flashcard. No long sentences, no overkill explanation, nothing that you can merely copy from your notes. Flashcards are about making your life easy by condensing content into its bare bones. Think, how few words can you use to get your point across? Instead, make it brief but meaningful.
Flashcards are all about active engagement. On one side of the flashcard, ask yourself a specific, directed question. For example: Which is bigger and why? The phloem or the xylem. This forces you to produce the basic answer but also to expand. Flip over the card, check whether or not you got it right, note down how you fared and then use specific spaced repetition methods to make sure you come back to this card again soon if you did poorly.
Flashcard language Oh, this is fun. Without trying to, I developed my own flashcard language. Seeing words and parroting them back to yourself is great but you can make revision even more active by making yourself fill in the blanks. My flashcard language was made of various intuitive symbols. It made the process of writing cards more active, and was especially great when I was too lazy to write more.
This is a way to force your brain to say aloud what the symbols mean. The more active recall, the better. Shorten country or case study names with symbols or letters, e. This flashcard is a demonstration of DNA base pairings: I would fill in that A is adenosine and links with thymine T with two hydrogen bonds.
If I wanted to make this even harder, I could leave a blank space where the number of hydrogen bonds is to force myself to recall this too. For this flashcard, when I came to revise, I would cover up the text and just look at the prompt images to test myself on the reaction mechanisms.
For example, I would look at the sun image and ask what it represents when thinking about ATP synthesis reactions. The sun makes me think of a process called photosynthesis which involves sunlight, which thus prompts my knowledge of phosphorylation. This process is especially helpful if you are a visual learner. This flashcard has prompt questions to use active recall and features the answers on the back.
This turns the sentences into active recall prompts. The beauty of flashcards is that they are straightforward to make and revise from. The downside is the discipline required to make them. I cannot recommend this enough: make flashcards as you go. Get into the robust habit of making a flashcard for every meaningful topic you cover as you go. We all love pushing tasks to the end of the year but you will have enough on your plate when exams hit to be re-condensing old information.
Do Future You a favour and learn to make useful flashcards from day one. There is still time. Dedicate time to the subjects you struggle with most first to get the biggest benefit out of flashcards. You can make flashcards by hand or online using simple flashcard apps like Anki and Quizlet.
These have the added benefit of inbuilt spaced repetition. After testing yourself on your knowledge, the app sorts the flashcard into different packs for revision. However, you have to find what works best for you.
If flashcard apps get you distracted, ditch them. If you always lose handwritten flashcards, consider using online cloud-based methods. More than anything, start. Practice makes perfect with flashcards and their benefits are long-lasting. Remember, the more effort you put into simplifying information now, the easier life will be when you come to revise!
Here are some examples of how I designed flashcards:. Mini Challenge: Choose a line of the exam board specification for your subject and turn it into a flashcard. Be concise, meaningful and connect it to past knowledge. Reread this section to make sure it uses as much active recall as possible! Summarisation from memory We all love notes. Notes are easy to do, can be made while blaring loud music and require little mental effort. However, a friendly first step to studying if you do love note-taking is to summarise with intention.
Take your lengthy class notes and aim to condense them into a few essential lines. The trick to make this effective is to do it half from memory.
If physically writing the summary takes too long, you can say it aloud, either to yourself or explain it to a friend. Actively teaching someone is another useful way to test your understanding.
For example, watch a documentary related to a topic in your economics lesson, and then summarise the key facts from memory. Either write down your summary or tell a friend. This will test how well you understood the video as you are not copying up facts word-for- word.
If you struggle to explain concepts to yourself, head to your textbook, read through the paragraphs and then summarise them again until you feel confident. This process might not teach you the exact wording the mark scheme needs, but it is very useful for the first stage of studying understanding and starting to learn the information.
Mini Challenge: Now that you just read through how to use two study techniques, summarise them to yourself or a friend in a few sentences. How do you make effective flashcards? What is summarisation? Why is it better than note-taking? For example, the way that you remember your phone number is likely through Chunking. If your number is , it is difficult to recall the seventh number from memory when asked.
But if I asked you to give me your whole phone number, you have learned to repeat the whole thing in a practised way, such as —— You have naturally chunked it into three parts without trying. Repeat your phone number to yourself and notice if you have naturally chunked it into parts!
Equally in chapter 3 we learnt what makes a good evidence-based revision technique. With multiple aspects to human learning and lots of new information, it would be easy to leave this book and forget it all. Simply reading the text does not create footholds for you to remember long paragraphs. Each letter prompts your knowledge of the information in that section, such as S being a chunk for spaced repetition.
Now you only have to remember what each letter stands for to suddenly have access to the whole chapter. You are creating a rich association to the knowledge through chunking it into something more accessible.
This is why mnemonics and acronyms like SAAD are helpful ways to remember things. You know how it started and you know a few details about it, but you have no idea how they connect.
The facts are scrambled in your head and, of all the subjects, in history it is pretty important to prioritise chronology. Welcome to Chaining. The idea is that you break down a process or event into a sequence of facts and associate each to the one before.
Telling a Story A way to use chaining and chunking together effectively is through storytelling. Creating a story forces you to break down lots of information into manageable pieces which connect to each other in a logical sequence.
Give it a try:. Create a story linking the details in order. Another reason that turning facts into a story is successful for long- term memory retention is because you are creating more associations. Here, each part of the story is logically chained to the last and cues your recall of the next. Below is an example of storytelling to remember the process of water transport in the xylem. All keywords were taken from a mark scheme answer from a past paper in my syllabus. This is an effective way to remember an otherwise dull set of facts!
The guard cells, driven by an influx of water, conducted the grand opening of the stomata to a round of applause. Excited water molecules flew from the stomata in streams, thankful for the Queen of Transpiration letting them take on the journey from the soil to the surrounding air.
As the first round of water molecules left, the plant sighed, grateful for the lower pressure at the top of the stem. But this created tension in the xylem. Which water molecules would be chosen next to journey through the plant? They clung to each other in the xylem in anticipation. Each water molecule was special. Each was dipolar, hugging their neighbouring molecule with the companionable strength of hydrogen bonding.
That would mean more stomata are open. The Queen of Transpiration will be even faster! And so, in a process as passive as the sun shining on the fields, the Queen of Transpiration pulled and water was taken up. The plant heaved a sigh of relief. It would live to be hydrated another day. This technique truly makes revision fun. It is light-hearted, though admittedly time-consuming and not worth using for everything, but is a great way to break up long stints of working through past papers.
You can also practise recalling the story through making mind-maps or flowcharts and connecting facts to one another from memory. Storytelling counts as SAAD revision when the story is repeated often and in expanding intervals spaced repetition , requires you to recall the characters and storyline from memory active recall , is built on prior knowledge and chained to the next step of the story association and uses a storyline which appropriately distils what you need to learn desirable difficulty.
Happy storytelling! Make awkward scientific terms the heroines, or business definitions the rules of an imaginary world! Welcome to my all-time favourite technique. I was introduced to this by my wonderful A level biology teacher who made it a priority to mentor students in her free time about the importance of effective revision, without any prompting from my school.
Ever since I introduced this on my YouTube channel, I receive daily messages from students whose studying has been revolutionised by this active recall technique. Unlike passively highlighting text or rereading class notes, blurting is one of the most efficient and effective ways to understand where you are at in your knowledge — and do something about it.
To do this, take a concept or chapter you want to revise:. Write yourself a few prompts related to the topic to help jog your memory. Without looking at any notes or your textbook, write down everything you can remember from that chapter. Detail processes, list out vocabulary, define key terms. All of it. You can even set yourself a timer. Did you recall things word for word? Were you actually able to explain that difficult concept or did you just think you knew it?
What did you leave out? Blurting is easy to put off because it is mentally taxing. However, it is an essential self-assessment tool to show you what you need to spend more time on. The more you repeat blurting the same concepts, the stronger your knowledge in them will become. Blurting became my go-to technique for almost any subject. The higher the force, the more it changes shape. On the side with less force, there is more sediment. As the river breaks through, e. The cut-off loop is called an oxbow lake.
Here, I can see that my knowledge of meander formation was shallow. Without blurting my knowledge using active recall, I would not have known that I lacked this specificity. Mini Challenge: Choose a chapter from any subject and practise Blurting by writing down everything you can remember! Check your notes to see if you forgot any keywords. Sherlock, as in, Sherlock Holmes.
Who better to learn from than the fictional mastermind and genius detective? The idea is that you associate a word or sentence to a specific object or action. You anchor each part of a concept repeatedly until it is ingrained in your memory. When you need to recall the information, you use the objects or actions as a prompt to list off each element of the concept. Sherlock used this to remember small details by chaining information to a space he knew by heart: his house.
He would imagine himself walking through his home, with each object in the room prompting a different fact. Suddenly, each detail would come back to him. Your brain has actively associated their appearance to that word. Actors engaged in a slow process of associating each line with a different detail of the theatre.
This is how actors were able to memorise a new play in only a day. Through associating new concepts to your existing knowledge of a physical space, you are creating rich retrieval cues to recall the information.
This process details how a new law is made in the UK Parliament. The process of a Bill becoming an Act of Parliament:. Draft Bill: a draft is issued for consultation before being formally introduced to Parliament. This allows changes and amendments to be made. First reading: the Bill is introduced read out to Parliament, with no debate or voting. Second reading: a full debate takes place considering the details of the Bill.
Committee stage: a public committee of MPs can make amendments to the Bill. Report stage: the committee reports its amendments to the Commons, which can agree to, or reverse, any changes. Third reading: this is another full debate of the Bill but no amendments can be made, usually Bills will be passed at this stage. Second chamber: once the Bill is passed by the Commons, the same process takes place in the House of Lords. Royal assent: once passed by both chambers, the Bill is given to the monarch to grant royal assent.
Once this happens, the Bill becomes law. Hefty, right? The thought of learning a long process like this can feel overwhelming. So you need to remember the eight stages: draft Bill, first reading, second reading, committee stage, report stage, third reading, second chamber and royal assent.
In that order. To do this, imagine a space you know by heart. This could be your bedroom, your house, your garden or a school classroom. Imagine approaching your front door. You can imagine yourself pretending to open your door like a draft of the real thing. The image of your front door is the first cue. Imagine yourself turning the key once: first reading. Nothing happens with only one turn of the key, just like no debates happen within the first reading of a new Bill in Parliament. Then turn the key again: second reading.
The door opens and you can go through, just like Parliament will debate the Bill on the second reading so it can go through to the next stage. Enter your hallway, or whatever room comes first in your house.
Imagine your family members gathering to greet you as you come in: committee stage. When you see your family, you report how you feel to them: report stage. Your family can make changes to your mood, just like the Commons can make changes to the Bill once amendments are reported.
Imagine yourself leaving the hallway and approaching the next door. You reach for the handle and turn it: third reading. You no longer talk to your family and no changes can be made to what you said, just like how no further changes can be made to the Bill at this stage. You enter the next room: second chamber.
This space is different than your hallway, just like the House of Lords is different to the House of Commons. Finally, imagine going to sit on your sofa and feeling like a king or queen as you relax after a long day: royal assent.
Once passing both chambers, or both rooms in your house, the monarch confirms the Bill and it becomes law. Suddenly, you have connected a process in its correct order to somewhere you know well. There is no way you can get the order mixed up because you are familiar with the order of rooms in your house. Every time you come home after school, you can even repeat it to yourself because using spaced repetition will lodge it firmly in your long-term memory. In an exam, you can now close your eyes and simply imagine the journey through your house to recall the entire process.
However, one of the reasons Sherlock was able to remember so many niche facts was through associating them to different objects in his house. For example, I could choose the mirror by my bed as the first object. Sounds dry. Sounds complex. But if every time you look at your mirror for the next few months you repeat this fact to yourself, it will become second nature.
You can even put a Post-it note on your mirror with this fact on it so you can check your knowledge every day. The idea is that Sherlock could mentally walk through his house in his mind and recall a fact with every object he pointed at.
If you are a visual or spatial learner, this is incredibly effective! Though it might seem like an unnecessarily long process to create the retrieval cues, you are saving time in the long run.
Object association is powerful when you successfully link any abstract idea you need to remember to something physical you know well.
When I learned about this technique, I started using objects I knew I would have with me during the exam. Let me take you through how I learned the exact, word-for-word definition of the enthalpy of combustion using my pointer finger.
Funny story. I grabbed a piece of paper and took my brain through the process I built on object association using my finger for my A level chemistry exam, writing out every word I could remember. Here it is:. When I was finished, I checked my dusty revision notes and confirmed that I am the biggest nerd of all time. I know it almost word- for-word to this day.
That is the long-term power of object association. Get ready to get creative. I wanted to remember the following definition:. Every element of this definition is necessary to receive full marks from the AQA exam board in A level chemistry, so I needed to put each word accurately into my long-term memory.
My hand. I can feel you laughing at my insanity. Just remember that this technique was so useful I can still remember this rather dry definition to this day.
Here we have my finger. I imagined that touching my finger to fire related to combustion would start this process. I can simply trace round my finger and recall each line of the definition, word for word, with ease. With each brush of my fingers, the words of the definition returned. I used to practise this process every day until I could do it in my sleep. Seeing as this is the most dramatic technique of all time, it seems fitting to take an example from A level drama.
Imagine we want to remember the definition of the alienation effect:. Alienation effect: Theatrical techniques designed to remind the audience that they are watching a play and so distance them from identifying emotionally with the characters and events depicted. Central to the dramatic theories of Bertolt Brecht. From now on, start associating your pencil with the image of an alien to cue recall of the alienation effect. You can imagine pencil- shaped aliens or using the pencil to draw an alien.
Every time you circle it with pizazz, think of being on stage in a theatre. Now, when asked to recall this definition, I can dramatically circle the tip of the pencil, lightly press the point on my finger, distance my finger to the other end of the pencil and then touch the rubber to remind me of the last phrase, before imagining the pencil breaking.
With ease, I just associated a lengthy definition to a retrieval cue I will have in the exam. Why does this strange technique work? Coming back to the framework of SAAD revision techniques, this is grounded in association as it requires you to create rich retrieval cues and bring them back into your mind using active recall.
Especially at the start, it is desirably difficult to remember the entire definition, so your brain must work actively. Try it yourself on that definition you always forget or the process you feel like you have no hope of remembering. Focus on the keywords and start adding the parts of the definition piece by piece to areas on an object in front of you. How can you connect the words and phrases you need to know to the parts of the object?
I recommend taking ten minutes to associate the concept with an object or even your hand to creatively insert it into your long-term memory. Practise recalling one more step each time.
You only have so many objects and well-known places to use, so use this sparingly but know that is highly effective. It might be a brand new essay question asking about a book character who only appears in one chapter. To bridge the gap between just knowing the information, and being able to retrieve it and use it, we need to practise application. This section will go through the different ways of testing your existing knowledge, such as using textbook questions, past papers and writing essays.
Remember, the academic system is a game. The players: you and the exam boards. However, like I said, this is a game.
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