DO YOU REMEMBERING

If you take a brief moment to think about memories from your life, what stands out? We typically think of major life events; weddings, moves, births, deaths, goals achieved. We also tend to gravitate toward memories that contain important people, the people we love and care about most. There may also be memories that we try to avoid thinking about, traumatic ones. But remembering doesn’t have to focus only on major life moments. Did you know it can actually be beneficial to remember just for the sake of remembering? Research shows that those who engage in “remembering” or “memory talk” actually have better memory recollection overall. Memory is part of the brain’s activity, and we can use remembering to make our brain stronger, just like we would exercise a muscle to make it stronger.