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What is Memory?
Dear Nirvana, what exactly is memory and how does it work?
That’s an excellent question! I’ve prepared an article entitled What is Memory?
Most of us think that memory is in the brain. Psychology does not know what memory is, where memory is located or how it works. One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the brain is understanding, structurally, where this memory is stored. Scientists have been searching for years for physical representations of memories or engrams in the brain. Some scientists insist that there is simply not enough room in the brain for all of our memories to be stored.
Memory at times can be extremely accurate and at other times it’s fuzzy and unclear. Numerous theories have explained how we can recall a memory, which is the encoding of information, and how we can locate what we remember when we need it, which is retrieval. It has been suggested that somehow each one of us constructs and then utilizes an internal script, which governs our memory. Some researchers have also suggested that we have two kinds of memory, explicit and implicit. Explicit memory involves the conscious recollection of the past and implicit memory involves retention without any conscious awareness. This is like driving to work on autopilot.
Some have studied memory of sentences and stories and have found that
once the meaning of a sentence is grasped, the meaning is retained, but
not the exact words. The meaning of these sentences is
constructively recalled, while the actual details become sketchy,
although the details are actually remembered. We also tend to
remember more information about fields that we practice in, such as
Biofeedback, Homeopathy, Naturopathic medicine or Psychology since we
are more familiar with these fields. Psychologists say that we
have three different kinds of memory: sensory, which is as if you saw a
photo of an item in your brain, short-term memory and long-term memory.
Some researchers believe that it takes about
30 minutes for long-term
memory to file an item away. Long-term memory is pretty
much limitless, like a large library.
So, what happens to this
memory during amnesia? Or when we are asleep? Or unconscious? What
causes us to forget?
Researchers don’t have the answers to how memory works, but many
insist that clear attention is crucially important in memory. They
have found that we are most likely to remember when circumstances are
most similar to those of what we originally experienced. Other
researchers point out that it is evident that we remember events that
occurred during sleep or even while anesthetized, indicating memory
occurs without awareness. Our brain processes all of the
information, which is received, and then eliminates the parts that are
not as important. Psychologists think we categorize our memories
by filing them away by specific attributes just as if you were filing
your folders away in a filing cabinet.
The removal of the hippocampal areas on both sides of the brain results
in the inability to form new memories. The person simply cannot
remember new information. Motor learning is unimpaired, but memory of it
will not be retained.
For example -
this person would be able to play
baseball, but would not be able to learn any of the terms about this
sport, would not remember playing baseball or meeting the coach.
The memories prior to the surgery would still be remembered as well as
they did before.
Karl Pribram’s theory suggests that our brain functions like a hologram.
He believes that the entirety of any pattern is stored throughout the
brain, so that if you have even a small portion of it, then you can
remember and reproduce the whole again. Carl Jung’s theory suggests the
concept of the “collective
unconscious”. This is a level of our being which we not
only share with others, but which somehow also contains our ancestral
memory. This theory is very different from that generally accepted
by memory researchers, who tend to be either experimental or educational
psychologists.
All of the information gathered by these researchers and psychologists is helpful, but still cannot explain “What Is Memory?” The explanation is relatively simple as explained by my life-long teacher, Professor Angha. He explains that memory is one of the qualitative effects of the magnetic field of the brain. There are five stages in memory: learning, storing, remembering, recognition, and replacing. In each one, the field of activity is in the inner part of the neurons of the cerebrum, which creates changes in the RNA of the molecules and consequently causes actions and reactions in the axons.
The axons function like magnetic plates, becoming stronger with increasing contact of the brain’s electrical current. These billions of microscopic magnetic plates create a magnetic field, which can store and record thousands of auditory and visual waves. Whenever it is necessary we can access this information just like opening up the filing cabinet and pulling out the necessary file that we are looking for. Keep in mind that new and healthier cells are more sensitive and more accurate in both action and reaction, as opposed to weak, fatigued or toxic cells.
This works in a similar fashion as a tape recorder. On a tape,
the metal bits are on the film in random order. The magnetic field
organizes them by stabilizing wave
patterns on the tape. One of the key elements of the tape recorder
is the head, which is magnetic. The tape recorder head functions
as our brain does for memory.
What is recorded is not in the head, but the head is necessary to record
or to play whatever is on that tape. The total recorder, including
all parts, is the entirety of the body, and the recording is in the
magnetic field of the body.
Therefore, we can say that memory is stored in the magnetic body and not
in the cell. This magnetic body is blank when we are born and it
is programmable to record anything on it. Our experiences from the
physical life get recorded on the magnetic body. As new
information comes in, if we accept it, it will be recorded and if we
don’t accept it, then it will not be recorded. Memory is the
record of our physical life recorded on the magnetic field.
Best Wishes,
Nirvana Zarabi-Smith
Doctor of Natural Medicine
Director of Education
Nirvana
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