It is much easier finding your way in and out of caves if you leave a trail of ribbon behind you. And this is what we can do with our memories. We can, by a little imagination, use simple stories and visual images to blaze the trail when we need to recall the memory.

And it is a lot easier than it may at first seem, because, as you must have noticed with your own memory, you only have to trigger a little recognition .... and the whole memory can come pouring out.

It can for instance be helpful to jog your memory by using the alphabet, illustrated by imagination, and connected to as many existing memories as possible.

You have just been introduced to 15 people and you will have to meet them all again next week. It would be nice, and create a good impression, if you could remember all their names.

A couple of times a day you imagine them doing strange and amusing things.

David = is scared by a Dragon.

Emma = juggling Eggs.

Linda = kicking up autumn Leaves.

Mike = Music, singing into a microphone.

Sue = putting Seeds into a window box.

Terry = bringing you a cup of Tea.

Fiona = shouts Fire,, everyone out.

Ann = has Ants running on her desk.

Pat = has collection box to save the Panda.

June = wearing Jesters costume, bell on her hat.

Richard = standing in the Rain soaking wet.

Kate = flying a Kite.

Peter = like the Panda, fussy eater, refuses the biscuits.

Nigel = New red shoes on, very odd.     

    We use `Chakras` in oriental healing, and because they have images attributed to them we can also use them to  effectively visualize and remember things.