Music and Memory

Music has a remarkable effect on the human mind. Think how effortlessly you can remember the lyrics to popular songs. This is a good example of ‘memory without learning’. But certain music used in certain ways has an even more remarkable effect. Here in Wales, schoolteachers have started to discover that simply playing Mozart in the classroom can improve pupils’ concentration and results.

Pioneering work was done in Bulgaria in the 1960s, where a method of using classical music as an aid to language learning was devised. It seems that classical music, by affecting both the ‘logical’ and ‘creative’ parts of the brain can produce massive gains in language learning speeds.

I’ve used this method both in the home and in the classroom and it works.

Dramatically.

It’s All in the Mind

Scientists now believe that we may only use as little as 5% of our brains.

We store all our memories, all our processing power, all our maths, languages, geography, etc. in 5% of our mind.

And we probably store more than we ever imagined.

Under hypnosis people can be induced to remember practically any event in their life. It seems that the mind is almost like a tape recorder which can be rewound and replayed at practically any point.

We can probably remember everything we’ve ever done.

Also under hypnosis people can recall sights smells colours etc, just like our recall of where we were when Princess Diana died (or John Lennon, or President Kennedy).

Everything we’ve ever done is probably stored in a mere 5% of our brains.

Without any effort.

What does this mean?

I believe that there is probably enough spare capacity in our brains to store all of the languages in the whole world.

There’s certainly room for one more.

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