Simple Trick to Help Your Memory by Moving Your Eyes

re: Simple Trick to Help Your Memory by Moving Your Eyes

grif0118 — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:59:20 GMT

I'm sitting in my cubicle at work trying this exercise right now. I'm hiding my face so no one starts wondering about what in the world I'm doing!!!

Here's to a better memory!

re: Simple Trick to Help Your Memory by Moving Your Eyes

Vicki Marie — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:32:06 GMT

I tried moving my eyes back and forth for 30 seconds and found myself getting queasy. Did anyone else experience this? What does it mean? I tend to get car sick, sea sick, etc. so I'm not surprised.

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eyesguy — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:05:23 GMT

This is one more reason to use some form of vision therapy that works for you. Corrective eyeware tends to put the eyes into staring mode which eliminates natural movement of the eyes. The program offered at mercola.com sounds excellent, but I had already eliminated most of my refractive error with another program.

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Witch Doctor — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:37:02 GMT

Maybe all it does it suspend the mind for 30 seconds, concentrating on moving eyes and the sensation that ensues, thus clearing the mind and making memorization easier. If one doesn't do the eye movement regimen, their brain is in some other state, probably induced by the experimental setting.

re: Simple Trick to Help Your Memory by Moving Your Eyes

melby — Sun, 13 May 2007 17:54:03 GMT

this article makes perfect sense, as the connection between left and right brain occurs in eft (rolling eyes up, down, in circle to left, then right, open, close) and other variants in nlp and emdr. the interesting thing is that it specifically cites moving left to right, rather than up and down.

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rubynewsong — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:42:25 GMT

Roqway, would you kindly quote the verse in the Bible where Jesus spoke of the "inner and outer" theory?

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garya — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:07:57 GMT

now if I can just remember to do this I'll be ok!

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Terrina — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:42:48 GMT

Do I first look to the right or to the left?

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Soulforce — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:43:38 GMT

Many years ago I went to a training which stated that not only moving your eyes back and forth horizontally but up and down and diagonally could help improve your eyesight. I believe we need to exercise our eyes way more often than we do.

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The Naked Doctor — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:32:20 GMT

Not so difficult to explain. NLP talks about eye movements -- up is visual, horizontal is audio and down is tactile (kinesthetic). Eyes left is accessing audio-recall. Noted that this experiment was done with the spoken word (sound). If done with visual presentation of words it wouldn't have worked (unless they had people look UP and side to side)
Keith Scott-Mumby

re: Simple Trick to Help Your Memory by Moving Your Eyes

GregB777 — Sat, 12 May 2007 13:17:22 GMT

This sounds entirely plausible. It also sounds very similar to EMDR. My experience with EMDR is that it also WORKS.

If you notice, this type of eye movement is very similar to what happens during REM sleep spontaneously--- it's actually CALLED Rapid Eye Movement sleep. There is some evidence that REM sleep helps memory consolidation--- ie it helps you remember better when you get enough REM sleep.

Here's a link:

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Miller2.html

Seems to me that, for whatever reason, moving the eyes in this way actually helps you remember things better---whether you are awake or sleeping when you do it!!

re: Simple Trick to Help Your Memory by Moving Your Eyes

GH_203 — Sat, 12 May 2007 09:25:41 GMT

See Brain Gym (www.braingym.org). Paul Dennison created and has been teaching this amazing technique for years. Brain Gym and EFT are my two favorite healing and transformational tools. They are miraculous!

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Rogway — Sat, 12 May 2007 05:02:44 GMT

Of corse it's true; does Eye movement help your two brains, or does it just stop one brain for a split second? We all know, among other things including rapid eye movement, that it gets your concious brain (left hemisphere) off of analizing the world and everything in it, especially what someone else is doing, thus, allowing your (right hemisphere) to actually do a little work for you such as giving a little hint about yourself and your capabilities. After all, remember what Jesus said-when your inner becomes your outer, and your outer becomes your inner, you will become one and you will know yourself. Who would you rather know, yourself, or someone else. Your left brain analizes everything else, but your right brain analizes yourself. Can you handle that. Most people I chat with about this subject gets mad because they actually see a little bit about themselves. The truth. That's when they find out that just believing something to be true, is a world apart from knowing it to be true for a fact. Most of them don't want it. Try it, lay down close your eyes and relax and get your mind off of the world and look at nothng, you just might be amazed at what you see. Keep up the good work Dr. Mercola. I am on your side.

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saynotoquacks — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:55:28 GMT

If this is true, it may be because mentally focussing on your temporal lobes may stimulate them. I meditate, and when I do I focus on my brow point (third eye) and chant a mantra and imagine it moving into the top of my head and out my brow point. This makes me feel so much better, so much more relaxed, and I'm a recovering psychiatric victim! I read that this type of meditation stimulates the pituitary gland, which is located in the area near the brow point. So by focussing mentally on that mental area, you can stimulate that gland. Maybe by focussing on where the temporal lobes are, you can stimulate them to action! I will be trying this a lot now, since those psychiatric drugs have wrought havoc on my memory!

re: Simple Trick to Help Your Memory by Moving Your Eyes

Freedom — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:34:51 GMT

Somebody is pulling our leg, me thinks.