Mnemonics to Remember The classical way to improve your memory is through mnemonics or a special memory system. By using mnemonics, anyone can remember unconnected items in random, ordinary, or reverse order, with complete accuracy, even at the rate of…

Memory Pills Improving your memory might take too much effort if all you have are mnemonics. Dr. Ross Pelton, in his book Mind Food and Smart Pills, offers some nutritional and drug alternatives. As a purist of the “natural” genre,…

Memories For a long time, I didn’t want to remember anything in my past. It began in high school when I would do marvelous on my exams. I would cram information into me and then consciously disregard it right after…

Intelligence What discussion of the mind would be complete without a discussion of intelligence? In doing research about intelligence, I noticed that the few books I discovered were published around 1975. They also seemed to address the controversy about what…

How are You Feeling? This is probably the most frequently asked question by me in my practice of psychiatry. Troubled feelings form the core of mental illness. There are many factors that contribute to this difficulty. One of the factors…

Flinging the Blues At one time or another we’ve all been blue. The Chinese considered autumn as a period when melancholia or depression was more likely to occur. You could understand this because the harvest season in the fall marks…

All in a Panic Recently I have been seeing more cases of panic disorder in my psychiatric practice. Panic attacks have been known to restrict or disrupt up to 2 million Americans each year. For the diagnosis of panic disorder,…

Affirmations The Pocketbook of Affirmations by Debi Ash and Barbara Wainwright is a charming little book full of positive energy. These two women showed my how they lived their affirmations by sharing themselves in their book. They don’t seem like…

Phases of Creation The phases of creation help you see where you are in the creation process. What stops success most of all is giving up. It’s like trying to get a touchdown and not realizing you are on the…

Eating an Elephant, a Recap The question again is, “How do you eat an elephant?” The answer again is, “One bite at a time.” How many times have you been stuck when you tried to get something accomplished? You may…