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As we age we often find that our bodies don’t work quite as well as they have in the past. One of the most common issues I hear from my friends and experience myself with is forgetting things or problems with memory.

Many people experience memory loss, or a clouded memory. They are able to pin point those major events of their lives but when it comes to the finer details they just seem a bit hazy and distant.

I was quite shocked to find out that this issue is not just confined to older people. Memory loss can happen any time and even children forget things. Some of that will be down to being so busy and having so much stuff on our minds. It’s as if stuff seems to melt from our minds somehow.

One thing I personally experience quite often is something simple like where I have put my car keys or that letter I put in a safe place a couple of days ago.

When it only happens the odd time or two we tend to forget about it and just move on putting it down to being too busy at the time or something like that. However if it keeps happening it could indicate a problem needing deeper investigation.

Unexplained memory loss concerns people, they think they are losing it and it’s not something very many people feel happy to talk about. Most would rather pretend it was just a slip and forget about it. Few choose to even talk to their doctor about it putting it down just to old age.

Memory loss can at most levels be improved on, provided it does not come as a result of serious medical problems or injury. Solutions range for more severe problems from drugs to simple memory training and health supplements for less serious memory issues.

A good way of getting your memory back on track is to record things on paper which acts as an aide to memory.This helps remember important events and tasks.

This method is effective for another reason which is when we write stuff down in a journal or note book it helps us visualise the event and often we don’t even need to refer to our original note to recall it.

It is quite common for people to experience short term memory lapses with names and things. I find myself, if I imagine the person in front of me while recalling their name that helps me. Give it a try it works.

Memory loss is a situation that can happen to anyone at any time. But using a few simple exercises you can build you memory back to what it once was. It’s a variation on the sort of memory games you might have played as a child.

The adult version may differ a slightly, but the idea works pretty much the same. Exercising the mind is much like exercising any other muscle within your body. If it’s not stimulated your memory won’t work as well as it did before and you will forget stuff.