Everyone would like to have a good memory. Fist clenching is a simple exercise to help you remember and remember events better.
If at the moment when a person is trying to memorize information, tightly clench his right hand into a fist for 90 seconds, then the memorization process will be more successful. This movement activates areas of the brain that are involved in the formation of memory.
To help yourself remember important information, you need to make a fist with your left hand. This gesture stimulates the areas of the brain responsible for retrieving data. Such conclusions were made as a result of the experiment.
The study participants were divided into 4 groups. The first group, before memorizing a list of 72 words, quickly clenched their right fist for 90 seconds and then did the same before remembering the list of words.
The second group clenched their left hand into a fist before memorizing the words and remembering. The third group clenched their fists alternately before memorizing and trying to remember. The fourth group was control and did not clench their fists at all.
The group that clenched the right hand while remembering the list and then the left hand when remembering did better than the other groups. This group also performed better than the group that did not clench their hands at all, although this difference was not statistically significant.
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Thus, clenching the right fist will help to better remember events or actions, and the left one will help to remember all this later.
Experts believe that clenching fists activates certain areas of the brain associated with memory - the right hand activates the left hemisphere, and the left, respectively, the right. This is due to emotions: clenching the right fist expresses happiness or anger, and the left one expresses sadness or anxiety.
Scientists believe that during the process associated with memory, both hemispheres are used: the left one encodes memories, and the right one retrieves them.
For those who are going to remember something well, this is a simple and effective method that requires virtually no effort and preliminary preparation.
