Master of Memory: Accelerated learning, education, memorization - MMem 0330: Memorizing acupuncture points

Episode Date: June 12, 2015

Tasha asks about memorizing acupuncture points. I talk about some of the complications of this project and describe some mnemonic methods that might help. What do you want to learn? Leave your question at http://MasterOfMemory.com/. Music credit: Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet, 2nd movement, performed by the US Army Band.

Master of Memory 330. Welcome to Master of Memory. I'm Timothy and I'm here to answer your accelerated learning questions every day and to inspire and empower you to learn anything you want to learn faster than ever. Tasha submitted a written question at masterofmemory.com slash question. Tasha says, I'm an acupuncture student who has to memorize acupuncture points, their uses, definition, location, and a description of how to locate the point. How would you go about memorizing this material?

So memorizing acupuncture points is obviously related to trying to learn anatomy. And I've had a previous episode about that. The complication is you have so many different things going on that it's not just location on the body, it's what these points do and things like that. So it's multidimensional. So what I would do with multidimensional palaces like this is I would place a body in several different rooms in a memory palace. So you have one body in, let's say, your living room. You have one body in the kitchen and so on.

And different parts of the body are interacting with different things based on what it's doing. Now, I would probably have those places correspond to the shape of the body. So, let's say that, for example, you're using your bedroom, and you have the head on one end, and the foot on another hand, and the hands at the two walls. Choose corresponding items in the room for each of the body parts where there might be points located, and each of these points would have some sort of imagery attached to it to identify the points. Now, what might happen is in one room, you have all of these points with, let's see, let's say you have all the points that relate to problems with a foot

or something like that. This is very simplistic, but those points might be at various places in the body. So let's use your bedroom again. You have all these points all over your bedroom that relate to things having to do with the foot, but they still are all over the body. So you have the, you know, you have different points all over the body, all over the foot, but they still are all over the body. So you have the, you know, you have different points all over the body, all over the room, and you can identify those. You can, so let's say there's a problem with a foot. You just go to the appropriate room, the bedroom, and then the

information in the bedroom is going to correspond to how you would use those points, what they're called, and things like that. The issue here is that you just have to decide that that's the way you want to organize it. You could organize it a different way. For example, you could have your different points that, let's see, what are the other dimensions? We do have body parts, so you could instead have all the points on a foot in the bedroom, but those points relate to other things, and you scatter those around the room based on that. Now if you're not sure what I'm talking about as far as spreading things out within a room is concerned, I'm using memory palace terminology.

So you're placing things around the room in your imagination so that anytime you think of a certain place in your room, let's say your nightstand, you know first of all that it's in the room related to foot conditions or issues's say your nightstand, you know first of all that it's in the room related to foot conditions or issues related to the foot. So you know that there's the point that's at your nightstand has to do with treating a foot. And then based on some image that you've put there, maybe somebody's shoulder, you know, rubbing against the corner of the nightstand and that causing some sort of image that represents the name of that acupuncture point. You can always remember that that specific point in the shoulder that you've made very visual

and memorable relates to a particular issue with the foot that other imagery is representing. I wish I could go into more specific examples, but I don't know enough about acupuncture to be able to treat this very specifically. But I think you should have gotten an email from Tasha about this subject this morning, and if you just respond to that, I'd be willing to talk more about this and perhaps do some more detailed information about this on the show in the future as well. Now, listeners have asked about how they can support Master of Memory and keep this show free for the world, particularly if you don't have a lot of time or any money to spend. So right now, I'm going to

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