Getting diagnosed with dementia or short term memory loss is understandably a hard thing to accept, both for the diagnosed and those who care about the person. If you have the condition, the best kind of coping you can do is to take care of yourself to avoid aggravating the symptoms and make things a little bit easier for yourself and your family.

Memory loss is always associated with aging and the aged, so it does make one wonder: what could cause memory loss for someone in their twenties? Sure all twenty year-olds experience a short mental blank when required to remember names of people they just met or locker combinations or where they put their keys.

You know you have poor memory when you find yourself suddenly forgetting something you have always known, or when you forget what you have just heard, or worse: when you start experiencing such lapses in memory more frequently. While having poor memory is very common, especially in older adults, you should be concerned if it starts getting in the way of your normal day-to-day activities.

This weekend, I was thinking: most of us are brought up to do the right thing under all circumstances, even when it is to our disadvantage. When we find something that someone has lost, we pick it up, and our first instinct is to take it to an authority figure who can hold onto it until the person who has lost the object finally claims it. While such desire to reunite the lost object and its owner seems very noble, when we scratch the deeper layers of symbolism and meaning, it rather speaks of our blindness and deafness to the ways higher powers communicate with us.

This article explores how our memories work and the extent to which we can rely on them in hypnotherapy. Surprisingly perhaps, their accuracy is not of paramount importance when trying to help people undergoing treatments such as regressive therapy in hypnosis.