In this insightful episode of the Judo Mindset podcast, Rahelios delves into the intriguing world of photographic memory. Explore how this seemingly supernatural ability is actually a skill that can be learned and honed. Join us as Rahelios shares valuable techniques and exercises to transform your memory capabilities. Whether it's remembering names effortlessly or recalling a detailed grocery list, discover how to tap into the immense potential of your mind. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from memory training expert Kevin Trudeau's methodologies and embark on a journey to unleash the full power of your memory.
In this insightful episode of the Judo Mindset podcast, Rahelios delves into the intriguing world of photographic memory. Explore how this seemingly supernatural ability is actually a skill that can be learned and honed. Join us as Rahelios shares valuable techniques and exercises to transform your memory capabilities. Whether it's remembering names effortlessly or recalling a detailed grocery list, discover how to tap into the immense potential of your mind. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from memory training expert Kevin Trudeau's methodologies and embark on a journey to unleash the full power of your memory.
Isn't it interesting how some people seem like they're just born with almost supernatural powers? Like, for instance, one of these is photographic memory. Have you ever thought what it would be like to have a photographic memory as opposed to an experience that many of us have had? You walk into a room or and meet somebody new or just any time that you meet a new person.
And no sooner do you shake hands and introduce yourself and 5 seconds later you realize you don't even remember their name already that quickly. That's so frustrating. And actually, it can be a great advantage to you in life, in business, just life in general, in your relationships, to be able to remember people's names or remember other things. We often just think, Oh, but I just have a bad memory.
Well, actually, photographic memory is something. It's a skill. It's an ability that we all have. And I'm going to show you how it works. You're listening to Rahelios and this is the Judo Mindset podcast, where David Mills and Rahelios share with you tools that you can use to live a better life. So today we're talking about photographic memory.
Now, I learned about this from Kevin Trudeau. He's one of the world's foremost experts in memory training, as a matter of fact. And let's talk about, well, what is memory, actually? So as I said, a lot of us just think, oh, I just have a bad memory. I forget things all the time. I'm really forgetful. I can't remember names.
You know, I go to the grocery store to to buy some things and then I forget a space that, you know, I only had three things to get in, and I couldn't remember them when I got there. Things like this very common. Well, the good news is there's nothing wrong with your memory. There's nothing wrong with your brain.
We just have not been taught how to use it properly. Now, some people just like all tell it. Some people are born with a proclivity towards something. Like they kind of just have an extra bit of of talent in that area that makes them more able to pick up on certain things, or they just stumble upon a technique and they get really good at it.
And and to an amazing level, this often happens with people who are autistic or things of that nature where maybe they might be handicapped in some way. But then in some other way, they have an a far above average level of progress of what do you call it, development. Excuse me. So and it's really because they they realize they're good at something and they just practice it and practice it and practice it and that they maybe weren't taught how to do it.
Like I said, they just kind of stumbled upon it. So memory, if you think about it, you probably remember certain things that you'll never forget. This is like your wedding day. I'll bet you remember what that was like. I'll bet you remember what you were wearing. You know, you probably remember what your spouse was wearing. You remember people who were there.
You remember all kinds of things. But can you even remember what you were wearing last Tuesday? Like, how does that work? You know, why do you remember that from so long ago? You don't remember what happened last Tuesday? You know, you probably remember, you know, the let's say, the the birth of your first child. If you have a child, think.
Do you remember that? Did you forget what it was like? Of course not. You know, this is obvious. And it's like, okay, you think, Well, yeah. So if something's really good, you remember? Oh, yeah, you'll remember that. Because it was just so good. It was such a good feeling. There was. It was so memorable. But is it really just good things?
No, it's not. Of course not. If you. If ever gotten into a bad car accident, well, not so bad that you lost consciousness. But it's bad enough that you. It was a car accident. You remained conscious. I'll bet you remember it. I'll bet you remember a lot of the details of what it felt like and what exactly happened and where you were and who was involved and all of these sorts of things.
Even if it was ten years ago, 20 years ago, 50 years ago, you remember it. But that wasn't a good experience. Quite the opposite. So a really good experience. You remember a really bad experience. You remember anything memorable as they say? You remember. So it appears that certain things that affect our memory in a way that's unusually powerful, it's unusually what makes something memorable.
You know, sights, sounds, smells, feelings. Most especially feelings. How it felt, if you felt really, really, really, really good during this experience. It's memorable. It sounds really, really, really bad during that experience. It's also memorable. So there's this attachment to the feeling that's experienced while you're having any experience that's going to kind of lock that into your brain.
Now, as it turns out, you can trigger this. You can learn to trigger this. And and that skill, just like all other skills that humans learn that certain humans perfected to a degree. That's just absolutely mind boggling in their expertise level, at a skill. It can be learned and it can be practiced and it can be improved infinitely until it becomes a skilled, it appears to be supernatural.
That's how this works. So how does it work? Okay, this is going to be fun. I'm going to actually give you a little memory training here. This is a preliminary training. It's a beginning level training. And but it is something that you can use and build upon for the rest of your life, literally. So that and I invite you to please actually participate.
Now, just listen in. And to participate, it's going to be in your mind. This is mind work. We're talking about. So as you're listening to this, go through the exercise with me in your mind. So you can actually have the experience and see how this works. You'll be able to use this for the rest of your life. It's a lot of fun.
So let's say I gave you a grocery list and I said, Hey, I need you to pick up a couple of things for me. Can you grab some eggs, some milk, some cheese, some bread, some artichokes, celery, a ham, you know, a pack of cereal, you know, and some paper plates and some napkins. You got it. Like literally right now, as you think about that, did you get it?
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Unknown
Well, probably not. You might. You probably remember a couple of things. A few things. There were ten. Can you repeat them right now? Most likely not. And that's totally normal. There's nothing wrong with your memory. Now, here's the thing with this skill teaches you how to turn your memory on. Now, as you practice this, if you practice this and practice and practice this, it gets to a point where you no longer have to consciously turn it on.
00;08;29;01 - 00;08;55;00
Unknown
You can go through this process very quickly and almost even to the subconscious level, just like learning any other skill. And it almost just seems like it just happens naturally. You like when I started learning how to play the saxophone, it was a lot to remember the fingerings and the mouth position and everything to play one scale. Now I can play that scale effortlessly.
00;08;55;00 - 00;09;19;18
Unknown
I don't even have to think about it because the skill has been programed into my physical memory and my mental memory. And so that's what we're going to do now is show you how to turn that memory on and program it. And we're going to use a little trick here. We're going to call this it's called a list pegging device and we're going to use body parts.
00;09;19;18 - 00;09;44;15
Unknown
You could call this a body list. Okay. So I want you to just picture in your mind, your body, your own personal body, like you're looking at yourself in the mirror. And we're going to start at the top. We're going to create ten pegging points. Okay. So the top of your head is number one. And if if you can go ahead and tap the top of your head, just see kind of really set that in top of your heads.
00;09;44;16 - 00;10;28;19
Unknown
Number one, then let's have your eyes as is number two. Then let's we're just going to go from top to bottom. Let's have your ears next. That's three. Then your mouth four, then your neck. Five. Then we'll have your elbows. Be six, Your hands be seven. The size of your belly. Be eight. Let's have your knees be nine and your feet be number ten.
00;10;28;22 - 00;11;02;10
Unknown
So we'll go through it again. And you have the top of your head one, your eyes. Two years. Three your nose before your mouth is five. Your neck. Six. Your elbows are seven. Your hands are eight. Oh, I think I skipped one or I did it next to you. Your knees are nine and your feet are ten. Okay, so we'll skip the belly.
00;11;02;13 - 00;11;48;09
Unknown
Let's do that one more time. Top of your head. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth. Neck is six. Elbows, seven hands. The eight knees are nine and your feet are ten. So you're kind of just scanning down your body from top to bottom. Now, obviously, you could add a lot more to this pegging list. You could add your chin, you could add your shoulders, you could add your chest and your belly to belly button your thighs, your chin, your, you know, on as many body parts as you can picture.
00;11;48;12 - 00;12;26;11
Unknown
And what's the point? What's the use? Okay. We're going to use that right now. So one more time, let's run down the ten. So top of your head is one. Eyes, ears, nose, mouth, neck, elbows, hands and knees and feet. So very simple. The the body list. Now, how do you use this? What you need to do is trigger a memory with each item that you want to remember.
00;12;26;13 - 00;12;50;04
Unknown
So it needs to become memorable to make it memorable. You should. You should see it in your mind. Imagine it if there's a sound you can associate with it here. It uses many senses is possible if you can imagine a smell. Imagine that if you can imagine a taste. Imagine that. Imagine you know. And a feeling is most important.
00;12;50;04 - 00;13;14;27
Unknown
You want to put some kind of emotion to it. Either something really, really good, really, really funny, hilarious, absurd or or negative. Like pain, like something, you know, that really triggers pain. So there's a lot of ways we can do this. And it's just it's a it's a fun technique and you'll create a memory and peg it to your body.
00;13;14;27 - 00;13;37;15
Unknown
And it's really interesting how it works. So let's go back through a grocery list. Let's just take each thing one by one. Now, it's going to it takes a long time right now because you're just learning. But like I said, if you practice this, it becomes something that you can do virtually instantaneously. So you get some eggs, okay.
00;13;37;18 - 00;14;03;19
Unknown
And what you want to do is now imagine something that you can do with those eggs. I'll give you an example. I'm going to wear our first body. Peg is the top of our head. Right? So you see, you think eggs. Okay. Now I'm going to imagine myself grabbing the eggs, pulling them out. I'm just going to grab the whole carton of eggs and turn it on the top of my head and just smash it on the top of my head.
00;14;03;25 - 00;14;25;25
Unknown
And I'm going to smash it and move it back and forth and around in circles and just really rub it in. So it's like the eggs are just going in my hair and I can feel the egg shells crunching on my skull. And then I feel eggs just running down my my sides of my head. You know, eggs the eggs is running down everywhere and it's new.
00;14;25;25 - 00;14;54;16
Unknown
And and the worst thing is they're rotten eggs. And so they smell horrible. Oh, why did I do that? Okay, so there's eggs in there now pegged to the head, that memory point with the visual. So now, if you just listen to me, this isn't going to work. You have to actually picture it. Picture yourself. Imagine going through that process, smashing the eggs.
00;14;54;16 - 00;15;07;26
Unknown
I'm getting to just stop talking for a moment and actually picture it.
00;15;07;29 - 00;15;34;25
Unknown
Now, the more vividly you picture these things, the more vividly you imagine it meaning you're not just imagining what it looks like, but what it feels like, what it sounds like. And whatever emotion that you would attached to that in this case, it's you grotesque because the rotten eggs do it, the more vividly you imagine, the better you are at imagining things.
00;15;34;27 - 00;16;05;27
Unknown
The more powerfully this works. You create that peg that'll stay there. So let's take the next thing. Let's say peaches, Right. So the next peg as we go down our body, their eyes. So why don't you go ahead and just use your imagination, Come up with something that you can do with peaches and your eyes and create a peg.
00;16;06;00 - 00;16;39;09
Unknown
Go ahead and do that. Now. And you want to again, make it really vivid, even cartoonish. And if it's and if it's horrible, if it's really painful, like you're going to remember that. See, and that's the thing here. And if it's if it's really funny, you might you'll likely remember that if it feels really good, you'll likely remember that.
00;16;39;11 - 00;17;03;20
Unknown
And the thing is, this is a process you just go through in your own mind so nobody else outside of you will hear you or see you were knows what you're thinking. That's that's the nice thing. So you can think any outrageously ridiculous thing that you want. Nobody knows. The point is you're triggering that memory process. So just for example, you know, maybe.
00;17;03;20 - 00;17;29;23
Unknown
Okay, Peaches, in my eyes, what can I do? Well, I'm going to imagine that, like, here's an example of being really outrageous. I'm I'm reaching into my own eye sockets and I grab my eyeballs and I pull them out and they stretch until they just rip right out of my eye sockets. Okay, cool. How did that feel? That was not good, right?
00;17;29;24 - 00;17;58;09
Unknown
And then I'm going to like, take the peaches and rip them open and pull the pit out of the middle of each peach and then stuffing them into my eye sockets to replace my eyeballs with peach pits. Okay, so this is where I'll probably remember that, you know, and okay. And if you can think of one, use that one or use whatever you have.
00;17;58;11 - 00;18;48;22
Unknown
Okay. So let's continue. Let's take a our next peg is, is and let's take bread. Okay. So bread is our third item and we want to peg that to our ears in some way. So I'm going to take a break here and you figure out what you're going to do with bread and your ears. And again, make it as ridiculous, as grotesque is funny, as absurd as possible.
00;18;48;24 - 00;19;19;05
Unknown
I think cartoons like Looney Tunes, cartoons like the most ridiculous it could possibly be, you know, the most gross. It could be the more painful it could be that you imagine It vividly is possible. That's what creates that memory. And it's going to stick right, and take in that. So I'm taking the bread and I'm going to yeah, it's like I'm getting a piece of bread, rolling it up into like a little tube.
00;19;19;08 - 00;19;44;05
Unknown
I'm going to clean out my ears and I'm stuffing it deep inside my ears and twisting it and twisting and cleaning my ears and pulling it out. And it pulled out this gigantic glob of wax on the bread. And then I'm going to stop that. Okay. So there's things like that. Okay, so we've got three now let's go to the fourth one.
00;19;44;07 - 00;20;44;19
Unknown
Let's get some grapes and we're going to peg grapes to the next body item, which is our nose. So I'll take a break now. Go ahead and imagine something with grapes. Engineers. Okay. We have something there, something really vivid, something really visceral to do with grapes in your nose. Yeah. Okay. Next. Next. How about some butter? Okay. And what's our next body point?
00;20;44;21 - 00;21;37;16
Unknown
We did our head, our eyes, ears and nose. Now our mouth. So let's take a moment and imagine something really vivid and visceral with butter. Maybe this stick of butter, the tub of butter. Butter on a knife, however you want to remember. Butter. Go ahead and do that. Now, remember, you're. You're imagining it. Imagine it. Just think about it.
00;21;37;16 - 00;22;12;14
Unknown
Imagine that you are in the experience you're having the experience. Imagine what it would feel like, taste like, smell like. This is really good training to use your imagination, which is an extremely, extremely powerful tool. It's the it's your tool of creation. As a matter of fact, we're not getting into that yet right now. But so, so sharpening your imagination, the more you use it, the easier it is.
00;22;12;14 - 00;22;45;28
Unknown
Like a kids are really good at this because they're as a child, our imaginations are already really vivid. We're used to using them all the time. We play and we just imagine things. This is a skill, by the way, that gets lost. One of the biggest downfalls of video games is that it's literally training people away from using their imagination, and that has tragic consequences in your power and ability to create in your life.
00;22;46;00 - 00;23;14;24
Unknown
It's really profound. You don't use your imagination in a video game because it's there. You're seeing it's feeding everything to you rather than you having to come up with it when you're if you're just a child playing in the dirt with a toy car and you're just driving your little toy car through the dirt, but you're using your imagination and you're you're in a city and you're you're building roads and there's buildings, you know, and the rocks are buildings and the grass is trees.
00;23;14;24 - 00;23;43;25
Unknown
And the, you know, you see these other rocks and those are monsters or pebbles and you imagine all these things and then you play it and it's like it's real. And that is a very, very powerful thing. So so this skill we're learning here is kind of re honing and retraining. That ability. And some of you might be finding this absurd or you just have trouble imagining anything that really lets you know how your imagination has dulled.
00;23;43;27 - 00;24;17;20
Unknown
And by having that animation imagination skill dulled, it's literally dulled your ability to create in your life to be creative. That's why it's called creativity. There's a lot of really deep things here. Okay, so we've got the butter in her mouth. What's next on our list? We're going shopping for some cereal. Okay, That's our sixth item. And we're going to peg the cereal to our neck.
00;24;17;23 - 00;24;56;19
Unknown
All right, So let's go ahead and do that now. Okay? And if you need more time, by all means, just pause this podcast, pause the recording and take all of the time you need until you really feel like you've got something visceral. Like the more vivid it is, the better this works. I'm telling you, this is a powerful technique.
00;24;56;19 - 00;25;49;14
Unknown
It's it's a game, but it's this is powerful. This will change your life, this one thing alone. Okay, So cereal and the neck. Okay, How about next? Well, we need some milk to go with our cereal, so let's get some milk, and we're going to peg that to our elbows. Okay? Number seven is our elbows. So let's do that Now.
00;25;49;17 - 00;26;40;23
Unknown
Okay? You had something with your mouth and your elbows. All right, Next. Let's say we need some some paper plates, right? Ah, if item on the list, we're going to get some paper plates and we're going to peg the paper plates to our hands. Okay, So let's go ahead and do that now. All right. And positive recording if you need more.
00;26;40;27 - 00;27;17;08
Unknown
I hope you're playing along and in really imagining viscerally as you can something either painful or hilarious, ridiculous or joyful. It feels really good. It is long as it's extreme, the more extreme, the better. Okay, so allow yourself to go into those really ridiculous places. The funny places are the really dark places because it's you're just creating a temporary image here.
00;27;17;11 - 00;27;45;22
Unknown
So. Okay, so we've got two more items. And by the way, I haven't written any of these down. I'm just sitting here extemporaneously, just coming up with this right along with you. So, yeah, let's go on to item number eight. So now we're going to peg to our knees. And how about some sausages? Let's do sausages. And these.
00;27;45;25 - 00;28;44;02
Unknown
Right. And go. Okay. Yeah. Gosh, if I, if I told you the things that I'm imagining you definitely raise some eyebrows. That's, that's how this game works, right? So you don't get to know what I'm imagining. I don't know what you're imagining, but as long as it's extreme and ridiculous in there or something of that nature, it's going to work.
00;28;44;05 - 00;29;40;13
Unknown
Okay, so we have one more item for our feet. And what else do we need from the grocery store? I don't know. How about how about some chicken? Okay, so our last item, you got to get some chicken for your feet. All righty. Go for it. You know what to do. All right, Now, if you did this correctly, if you really used your imagination, you're going to find very interesting what's about to happen now.
00;29;40;15 - 00;30;03;02
Unknown
So I haven't written these down. I'm going to just go to the top of my head and I remember, we need eggs. Then there's my I go to my eyes and I remember we needed peaches, go to my ears, and I know we needed bread. And then next with my nose, those were grapes. The next was my mouth, which was butter.
00;30;03;04 - 00;30;36;11
Unknown
And the next thing was my neck. Oh, that's cereal. The next leg was my elbows. Oh, that's milk. Then the the next thing was my hands out paper plates. Then my knees were sausages and my feet was chicken. And there's the entire list just like that. You take a moment to go through it. You probably remember also, just remember the images go to the body part and remember the image that was attached to it.
00;30;36;14 - 00;31;23;15
Unknown
What was your head and okay. What happened with your eyes? What happened with your ears, and what did you do to your nose in those grapes? What do you do with your mouth and the butter? How about your neck? Do you do there? How about your elbows and your hands and your knees and your feet? Now, think about this.
00;31;23;17 - 00;31;47;19
Unknown
That's just a random list of ten things, but it's there now. It's in your memory and you could go to the grocery store. You don't have to have it written down. It doesn't have to be in your phone. It's all in your head. You just go down the body and you're like, Yeah, I need that, that, that, that that, that, that, that, that that that boom done and it's and it works.
00;31;47;21 - 00;32;17;17
Unknown
Now like I said you might be thinking right now well that just that took forever and it was so long to to you know process all of that. Well that's because this is your first time being exposed to it. You know, this is your very first try at something completely new for most of you. But if you do this and you practice this and there's endless opportunities to practice, you'll get better and better and better.
00;32;17;20 - 00;32;38;18
Unknown
This indeed is a function of what becomes what they call photographic memory, that superpower. And the more you practice this, you can get so good at it that you do it so fast. You do it without even thinking. Now, see, if you don't turn it on right now, consciously, you don't turn the skill on. You're not just going to automatically remember.
00;32;38;18 - 00;33;02;28
Unknown
Right now you are learning a new skill, so you have to consciously think about it and turn it on in order to use the skill, in order to have it actually work for you. And and you need to practice it a lot of times in order to get really, really, really good at it. So that's how this works.
00;33;03;00 - 00;33;33;14
Unknown
Practice it, please, Because like I said, it's a it's, it seems like a silly, trivial thing. And if but if you listen this long, maybe you have an inkling of how powerful this could be. It's extremely powerful. And this isn't the only way it works, by the way. There's there's a lot of applications of this. Use your imagination and there's other other ways and other tools and things that are used to remember things like names or lots of ways that the memory is used and stretched.
00;33;33;14 - 00;33;56;21
Unknown
And you can go on and on with this and we'll just have some fun with it. And, and see what you think. Maybe if you guys want more, we'll do some more later. All right. So you've been listening to Rahelios and that was today's Judo Mindset podcast, The Judo Way to Memory, a little trick that gives you a lot of leverage.
00;33;56;23 - 00;34;10;22
Unknown
All right. If you want more, go to the judo mindset dot com. You can hear previous podcasts as well as future ones. And it's been fun hanging out today. Hope you enjoyed. We'll talk again soon.