Appendix 02: Anchoring Sentimental Associations
Capture the Feeling: Persuading The Mind To Rememberlanguage scaffolding
Sentient Memories
By 4 to 6 weeks, infants can tell the difference between their own mother’s scent and that of a stranger. Sentience is hardwired recall for sentient beings. This is a strong mechanism we can create the force multiplier for the mnemonic recall.
Emotion is the primary language of the subconscious mind. The words and pictures are the steering wheel, they set the direction, but emotion is the power pedal. Emotion rests on ability to induce arousal and excitement in the brain. It is the factor that determines how much power suggestions it can draw the brain to response involuntarily. For arousal, we need variety; for excitement, we need intensity. This is created by creative variety and repetitions given at varying dose of incitation.
There are ways on how to enrich the mnemonic emotive details like a painter concocting rich colors for mnemonic vividity and vicariousness for keen recall.
Mnemonics will only work when the memory is shocked or surprised to glitch and activate a memory write. Hence, stale plain impressions won’t work. By controlling and commanding the sense and emotions, one can steer the dynamics of mentation.