
Keep Memories Alive through Senses
Keep Memories Alive through Senses
Keep memories alive through senses like your sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. It is easier than you think. Every day, for example, we can make an old recipe of our childhood and it can take us back to so many memories quickly with one bite. Did you know that smell is the strongest of all senses and is at least 100 times more likely to help you remember and keep memories alive.
Keep Memories Alive – Holidays
What do you immediately think about when I say the word Thankgiving? Usually the answer is food and what you are grateful for. Not only is smell a strong sense to stir up memories, but so is taste. I love pumpkin pie and turkey baking in the oven. The sounds of laughter and memories being shared in the background, and grand kids playing games together, with the sounds of football on tv too.
Working in real estate with my husband in the past, taught me a lot about the power of our senses and how to keep memories alive while making potential clients feel at home in a new house. As we set up for an open house for potential customers to walk through, we tried to have cookies baking in the oven and the smell blowing through the house, to make it more welcoming and feel like home. There are things we can do to bring us back to good memories through our senses.
Fresh baked cookies smell, sight, and taste can do wonders for helping engage our prospective buyers and will help them remember the house we were selling, over another one they may have looked at too. It creates a lasting impression in their minds, as the senses are triggered while they are walking through the house.
Keep Memories Alive – Capture Senses in a Time Capsule
We encourage you to help keep memories alive in every way possible, using all of your senses if you can. Preserve these memories to pass down to your great grandchildren, by saving mementos and memoriabilia that uses all of the senses. For example, with sight you can save photos, and other tangible items that will not fit in a scrapbook, like a great grandfather’s old pocket watch or other memento that helped you get through the tough times as a parent.
For hearing, save a family video or audio recording of your favorite sayings, or read your baby’s favorite story book and record it to save in a Baby Time Capsule. Then, when your child graduates high school, let him or her open their own Baby Time Capsule, and listen to your voice reading their favorite story book they wanted to read all the time when they were little. How precious would that moment of memories be?
For touch, save some sand from a memorable family vacation. Maybe it was a vacation where so many things happened that may or may not have been fun at the time, but it is a vacation story you want to keep telling your future generation of grandchildren in your family, so they learn lessons from it. You could also save sand from a honeymoon you had as a couple. Whatever you do, make sure you also write down details about the things you save in your time capsule, so you know when, where, and who all you made the memory with.
We already discussed the power of smell and taste, but you can also pass on great family recipes by saving them in your time capsule too. Imagine your great grandchildren being able to put together a large family recipe book of great tasting recipes from years or decades ago. I am getting hungry just thinking about some from my family now.
What is one thing you would save in a time capsule to help keep memories alive through senses? Comment below.
– Marcie
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