Page 104 - Use Your Memory

THE ROMAN ROOM SYSTEM
arm around the child to whom he wished to speak. (See illustra-
tion, page 82.)
The Roman Room System is particularly amenable to the use of
the left and right brain, and to the Memory Principles, because it
requires very precise structuring and ordering, as well as a lot of
imagination and sensuality. The delight of this system is that the
room is entirely imaginary, so you can have in it every wonderful
item that you wish: things that please all your senses, items of
furniture and objects of art you have always desired to possess in
real life, and similarly foods and decorations that especially appeal
to you. Another major advantage of using this system is that if you
begin to imagine yourself in possession of certain items that exist
in your imaginary room, both your memory and creative intelli-
gence will begin to work subconsciously on ways in which you can
actually acquire such objects, increasing the probability that you
will eventually do so.
The Roman Room System eliminates all boundaries on your
imagination and allows you to remember as many items as you
wish. On page 64 there is space for you to jot down quickly your
first thoughts on the items you would like to have in your room, the
shape and design of your room, and so on. When you have
completed this, draw your ideal Memory Room on page 65, either
as an artist's drawing or as an architect's plan, both drawing and
printing in the names of items with which you are going to furnish
and decorate it. Many people find this to be their favourite
memory system, and they use enormous sheets of paper on which
they include hundreds of items in a gigantic room. If you wish to
do this, by all means do so.
When you have completed this task, take a number of 'mental
walks' around your room, memorising precisely the order, posi-
tion and number of items in the room (left brain) and similarly
sensing with all your senses the colours, tastes, feels, smells and
sounds within your room.
As with the previous memory systems you have learned, prac-
tise memorising using the Roman Room System both alone and
with friends, until the system is a firmly established technique.