“What you think, you become, What you feel, you attract, What you imagine, you create.” - Lord Buddha Human mind comes across approximately 6,000 thoughts a day. These thoughts have the power to shape the mental schema and behavior of a person on short as well as long term basis . Research statistics by WHO reveal that around 7.5 percent of the Indian population suffers from some form of mental illness throughout their lives. Consequently, there is an evident increase in significance of psychological interventions. Psychology is a scientific study of human mind and behavior and traces its origin from 19th century Philosophy and Physiology. Various schools of thoughts namely Structuralism(Focusing on mind as a physical entity ), Functionalism (Functions of mind came into consideration), Behaviorism (Visible human behavior was assessed ), etc. emerged in Psychology over time and paved way for various scrutinized concepts relating to human mental Health (Watson,1913). In the 21st
Memory includes all the mental processes involved in acquiring, storing, retaining, and later retrieving information. The memory system as we know it is very simple and once we understand the way this system works, we can enhance the efficiency with which we utilise each aspect within it. Memory is broadly known to include the short-term memory and the long-term memory as a part of a dual model. The short-term memory (STM) is concerned with reproducing, recognising, or recalling a limited amount of material after a period of about 10 to 30 seconds and the long-term memory is a relatively permanent information storage system that enables one to retain, retrieve, and make use of skills and knowledge hours, weeks, or even years after they were originally learned. It is even believed that information stored in the long-term memory (LTM) is permanently stored in our memory and what we consider as “forgetting” is just failure to retrieve information from our long-term memory. The main conce