This will be especially useful if you find it hard, in your first attempts, to create funny mental pictures that are the basis of the system which I just described.
You can start with this system first. It’s ultra-simple! It may give you more confidence and enliven your imagination, so that making the pictures for your Picture Pegs and Picture Links for the other Systems becomes much easier in a fairly short time.
The easiest things for us to make mental pictures of are those items, people and places which we see every day. We can, like the speech makers in ancient Rome, use the rooms and fittings of our own home, or any other building with which we are very familiar, to fix a list in our minds.
Write up your list, and then decide where you will put the first item from your list. You could put it on the front door and fix the other items from your list to each room, or even items in a room, as you move your mental focus steadily through your home.
Make a mental picture with that first item on your door. Simplify and then distort each item, as I’ve explained with the other systems, so that you mental pictures fix more strongly in your mind.
Move through your home in a single direction, just like you would if you were walking through it, as far as possible. That will make the switching from one picture to the next as smooth as possible when you start to recall the items.
The places and fixtures which you attach the items to can be whatever you like, but every one should be distinctly different from the others. If your main bedroom wall is very similar to the walls in your family room, then use only one wall with just one item so that your images are not likely to be mixed up. Instead of your bedroom wall, you might use the curtains or blinds in there as one of your ‘hooks’.
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You’re not limited to using just your home or even a building, but you need to be very familiar with the location; street, building or whatever, which you use as the foundation for your mental tour.