Full Moon ritual tomorrow...
Jan. 12th, 2006 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnWhile I have completed my essays due tomorrow (well Saturday, actually), I haven't finished the memorization we were assigned. I am simply horrible at memorizing things, which is odd for someone like myself who seems to retain what they read pretty well - just not verbatim. Yet, ironicly, I still have poems from elementary school rattling around in my head, including the "Innkeeper's Tale" and way too much Shel Silverstein! Perhaps my head is full.
So far, I've been using the break down method, i.e. memorize it in blocks, while including the block above as you go onto the block below. This is painful, but the only way I know to memorize anything that works, other than making audio recordings to play and respond to - which worked wonders when memorizing CM rituals like the LBRP.
Anyone else deal with a student with these issues or themselves? Any suggestions, tricks of the trade, etc.?
So far, I've been using the break down method, i.e. memorize it in blocks, while including the block above as you go onto the block below. This is painful, but the only way I know to memorize anything that works, other than making audio recordings to play and respond to - which worked wonders when memorizing CM rituals like the LBRP.
Anyone else deal with a student with these issues or themselves? Any suggestions, tricks of the trade, etc.?
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Date: 2006-01-12 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 08:53 pm (UTC)Now, who is going to open the store in Diagon Alley and sell them to the rest of us?
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Date: 2006-01-12 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-12 07:55 pm (UTC)For songs, stories, and rituals, where there tends to be a lot of repetition, I'll make note of where the repetitive passages occur and use them as benchmarks. Folktales and the like tend to have repetitive passages for just this reason: it makes them easier to remember.
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Date: 2006-01-12 08:06 pm (UTC)Say you have a 10 line thing:
Memorise line 10.
Memorise line 9 and add on 10.
Memorise 8, continue to 9 and 10.
Repeat until you're on line 1. Or break it into chunks and do it that way, and then break into different chunks so you don't get lousy transitions or that "Oh, what's the next bit"
So for a 20 line thing, I might do 20-16, 15-11, 10-6, 5-1, then 1-2, 3-8, 9-12, 13-17, 18-20. Run it different ways.
This is also a really handy method for things you don't want to recite in full much (like ritual texts). I was working on a Hecate invocation for Samhain, and did *not* want to actually run the energy involved while memorising it, so working backwards or in chunks made that easier.
I also work with spatial images quite a bit: that invocation had a bunch of generalised hand gestures (very small ones, I could do while driving and *not* do when I was in ritual) that reminded me that "Oh, yes, this is the bit where it goes "Come forward from the..."" or whatever other 'movement' related term made sense. (I am not a visual learner, but I do well with spatial stuff.)
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Date: 2006-01-12 08:41 pm (UTC)I've also done the record and playback method. It actually works the best for me.
Wish I had some better insights! Good luck :)
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Date: 2006-01-12 08:49 pm (UTC)Now, unfortunately, the trick will be not confusing lines from the two pieces!
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Date: 2006-01-12 10:33 pm (UTC)Ick, learning two at a time can be a challenge. Good luck!
Block Method
Date: 2006-01-13 11:44 am (UTC)I've mananged to do it a few hours before a ritual.