All the individual cells within your body are truly little miracle workers. They deliver nutrients on schedule, package up proteins, communicate with each other, and maintain temperature. They regulate chemical balance, guard against intruders, and accomplish their goals while moving in heavy traffic. Independent and self contained, the cell is able to perform the necessary work to keep YOU in tip-top shape. Within just one year, your heart will beat 35 million times; your blood will travel over 12,000 miles. In addition, your system will pump enough blood to fill three super tankers within one lifetime. This is all from the labor and effort of those trillion+ cells. It is also the work of your subconscious - the system that performs its duty without any conscious effort from you. Can these tiny workers do anything about aging and memory loss? The answer to maintaining a great memory is as real as the cells inside your body that work tirelessly for you.

We pay little attention to our cellular selves, and go through our lives without the slightest recognition of their existence. Only when something goes awry -- a malfunction in the system -- an intruder, a virus, a cancerous cell, or bacterium - only during times of duress and emergency is the conscious-self alerted to the body. This awareness however, makes us more responsive and can enable us to remedy the problem.

Cellular behavior might be invisible to our conscious self, but it does exist. The same principal applies to our mental power. Overlooked and hidden, we usually ignore its existence until something in our thinking process goes off-beam -- anxiety, depression, fear, or self-doubt. It is usually at this point that awareness takes place as we look for answers to alleviate this negative state of mind. If we continue to explore and research, eventually we will discover the power of the subconscious mind and its relationship to the neural cells. Exploring this level, we find the workings of supreme energy and its unique alignment with the subconscious. This supernatural force can take care of any trouble, dilemma or drawbacks we are facing. It can even ensure that our memory and mental ability remain in top working order.

Brown Landone, the author of over 100 books, wrote extensively about the subconscious, also known as universal mind. In his work titled "How to Turn your Desires and Ideals into Reality" Landone touched on the subject of aging and the importance of memory. He lived to the ripe old age of 98, and published his last article when he was a youthful 93; therefore, we can assume he practiced what he preached.

In the chapter "Overcoming Forgetfulness - Idealizing Remembering" Landone emphasized the importance of "idealization" to maintain an excellent memory. The system is quite simple, when we recognize that memory is a habit. If we become AWARE of HOW we think it can lead us to using idealization, or imaging ourselves, to enhance memory. No matter how distracted we become, if we hold the picture of a perfect memory it will manifest. As Brown Landone states, "The process built automatically into my mind. I had an ideal - a perfect image of myself - remembering to do the thing I wanted to do, built into the brain structure, so that no matter how important the things occupying my mind, I could always remember. . . "

This exercise does not require "mental gymnastics." In fact, Landone felt that "memory systems" were both "clownish" and a "waste of time." Today's software and learning tools that promise better memory are no different than the systems that Landone wrote about in his books over 100 years ago, and he considered these remedies useless.

In order to maintain a good working memory, the individual must first recognize the power of the mind itself. Educate yourself on the subject of mental science; familiarize yourself with the concept that the material and spiritual world are one. On this journey, you will discover that the environment in which you live is a fascinating place, full of ideas and innovation. Play in it. Enjoy it. Keep growing, and your memory will always remain -- sharp as a tack.