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Thursday, 8 May 2008
Have you tried reading but you end up reading one line over and over again or you end up staring at a page for a considerable length of time? This could be frustrating if you’re trying to study for an exam or you are trying to rush a work for a deadline. Have you experienced talking to someone and finding your thoughts wandering? Have you experienced sitting in class and finding out that an hour has passed and you didn’t hear any word that your professor said? Concentrating can be a challenged for some people.
What is Concentration?
Simply put, concentration is a person’s ability to focus his thoughts in a particular direction for a considerable time without getting distracted by other things. Everyone has the ability to concentrate. Some people are quite good with concentrating. There are people though who find it quite difficult to focus their attention in one particular thing without their thoughts wandering. This can be quite frustrating. If you find difficulty concentrating, you need to practice and develop your concentration skills.
Your ability to concentrate may depend on a lot of factors. It can depend on your commitment to your work. It can also depend on your enthusiasm for a project, an assignment, or a work. If you don’t know how to go about doing the job, you might be quite disinterested and end up losing your concentration. If you have problems and you are tired and stressed out, you’d have problems concentrating. If the place is not conducive to concentrating, you might not be able to concentrate on your work at all.
Tips on How to Improve Your Concentration
If you want to improve your concentration skills, here are some tips that you can follow:
a. Redirect your thoughts. When you find your thoughts straying from what you should be concentrating on, redirect it. Do not let it wander off.
b. Set aside distracting thoughts. Commit a time to what you should be concentrating on. Do not allow yourself to be distracted by problems or worries.
c. Setup an award system for yourself. Promise yourself rewards for maintaining concentration.
d. Create an inviting and calm environment to allow you to concentrate.
e. Keep yourself fit. If you are too sleepy to concentrate, it is highly doubtful if you’d be able to finish a paragraph of a book you’re reading.
f. Do not force yourself if your mind keeps wandering. It doesn’t help at all.
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Are you aware that mental focus is developed predominantly between 6-15 years of age and incase the child has had a dysfunctional environment at home, mental focus develops with insufficient convergence (Read Article above) or with high intensity of distraction (due to anxiety and fear).
Remember, as mentioned in the earlier article that Mental Focus and Distractive Frequencies are like antagonistic muscles (when one muscle relaxes, automatically the connected muscle becomes tense and vice versa).
However as distraction frequencies are more powerful and have more impact on our ability to focus than the frequencies connected with concentration, the first step in increasing mental focus or reducing distraction would be to Minimize the frequencies connected with Distraction.
There are a million ways to increase focus like brainwave synchronization, light therapy, and so on, but there are hardly any best known ways of reducing distraction.
www.improve-focus.com is one such research centre which has devised simple yet effective ways to reduce distraction. Particularly interesting is the manner in which the Focus Width and Focus Span test mentioned in their techniques will help you establish your level of distraction.
Although brainwave CDs can also have a good level of effect on the degrees of distraction, however the associated side effects with using the same for focus can be quite counterproductive. As our Unconscious stores both Outcomes modulated with Negatives Outcomes and Positive Outcomes, as soon as you start listening to any of these CDs, both the negative and positive outcomes get heightened and this can lead to results in your life which can throw you off balance.
Having studied the subject extensively for around 10-12 years now, I can say with certainty that any brainwave products used for increasing focus can have far more detrimental effects in the long run. I coach ADD and ADHD children and adults to overcome their pattern of reduced convergence (due to insufficient Beta Brainwaves or high levels of anxiety), and I have discovered that tools to reduce anxiety are most effective if utilized cautiously and at a slow pace.
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The word “Focus” is used by people, books, articles and in the world on the average 1 Million times in the day all over, however Focus is still a misunderstood term. My dissatisfaction with the data available on the subject made me search some research journals and I was surprised by what I discovered.
In spiritual studies, FOCUS is known as the power everyone wants to develop stronger than others. The reason is like in a hierarchy in the workplace, where the boss on top have the power to control others daily goals in the workplace, likewise in the world, the most powerful person is the one whose FOCUS is highest in intensity. This is the reason why so many esoteric sciences tell us that sages have been trying to increase focus since billion light years. Sages spend many years on their lives in dark caves trying to develop this power.
If we take two beams of light and CONVERGE them (Inverted V), we can say the two beams are working in coherence. The point at which the two beams converge can be called as being FOCUSSED.
If we take both the beams of light and completely DIVERGE them, they can actually become a straight line. (Open the V). Now the beams are DIVERGENT. When we are doing some activity which is leading to a result or outcome, our focus beam is in CONVERGENT Mode and when are meditating the focus beam is in DIVERGENT mode.
So how this knowledge does helps us! In no manner whatsoever till now. Read on and it will make sense.
Focus point always needs to have an objective or an outcome stored in it to make any difference in our lives. So to say, if we are outcome focused, we can call ourselves focused.
We are daily focused on the outcome of the result (which is guided by positive and negative expectations), hence we are focused every minute, every day , every week on some outcome. Sadly most of these outcomes are negative outcomes.
The good news is that whatever is the subject of our FOCUS will get converted into Reality (by our own unconscious actions). The bad news is that when the subject of FOCUS is negative (our expectation of negative is mostly stronger than the expectation of positive), we are unfortunately INTENSELY focused on the Negative Goal. When it comes to a positive goal, there is something that comes in the way.
It has been known that if we can intensely focus on any goal, we can achieve it and unconsciously other people will help us achieve our goal. (The Universe will conspire to give us what we want). However this is not exactly true. Whenever we focus on the goals which we want so badly, we experience something called Scattering of Focus , wherein distractions and negative blocks reduce the intensity of focus and delay the achievement of goal or altogether cancels the goal. On the other hand, when we are focused on the negative outcome, we are highly focused and even if there are positive distractions (like positive inputs, positive thoughts), we continue to fear the worst (and hence FOCUS on the worst).
You must be thinking, What can happen incase I can reduce this scattering of focus. What will happen is that not only will you achieve your goals much faster and with least struggle, but also you will start becoming unconsciously more powerful over people who has lesser intensity of focus and you will unconsciously control and guide their goals in a way that everyone will unconsciously help you achieve your goals.
This will however happen in ways which are for the highest good of all concerned.
When we voluntarily concentrate on any goal, the so-called executive center in the front of the brain — the prefrontal cortex is in charge. But when something distracting grabs our attention, the signal originated in the parietal cortex, toward the back of the brain. While concentration occurs at lower frequencies, Distraction occurred at higher frequencies. As distraction was developed as a survival tool, it has more power over us and therefore distraction has a stronger impact on our thinking than concentration.
A lot of products teach us to increase focus, but very few teach us to reduce scatter. The moment we are able to reduce scatter, our focus automatically and effortlessly increases to the next level. I can guarantee you that if you put in 5% of the efforts of what you have dedicated to increasing Focus, you will radically improve your results and change your life faster than you can handle it.
I have found the best way to reduce scatter is to use techniques taught by Astromind Research at www.improve-focus.com . Also you can look for various Focus CDs on the internet, however I have not had any major breakthroughs with any of these CDs.
As a bonus in this article, I will explain what happens neurologically in the brain when we focus. As soon as we focus, all our resources are aligned with the goal. We become charged and determined to achieve the objective (unconsciously) and thereafter our unconscious or mind, immediately starts computing the various possibility in which it can take us forward towards the goal. The unconscious thereafter computes various computes various permutations/combination to make us take unconscious and conscious actions (a mixture of both) to make us achieve our objective.