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10 Ways to Increase Your Concentration

1. First understand clearly what concentration is: “Concentration is taking

your mind off many things and putting it on one thing at a time.”
2. Decide carefully what you want to concentrate on, for in many subtle and
not-so-subtle ways, you become that which you focus on — that is, you take
on the attributes of your chosen subject of concentration. Have you ever
noticed how couples who have been married for many years start to look like
each other, or how people often come to resemble their pets, their cars, their
hobbies, or their work projects?
3. Generally speaking, everyone has had experiences in total
concentration. Go to a good adventure film at a movie theater. In the middle
of it, stop watching the movie (this might be hard, but do it anyway) and look
around at the people in the theater. What are they doing? They are absolutely
still, eyes barely blinking, and their breath is slower. It would take a really
major distraction to break their attention stream. These physiological signs
may give you a hint about ways to increase your own concentration abilities.
4. Some of the enemies of concentration skills are constant sensory input,
multi-tasking, trying to do many things all at the same time, loud noises, and
flashing light patterns. The human nervous system is a marvelous thing, but it
is not built to function in the face of these things on a full-time basis.
Attention deficit patterns come, at least to some extent, from the activities or
situations which make concentration difficult to impossible. Then a habit of
non-attention or inability to concentrate deeply is established and difficult to
overcome.
5. Make it a point to put your full concentration on whatever you are doing.
Don’t let anything distract you. It really helps to be in a quiet place, but you
can learn to block out noise if necessary.
6. Understand the essential connection between concentration and
energy. Deep concentration is a matter of increasing or directing your life-
force or conscious, cosmic energy. The more of this kind of energy you have,
the better. Scattered energy doesn’t help. It must be calm, focused energy.
Learn to be calmly concentrated and be concentratedly calm.
7. Learn and practice some physical and mental energization techniques.
This is an important first step toward the ability to concentrate deeply.
8. Take breaks. Go outside and breathe deeply or take a brisk walk. Make
yourself do this often and you’ll be able to return to your task recharged and
ready to focus more creatively.
9. Meditation is the most powerful of all concentration enhancement
techniques. Learn a few simple meditation techniques and practice them at
least five minutes daily.
 10. A first step in the concentration aspect of meditation is to focus on
watching your breath — not controlling it in any way, but just observing it.
This helps to train yourself in taking your mind off of many things, and putting
it on one thing at a time — in this case the breath. As you observe your
breath, it will calm down, your brain will calm down also (this is a scientifically
well-documented, mind-breath connective function), and you automatically
move into a dynamic, peaceful (but not sleepy) state of being. Your mind
becomes recharged and creatively receptive.

Take a few minutes and learn a simple meditation technique. You’ll be amazed at
how this effects your concentration during your regular daily life.

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5 Responses

Shrilata
November 5, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Nice one !!

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lokesh k
November 6, 2013 at 5:04 am
These steps are very nice to get quick enhancement on concentration skills

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ankur damle
November 6, 2013 at 10:11 am
main topic how to concentrate is still mising . i m serching most effective and
fastest way to grow concentration which will help to meditate. if we say meditation
is the way to develop concentration then we face a question how to meditate
without concentration
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Bukky Awodiran
November 7, 2013 at 6:58 am
This has been most educative.

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Brian Ngamiah
November 11, 2013 at 9:17 am
It is a nice package but am still lacking the materiality of your lessons, for instance
if you tell me to learn and practice some physical and mental energization
techniques (7), please tell me some of the examples, a material thing I can do.

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