How To Develop Powers Of Concentration
July 21, 2008
The memory has no enemy greater than lack of concentration. To remember well, one must be able to concentrate equally well. For instance, if, while reading a book on travel in the United States, you begin to reminisce about trips you have made to Europe, there is little you will remember of what you have read.
Constant wrong usage of the phrase concentration has made it rather hackneyed and common, though it has an exacter meaning than the one it is commonly given or used for. Succeeding in doing your job competently despite surrounding noises does not mean one has concentrated properly on getting the job done. It is not true concentration, which becomes evident when one attempts any thing that demands genuine concentration.
The following tips and concentration techniques are quite useful if you wish to learn how to concentrate:
Stretch out and settle in a comfortable position on a couch or bed. Relax your whole body, so you don’t feel any strain or tension. Close your eyes and attempt to visualize a familiar face, painting or article. As soon as you succeed in doing so, concentrate your thoughts on this article to the exclusion of everything else. Try to keep your thoughts from straying in any direction if you can help it. For example, if it is a painting you have chosen to concentrate on, keep the painting in mind without letting your mind stray to other pictures or paintings in the room.
At first, you will find it difficult to sustain the experiment for longer than four or five seconds. But gradually, with regular practice, you will succeed in concentrating for longer periods of time. At this point, it is time to make the experiment more difficult. Instead of a quiet room, select a room where you are unable to stretch out comfortably in a position conducive to concentration. As well, ensure that eye and ear impressions make it increasingly difficult to collect your thoughts.
A more difficult, and consequently more interesting, exercise in concentration consists in remembering exactly the occurrences of the hour immediately preceding the current one. It is not sufficient to recall only that you went to Broadway, where you bought a book and had an ice-cream soda. The correct method of carrying out this experiment is to remember the exact time and route you took to Broadway, where you stopped to window shop, etc. etc. You must have gotten the picture by now.
The more details you can remember the better. That is, the more particulars you can recall the more value the exercise has for you. Of course, you may not be able to remember all the people you saw in the subway or all the thoughts that crossed your mind. But you will find that patience and diligent practice yield dividends by increasing your ability to concentrate well.
Remember, aside from increasing your ability to concentrate, you will in time be able to remember accurately, conversations you have had and sensations you have experienced. Important abilities that prove useful in everyday life, which makes it important to develop concentration skills.
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