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Concentration exercises sharpen the mind and improve the ability to concentrate.
These are the 11 Mental Concentration exercises that will strengthen the power of your mind.
The Power of Concentration - Practicing Concentration Exercises
Sharpening the needle of concentration requires practice, like everything else in life.
Do you go to the gym? If you do, how many times a week, and for how long?
Have you studied a foreign language? If you did, for how long did you practice, until you had a basic knowledge of the language?
It is the same with developing your concentration.
You need training and practice. Even only 10 minutes a day of concentration exercises will do you good.
Your mind does not like discipline, and will resist your efforts to discipline it.
It loves its freedom more than anything else, and won't let you master it.
It will make you forget to do the exercises, tempt you to postpone performing them, or make you feel too lazy.
It will find many tricks to occupy your attention with something else.
The choice is yours, to be mastered by the mind and its whims, or to be its master.
In this video, you will find a few simple 11 concentration exercises.
By practicing mental exercises, you train the mind and master it, and put it in its proper place, as your servant, and not as your boss and master.
You are not the mind, nor the thoughts that pass through it.
Though it might be hard to accept this idea, the mind is not you, the real you, but only a tool that you use.
It is an instrument, which has great value, but it has to be taught to obey you.
Most people believe that they are the mind, and erroneously believe that controlling the mind means holding themselves back and denying their freedom.
They feel that controlling their mind is not natural, and that it is some sort of repression.
These beliefs are not correct. The proof that we are not the mind comes with training.
Accept the idea in theory, and in time, as your control over your thoughts grows, you will know it as a fact.
In reality, you, the real you, is the one mastering the mind. It is not the mind mastering itself.
Advice for Practicing the Concentration Exercises
Find a place where you can be alone and undisturbed.
If you wish, you may sit crossed legged on the floor, but most people would find it more comfortable to sit on a chair.
Take a few calm deep breaths and then relax your body, by directing your attention to it, and relaxing each muscle, from head to toe.
Practice each of the following exercises for about 10 minutes, and after a few weeks of training, you may lengthen the time to 15 minutes.
It is important that you start with the first exercise, and practice only one at a time, until you are able to do it without getting distracted or forgetting it, and without thinking about anything else.
This might take days, weeks and even more.
Proceed to the next one, only after you are convinced that you have practiced it correctly and with good concentration.
There is no timetable.
Put your whole attention into the exercises, and do not think about anything else.
Be careful not to fall asleep, daydream or think about other matters.
The moment you find yourself thinking about something else, stop the exercise and start again.
After you become proficient, lengthen the time, and if possible, include another session in the afternoon.
Do not attempt too much at the beginning, and don't try to perform them all at once.
Go slowly, without overdoing them or tensing your brain.
If you find it too difficult, or thoughts distract you and make you think about other matters, don't despair.
Everyone encounters difficulties along the way.
Remember, even those with powerful concentration had to exercise their minds.
Now, let's start with the exercises.
For the full benefit, it is advisable that you practice each exercise for one additional week,
after you are convinced that you are practicing it correctly and with full attention.
When you start to see results, you will begin to love the exercises.
You will be able to concentrate your attention easily and effortlessly, upon anything you want to concentrate on.
Do you jog, exercise at the gym, or study a foreign language?
How difficult it was when you first started?
How many times you wanted to quit?
Despite the difficulties, after a while, you started to like what you were doing.
It became a habit, and did not require special effort.
So it is with developing the Power of Concentration.
After some practice, it will be easier to concentrate, and your mind will learn to be calm and relaxed.
How is your focus level?
Let us know in the comments below.
I practiced them but then got spects
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Loving the video and practical lessons
I list video index with my explanation since no one else has. Feel free to explain the video as it makes sense to you. I see elements of yoga & meditation in this video's approach
RECAP4ME
0:01 Pre Amble ->or read pre amble in description box
LESSONS 1...11
01# 4:39 Concentration : by counting words
- take any book, count words in any paragraph, count same paragraph twice till it's easy to do with just your eyes no finger place holding.
02# 5:00 Concentration : by counting 100 to 1 sequentially ie 99, 98, 97
03# 5:10 Concentration : by counting backwards 100 to 1 using a degree of hardness...ie skipping 3 so 97, 94, 91
04# 5:20 Concentration : repeating a thought uninterrupted ie choose an inspiring word or sound, repeat it silently mentally first 5mins then for 10mins uninterrupted
05# 5:36 Concentration : focus VISUALLY on something without being distracted by other thoughts ie Look & feel a fruit, focus on fruit for touch texture weight hardness colour etc never allowing other thoughts to enter your head. You can control external thoughts...10mins
06# 6:17 Concentration : same as 05# but use mental visualization not physical visualization ie power of recall, close your eyes...same procedure focus without distraction thoughts
07# 6:59 Concentration : by focusing VISUALLY on form not words of an object like a spoon
08# 7:20 Concentration : moving from form given to you (eg spoon) you create form then focus on it ie draw a 3inch square triangle or circle, colouring it in before focusing on what you have done without external thoughts interrupting you. Your building on your thoughts not building on thoughts given to you eg a spoon
09# 7:57 Concentration : same as 08# but having drawn, memorised close your eyes so your using your powers of recall to build focus without external thoughts interrupting....10mins
10# 8:15 Concentration : move from physical visualization (eyes open to sample briefly) to mental visualization (eyes closed) now back to physical visualization (eyes open longer allowing distractions but resisting distractions).
11# 8:25 Contraction : by creating mental silence (removing all thoughts from mind having learned first to focus, eliminate distractions, creating a power to recall, now eliminating thoughts under your control).
Objective : as concentration gets stronger, you will find more clarity and more abilities in all your tasks.
I agree...these are relatively simple exercises which surprisingly are difficult on first untrained mind but will become easier with practice and habit.
Great tips..... thanks...will surely try and let you know...
i have adhd so you do the maths 🥲
Video starts at 4:39
Thanks!
Thanks !!
Thank you
For real, what they were thinking which such a redundant intro if they know people watching the video will struggle to sit through it?
This need to want it to get to the point, could be ADHD. Why not try to suffer the video until it reaches to the exercises. Train your brain to stay in the discomfort so you can retain your focus and maybe sharpen it.
Only overthinkers knows how hard is this.
yes , and when conversation is maintanable , series of events happen in short amount of time and words start flowing like avalanche . Did this exersise worked for you Farida?
Yeah
Not really. A lot of ppl make it their identity. "I'm an overthink, nothing can change that and it's too hard to do anything else" is the way your subconscious hears it because if it's too hard? You're just an overthinking so you have no control over it
The thought that everyone is counting on you and if you don't reach their expectations they'll be disappointed and embarrassed by you.
Here I am @3:40 in the morning, playing this video, writing the comment , thinking about 3 different things at the same time
Oh wow! ''The mind is only a tool,is not the real you,the real you is the one that is mastering the mind'' Oh wow,i have no words! Great work!
Concentration exercises
1. Count the words in a paragraph twice. After a few times do a few paragraphs then a whole page when it becomes easier.
2. Count backwards in your mind from 100 to 1. When this becomes easy skip every three numbers.
3. Repeat a simple phrase or sound and repeat it in your mind for 5 minutes. When this becomes easy increase to 10.
4. Pick up a fruit and examine/focus on it for 5 minutes. When this becomes easy examine the fruit for 2 minutes and then imagine the fruit.
5. Look at a simple object with a clear mind.
6. Draw and color a shape on a paper and focus on it. When this becomes easy memorize the shape, close your eyes and visualize it. When that becomes easy, do it with your eyes open.
7. Keep your mind clear for 5 minutes.
Seems logical, but I'd look at and compare with other exercises. Nintendo's Brain Age Concentration Training has you doing exercises that involve taking in new information while simultaneously outputting the old. For example: memorize the answer to an equation that's on the screen but give the answer for a previous equation.
For exercise one, are you saying the words in your head also or just glossing over them and counting? This one has me stumped, I want to do it correctly. Also, these dont seem to be ordered correctly in terms of difficulty. For example, exercise 5 is much easier to do than exercise 1. Seems counter intuitive to start at the hardest and work down from there.
Thank you because half way in and I've heard nothing
@@akeemhimself3742 how to concentrate? annoying people with bait videos is not helping... just post what this comment says and let us practice!
The 1st exercise: 4:39
In the beginning of the video:
Don't try to perform them all at once.
Go to the next only when you master the previous one.
Start from the 1st.
Start from 10 minutes a day.
Mastering concentration and your will is the key to unlock all magic the universe has to offer
Dude really underatted channel
Thank you 💗
You’re welcome 😊
Actually a pretty good video
Even watching this video without distraction is hard ... ,😀But good exercise when in continuous practice.. it's hard but life worth
Another great exercise is to stare at a lit candle for a minute or so then close your eyes and you will be presented with an image of the flame see how long you can keep focusing on the image before it disappears. Exercise 8-9 are the same, whoops my bad.
Wow simplest but most helpful tips on meditation... Namaste☮☮🍀🍀
I've started doing the exercice 1 and I really feel that I've improved. Thanks a lot
非常感谢，很喜欢
excellent it is brief, clear and practicable. thanks
Thank you for this video
Thank you for the video. I practice Metta-Bhavana (:
Great video . Thanks a lot for your efforts
I will try these exercises and see how it results, I was really looking for some small and easy exercises as currently I am having a hard time with my focus on anything.
It will be helpful if I can also learn simple therapy to improve speech (the speech get disturb when we lose focus but that is the area I want to learn and work on myself as well)
Thanks for the tips. Best wishes.
Going to try this! Thanks for the video
Thats why Namaz is the best thing❤️
Sure that is a good way to numb the brain.
@@jsean7456 not asking you
@@jsean7456 only foolish person comments on something that he don't know.
@@macmic1097 dude I know all about it I have left the religion.
@@jsean7456 which religion???
Great video, I'll watch more of your videos and share about them. Thank you..
Thanks✌️
Very helpful
I made my brain focus on this video without doing other tasks. I'm typing as number 8 is being described though. New subbie March 9 2022
Thanks goodness I find this channel.
Thanks!
for the question at 10:10 , yes this video was really helpful and it is the one for which i was looking thanks a lo......
I feel that the exercises are doable for any person that will strive to get sharper
It was a great video. If someone wants true success, s/he needs to learn how to concentrate. To do so, s/he must do these exercises. The power of concentration makes you become a GIANT POWERFUL PERSON.
Thanks✌️
Helpful
Great tips...will surely try and let you know
Did you benefit from the exercises?
Very useful
Thanks!!
I will come back to your channel to subscribe, if it works for me, surprisingly sounds good 🙏
Best ever Video
Thanks😊Keep watching✌️
How is possible to keep my mind clear with no thoughts for 5 minutes?!! How ?
Coming to find that exercise 11 is what I've been doing all along in meditations. shittin me
Really helpful
Glad it helped
Could you please make a video on imagination exercises
Interesting thing: I was already subscribed to this channel a while ago.
Thanks! Keep watching✌️
Very interesting 😊
Thanks✌️
I stick for 2 minutes before giving up and waiting for the content to begin
Well you see I have thoughts of thoughts witch to were I can think while thinking of a well let's say block I can think of the block but while I do that I think of why am I think on thinking of a block and then more go off all at once like where is it from and how did I get it but I can focus of it all and then it hits me I'm focusing all of a block and not the outside world and it happens alot
4:40
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The video : 11 Concentrations exercices
Me 10 seconds later : *looking to the side* Oh what's that ? Dopamine Detox ? What is that ?
I like this video.
4:39 start the video
For exercise one, are you saying the words in your head also or just glossing over them and counting? This one has me stumped, I want to do it correctly. Also, these dont seem to be ordered correctly in terms of difficulty. For example, exercise 5 is much easier to do than exercise 1. Seems counter intuitive to start at the hardest and work down from there.
You say it in your head if your mind subvocalizes words, some people can actually read it without hearing the words. You want to start with 1 because it will force focus and build discipline. Then by 5 you use that level of discipline for something easy like 5.
Where is the transcript that shows the actual exercises??
Hi, I am having trouble focusing on people talking and making the switch when I am doing something, and somebody starts talking to me.. I almost always have to ask them to repeat what they said. Can this help? Thanks
I'm here for the same reason
I lost focus half way through intro and remember to come back lol
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Video starts at 4.40
Your channel has less viewer's. See the videos in your channel got most views.research on them and do your next video 👍All the best.
Watch after 4.30
what reduces you’re concentration?
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can this exercise help with ADHD?
Exercises start at 4:35, after the fucking ad lol.
The pre amble was to prepare you not to rush the process
You demonstrate your distraction...is impatience
@@borntodoit8744 No the pre amble was a waste of time. I don't need a pep talk, I know why I'm here get on with the exercise. Now if the pre amble was about how or why the specific exercise work or even scientific backing is better than, you are not your mind.
At about 4 min. In, i started daydreaming 😁
TQ Universe i just won mega millions max lottery
Does any one else notice that they constantly over thing all the time even in conversations ??
Read a book - offline
The visualization tasks only work for people without aphantasia, which isnt totally fair. Still, for those of is who can create images in our head its a useful game.
Who else went to the comment section as soon as they hit play?
Is it useful? Who tried it?
I couldn't focus what he way saying in this video, really, i was thinking of that joke i'm saying
Bruuuuuhhh..I thought it was clear that I need help focusing.. why am I at the 4 minute mark and haven’t heard one exercise. Why is the intro so LOOONNNGGGG!??? I HAVE CONCENTRATION ISSUES HELLLOOOO
Bout to tap out
Voice over artists are getting screwed up because of these kind of AI
Maybe it's only my vision, but... don't like robotic voice.
Come on dude, make your videos shorter or get to the point faster. A whopping 4:39 for the first exercise!
Thanks for the feedback!
I lost focus after 2 minutes :)
why such a long intro
Couldn't follow the video after the first exercise
meh