Concentration

 

-CONCENTRATION

Concentration and focus helps us to achieve much more than what we feel we can.  Concentration is basically having the mind and the intellect on the same object. 

 

Mind is our thinking faculty and intellect is the faculty which visualises. For eg. You create a thought - My house (this is the mind) and immediately you will be able to see how your house looks (this is the intellect). What we see then gets imprinted inside. If instead of the house the picture that comes to you is of your college, then the mind starts thinking about the college and we say our concentration has broken. So the mind and intellect should work together. So when you are studying, what ever you are reading try and also visualise it. If the intellect is not busy in visualising what you are reading then the intellect will start seeing other pictures (for eg. friends, movies etc..) and then the mind will also go there and concentration is broken. 

 

Also practicing silence will help greatly. When you sit to study, sit for 5 minutes in silence, and observe your mind. Slowly talk to the mind and ask all the unnecessary thoughts to go away. Give instructions to your mind - you are going to study for how much time, what are you going to study and how much do you want to achieve - tell your mind all this. In between after every hour, stop and be in silence for one minute and again focus your mind. You can do this during the day also.

During the entire day, try and keep your mind light, i.e. not thinking too much, and thinking only the right quality of thoughts. Be aware that the mind is not thinking that which is of no use. Too much thinking reduces the strength of the mind and therefore concentration power. Try and reduce your anger, irritation, worry – all these reduce your power.