TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR CONCENTRATION

Are there any techniques for concentration? It sounds easy to
concentrate, but there are individual who have difficulties in
concentrating. Here's an easy concentration technique for them.

Concentration is an elusive state of mind. Ironically, the more you
think or worry about concentration, the less you're concentrating on
the task.

Sometimes, you are confused about the difference between
concentration and meditation. Meditation is a self-directed practice
for relaxing the body and calming the mind. We believe that
meditation techniques came from religious sectors in India, China,
Korea and Japan. Concentration is a technique or an action to focus
on one thing in mind.

How to know or distinguish concentration?
In the midst of the playing cards, take about 6 cards, and tell your
friend to choose one of those cards and let him remember the number.
Your friend is now concentrating to remember one card he chose. Now,
your friend can remember none of other 5 cards. It means that your
friend concentrated on one card. This is concentration.

It is essential to do sport, work, study and many other things.
Concentration perhaps is a MUST for everyone of us unintentionally to
satisfy daily living.

Let's take the simple case of your schoolchildren who do their
homework. "Hi, children, it's examination soon. You must concentrate
more on your homework." Your children maybe just wandering how to
concentrate for their homework.

Here, we tried to investigate how concentration occurs in the brain.
At first, we requested an abacus champion to calculate a five-page
accounting sheets in a schoolroom. When he started hitting the
abacus, rock and roll music was played aloud, but surprisingly, the
champion appeared to be not noticing the lousy music around him. It
means the abacus champion was really concentrated calculating with
the abacus.

Another instance was prepared. A famous magician was invited to a
small room in a hospital. Three doctors were invited to see the
magic. The doctors were told to find the trick. While the magician
was performing at the stage, a nurse with a white pig passed through,
then the nurse with a monkey passed through, and then three nurses
passed through. However, when we asked about nurses passing through
the stage, the three doctors did not notice them at all. The doctors
were indeed concentrating to see the trick of the magic.

The abacus champion and the three doctors were able to concentrate
easily. Or they were made to concentrate simply without any form of
suggestion. Yes, concentration is born simply. Truly, anyone is made
to concentrate simply. It is just a matter of a simple technique or
brain system that triggers concentration.

For you to believe, let's try to make an "Egg and Spoon Race".

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You can understand that all runners are concentrating not to drop the
egg from the small spoon. However, when the loud speaker announces a
certain story of a particular runner, the addressed runner dropped
the egg. It means the runner's concentration was broken by the
disturbance of the announcement.

We have learned that our brains will work very narrowly when we
concentrate. Our brain consists of several parts such as for
accounting, memory, viewing, and listening. When we concentrate, only
the selected part of the brain works. The people who cannot
concentrate usually try to listen or hear as much as possible.

Yes, the ear, hearing or listening noise could be the number one
disturbance when concentrating.

What is the technique to eliminate such noise or obstacles when you
want to concentrate?

We visited a toy manufacturer that has tremendous number of
productions and all workers need serious concentration. A mistake or
poor quality control will create a huge amount of loses in the
production line, thus, high concentration of all workers are required
in the factory. The manager of the factory told us that women have
higher concentration ability than men. For that reason, the factory
has applied all women workers in specific department. The factory is
constructed with soundproof materials with several speakers mounted
inside the ceiling.

No music sound comes from the speakers but sounds of stream, seaside,
and sounds of forest. They are all sounds of nature.

From this, we understand that the sound that has nothing to do with
workers can make them concentrate. The sound that creates them to
think something like what happened during the egg and spoon race will
disturb and make them hard to concentrate.

The sound technology for concentration has been applied quite a long
time ago, especially in various offices in major cities in Japan.

Probably, the following are also clues for concentration techniques
to switch the brain "ON". For example, set a goal like..."If I'm able
to concentrate well on this work, I will go to a restaurant to eat
what I like" or "The school examination is coming, I will surely
pass".

Before concentrating, relax and do not put yourself in place where
your ears, eyes and interest will go around. Do a few times of deep
breathing. Drinking a cup of tea or coffee is good. Taking a bath or
shower is also good. All these preparations will trigger the
brain "ON" for concentration.

Concentration makes us tired. It is the reason, as mentioned
previously, that you write your name, address, and names of your
friends during some hours of interval. By doing it, your
concentration skill will increase.

There are Japanese temples where they teach Buddhism way of
concentration and meditation. However, some supervisors of large
factories told us that their methods are not applicable to their
works. Technique of concentration differs on the place you apply. How
is your idea, then?