How to increase concentration?

Many a people fail in their official or curricular performance due to lack in concentration. A research on the above topic led me to the following conclusions.

It is absolutely and completely possible to increase your concentration. The state of concentration is the state where you can focus on the topic on hand without getting entangled in the whirlpool of thoughts created in the mind. This topic is really very huge but I have squashed all the information and made it as simple as possible in order to save your time.

First of all there is nothing called as poor concentration. It is either concentration or no-concentration. The reason is because you cannot expect your mind to swallow half an article and reproduce the whole text. If you want to reproduce everything that you have read, you have to make sure that you are studying when you are reading.

Let us take a look into the psychology aspect for a few seconds to analyze the present problem. According to psychology, there are three phases that your mind has to pass through, in order to ensure that you are thorough with the information that you have read. The first phase is that of concentrated reading. Here you need to read the text without letting thoughts to wander around your mind. Next you need to ensure that you have collected the facts properly so that you can easily recollect them whenever required. This is usually done by maintaining an order of remembrance in which all the points can be easily recollected. Next is recalling whatever you have learnt. When you go through all these phases correctly, the information that you have read stays intact in your mind for months together.

Now let us get to the exercise needed in order to increase your concentration. Almost all the experts will advice you the same topic. It’s just their payments that are different depending upon their reputation. The first step is to ensure that you are focused. To many a people it seems rather difficult to stay focused. The reason is quite simple. You create so many thoughts for yourself that you cannot steer your mind away from them. The solution is quite simple. Stay focused for shorter periods and then you will observe that your performance is increasing. Try the following exercise:

Forget everything and concentrate on your work continuously for a minute. Keep a counting timer in your mobile that will alert you after a minute. In this one minute try to avoid all the thoughts and just concentrate on the work at hand. Do not even bother about your performance. Just study continuously without getting disturbed. Always make it a point that you tell your family members that you are reading and would not like getting disturbed for the next few hours. Do not even bother to look around if somebody calls you. Try to read in such focused and concentrated manner for at least three hours a day. Never let anyone disturb your penance. A penance once disturbed has to start all the way from the very beginning itself. So its better not to get disturbed while you are studying. After you finish your studying you can find yourself an excuse by telling them that you were studying and could not hear them as the door of your study room was closed. Don’t bother if you will be able to recollect it later or not. For now there is just one mission in front of you- that of concentrated reading. No lover, no mother and no worry shall be allowed to disturb you. After you achieve perfection in this step carry out the following:

1. Increase the time of the timer and reach the state where you will be able to concentrate for a whole hour on your work without getting much disturbed.

2. Remember nobody is a good reader since birth. They are good at it only because they have achieved perfection in it.

3. Your friend is not much intelligent than you. It is just that he is a bit more focused as compared to you. It also means that his parents have made him imbibe that quality ever since his primary days.

4. Most important thing; always take a gap between two sessions of concentrated work. So you begin with reading a minute and taking a short nap/rest the other minute.

Now the concentration problem is over. The next thing is to make notes. Remember, writing a note does not mean copying a paragraph as it is from the text book. A note is maintained so that it can make it easier for you to remember things. It should be point-wise and should have at the most seven words per point in order to remind you the sentences and the order in which they are to be remembered. These notes shall help you a lot at the eleventh hour.

The next thing is to recall all the points without any source kept in front of you. For theory subjects if you write the starting three sentences properly you can continue the later part with your own language. Just make sure that you give the examiner a hint that you have opened the text-book and swallowed all the material in it. The best way to show this is by writing the first three sentences as it is in the text-book.

If you still find it very difficult to focus on your goal I would suggest you to go for meditation. So far the best meditation technique has been brought out by an organization called as Sahaj Yoga. The best part is that it is free and can be practiced by people of all ages and religions. The principles taught in it are useful for our spiritual as well as mental growth. To know more about Sahaj meditation and its founder I would suggest you to log on to www.sahajayoga.org . All the other mediation techniques that were followed by my friends came along with initial complaints of great headaches. Whereas Sahaja Yoga was found to be foolproof and caused no initial problems within the students who followed it. Instead, it was quite surprising to find out that my friends who were smoking and drinking left their bad habits overnight after getting their realization (the state of meditation). The best part was that nobody had advised them to do so. The second day itself they lit a cigarette in order to smoke and threw it away, saying that they felt suffocated when they inhaled the smoke of the cigarette. Some of them just vomited out all they had eaten, the moment they smelt the smell of rum or beer. Many a friends of mine, even today thank me for introducing them to Sahaja Yoga. The most common response which I got from my friends the very first day itself, was that, they found Sahaj mediation to be a great stress reliever. Those who are following it since a few months reported that they found it out to be helpful physically, mentally as well as spiritually. I have also heard reports of unusual and hierarchical diseases being cured the very moment they got their self-realizations. Those friends of mine who did not have jobs got jobs even in the tough recession days with much ease. It was very amazing to find out that an uncle whose left leg was partially paralyzed had recovered from the paralysis within a month! He could not bend his leg even for a short period of time, and today, after practicing Sahaja Yoga for over a month, he can sit on the ground quite comfortably for a time period of two hours. Sahaja Yoga uses all the natural elements to heal a person. Hence, there is no reason why one should not give it a try. I have myself seen students with poor academic reports, scoring well, and even topping their classes after practicing Sahaja Yoga! As it is completely free you can definitely give it a try. Just make sure that you tell the centre leader that you are new to Sahaja Yoga and want to get your realization (after the collective mediation at the center is over). They will take care of the rest. If you want a proof of the power of this technique from your home itself then go to www.sahajayoga.org and go through the self-realization process documentary which will tell you to follow an exercise with closed eyes. After you finish the exercise you will feel a cool or hot breeze flowing around your fingers. It does not consume much time like the other Yoga’s and demands only a few minutes of meditation. It is advised to meditate ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening in front of a photograph of H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (the founder of the organization). The above website will tell you the phone number of the centre leader of your city. If you are at a remote place and do not know if there is meditation centre of Sahaja Yoga in your city or not, just note down the phone number of the centre leader of the capital city of your state and ask him whether there is a centre running at the place where you are staying or not.

What next? It’s zero hour. Remove your weapons and attack your examiner with elaborate answers that will send your scores shooting off the college rooftop. Remember- ‘all you need to do is to show the examiner that you know the subject at hand very well’. I am sure that your marks card will be filled with flying colors after you finish writing your forthcoming examinations. Do not forget to send me sweets after receiving the good news! Ok then, have a cool day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beauty Care

There are many people out there in the crowd who are using many creams but aren’t still getting the desired results. Let us take a look at the following article to solve the problems faced by us in our daily life.

1) Acne and blackheads: These problems are usually reported in youths and maidens. The reason for this is faulty digestion. Junk food prepared by hawkers is the best way to get Acne and blackheads. Intake of fresh and properly cooked salubrious food prepared in the house is a very good way of maintaining a hale and hearty life. Other things to be taken care of are: proper work outs and avoidance of constipation (difficulty encountered in emptying of bowels). The cure can however be assisted by frequent and thorough washing your face in hot water with a good antiseptic. The hot water will open up the pores and the antiseptic will heal the acne. A good mixture for the removal of blackheads is compounded with glycerin, spirits of wine and flowers of sulphur, with a little elder-flower water, to which a few drops of a good perfume may be added. This preparation should be applied nightly.

2) Air-Bathing: This is a fact known to very little people that fresh air is also skin’s natural tonic. When the weather is mild it is always a very good plan to lie down for a while near an open window. An alternate to this is given in the meditation section at the ending of this article. It is advisable to keep as much of your face exposed to the air as possible, while indulging with a few breathing exercises simultaneously along with it. A Shavasana would be a great thing to do early in the morning at around about 5:00am. A morning and evening walk will also help improve the situation. But care should be taken that you do not catch a chill while doing so. Remember, too good is too bad for health?

3) Bath: Cold baths are very invigorating for the robust; toning up the body like nothing else in this world, but for those having weak hearts or poor circulation they may be dangerous. Never go for cold water baths if you are an asthma patient. If a cold bath leaves the extremities purple, or produces a feeling of lassitude, it should be discontinued. Warm baths are essential for thoroughly cleansing the pores. The bath should be taken in a well ventilated room. A good brand of bath salts and the best quality soap should be used. Always decide your soap on the basis of your skin configuration. If you have an oily skin, do not go for moisturizing soaps or soaps made with milk extracts. Go for soaps which leave your skin squeaky clean after the bath. On the other hand if you have a dry skin, go for moisturizing soaps. Usually the face of people with dry skin becomes pale, a few minutes after their bath. In such cases, they should use moisturizers. Even a cream like “Fair And Handsome” would play the trick for such people. The bath should always be followed by a brisk rub down (with a rough towel if possible )and quick dressing to stimulate circulation.

4) Meditating: I am again delighted to say that Sahaj meditation is also a way for getting natural beauty. Because as far as I can see, beauty walks hand-in-hand with culture. A little bit of Sahaj meditation tremendously improves your blood circulation. A treatment called as foot-soaking, where you soak your feet in water and concentrate on the kumkum on the forehead of H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is a very effective treatment yielding unbelievable results. Many a scientists have conveyed their surprise over the way in which these simple techniques transformed the lives of people by healing them naturally. It has also been scientifically proved that an infinite amount of energy flows out of Shri Mataji’s Photographs. In a bizarre case it was found that the chart (which showed the statistics of the problems, in a lady patient’s case) showed healing tendencies when the patient touched the photograph of H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. The infinite amount of energy coming out of Mother’s photograph actually has healing characteristics. In some cases final stage cancer cases have also been solved in Sahaja Yoga at the International Sahaja Yoga Health Center, Vashi. Moreover if you get up early in the morning at about 5 o clock or 4 o clock and do ten to fifteen minutes of Sahaj meditation, you will find that you will feel, as also, look twenty years younger than your actual age. Some breathing techniques taught in Sahaj Yoga also show very nice results. The greatest thing that is achieved through Sahaj meditation (which made it standout the other Yoga’s) is the experience of inner peace, and the experience of the love of the all pervading Divine. Many of us lose our natural beauties because of our tensed lifestyles, in which case, Sahaja Yoga comes in very handy. And, it is all for free! Then why not give it a try. As the founder of Sahaja Yoga, H.H.Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi says:

“You cannot pay me for knowing who you are,

It is your birth right, to know who you are,

It is your birth right to get your self-realization,

And my only dream is to see a world, where everybody has got their self-realization and everybody has been connected to the all pervading love of the ever-loving Bhagavati.

May God bless you.”

Have a cool day.