Ever wondered that the prayers you do can help with improving concentration!?!
This is a post that will not give you the piece of suggestion on improving concentration, rather it will help you to recognize the acts you do on a regular basis that actually helps you in improving your focusing ability unconsciously.
Just remembering the traditional ways or systematic suggestions on improving concentration would be like “Train your Brain”, “Take a break”, “Eliminate distraction” and so on. Those phrases might be difficult in practical scenario yet could be successful, if followed strictly. So here are the ways that you do in day to day life that help on improving your ability to focus.
Firstly, the opposite of concentration is distraction. Right from the morning, you are engaged with self care activities such as brushing, bathing and grooming. All these are habits that partially need your attention to do it, else would be a disaster.
If you have the habit of worshiping God, reciting any slogans is a form of activity that helps your concentration ability. Engaging in any kind of physical workout such as walking, jogging or exercising also play a part in improving your concentration apart from the other benefits.
If you are listening to a music album and you are able to identify the instruments used in that song, understanding the lyrics and also tapping your hand or leg or moving your head according to the rythm, then you are already in the activity of improving the concentration.
Hey, did you talk with your friend recently? Or had a chat with your heart out? Then I guess you would have felt relaxed that automatically helped on focusing.
Have you ever tried cooking with distraction?? Because you cannot do it without concentration though you master it!!! Cooking is something that need all your senses (eyes, nose, ear, taste, movements) to be in a single track to have delicious result. If you are cooking or making any dishes that is tasty then you may not need a activity to improve your Concentration!!
How many of us going to shop without the grocery list?! Even for 5 to 7 items?? If you don’t need the list and can buy everything then it’s a sign of good attention/ focusing.
To put it simple, everything that we are able to do without any mess are a sign of Good attention skill which helps to concentrate. Being mindful on the activities that we do helps to improve our concentration ability. For example, the kid in your home listening to the story you tell him or her and able to answer the questions regarding the story gives you the result on their attention power.
There are games that are of culturally enriched, Games like snake and ladder, ludo, kabadi, anktachari, pallankuzhi and many other games that are proven to improve concentration power and cognitive abilities. Each culture have their own heritage on games and following that also helps. Apart from that universally drawing, gardening, painting and other hobbies accounts to improve the concentration ability.
So start listening to “Yourself”, be aware of what you do and do it with dedication even it is not important to you. The phrase ” Do what you Love and Love what you Do”, beautifully binds here:) And do not forget to comment your favorite way of improving attention skills!!!