- Attention Management Tutorial
- Attention Management - Home
- Attention Mngmt - Introduction
- What Causes Attention Deficit?
- Attention Deficit at Workplace
- Four Kinds of Attentive People
- Thinking Less Leads to Attention
- Types of Attention
- Meditation Improves Attention
- Activity to Increase Attentiveness
- Attention Zones Model
- Keeping Yourself Focused
- Why People Procrastinate?
- How to Overcome Procrastination?
- Prioritizing Your Time
- Attention Management Resources
- Attention Mngmt - Quick Guide
- Attention Management - Resources
- Attention Management - Discussion
Activity to Increase Attentiveness
The following worksheet has a collection of activities that a person can engage in his daily life. These activities assure that he can manage to keep his attention sharp and focused. Most of these activities yield results on a long-term basis, so the practitioner needs to have patience while expecting results. However, he will start feeling an immediate change in his outlook in a week itself.
Exercise
- Relax and sit comfortably in a quiet place.
- Try thinking of nothing and don’t entertain any other thoughts.
- Concentrate on your natural breathing. Listen to the inhale-exhale sounds.
Meditation
You can meditate in different ways, but the aim should be to relax your senses and calm your mind. Some of the widely followed methods of meditation are −
- Mantra Meditation
- Steady Gaze Meditation
- Transcendental Meditation
- Chakra Meditation.
The Steady Gaze Meditation includes visually concentrating on an object. The Transcendental Meditation involves simply sitting with eyes closed. The Chakra Meditation involves focused breathing and mantra to explore the chakras.
Different meditation ways focus on different things, so you have to select the one area that you need maximum concentration and focus on and then start the practice accordingly.
Visualization
Visualization means imagining your goal and believing that it will happen. Visualization technique is nowadays being used by people to excel in different fields through sharpening their attention and making them materialize their thoughts. The reason it’s so effective is it actually allows your mind to focus on the possibility and helps you achieve your goal; rather than just thinking and then dismissing it as some vague wish.
A few prerequisites to visualization −
Choose a goal − You have to be precise to select and visualize an individual goal.
Relax − You need to calm your senses before concentrating on visualization.
Visualize − Picture the goal. For example – an architect picturing a resort in a desert.
Accept − Trust yourself that you can make your dream come true.
Example
A scientific study was conducted to prove the effects of Visualization. The study involved a group of players who were given free-throws of basketball at the university of Chicago. This study first analyzed a player’s ability for free-throws and then divided them into three groups.
- The first group was asked to practice with the ball for an hour every day.
- The second group was asked just to stand and imagine how would they take a shot.
- The third group was simply asked to ignore.
After 30 days, the players in the first group showed 24% improvement, the players in second group showed 23% improvement, while the third group showed no improvement. The effect of visualization can be clearly seen here.