10/22/2018 How to Increase Concentration Level: 10 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Increase Concentration Level

Are you the master of your mind? Or is your mind your master? These concentration exercises will help you master your mind.

Steps

1 Take a book and count words in any page of it. You can also count it again after you done it to be sure
you counted right.

2 Count from 100 to 1.

3 Count from 100 to 1 skipping each 3 numbers like 100, 97, 94, 91 etc.

4 Choose a word or sound and repeat it silently in your mind for 5 minutes. If you can do it for 10
minutes you are ready for next exercise.

5 Take a fruit, an apple, orange, banana or any other fruit, and hold it in your hands. Examine the fruit
from all its sides, while keeping your whole attention focused on it. Do not let yourself be carried away by
irrelevant thoughts or associated thoughts that might arise, such as about the shop were you bought it, about
how and where it was grown, its nutritive value, etc. Stay calm, while trying to ignore these thoughts and not be
interested in them. Just look at the fruit, focus your attention on it without thinking about anything else, and
examine its shape, smell, taste and the sensation it gives when touching and holding it.

6 Visualize the fruit. This is the same as exercise number 5, only that this time you visualize the fruit
instead of looking at it. Start by looking at the fruit and examining it for about 2 minutes, just as in exercise
number 5, and then do this one. Close your eyes, and try to see, smell, taste and touch the fruit in your
imagination. Try to see a clear and well defined image. If the image becomes blurred, open your eyes, look at
the fruit for a short while, and then close your eyes and continue the exercise. It might help if you imagine the
fruit held in your hands, as in the previous exercise, or imagine it standing on a table.

7 Take a small simple object such as a spoon, a fork, or a glass. Concentrate on one of these objects.
Watch the object from all sides without any verbalization, that is, with no words in your mind. Just watch
the object without thinking with words about it.

8 Draw figures. After becoming proficient in the above exercises, you can come to this exercise. Draw a
small geometrical figure, about three inches in size, such as a triangle, a rectangular or a circle, paint it
with any color you wish, and concentrate on it. You should see only the figure, nothing else. Only the figure
exists for you now, with no unrelated thoughts or any distractions. Try not to think with words during the
exercise. Watch the figure in front of you and that's it. Try not to strain your eyes.

9 Visualize the figure. The same as number 8, only this time visualize the figure with the eyes closed. As
before, if you forget how the figure looks like, open your eyes for a few seconds and watch the figure and
then close your eyes and continue with the exercise.

10 Try for at least five minutes, to stay without thoughts. This exercise is to be attempted only after all
the previous ones have been performed successfully. The previous exercises, if practiced correctly, will
endow you with the ability to impose silence on your thoughts. In time it will become easier and easier.

Community Q&A

Question

What can I do if I can't even concentrate well enough to read this article?

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Community Answer

Try listening to speeches, just for the sake of listening. Then try interpreting what you hear. Listen to and jot down.
Do it gradually.

Question

How can I ignore electronic gadgets and fully concentrate on my studies?

wikiHow Contributor
Community Answer

Hide the electrical stuff so that you can concentrate. Remind yourself that this is the most important time of your life
right now and the electronics are a reward, not an entitlement.

Question

How do these tricks work?

wikiHow Contributor
Community Answer

When we do anything for the first time, we concentrate more because we're in an unfamiliar situation - switching up
our routines keeps our minds able to concentrate on whatever is in front of us.

Tips

Just keep a small dot in your desk or a wall and stare at it for a minute.
Caffeine, which is a nootropic, also helps boost concentration levels.
Light a candle and stare at the tip of the flame in the dark.
Be comfortable and stress free while concentrating. That is key.

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