Here are the techniques that you can practice to increase your focus:
Exercise 1. Sit down in an armchair and get comfortable. Relax your whole body. Make sure that, in the course of five minutes, you don’t make any spontaneous muscular movement. It won’t be that easy; still, you should practice the technique until you perform the exercise without any difficulty. Then, extend the time of the calm, relaxed sitting to 10 minutes, and then – to 15 minutes (it will be the maximum duration of doing this exercise). To benefit from this technique, you should practice it rather frequently. Simple as it may seem, this exercise is pretty efficient.
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Exercise 2. Sit down. Keep your back straight. Extend your arm out to the side, palm downwards, at shoulder level. Turn your head and fix your eyes on your fingertips. Stay in this position for 1 minute. Then do the same, but with your other arm. As you do this exercise day after day, gradually increase the time it takes – up to 5 minutes (it will be its maximum duration). The most important thing about performing the exercise is you should never let your thoughts “run away” from your fingertips when you are looking at them.
Exercise 3. Take in your hand a small glass filled with water up to the brims. Extend the hand out in front of you, at eye level. Look closely at the glass trying at the same time not to make the slightest movement with your arm or your hand, so that the surface of the water in the glass doesn’t ripple. Start with doing this exercise for 1 minute, then extend its duration to 5 minutes (it will be the maximum one). The exercise should be performed first with one hand and then with the other one.
Exercise 4. Sit down to table. Put your hands on the table palms upwards. Clench your fists (your thumbs should be on top of your fists). Fasten your eyes on one of your fists, then gradually stick out your thumb concentrating your whole attention on this operation as if it is very important for you. Then slowly extend your forefinger, then the middle finger, etc – until you extend all the fingers of the hand (don’t forget to focus attention on what you are doing). Now, do the opposite: bend your fingers, one after another, starting with the little finger. Do it in slow motion, concentrating on the movements of the fingers and the thumb. When your hand looks just like it looked at the beginning – with the thumb on top of the fist – do the same with your other hand. This exercise should be repeated for 5 times during one session.
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