Get comfortable, and participate in these concentration exercises to improve the performance of your brain, you are invited!
Keeping the brain alive is a term historically coined by neurologist Lawrence Katz and Dr. Manning Rubin, who through their investigations made several findings in the human mind .
They unveiled a series of concentration exercises that they called mental gymnastics or brain gymnastics .
Before you wonder about the meaning of these two expressions, I want to share with you what these scientists teach us in their theory.
Factors that influence the lack of concentration
The causes that affect the concentration are varied, however, today I want to let you know the most important and transcendental.
It is important that you know the causes that are affecting your concentration because that way you can face it.
Look at these causes:
Fata of sleep: This situation has increased in recent years due to workloads and some poorly used means of communication.
If you really want to do full concentration exercises that help you, you should start by resting what is necessary.
The experts talk about 8 hours of rest, I want you to wonder, do you meet them?
Excess technology: Already social networks and other technological platforms have been losing their essence as "media", this, because many people do not use them properly.
If you are checking your cell phone all day, observing emails, validating who wrote, looking at states, among other things, let me tell you that your concentration is because of the floor.
Ideally, when working, or you need to concentrate, do not get distracted by your mobile or other technological devices, turn them on your side!
Lack of motivation: how difficult it is to concentrate on something that may seem boring to you!
If your work does not encourage you, you are not passionate, it is better that you leave that work, you are mistreating yourself, killing you slowly.
Now, if you can't change your job, I propose that you talk to your bosses and the human resources area, they can place you in a unit that most attracts your attention.
Concerns: It is really very difficult to stop thinking and think about some kind of situation that as a person has you worried.
For these cases, the concentration exercises that I want to share with you today are supremely important.
What do you think of these realities that prevent you from concentrating?
Mental Gymnastics or Brain Gymnastics with the help of Concentration Exercises
Mental gymnastics or brain gymnastics are part of a set of activities, techniques, exercises and habits, with the objective of adequately and efficiently stimulating the two (2) hemispheres of the brain, right and left respectively.
If you and I stimulate our two hemispheres, we are facing a joint work of our brain, which would guarantee the strengthening of our memory and concentration .
Some researchers and scientists argue that sensory stimulation, unusual thoughts and activities and actions will produce in your brain and mine, chemicals from the neurobiological system, substances that will strengthen the successful and effective growth of neurons and dendrites.
Now, on the other hand, those actions that we perform automatically, for the most part, are performed unconsciously.
For these reasons, it is necessary and urgent to help with concentration exercises, which stimulate your brain .
In addition, other neurobiologists say that mental gymnastics or brain gymnastics slows the aging process of the brain.
Surprising! true?
However, these would not be the benefits in total, there are really many benefits and favors that during the development of this Text and in the concentration exercises I will show you.
Concentration Exercises to Streamline Your Mind
Let's see the concentration exercises that I recommend the most, I hope you use them in the practice of your brain gymnastics or mental gymnastics .
1. Take a book, open it anywhere, and start counting the words in each paragraph, whether long or short.
When you think you already counted the words on a page, I invite you to write down the result, and retell again in order to confirm if you did it right.
Within the concentration exercises, this is one of the most important, there are many benefits that you will gradually receive.
2. Complete a sudoku every day.
3. Try to learn a new word every day, and in turn, incorporate it into the conversations of the day.
4. Think of your mind a simple geometric figure, a circle, a square, a triangle, among others, and try to hold it in your mind as perfect as you can.
Then, start performing other functions or tasks of your day to day, but holding in your mind the figure you have chosen.
5. When you increase your ability, I invite you to do the same activity, but adding another geometric figure to your mind .
Magnificent! Right?
I still want to let you know about other concentration exercises.
6. Choose an object that you normally use without being aware of it. Use for example the comb, the spoon, the fork, the keys.
When you have made a choice, start by observing and analyzing that object in different positions and profiles.
Finally, draw your own conclusions. You can do this activity every day.
7. Another of the concentration exercises that I recommend is that when you wake up you listen carefully to the news.
At the end of the day, take paper and pencil and write down the headlines of that news, or at least the most important news.
8. When you are reading a magazine or book, stop at the image that most attracts your attention, and observe it for 2 or 3 minutes.
After observing it, think of 23 adjectives that perfectly qualify the image you observed. You can write them down or record them in your mind.
9. At work or at home, place your mouse on the opposite side. I am absolutely sure that this concentration exercise will help you a lot.
10. When you brush your teeth, the invitation is for you to do it with the opposite hand to the one you normally use.
11. Also, use your watch on the opposite wrist to the one you normally use. With this other concentration exercise you will receive very good benefits for your brain, for your mind .
12. When you have time to do it more calmly and with time, dress with your blindfold. Indeed, you will stimulate your brain in an ideal way.
13. Put together new puzzles, avoid learning them because you would not be receiving the full benefits of the exercise.
You can generate competition with your friends or a family member, in order to observe who finishes first.
14. In your mind visualize the color you want, and hold the image of it for 40 or 50 seconds.
The important thing is that you increase the time to visualize the color in your mind, you will see that, in a very short time, you can remain very well concentrated for hours.
Have you ever heard about these concentration exercises ?
For much attention to those who follow.
15. Take in your hands a photograph that you normally observe daily. The idea is that you turn it upside down and start observing and describing those details that you have never been able to see.
16. When you go out to eat outside your home, try to enjoy your food, while doing so, identify each of the ingredients with which it has been prepared.
17. With total responsibility and great care, walk backwards. Concentrate and you will achieve amazing results.
Do you see how important and efficient these concentration exercises are ?
There are many who could write to you, however, my idea is that you reflect and do these few concentration exercises and achieve excellent results.
It is very important to keep in mind that our Organization hermandadblanca.org does not make a prescription for treatments, likewise, I do not have the permits to do so.
Therefore, the concentration exercises that we recommend are the simplest and most effective.
How did you like this article? Do you have any experience that you would like to share with us?
I invite you to be very aware and excited about our next publications, in fact, they are preparing quite good Texts.
I wish you abundant successes and blessings, a Hug of Light!
Author : William Hernán Estrada Pérez, Editor in the Great Family of hermandadblanca.org
