Whenever I try to sit and study, I just can’t concentrate! There are so many distractions. I just want to open facebook once, check my mails, call that friend or just sleep for 5 min. No matter what I do, I just can’t concentrate. I don’t want to do it.
This is story is not only close to a student’s heart but also to professionals and many more people. So why does this happen and can Meditation help?
Relax
Most of the time we just can’t concentrate because there is so much going on in mind that it becomes hard to focus on a task. Meditation can help in quieting the chatter of mind. Here is a simple exercise you can begin with:
- Close your eyes and sit comfortably
- Relax every part of your body.
- Focus on breathing in and breathing out for few min.
- Now, in your mind, start counting from 1 to 10 with your breathing.
- When you breathe in, count 1 and when you breathe out count 2
- When you reach to ten, start again from 1
- Let mind think whatever it wants, just concentrate on counting from 1 to 10
- After repeating this for sometime, you will notice that your mind is quiet and under your control.
- Now open your eyes and get down to accomplish the mission
The important thing to remember here is that you cannot force the mind to become quiet. Mind is supposed to think, that’s it’s nature. You can ignore, shift the focus away from mind to breathing and counting. This will result in mind becoming calm itself and under your control as you affirm and choose to be in control.
Try it now and let me know how you feel.
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