Distractions are everywhere, and they can significantly reduce productivity, leading to poor performance and missed deadlines. By identifying your biggest distractions and taking steps to eliminate them, you can improve focus, increase efficiency, and achieve your goals faster. In this article, I will provide practical tips and techniques to help you identify your biggest distractions and…

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and unproductive? Do you find yourself easily distracted and struggling to stay focused on your tasks? If so, then “The Pomodoro Technique” by Francesco Cirillo might be the solution you’ve been looking for. This book offers a simple yet effective time management method that can help you boost your productivity and achieve your goals. The technique involves…

Bring your Smythson notebook with you on this trip, and feel free to carry that Graf von Faber-Castell pen, the one you’ve reserved for EnvironMENTAL Training drills at home or at workshops.

How to build concentration for study

Concentration on work is important in all sphere of life. Effective study is only possible if you study with full attention throwing off mind all the irrelevant thoughts which interrupt in the process of learning. Concentration means to throw off mind all unnecessary thoughts and converge all the mental capabilities on a point. Normally the rays of sun do not burn a paper, because these rays are…

I find it very disturbing that the training of concentration and attention has been put aside on modern science and psychology.There’s hardly any kind of recommended training for it. Especially for those who have some kind of Attention Deficit Disorder, the only way out is to take one more pill – Ritalin, and we little do we yet know about the effects of it’s long term uses, especially combined with all the other drugs we already need to take.

There’s no specific training to help them learn how to control their attention. Just to pop one more pill.

Concentration and attention is of vital importance for many mystic traditions. Christianity, Buddhism, Western Esotericism, Sufism… they all have specific practices to train the attention.

No pill required!

They know it’s fundamental and the general message is common on all of them: if you want to have any kind of control over yourself, attention is one of the first things we should cultivate.

We shouldn’t need to resort to any kind of mystical tradition to learn this fundamental aspect of our mind that affects us in our everyday life.

Another interesting fact is, if there’s anything in common with the greatest genius of all sorts of arts and sciences throughout history, is their ability to sustain their attention through large periods of time in a subject they choose, completely focused with a clear and vivid mind.

They may have been lucky enough to be born with this ability to focus their attention in a subject, but for all of us who were not lucky enough to be granted this gift, there is a solution.

On the Magnetic Gaze we place a HUGE importance on your ability to command and direct your attention, after all… your energy goes where your attention goes.

If it’s scattered and all over the place, you can’t develop the laser like projection ability that is necessary for all kinds of influence.

And as you can imagine, this has all sorts of GOOD side-effects. Once you learn how to direct your attention, your emotional regulation, state control, inner voice control, all can fall into place!

A powerful concentration training is available on the Magnetic Gaze Level 2. but, if you haven’t yet started your training, start with the Magnetic Gaze Foundations here:

As promised here’s a very good concentration and visualization exercise that can speed up your development of your visual thinking.

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This is simply… a math calculation.

That’s right.

Even if you hate math, do this.

It will improve your concentration, visualization and will power.

It was one of the first exercises I was taught in concentration and one that I still do.

Here are the instructions:

IN YOUR HEAD (do not use a calculator or paper) do a math multiplication with 2 digit numbers.

For example:

23×45

46×78

etc.

Do this with 3 different operations and numbers.

The harder the better.

(Example: don’t use: 11×11 or other simple math)

I want you to really VISUALIZE all the calculations as if you were doing it on paper.

DO NOT use paper or your fingers for the calculations, it will defeat the purpose.

All must be done in your head

If two digit numbers are too easy for you, do it with 3 or 4 or more digit numbers.

Calibrate to your own mind.

As soon as you start seeing that calculations with two digit numbers are too easy for you, add one more number until you have difficulty in doing it.

The harder it is for you, the better.

This is precisely what improves your concentration and focus skills.

Keep doing several math multiplications for 15 minutes.

Aside from being great to focus, this is also a great tool for developing your Will.

Why?

Because it’s not easy to do it.

You will find yourself thinking about quitting, thinking about why do you need to do this, and so on.

That’s where your self-confidence, will power and intention come in.

You will strengthen it if you KEEP DOING, even despite all your mind attempts to make you quit!

This is only the first step of a series of training exercises to develop a high degree of concentration and visualization.

At this moment only the Magnetic Gaze Level 2 offer this training, but soon you’ll have a full concentration course!

Until then, start over the Magnetic Gaze in here: