ONE SIMPLE APPROACH BOOSTS WILLPOWER, FOCUS, AND CONCENTRATION!
If you're looking for something you can do to give yourself a mental edge in accomplishing your personal, career, or financial goals, then you want to pay close attention to this advice on how to use a specific mental fitness approach to help you along.
Of all the brain training techniques that can be employed to boost the skill and effectiveness of your mental talents, only one mental exercise has the comprehensive influence on enough of your brain functions that it can enhance your mental concentration, your mental focus, and your power of will, simultaneously - dynamic breathing concentration.
Special breathing methods have been used in spiritual practices for thousands of years to bring the mind under control and practitioners into better awareness of their environment, themselves, their thoughts, and their emotions, resulting in greater mental clarity and focus in preparation for even more enlightening personal development.
Today, Science is recognizing and acknowledging through expanding research the benefits of meditative breathing techniques in contributing to stress reduction, emotional well-being, and increased mental clarity. Dynamic breathing concentration activates the higher self-management function of your brain in order to exert intentional control over parts of your physical activity that are normally automated by your unconscious mind.
Using your mind to willfully regulate the physical action of breathing processes results in your brain directing a significant percentage of its resources onto the task, which means your attention narrows onto the job at hand, your thoughts concern themselves with the necessary effort, and your resolve is called upon to maintain consistently successful action. Therefore, as you continue using dynamic breathing mental fitness exercises, your brain enjoys a novel new demand upon its functions that mean more mental strength, endurance, and flexibility, all of which equate to better performance in all your pursuits. The physical changes that happen as your brain begins to solidify, strengthen, and forge new connections among its brain cells is known as Neuro-sculpting. So, let's introduce you to one dynamic mental fitness brain exercise that will get you started on the road to more brainpower.
Basic dynamic breathing concentration is a simple brain exercise for which you should set aside some personal time in which nobody will disturb you, and in a place where you can be alone. You should also have a piece of paper along with a pen or pencil to use for making notes of what you experience during your training sessions.
Slowly, comfortably inhale fully, then exhale fully, and repeat. Begin with a count of just five breaths. When you take the breath in, don't focus on your chest pulling the air; instead, with a relaxed torso, let the air fill from the bottom of your lungs near the lower sternum and fill upwards. On exhale, release the air slowly so that it seems it's exiting from the top of your lungs on down to the bottom. As an example, conceptualize the way a balloon fills from the bottom and then the top expands; when you let the air go from the balloon, the top air goes first and then the bottom. See if you can try that a few times, but don't get too wrapped up about it. Just make sure you breathe comfortably.
Thoughts will arise - you'll start analyzing - but NONE of that is of use to you as you direct your attention to remain targeted onto the breath itself. Try five, although you may not be able to complete three full breaths before you get caught up in some thought or self-talk. When you can do five fully attended breaths without thought or other distractions stealing your Attention away from the rich, full experience of breathing, then extend the number. Do the exercise 20 to 30 minutes a day, twice a day for accelerated progress. Make yourself a three week goal of 20 to 30 full breaths in a row without giving in to wandering thoughts or external distractions.
