AI From the United States writes regarding the Basic Image Form And Hold brain training exercise for Mental Concentration:

"I don't really understand what you mean by form an image in your mind. When I try and picture I end up not even bringing anything up. I can sit there and ponder things about the image for a while, but actually seeing the image itself is a bit hard for me to do--I would think of a triangle. Now I would never actually see the triangle, but I can sit there and ponder things about the triange like whether its an obtuse, acute or right triangle. Also give it color, but actually imaging it is a problem."

     That's an interesting dilemma. If I correctly interpret what you're saying, it seems that in recalling aspects ABOUT a target you may briefly hold imagery of PORTIONS of it just long enough to have an auditory conversation with yourself about its characteristics. Am I correct in assuming that you can more easily TELL yourself about the target as opposed to SEEING the target visually as a whole? If so, you may want to do AUDITORY concentration exercises as well.

     Each of us has our own individual brain wiring or "MATRIX" that not only allows us to process information in or own special way (visually, auditorily, kinesthetically, etc. or a combination of two or more) but also serves as the platform through which we express who we are as a person. Some of us easily work with visual working memory, others of us most easily work with sound - and some of us have to act out physically in order to process effectively. In any case, exercises can be adapted. 

     As an example of adapting an exercise to fit your individual learning style, let's say you are a very kinesthetic, movement oriented person who is very expressive with your hands and loves to stand up and gesticulate, moving about when you talk. In your case, if you have a hard time forming a clear vision and holding it, then you may be better off DRAWING or SKETCHING out your target and then holding it before you to give it all your attention without allowing any form of distraction, timed.

     Of course, none of us should simply 'SETTLE' for our lot in life when it comes to learning style, because there is much to be gained when - as a non-visual learner - one takes on the challenge of developing visual working memory despite the fact. FIRST however, one should take advantage of one's own learning style to build up the Mental Concentration HABIT, and then employ those developed skills to building a DIFFERENT type of working memory (i.e. a VISUAL learner does AUDITORY techniques).

     Remember that the human brain grows and expands in response to NOVEL and UNIQUE training efforts. Once you reach, say, the ability to conduct this VISUAL working memory exercise for FIVE TO SEVEN MINUTES, if you then do an AUDITORY technique and become proficient with it, you'll be inciting your brain to produce new brain cells while strengthening and multiplying existing interconnectivity among brain cells - this equates to GREATER MENTAL POWER!

     EXPERIMENT WITH THIS: If you have a difficult time seeing a simple image clearly - or can only see it in portions and for very brief duration - then SKETCH YOUR TARGET ON PAPER, hold it before your eyes for a minute or so, then close your eyes and try to vividly, clearly recall that target and hold it as long as you can. Eventually, this method should help you become better at employing visual working memory in a very creative fashion.

 THIS ONE SKILL ABOVE ALL OTHERS ALIGNS YOU WITH THE UNIVERSAL RULES FOR ACHIEVEMENT!

      Anyone interested in applying principles found in such works as The Secret, Law of Attraction, Science of Getting Rich, The Master Key System, Think & Grow Rich, and other 'Success' methodologies will discover here the one most important skill necessary in applying any of those systems for better, faster results. 

     If you are someone who has read books, listened to recordings, watched videos, or attended seminars on success, yet are not getting the results you really want, your major problem may just be that you have not trained your mind to properly concentrate.  This article explains how you can turn that around, and thereby change your results. 

     Success and wealth building systems revolving around 'Law of Attraction', 'Money Consciousness', and 'Personal Magnetism' almost all require that practitioners turn to their own mind as a powerful resource that can 'bring' about the realization of goals and objectives.  As part of the process, most also require that you think clearly about what it is that you want.  Yet, when one looks objectively at the majority of the people who believe in and use the systems themselves, the failure rate is appalling.  Nobody wants to fail at these systems, especially YOU. 

     Napoleon Hill, who authored the most famous manual on success in modern history, stated it effectively when he said, "If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." Poor Concentration Is Lethal To Laws Of Attraction and Success 

     The problem with people suffering through years of dedicated effort only to find themselves in a rut is not a lack of desire, but that they are victims of UNTRAINED and UNDISCIPLINED 'wanting'.  The root of working ambitiously hard while getting nowhere lies in poorly directed attention onto an unproductively wide range of desires.  The majority of us tend to expend lots of energy wanting and chasing lots of things, rather than narrowing our wants down to just a few valuable objectives that ensure we get whatever we want.  By deciding to pour all our energy of thought and action into just a couple big items, we can so arrange it to where the process of achieving them utterly fulfills our secondary and tertiary needs and desires. 

     Despite the pervasive spread of misinterpretations of 'Law of Attraction' principles proposing that your brain will automatically stay focused on something you want because, well, you WANT it, overwhelming evidence proves that merely coming up with an attractive idea is insufficient to change the established physical structure of a habitually unfocused brain that tends to constantly wander from desire to desire.  The way to fix the damage of established mental habits that interfere with greater success is to replace them with mental habits that make achieving our goals easier.  Therefore, the primary principle underlying Law Of Attraction philosophies which needs to be understood by you is Mental Concentration.  Those who fail to master this one simple skill are subject to waste many years in unnecessary struggle and defeat while trying to incorporate Laws of Success into their lives to the degree of they wish.

Train Your Mind To Concentrate And Attract Success

      You must learn to hold your mind steady onto one objective in the short term so that your mind will be practiced enough to maintain focus on a larger objective over the long term.  There is nothing abnormal about the fact that thoughts fade, shift, are displaced constantly by competing thoughts, impulses, influences, and desires.  But since you have chosen to live a life above and beyond the norm, you have thus obligated that your mind should also operate on that same, unique level; therefore, you must make the necessary effort to train your mind to do something it has not thus far been tasked to do, which is to dismiss everything that pulls at it and to stay put on the one thing that matters most, no matter what rises up to distract you.

       Fortunately, acquiring Concentration skills is a simple process, although it does involve a committed personal schedule of regular practice at strategic mental exercises that strengthen your mental concentration muscles.  As you develop your mental concentration skills, the increase itself will inevitably evolve into better overall mental focus, and eventually, stronger willpower. 

Real Estate Agent Wants To Know If Mental Focus Training Help Her

“I’m a Real Estate Agent in Pensacola, Florida who got into this business because I want to make lots of money.  I’ve been studying successful agents around me and it’s pretty clear what I need to do, but when I think about how much work is required, it’s just overwhelming and I don’t get anything done.”—Betty R., Pensacola, Florida

            You’ve made the right decision to use strategic brain training for better mental fitness as your resource for getting the results you want for your career.  The good news is you have determined that there are specific duties and tasks necessary to make your dreams come true.  At least you have that part down, because many people never get to that clear, concise picture clarity in their thoughts.  So, now all you need to do is resolve the mental obstacles that are getting in the way of you consistently doing the duties required for career success so that you can swim around gleefully in that lake of money you want to earn.

            Let us review your situation from a mentally practical perspective.  When you walk away and leave the duties you need to do undone, what’s really happening is your brain is in the process of contradicting itself by way of thoughts and impulses that directly conflict with each other.  Thoughts generated in your mind (either willingly or that have been ‘fed’ to you from other sources) have promised you numerous wonders and glories upon the achievement of the objective, but when the time comes for action, it suddenly hits you with negative thoughts and feelings. 

The result is that you are either making no progress or moving in the wrong direction in relation to the path you sincerely want.  At the instant of your brain’s painful assault on your dreams, it offers you a distracting option that it claims will ease the pain.  When you take the bait and find yourself hooked by the distraction, your brain hassles you about it, causing more pain, which it promises to ease if you’ll only take more distracting bait.  This is an illogical and entirely natural effort on the part of ancient neural evolutionary biology to keep you safe by maintaining the familiarity of your life’s status quo, no matter how uncomfortable your current level. This biological self-protection is referred to as ‘HOMEOSTASIS’.

Amazingly enough, your fears are there to serve a self-sustaining purpose, to keep you from taking risks that your unconscious mind, wisely or unwisely, believes to be in some way harmful.  The problem with this ancient neural faculty is that, at this stage of human evolution, remaining the same is the same as moving backwards; this, because progressive change is a key process for survival, advancement, and expansion when it comes to modern human beings. 

The high level of intellectual capacity afforded you by an evolved cerebral cortex is there so you can reach out, do more and become more in this modern world.  Inspiring ideas and intentions are commonly sabotaged by homeostatically induced negative thoughts and fears, causing procrastination and avoidance of challenging tasks and necessary actions. Fortunately for us the higher intellectual capacities of the human brain have a most profound influence over your day to day destiny, but only for those who learn to use and apply that influence through proper training. 

The best athletes are those who are well-practiced in proper technique and execution, and the same applies to the mental performer, and the Real Estate Agent.  I suggest you train your mind to make the accomplishment of the duties you’ve set for yourself an easy, natural pleasure, and rebuild your thinking processes so that you can accept the greater rewards without feeling bad about it.  To accomplish this requires you become acutely aware of negative thoughts and feelings that rise and fall in your mind the very moment they occur, while at the same time mastering the ability to grow and remain psychologically immune to their effects so that they will never again cause you to hesitate when the time comes for doing what’s necessary to have what you want in your life.

                The same mental fitness training tools that provide you the psychological power to move through self-sabotaging mental roadblocks will also provide you with insights for overcoming the common discomforts that accompany intensive, lengthy mental concentration and focus.  When you feel the pain of ‘much to do,’ you’ll be able to either work through temporary fatigue, or clear it away from your mind and body by an easy act of willpower so that the tasks before you are more enjoyable.

 SHARP STUDENT WRITES: “I am a bright student in school and can achieve high marks when I focus although I find it harder and harder to focus nowadays. What should I do?”

     The mental habits (established thoughts, emotions, and impulses) that you have relied on until now are growing increasingly to get you going and keep you moving have increasingly unreliable, which is not a surprise because it happens to many of us as our brains form into teen and early adult years. 

     As you place more and more demand on your brain to deal with growing challenges in school (and eventually, the competitive work and business environments), the last thing you want is to discover unexpected limitations as you’re trying build a future for yourself. 

     My advice to you is that you adopt a new lifestyle of dynamic mental fitness into your daily schedule, in the same way you might adopt physical fitness into your daily schedule. Doing so would ensure that, day by day, you strengthen and deepen your MENTAL power so that you can rely on it, so that it will be there for you, so that you won’t have to struggle or find yourself at the end of the day looking back in regret knowing you could have done better and produced more. 

     To get that kind of consistency and unfailing reliability, you want to TRANSFORM your current ability to concentrate from solely dependent on ‘mood’ - you want to ELEVATE your mental concentration to a WELL-MASTERED SKILL, like a Master Carpenter who has had excellent training and expanding experience and who can execute his trade come rain or shine. In this way, you can SKILLFULLY stop distracting thoughts, gather FOCUS, tap into deep wells of endurance, and shut the iron doors of your will against invading distractions. 

     Training yourself in the actual SKILL of mental concentration will make it a CHOICE, rather than a hope. 

     If you take advantage of the training opportunities we provide, you’ll be on the right track in a very short time.

Dynamic Mental Concentration Training

          Mental Concentration is the masterful ability to summon, narrow, direct, and hold your Attention onto any target you wish, for as long as you wish to do so. Period.

          Very few people have a highly-developed skill at Mental Concentration, and even most who seem very productive lean mostly on well-established habits that can totally fail them if they are removed from their optimum work scenario. A strongly-skilled Mental Concentration talent can willfully shut down the temptation for diversion any time, any place.

          When it comes to completing a task, Mental Concentration is the absolute, conscious, single-minded control of Attention in total defiance of every form of distraction, whether it be from your own busy mind or from other people or anything else in your environment. Mental Concentration gives you the power to not only refuse to be distracted even by your own thoughts and impulses, but can allow you to CONTROL your thoughts and impulses and direct them to maximize your own effectiveness.

          Applying it to achieving goals, Mental Concentration is what you do in relation to the smallest individual action steps within a goal, no matter how extensive the goal. With it, you select the next, highest value or priority step (a task, an assignment, and appointment, etc.) along the chain of steps leading to the objective. You then bring together the full might of your Attention and CONCENTRATE that Attention onto the task at hand, rejecting and dismissing any distractions that would interfere with getting it done, remaining with the duty until it is properly completed.

          Dynamic Mental Concentration training targets your current mental habits of Attention and brings them under your absolute command and authority, resulting in a major increase in mental control, endurance, and flexibility. These improved skills can easily, profitably be applied to your pursuits in business, career, sports, your spiritual and even social life for extraordinary results.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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Let's Discuss Dynamic "Attention Control Training"

          Attention Control is absolutely vital for keeping up in the modern world and getting ahead of the overwhelming tidal waves of data, information, and demands of today's Digital Information Age. Any talents and skills you possess can only be fully expressed to the degree that you can rally them, take aim, and maintain a white-hot intensity of concentrated effort to apply what you know and further educate yourself so that you're among the best at what you do. What's more, Attention Control is one of the most important determining factors in whether you can stand out in a competitive world.

          Any DEFICIT in your ability to control your Attention every moment you need to can seriously affect your chances for success. The weaker your Attention Control Skills, the more pervasive are negative impacts on your life as you find that it interferes with your productivity, motivation, time management, and your ability to stick to one valuable thing until it is done and done well, especially over the long term.

          If you are in a position of responsibility, Attention Deficits lessens your ability to lead, inspire, and capitalize on the resources at your disposal.  Heaven forbid you should possess a healthy work ethic only to have your efforts wasted because you are much too distracted, being pulled in every direction but the one you want to go.  This in turn affects your emotional, financial, and business life just as it can cause strain in your personal and social relationships.

          Dynamic Attention Control Training is a "Direct Brain Training Method" of Attention skills development that gives you superior moment-to-moment mastery over the direction, scale, span, intensity, and endurance of your power of Attention, even if you have been assessed as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

          Whether you are looking to improve academic performance, increase professional and business productivity, get a handle on how you manage your time, or simply learn to infuse a motivating sense of interest when dealing with endless, mundane details that have been tedious to you until this point.

          Attention is a cognitive function and mental faculty that, like a physical muscle, you have the power to control, direct, and adjust, much the same as a Movie Cameraman controls his valuable tools for beneficial and productive purposes. The greater your investment of time and effort spent strategically developing purposeful control over your faculty of Attention, the richer your reward in terms of success in any endeavor. With proper training, you can realize a significant turnaround in all areas - indeed, as simple as it may appear on the surface, the reality of it is that it can change your life.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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Your Skill At Mental Concentration Greatly Affects Your Mental Focus Ability

           If your Mental Concentration skills are not sufficiently strong enough to meet the constant, time-critical demands of the life level you're looking to achieve in the immediate and long-term future, your level of Mental Focus will not be strong enough to ensure a consistent upward and forward momentum (nor quality of productivity and achievement) necessary to solidify your chances of success.

          The entire point of Concentration Training is to prepare you to boost your MENTAL FOCUS.   Mental Focus is NOT the same as Mental Concentration. Visualize a piece of paper on which, at one end, you draw a target symbol. On the opposite end, write in small letters "You Are Here. In between, make 8 dots in a line from "You Are Here" to the "Target." Mental Focus is the total, absolutely clear mental knowledge of Target, Dots, & Starting Point.

          Mental Focus is your skillful ability to KNOW WHAT YOU WANT with absolute clarity, knowledge so clear and uncorrupted by competing desires and distractions that it thoroughly brings into congruent alignment your THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, IMPULSES & URGES, PERCEPTIONS, & ACTIONS. That's right: If you forge it clearly enough in mind, it will TRANSFORM YOU into the person you need to be in order to make it come about. MENTAL CONCENTRATION on the other hand is totally 'HERE AND NOW'.

          MENTAL CONCENTRATION is your skillful, CONSCIOUS, PURPOSEFUL ability to direct and control your ATTENTION (it's DIRECTION (target), SPAN, DEPTH, and DURATION) AT WILL!!!  I repeat:  AT WILL!   Mental Concentration happens RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE. If you moved in a line from "You Are Here" to "Target," Mental Concentration is total immersion and energy applied to each DOT.

          With Mental Concentration, you MOVE FORWARD STEP BY STEP, but your only concern is simply the CURRENT, NECESSARY STEP in direct defiance of all internal and external sources of distraction in the present moment. With Mental Focus, you SET YOUR COURSE and STAY ON IT for lengthy periods of days, weeks, months, or years. Mental Concentration is MOTION NOW, while Mental Focus is TARGETING, constant and in total defiance of all internal and external distraction over the long term.

          So, in closing, a person (YOU, for instance) best implements his or her training agenda by learning how to CONCENTRATE EFFECTIVELY and for crazy LONG DURATION onto ANY TARGET against ANY FORM OF DISTRACTION (Thought-based, Impulses, Urges, or External Sights & Sounds - especially OTHER PEOPLE and their 'demands'). Whatever your training technique, you WANT that kind of skill, because you can then apply it to FORGING & HOLDING an IDEA, PURPOSE, or VISION in such a way that you EASILY bring it about.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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Improving Mental Concentration Means Breaking Down Both Real And Imaginary Mental Barriers!

          When training your brain to concentrate more effectively, the main obstacle you will immediately encounter one or more forms of mental resistance to the extended effort of holding your attention steady.  Just as your arm would eventually become weary and unable to continue lifting a heavy weight held out in front of your body, your brain burns a major amount of energy when working to maintain a consistent ’signal’ of attention targeted onto a single task.  Your ability to keep your attention fixed on a targeted task may last from as little as a few seconds to a few minutes (varying from person to person), but rarely more than that before it is interrupted by at least one of four very familiar culprits:

1. Wandering Thoughts - indicating that your mind isn’t relaxed and calm, so thoughts keep rising up or you find yourself engaging in a conversation in your head.
2. Impulsivity - means your body isn’t relaxed and calm enough to prevent impatient fidgeting and moving around.
3. Outside Interruptions - when your mind keeps trying to attend to external events such as distracting noises.
4. Mental Fatigue - happens as your brain simply gets tired from  the intense expenditure of energy, just as your body gets weary when you sprint in a race.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
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