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. 

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.

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
www.neuro-sculpting.com
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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
www.neuro-sculpting.com
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