Attention - this property is the psyche that promotes the development of memory and thinking.Train attention allows to strengthen its concentration, but this can not be done without the use of special exercises and techniques.Without the development of this process can not be thinking, memorization and reproduction of information.
Attention has properties such as stability, uniform distribution, concentration, distractibility and switching.
Why do need training attention?First of all, in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of your work.It is necessary to reinforce its concentration, ie,the intensity of focus on a particular lesson, thereby improving the quality of its execution.
Practice shows that exercise is very simple: you just need to devote to exercise about 10 minutes a day.Then you need to select an object for concentration.In his role can perform and the visual object (real or imaginary), and sound.You can also select an object such as any point on the body or the breathing process.
To control attention and training is successful, you must follow certain conditions:
- systematic repetition of exercises you have chosen.It is advisable to focus on one object for 10-12 minutes for a few months.This is best done at the same time.
- When done training of attention, the brain should not be occupied by anything other than the object.Of course, it will not immediately, but gradually.But to achieve this it is necessary in any case.
- important to position your body is comfortable and not tight.To do this, make sure that the spine straightened posture and become stable.The muscles should be relaxed and the head delivered smoothly and straight.If the object to focus, you have chosen a visual object, it must be at a distance of 30 cm and at the level of your eyes.
Psychologists have developed specific exercises to develop attention, which has long demonstrated its efficiency and effectiveness.Here are the main ones:
- Concentrate on any point of the body: the finger, eyebrows or eyelashes.Try to keep it as long as possible at this facility.Initially, it will be very difficult, but then the time during which you will be able to concentrate on one subject, will increase.
- Try to focus on what a feeling: the pulse, tingling in the legs, the warmth.Also, hold the focus as long as possible.
- Listen to some monotonous, but the duration of the sound.It may be the sound of rain, ticking of a clock or the movement of the train.
- also need to train fast switching focus from one subject to another.First, try to focus on some inner feeling, and then try to switch to the real visible object.Please make switching sharply, then - slowly, and vice versa.
There are some exercises in which the training takes place passively attention:
- Focus on your walking, running or any other repetitive actions.Try to catch the rhythm of these movements to capture the feeling.
- Focus on emotions that are experienced.Feel their changes, modulations, and bursts of extinction.Share your feelings on the part of the emotional significance.
- Try to follow the speech: catch intonation, spoken sounds, deepening of the voice.Try to catch as changing your speech in the process of changing situations.
passive forms of exercise available to everyone at all times.Remember that exercise, you can choose and invent their own, based on the fact that you are closer and more convenient at the time.
