The ability to focus can make or break your success in life. In fact, scientists consider the ability to establish mental focus as an important predictor of a person’s future success. It is perhaps one of the most important indicators, along with intelligence and GPA. We may be unable to increase intelligence, but we still can greatly increase our ability to focus
There is a huge difference between a sharp mind and a focused mind. A focused mind is very strong and energy transfers in this stage are purely undiluted to give 100%. However, if you have a Sharp Mind that gets diluted, you will not be able to give 100% to the action. Hence the focused mind is the key to success.
In second stage, It is very important for the mind to be healthy in order to achieve 100% focus. How do you bring all the states of mind together?
All resolutions take place in a conscious mind, so a resolution to bring together all states of mind is also conceived in a conscious mind. Once that happens, the resolution has to be backed up with core energy to bring the right focus.
he other three states of mind — unconscious, super conscious and sub conscious — get aligned automatically depending upon the willpower or core energy pushed into the resolution. The alignment may be different for different events, but with practice, you will get the required consistency for bringing them together.
To achieve this alignment it is very important to control your focus, which comes with the control of your breathing. Regulated breathing helps you to achieve a higher percentage and levels of focus.
The happy mind leads to a healthy mind and body. A happy external environment gives you happy memories. Suppose you visit a children’s park – it will remind you of your happy days as a child. A happy mind produces happy thoughts and happy experiences.
When the mind focuses on any cognitive sense at one time, it gets more information than would normally be passed on to it. For example, if you are picking up apples from the market, you select a few out of the many by picking them up and trying to feel their freshness.
This is done over a period of five to seven seconds spent on each apple. If you hold one apple for a longer period of time, you will start to focus your energy on it through your sense of sight and touch. Your site will give you information about the look of the apple and touch will give information about the feel of it.
Try closing your eyes and picking up an apple, spend some 15-20 seconds trying to feel it and see what information it passes on to you. You may also get some additional information. Try it.
Thus, a calm and peaceful mind is required to focus energies into your cognitive senses. To have a healthy mind, your thoughts have to be positive; to have positive thoughts, your influencing layers have to be lean; and to have lean influencing layers, your cognitive senses have to be sensitive enough to keep the garbage out — if garbage is poured in, only garbage will come out
Last, I would suggest, the key to living a focused life is direction. When you have a clear goal, you can steer all your actions in one direction. But if you are unsure where to go, you will mindlessly wander around.
At the same time, it is often not so important how long we work, but how effectively we use our working hours. If we pay the closest attention to maintaining a high level of focus, we can use the available hours of the day more effectively. However, if we allow distractions to draw away our attention, we are less likely to accomplish much in the time available.
The writer is Achal Sharma, life coach, social scientist and author of Corepeelers: Journey to Your Core