Concentration is the ability to focus on one specific subject or business. At first it seems that it is quite simple, however, having done at least one exercise on attention, you can verify the opposite. For example, try, without closing your eyes, count to 50 and think only about the account. It seems so simple ... But in reality, everything turns out to be completely different. Thoughts begin to get confused, and a person, although he continues to count, has long thought about something else. Only a few are able to concentrate on one subject or business and not be distracted. How to develop this skill in yourself?
The simplest attention exercise
First of all, it will not be superfluous to find out if you are really a scattered person. Let's do this attention exercise: try to remember yesterday in detail. It is important to note the smallest moments of the day: what mood did you wake up to, who called or came in the morning, and what you were talking about, what thoughts visited you all day. If you remember all these trifles it will not be difficult for you - you have an excellent memory and good concentration
It is often difficult for people to remember all the details of the day, because our attention is not concentrated on them. A young mother makes herself coffee in the morning, but thinks absolutely not about him. Her thoughts are busy with many things: what to cook for breakfast, in which store to shop, than to surprise her husband in the evening.
One of the simplest exercises is the attention exercise throughout the day. Try not to be distracted from what you are directly doing. That is, if you make coffee, think only about it. These little things will teach you how to focus on specific things.
Exercises "Film strip" and "Relaxation"
After you learn to concentrate on what you are doing at a certain time, it will not be superfluous to learn to complete the tasks of “Film Strip” and “Relaxation”. These are very effective exercises for concentration.
The first thing is to remember how you spent the day. In the evening, take a comfortable position and think about your pastime. If during the day you focused well on the details and only thought about what you were doing at a particular time, this exercise will be easy for you.
Then you can proceed to the second task.
Start mentally relaxing all parts of the body, from the feet to the head. Imagine that every cell in your body is not stressed. Switch your attention to the right foot. Feel her, and then imagine how she relaxes. This should be done with all parts of the body. In addition to helping adults improve memory, these exercises for memory and attention, they also perfectly relax the entire body.
Group exercises
You can train attention both one and in a group. The team is even easier and more interesting to do. Thus, exercises turn into an exciting game. Offer to play it with your family - and a great pastime is guaranteed. Such games are well suited for developing attention among students. Exercises in a playful way will teach them to be more collected. You can invite your children to visit and friends, then the classes will become even more exciting.
Collective exercise "Bee"
A group of people mentally imagines a playing field in the form of 9 cells and with a bee in the middle. During the game, each participant mentally moves the insect to one cell of the field (right, left, up or down) and says out loud where he moves it.
Each of the participants needs to control the movement of the bee mentally, this makes the task difficult. Loses the one with the bee out of the field, and then the game starts again. In other words, each participant must mentally draw in front of him 9 game cells and carefully listen to where the insect is moving.
Account Exercises
Such attention exercises for children and adults are very effective. They can be complicated or simplified depending on the age of the child and his care. For example, the task for a group of people is to count from 1 to 100, and each one speaks only one number in order. Instead of numbers that are multiples of 5, you need to say: "I am careful." For example: 1, 2, 3, 4, I am attentive, 6, 7, 8, 9, I am attentive, etc.
Color Difference Exercise
Very interesting and effective task. The color of each word should be named. This is quite difficult to do, because these are not just words, but the names of colors. The brain perceives primarily the text, and then only the color. It takes some skill to complete the exercise correctly. Such concentration exercises give a good result.
Game "Find the Differences"
This game is familiar to all of us since childhood. It is not without reason that children are often offered to find differences in the drawings, and they like to do it. These are great exercises for developing memory and attention. For adults, it is also very useful to look for differences in the drawings. The main bias in such games is the development of memory. After all, looking at one drawing, the child tries to remember all the small details and find them on another, thus comparing the images.
Reading and memory
In order to learn how to concentrate, you should love reading. Often, without noticing it, people quickly glance over the text and do not catch even half its meaning. Surely, many noticed for themselves that, after reading an article, they begin to review it again. This is because the concentration of attention is very low, and at this time the person’s thoughts are in a completely different area.
When reading a text, try to think about every word. In order to fully understand what is written, you need to make certain pauses after paragraphs and comprehend what has been read above. If you follow all the requirements, then there will be no need to look at the same text several times.
Tasks and exercises for the development of attention in children
Children tend to be very distracted, especially schoolchildren. They forget everything in the world: what mother said in the morning, where their clothes are, what exercises the teacher asked home, and the like. Kids do not always do this on purpose. Many really suffer from forgetfulness.
The school is very changing the child, he has a lot of responsibilities, as well as a lot of new and interesting. In this turmoil, it’s very difficult to keep track of your thoughts, and the little creature is lost. It is important to monitor how the development of attention in schoolchildren proceeds. Exercise can help teach him to be more focused and serious.
For example, exercises with drawings. You need to take 4 cards on which various objects are depicted (for example: a table, chair, bed, cup). Allow the child to look at them for half a minute and then remove. Ask him to draw all the objects on a piece of paper in order. Based on the results of this task, you can determine how good the child’s memory is. If he depicted all 4 objects correctly and in the same sequence - this is an excellent result. If 3-4 pictures are shown, but randomly scattered - this is not bad. If the student was not able to draw even 3 subjects, then he is very absent-minded.
If the child copes with this task very well, it can be complicated - for example, you can add more cards to the work. There is another, more complex version of such a task. Instead of images with objects, you need to use abstract drawings. Such a task will be more difficult, since drawing something that the child has never seen before is much more difficult.
And here is another very interesting attention exercise for children. For example, any text is taken and the child is invited to read it for a minute and cross out 3 letters: “a”, “p” and “n”. Having counted the number of missing letters that should have been crossed out and the number of words in the text that he managed to work through, the degree of attention of the child is estimated. Results can be recorded and compared each time.
There are also special arbitrary sets of letters in which you need to cross out certain characters. After the work done, you can read the statement or rhyme from the rest.
Concentration of attention in everyday life
In everyday life, it is very easy to train your memory. It is only necessary to pay attention to small details and ordinary situations. Begin to notice new details in things familiar to you, and it will be an excellent training of attention. Exercise, of course, also has its effect, but they need to spend at least 10 minutes a day.
For example, when you go to a store that you often visit, pay attention to different details along the way: which road is under your feet, which trees grow, how many shops are nearby, which houses are near the road. Arriving home, try to remember all these items. Close your eyes and mentally go back to the store. You will not be able to immediately recall all the details, but over time it will turn out better and better each time.
Why train memory and attention
In our life, many things are associated with concentration. We do all things “on the machine” and then hardly remember many nuances. Surely you at least once ran out of the house in a hurry and thought about whether you turned off the iron, closed the front doors, and didn’t forget anything. This is because at the time when a person, for example, unplugs the iron from the outlet, he thinks about completely different things. He does not concentrate on the iron and then, accordingly, cannot remember whether he performed this action.
Good memory and attention will be useful in the workplace. During hard work, people very often forget about something and lose something. Due to distraction, you can lose your job altogether. In almost any business, calm and a fresh mind are important. For good memory, we develop attention, concentration exercises improve focus on a specific action.
Before you make an important meeting or talk, try breathing exercises. Starting to breathe deeply, focus on breathing. Feel the air in your lungs. Try not to think about anything else. As you exhale, count to 5 and take a deep breath again. Such an exercise can be performed within 5-10 minutes. It will help to cheer up a bit and put your thoughts in order. For the brain, this will be a great vacation.
There are situations when an increased concentration of attention can save lives and protect against accident. For example, the driver behind the wheel should be very careful, otherwise an accident may occur. An attentive passerby can also avoid a collision if he notices an approaching vehicle in time. So it turns out that in any situation you need to be careful and focused.