If you’re like most people, you have a to-do list a mile long. And while there can be a tremendous sense of accomplishment that comes with its completion, many find that in today’s fast paced lifestyle, manifesting the time in which to actually finish each item on the list next to impossible. One reason many have to do with one’s concentration and focus, or rather, one’s lack of it.
If you fall into the above category, checkout this recent Tulsa World post from Brandi Ball. In it, Ball interviews Licensed Professional Counselor Leta Bell who provides 5 solid tips on how to improve one’s time management problems. According to Bell, apart from avoiding multitasking, limiting one’s sugar intake, focusing on the here and now, and minimizing distractions, a regular meditation practice can help to calm down the brain and improve concentration. Bell suggests Transcendental Meditation and using a mantra to help free the mind from distraction.
1. Meditate.
Meditation heightens energy and is a tool to relax your mind and body. It can be practiced anywhere.
Transcendental meditation — using a mantra, such as a word, sound or phrase repeated silently, to narrow your conscious awareness and eliminate all thoughts from your mind — can be done anywhere.
Do it at your desk, while in a waiting room or when you are out for a walk. Yoga and Tai Chi are also forms of meditation.
“When you meditate, you are training your brain to calm down,” Bell said. “It’s like exercising a muscle. When we don’t give that muscle a time out, we’re like hamsters on a wheel.”
Read more from Bell on using meditation and other mind focusing tips here.
