Improve Your Ability To Concentrate

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Improving your ability to concentrate can drastically improve your life. Your attention is at an all-time premium these days. Meditation is one of the best ways to improve concentration. This week's series will help you keep your focus on your own agenda so you can live the life you were meant to live, regardless of what's going on in the world. This is part 3 of a 7-part Brain Health and Concentration, episodes 2040-2046. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2-weeks free! Receive access to 2,000+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected].

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode two thousand forty two of the daily meditation podcast.
0:06.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself today.
0:13.0	As you get ready to meditate or even to do one of the meditation techniques
0:21.0	as you go throughout your day, you will find more peace, energy, and clarity,
0:29.6	and that's sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself all day long.
0:36.7	We are continuing along with our series this week
0:41.0	where we're exploring your brain health in regard to concentration and you are
0:48.8	going to discover a breathing technique that you can do to help you let go of distraction to focus your mind.
1:01.0	This is a breathing technique that has been noted by researchers to help people focus.
1:11.0	It's a great technique to do when you can't seem to focus your thoughts or when
1:18.8	when negative or disturbing thoughts seem to filter through your mind despite your best efforts to focus.
1:30.0	This technique has you counting your breath cycles.
1:35.0	As you inhale and exhale, that's one breath cycle.
1:42.0	When you inhale and exhale again, that's two. Inhale and exhale and exhale again,
1:50.3	again, that's three, and so on.
1:55.0	This allows your mind to relax.
1:59.0	When you engage yourself fully
2:02.0	in the power of your breath you calm and relax your mind. When you're
2:08.7	concentrating it's important to give yourself many mental breaks.
2:15.0	When you do so, it refreshes your ability to focus,
2:21.0	just as with anything. When you focus on it just as with anything when you focus on it too long even if you
2:26.8	exercise too much or strain yourself in a yoga position, you experience fatigue.
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