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Practice these skills to improve your own focus and concentration an then help your children improve theirs.

You can find strong powers of concentration in yourself. When you are decisive and sincerely want to excel in your studies, pass an important exam, or playing one of your favorite games; the power of concentration becomes available to you. This kind of concentration is raised because of some need, or desire. Increasing it in a systematic way, brings it under your control, and grants you the ability to use it easily, with no exertion whenever you need it. Real and good concentration is developed slowly, through daily work, and with special exercises. It has to be approached in a reasonable and practical way.

When starting to learn to concentrate you have to find a suitable place where you can be alone and undisturbed. You can sit crossed legged on the floor if you can, or on a chair. Sit with spine erect. Take a few calm deep breaths and then relax your body. In your mind go through each muscle and part of the body and relax it.
The following exercises should help you develop concentration skills:

Exercise 1:

Select some thought and see how long you can hold your mind on it. It is nice to have a clock at first and keep track of the time.

Suppose you decide to think about health, think of health as being a great blessing in the world. Do not let any other thought drift in. Just the moment one starts to obtrude, make it go away. Make it a daily habit of concentrating on this thought for, maybe ten minutes. Practice doing this until you can hold it to the exclusion of everything else. You might have to do this exercise regularly for 10 days or more in order to sharpen your concentration skills.

Exercise 2

Take a book and count the words in any paragraph. Count them again to be sure that it was correct. Start with one paragraph and when it becomes easier count all the words on the page. Perform the counting mentally and only with your eyes

Exercise 3

Take a small simple object such as a spoon, a fork or a glass. Concentrate on it and watch the object from all sides without verbalization, that is, with no words in your mind. Just watch the object without thinking with words about it

Exercise 4

Draw a small geometrical figure, about 3 inches in size, such as a triangle, a rectangle or a circle. Paint it with any colour you wish and concentrate on it. Only see the figure. Do not think any words, only the figure exists. Watch the figure in front of you and try not to strain your eyes.

Exercise 5

Concentrate on the Within. Lie down and thoroughly relax your muscles. Concentrate on the beating of your heart. Do not pay any attention to anything else. Think how this great organ is pumping the blood to every part of the body; try to actually picture the blood leaving the great reservoir and going in one stream right down to the toes. Picture another going down the arms to the tips of the fingers. After a little practice you can actually feel the blood passing through your system.

The Power of Martial Arts and CONFIDENCE

Confidence truly is one of the keys to staying safe and "Stopping The Bully!"

Children who train in the martial arts learn powerful skills to defend themselves, stand up to Bullies and stay safe in almost any situation. Knowledge truly is power! Give your children the power, knowledge, skills and CONFIDENCE to stand up for themselves, stop the bully, resist peer pressure and BE SAFE!]]> Julie Graf Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:11:02 GMT 43c8516b3f20c256829cb85c24662990 http://www.grafsata.com/72101.html?entryId=#comment