Neuroscientist: How To Boost Your Focus PERMANENTLY in Minutes

If ever there was a tool that could rewire our attention circuits in a powerful way, this seems to be a simple practice that takes 17

minutes

and can forever rewire

your

brain to be able to pay attention better and compensate for some of that attention drift, regardless. Whether you're not a child or an adult, whether you have ADHD or not, the effects are significant, they're long-lasting, and they seem to exist after just one session of this quiet 17-minute interoception, so let's take a step back. and think about how we

focus

and how to improve

focus

and I'm going to share with you a tool for which there is excellent research data that will allow you in a single session to improve

your

ability to focus on theory forever and not.

I'm not going to try to convince you to meditate, what we're going to talk about is when attention works and when attention fails and what we're going to talk about specifically is what are called attention blinks, we do this all the time and People with ADHD tend to have many more attention blinks than people who don't have it and this is true for both children and adults, if you see something you are looking for or are very interested in something, you are definitely missing out. information. partly because you are concentrating too much on something and this leads to a very interesting hypothesis about what could go wrong in ADHD, where we have always thought that they can't concentrate and yet we know that they can concentrate on things that matter a lot to them , well maybe. they may just be experiencing more attention blinks than people who don't have ADHD and in fact there is now data to support the possibility that that is actually what is happening and that should be exciting for anyone who has ADHD and it should too be exciting for anyone who cares about it. increasing your concentration and your ability to pay attention, what this means is that these underlying circuits focus on our ability to pay attention and our ability to eliminate distractions, they are not simply failing to concentrate, it is just a semantic form to describe the result they have achieved. focusing on certain things and therefore missing others, so our distractibility or the withdrawal ability of someone with ADHD could exist because they focus too much on certain elements and therefore are missing other elements that they should pay attention, so what you really need is this. property we call open monitoring now open monitoring is something that is typically associated with people who have practiced a lot of meditation, so-called vipassana meditation, or have spent a lot of time learning how to do what is called open-gaze visual analysis and open-gaze thinking. , but There is a simpler version of this that allows us to skip everything that your visual system has two processing modes.

If you're really excited about something, you're that soda straw view of the world and you're missing out on other things. Well, those are high levels. of attention, however, there is also a property of your visual system that allows you to dilate your gaze to be in the so-called panoramic vision. Panoramic vision is something you can do right now no matter where you are and I can do it right now. I don't know what I'm doing, but although I continue looking directly at you, I am consciously dilating my gaze to be able to see the ceiling, the floor and the walls around me, that panoramic vision is actually mediated by a flow or set of neural circuits that go from the eye to the brain and it is a flow or set of circuits that is not just a wide angle view, it is also better at processing things in time, its frame rate is higher, so this is something that can be trained and People can practice whether or not they have ADHD or not, what it entails is learning to consciously dilate your gaze, which is actually pretty easy for most people, whether you wear corrective lenses or contact lenses or not, you can consciously open your gaze. and then you can also contract your field of vision.

There are now published accounts in the literature of a simple practice performed for about 15

minutes

in which subjects were asked to simply sit quietly with their eyes closed and do something like meditation, but without doing it. directing your mind to any particular state or place, but simply thinking about your breathing and concentrating on the so-called interception, concentrating on how your body feels, your mind drifted to bring it back for about 15 minutes, which may not seem like a significant event o It is an unusual practice or one that would have some impact, but surprisingly just doing it once for 17 minutes significantly reduces the number of attention blinks people would perform;

In other words, their concentration improved almost

permanently

without any additional training. There's something about that practice of reducing the amount of visual information coming in and learning to pay attention to one's internal state, what we call interoception, that allows you such an awareness that when you need to search for visual targets, when you need to focus on multiple things in sequence. They didn't experience the same number of attention blinks and I shouldn't mention that as people get older and their working memory gets worse and their ability to concentrate gets worse, the number of attention blinks they do increases and there are now studies exploring whether this A simple meditation-like practice of about 15 to 20 minutes of sitting and just resting quietly and paying attention to your breathing and internal state can also offset some of that age-related cognitive decline, so what does this data say?

For me it's that, regardless of whether you're a child or an adult, whether or not you have ADHD or not, whether or not you're experiencing age-related cognitive decline or would just like to avoid it. rejecting the simple practice of taking 17 minutes sitting and paying attention to your internal state by simply intercepting, recording your breathing, recording the contact of your skin with whatever surface you are on, you can forever rewire your brain to be able to better attend and possibly even offset some of that age-related attentional drift now. I don't expect anyone to start meditating regularly. I don't expect anyone to do anything they don't want to do, but I think most of us could endure a meditation session of about 17 minutes and So if ever there was a tool capable of rewiring our attention circuits in a powerful way, it seems being this and, furthermore, the ability to engage in panoramic vision to dilate our gaze, the so-called open monitoring that allows the brain to function in a way where it can detect more information faster, that is also a powerful tool and the beauty of that tool is that it works the first time and it works every time, now how exactly it works is a little confusing, however, the effects are significant, they are.

They are long-lasting and seem to exist after just one session of this quiet 17-minute interoception, which to me makes it seem like something worth doing for all foreigners.