Poor Visualization Skills In Mental Concentration Training?

First, let me state that building stronger Mental Concentration through brain training does NOT necessarily require you to have strong visualization skills.  Control of Attention can be trained in numerous ways that aren’t tightly tied to the ability to picture things clearly in thought.  The video training we’re talking about (plus some other foundational training info) is at  our YouTube Channel:  http://www.youtube.com/dynamicmentalfitness.

Ruben over at YouTube commented today that while attempting to perform the “Basic Mental Object Retention” technique he found it excruciatingly difficult to form a simple, still image in his mind for even a short period:

Quote:  Too bad i haven’t have that much imagination. I can’t get a picture of a yellow circle or something in my mind. I don’t see it. I can think about it, but then i only repeating the words ‘yellow circle’. So actually i don’t know when my objects start to fade because i don’t see it in the first place.

Ruben–

I understand. Not all of us have strong Visual Working Memories.  I’ve seen MANY trainees who can spend all day long in vivid daydreaming with sweeping, grand, detailed imagination, but who can’t for the life of them just forge a single, motionless picture of a circle in their thought.  Weird, huh?  It’s just the way their brain is wired.  Just as some people have no problem sitting still for lengthy periods, I have to summon titanic resolve for minutes before my brain will calm my body down to a degree that I can remain without motion for lengthy time frames.  That’s a typical characteristic of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), one that I’ve worked hard to overcome and the results of which have totally elevated my life experience and brought rewards I don’t have room enough to talk about here.

Fortunately, there are MANY ways involving your Auditory Working Memory, your Five Senses, and other easily accessible means to greatly strengthen your powers of Mental Concentration.  Go to http://www.neuro-sculpting.com/training/free-7-day-course and get the free course and look through it to test out some of the approaches.   No, it’s not literally ’7 DAYS’ – you’ll be training a quite a bit more than that if you are serious about boosting your Mental Concentration skills in preparation to improve your Mental Focus and mental discipline.  Email me and let me know if one or more appeals to you.   If you adopt a Brain Fitness lifestyle and stick with it, the level of life rewards that come your way can meet or exceed my own.

Test The AUDITORY Basic Mental Object Retention Approach!

While you’re at it, try reproducing a SOUND in your imagination and try MAINTAINING that sound for as long as you can, similar to how you would try to maintain the image in the Basic Mental Object Retention technique. Don’t let the sound warp or be broken up by other thoughts – push them aside and force the issue: RESOLVE! Also, don’t allow any external distractions to steal your attention. You may find the auditory approach easier than the visual.