How To Increase Mental Strength and Concentration

Increasing your mental strength is a process, just like going to the gym except this time it’s a gym for your mind.

Before you start, ask yourself how focused you are. Do you get distracted as easily as a dog that spots a ball? Are you often day dreaming? Or can you already concentrate on a task reasonably well? And do you find it easy to go back to a task and pick up where you left off? Your answers will give you a benchmark to check back on as your journey progresses.

Start by getting rid of as many distractions as possible while you’re trying to concentrate. That means stop checking emails & Facebook, turn your phone to silent, maybe put on some headphones and play some chill out music or a subliminal track to reduce outside noises. Even little things can cause you to lose your concentration so don’t worry if some of these only happen “every now and then”.

Meditation helps your mental state generally. It trains your mind to focus more – whether you use a traditional form of meditation such as focusing on a point in the room, chanting a mantra or a breathing meditation. Or if you choose, like I do, to let my brainwaves get “helped” by a binaural beats meditation audio so that I can get the benefits of meditating without the years of practice. Either way, you’ll increase your mental strength and you’ll be able to concentrate better.



You can also adapt some meditation techniques to help you with your concentration – fixing your stare on a spot on the wall or a candle flame work well for that.

You can also practice some mindfulness exercises as you go through the day. Tasks where you’d normally go on autopilot (maybe eating too many snacks), pay attention to what you’re doing. Generally do your best to be more “present” rather than dwelling on the past or running all sorts of what if scenarios about futures that will almost certainly never come to pass.

Another thing you can do to help your concentration is concentrate on the things around you. It’s far too easy to just accept the everyday things we see and do. Focus your attention on them – as you’re walking around or cooking or anything else – and play a game with yourself to see how many extra things you can spot that you’ve never noticed before.

Focus on one thing at a time. That may sound obvious but are you doing it? Focus is one of the keys to increasing your mental toughness. Athletes call it being in the zone but it’s not something that’s reserved for athletes – you can do it as well by focusing your mind more often.

Challenge the world occasionally. Ask “why” when you’d normally just nod and accept an answer even when you haven’t really got a clue as to why that answer has been given. You can easily research answers, just beware of fake news and websites that look legitimate but are thinly disguised rants or online hobbyhorses. You’ll gradually develop a sixth sense to help filter those out.

When you’re in a conversation, practice active listening. That means actually listening to the person you’re talking to, rather than letting your mind race ahead to formulate what you’re going to say next.

One more thing you can do to help all of this is play yourself a hypnosis audio. The one I’ve linked below this video has been specially written to help you increase your mental toughness. There’s a free preview on the page I’ve linked to and, if you like the idea, you can download the audio and listen to it almost instantly.

So if you’d like to improve your mental toughness, click the link and listen to the audio now.








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