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 Benefits of Developing Concentration:
• Control of thoughts
• Peace of mind
• Self-confidence
• Inner strength
• Will power
• The ability to focus your mind
• Better memory
• The ability to decide and carry on your decisions
• Better functioning in daily life, whether at home or work
• The ability to study and comprehend more quickly
• Stop being carried away with every passing thought
• Freedom from needless and annoying thoughts
• Think when you want to, about what you want to think
• Inner happiness
• Help in developing psychic abilities
• More powerful and efficient creative visualisations and guided imagination
• True meditation