Take charge of your senses and your life!

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far’
Chris Evert
Concentration will enhance our personal productivity and output. Distractions affect our concentration. Distractions need not be external. Our own mind can divert the attention of our senses.

Out of our five senses, we need to mainly take care of our eyes and ears. Instead of allowing our mind to control our senses, we should control of our mind so that we see and hear what is to be seen heard. But this will not ‘happen’ and we need to practice control like the way we practiced typing, cycling etc.
 

Do this exercise.

Choose a walking path, preferably in a park or a beach where there will not be many walking in the same pathway. Choose a song from your iPod or mobile phone and put on a hear phone. Adjust the volume to be sufficient to neutralize any other sound.

Start walking and keep focusing just three feet from your feet and decide not to look here and there. Also keep focusing all your attention on the music alone noticing every instrument.

Do this exercise consistently for three weeks gradually increasing the distance and duration of your walk. Notice what happens to you own ability to take control of your mind thus your ears and eyes!

N C Sridharan
www.thetimfoundation.com
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