Can someone really improve their concentration in just 17 minutes through practice?

Question

Has anyone experimented with a 17-minute practice that states it can ‘rewire the brain’ for better attention and focus? Has it been effective?

Answer 1

Thanks for this. You’ve given me some vocabulary for things I’ve become aware of in myself: attentional blinks and panoramic vision.
(I use panoramic vision when walking through crowds.)

Answer 2

Try standing meditation for half an hour every day for 1 year. Start with 10 minutes if it's a stretch for you. If you're consistent and learn to rekindle your relationship with the present moment. (focusing on my muscles contracting as I'm breathing, or when my pulse at my hands and my feet help) Slowly but surely, you'll forget about boredom as you inadvertently cultivate a sense of wellness and serendipity as you lengthen your sessions.

  Bring your awareness down to your feet and unfold it up to your joints till you get to the peak of your head. Your legs will shake and return to rest because it releases stored tension and energy in your lower back and hips. If you really fall into the groove of it, you start noticing your head spiraling. This is your inner vital energy opening up through the floodgates bypassing what's commonly known as chakras in your body.

  After 3 years of experimenting, you're basically chipping away at tension and emotional build-up to boost your sense of vitality. Close your eyes choose a location preferably with the presence of nature and drift away on a voyage of self-discovery and understanding of what it feels like to be fulfilled free of food, entertainment, or sex. You eventually will arrive (with commitment and unwavering patience) at what seems like enlightenment or approaching the gates of heaven as portrayed in the Buddhist or Biblical scriptures as you're greeted by a warm and divine light with each breath you take cleanses the emotional baggage out of your meridians and invites hospitality for your inner child, patching up your inner wounds and scars battling society's expectation and the demands in the name of family and culture.

  If you want to move a group of people at work or at home, you have to know how it feels to be moved. Focus and a sense of vitality are bi-products of commitment. Let me explain. Others feel how we feel from the words we use and the tone of voice we project it with coupled with facial expressions and body language and gesticulations.  You can feel the joy-uplifting energy of your dog coming home to greet you as it helplessly wags your tail just as others can feel your sense of wholeness and well-being after time and devotion for yourself.

  Let me know if you got something out of this in the rare case that someone tries! Big hats off to you if it helps. And a big salute if you stick around!

Comments

Where can I read / watch / learn more on this?

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​@@naamnei check out Jon Kabat-Zinn

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Thank you for your comment, I have been doing a similar meditation twice daily for about 6 months. I dabbled with other meditation practices, but when I learned about Suresh Ramaswamy and his recommended practices, I really felt a shift. At first it was difficult to commit, but now it feels very nourishing and I always feel blissful, peaceful, and expansive. There are moments where the "boundaries" of my body seem to dissolve and my notion of "being" expands and simplifies beyond the circumstances of my life.

I've felt similar sensations during psychedelic trips and Hemi Sync meditations, but it is so powerful, intentional, and freeing to experience expanded consciousness with a sober, self-directed mind.

I know I can go deeper. It's a very satisfying journey and attention is just the beginning. Thanks again!

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One hour, lol, that's way too much time.

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​@anonymoususer3561 replace one hour of phone and or TV time with meditation.

Answer 3

This is gold! 'People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.' - Simon Sinek.  Need to work on finding my 'why.

Answer 4

i never liked any youtube video about concentration until now... thank a lot

Answer 5

This is essentially Zazen.
I have been practicing this for nearly 50 years.
You are correct in your conclusions.
I wish this was required for all driver’s licenses!

Answer 6

Tried this, mind wandered that much I got up, started cooking and forgot I was even doing this. Practice required

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damn son you are in deep trouble

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You just noticed that wandering mind when you started meditating, it wasn't caused by the meditation.

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exactly dude ive done it for 20 mins but with little wandering, its all about realizing when you wander and stopping then focusing on breathing again it really do need practice!

Answer 7

Wow, I just did this 17 minute interoception. I have been working as a psychic for 22 years and  I also have been told I had ADHD, several times in my life… but managed my mental health w excellent nutrition, meditation, journal & self reflection and vigorous exercise for many since the late 90’s. And I have been meditating since 1992. However, with hideous stress from my extended family, I simply did not comply with my former health regimen and My ADHD got significantly worse in the last 4 years, but I did not realize it until I went into therapy in January and the counselor told me she suspected I had untreated ADHD.  I have been on straterra for over a month and this 17 minute practice, of just being still, with eyes closed, noticing my breathing and the lovely summer breeze on my skin… made me realize how awful my body actually feels… and the DEEP seeded awarenesses that I had not seen and that were simply not true and not healthy for the expression of my authentic self.  Therefore, causing me even more problems. I watch your videos almost everyday and my 27 year old son and I love your work and consider you to be a great part of our growth. However, this video potentially just changed my life even more significantly.  It was fascinating and disgusting to me to feel the sick feeling in my stomach and other parts of my body… but then, in this  17 minute practice, I forced myself further to discover the root of the bad feeling and to give my jagged breath time to relax the gnarled misperceptions into greater health.  Thank you.  Thank you. Thank you.  I will look forward to this practice daily now.

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​@@kathleenhoy2008
I don't see a link

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is explained in the video above. There is no link to a guided meditation. I think the point is to do it unguided by yourself or it doesn’t work.
Be still with eyes closed and just feel your breathing or your feet on the floor. Just keep coming back to sensations inside your body.
I know, 17 minutes without sensory input seems terrifying! But it’s exactly this sensory quiet that helps reset your focus. I will try it. I expect I will be bored. But who knows?

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Thanks Jules, I will go for it!

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Repent and find Christ.

Answer 8

Twenty minutes every day is my promise to myself this year. Thank you for reminding me.

Answer 9

Just watching two of ur vids, seem very Worth it, now l have to implement

Answer 10

This is nothing but a simple quote from scriptures “ getting back to the seer” and detaching oneself from the scenery. This actually is the purest form of meditation.

Comments

1 Samuel 9:9 "Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer." That scripture is referring going to a prophet of God, not "detaching oneself from the scenery." Traveling to visit another person is definitely not meditation.

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This is not that.  It’s the oppposite:  the seer is NOT in our body.  The focus of this is to FEEL our body.

Answer 11

Huberman: "No, I'm not going to tell you to meditate."
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Huberman: "Sit, close your eyes, pay attention to your breathing and body perception."

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I know right. That's IS meditation lol

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I made this comment before the end of the video...near the end he even literally say that we should meditate :D

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I'd like to believe he was breaking our perception of meditation. Many of my friends say they don't want to do meditation because they say they won't be able to focus meditating but rephrasing and restructuring one's perspective of what meditation is might lead to it being more appealing since I myself only started doing so when I found out how simple it was and how wrong I was about my understanding of it.

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I saw it as a more defined description of meditation based on what most would understand as medication. Unfortunately, our vocabulary is somewhat limited here.

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He just wants to make we feel it's easy and worth doing.

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Yeah was just about to make this comment, he literally just described meditating...

Answer 12

This sounds very similar to Open Focus practice, which was researched by Dr Lester Fehmi in his clinic for attention disorders in Princeton. You learn how to broaden/open your focus. For example, by becoming aware of your peripheral vision. However, broadening the focus of attention can be done in all sensory channels. For example, you can be aware of all sounds around you or many parts of your body at the same time. Dr Fehmi was teaching this with the use of his neuro-feedback machine, and he was very successful in resolving not only attentional disorders but also reducing chronic pain, anxiety, insomnia, etc.

Answer 13

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Answer 14

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Answer 15

Really interesting. When training clients about public or professional speaking from a stage, I teach them to consciously engage peripheral vision as they look at the audience, in other words, see the whole audience rather than the narrow focus of a small selection directly ahead. Peripheral visioning as I call it, or using "panoramic vision", or "dilated gaze," calms nerves, reduces fear and even more importantly, allows easier access to memorised structure, sequence and content AND opens a channel to receive intuitive content too, often the best content of the talk.

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Hebat pak

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Very helpful to know.  I'm a performer and storyteller, but sometimes struggle with my memory. I'll add this to my repertoire, and thanks!

Answer 16

Does anyone else lose focus and need to watch it twice?

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Yes

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Yes I was studying for an exam and picked up my phone to search for focusing videos and found this. I'm going to try it later on. My test is at 10p tonight. Hopefully this helps.

Answer 17

I've been doing vipassana for several years and istg it is really helpful to me, i am able to control my emotions and focus on present, i saw visible changes on my behaviour as well. this definitely works, and i hope this works for everyone one else

Answer 18

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Answer 19

Truly enjoyable from start to finish!

Answer 20

To have someone else there in that state with you is a lot different for anyone with ADHD or PTSD I think if someone is more sensitive they can definitely sense the other persons emotions and state of well being a lot more easily