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Concentration and Your Body |
| The pressures of deadlines, exams and work can make us forget our
body's needs, but if we do, our performance may suffer as we become listless,
disinterested, or even panicked. |
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Routine habits
It helps to maintain good habits or diet, exercise, sleep and rest throughout the
semester. |
- Take 10 minutes to relax before meals, slowly eat well-balanced food, and
make mealtime an opportunity to calm down.
- Choose an exercise you enjoy - jogging, swimming, yoga, etc. - and make
it a regular part of your week.
- Schedule seven to eight hours of sleep each night and plan a regular
bedtime.
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Study habits
Each time you study, plan to use your body to help you
concentrate. |
- Create a suitable study environment with a straight but comfortable chair
that fits you, a desk with all the equipment you need, and sunlight or indirect light that
is bright enough but doesn't glare.
- Study according to your biorhythm: schedule your difficult subjects when
you are a peak mental efficiency (after 10 P.M.? early morning?) and plan to do physical
tasks, such as compiling a bibliography at the library, when you are at low mental
efficiency.
- Know and respect your own concentration span. when begin a study session,
gather your materials, relax, plan what you want to accomplish, and energetically begin.
When your mind wanders, call yourself back to the task. But when you find yourself
consistently daydreaming or working without comprehension, take a break. For 5 or 10
minutes. Listen to music, talk to someone, take a walk, do a chore, daydream or relax.
Then begin studying again.
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How long can you concentrate? 10 minutes? 30 minutes? 2 hours? |
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Monday, August 14, 2006 12:18:04 PM
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