Concentration, Brain,Hypnosis

Tip 1: Attempt Silence 

Many people sabotage their ability to focus on one task or project at a time by not limiting the amount of noise around them. For example, perhaps you are working while listening to music. Or maybe you like to leave your windows open while trying to finish a project at home while your neighbors mow their lawns.

Whatever the circumstance, try to limit or even eliminate the noise that happens around you while you are trying to concentrate.

Tip 2: Take Exercise Breaks

Your mind can only focus for a limited period of time before needing a break. Some experts suggest taking a short 10-minute exercise break after each 45-minute work session.

This method does two things to improve your ability to focus. First, it gives your brain a much-needed rest. Second, if you use this short break for simple exercises such as sit-ups, push-ups, or jogging, you allow your blood to flow more effectively to your brain. After 10 minutes, your brain is refreshed and ready to work again.

Tip 3: Use Hypnosis

Your mind and spirit is more powerful than you may imagine. Hypnosis is a highly effective way to improve your ability to concentrate.

First, try self-hypnosis by suggesting specific actions repeatedly. For example, you can "train" your brain to concentrate more effectively through gentle self-suggestion and imagery. Second, use the help of a therapist who can suggest ideas and thoughts to your brain's subconscious to help develop the ability to concentrate.

Professional athletes have long claimed that such hypnosis is how they are able to maximize their performance. 

Tip 4: Set Deadlines

Without a firm deadline to finish tasks, you may find yourself easily distracted by other tasks, regardless of priority. Set a deadline for the task on which you want to focus your attention. Don’t consider the deadline as negotiable. Otherwise your brain will begin to learn that it can ignore any deadlines that you set in the future.

The ability to focus is the foundation of success in everything people do.

WEIGHT LOSS hypnosis

WEIGHT LOSS hypnosis

Yes! You heard it right, weight loss through hypnosis. Hypnosis can finally bring an end to those abnormal craving and midnight sneaking into the kitchen. But first, let us dig in to the real definition of hypnosis to establish facts in that effect. Hypnosis is a mental state where you are in a trance, where you are subject to suggestions, self-suggestion, or autosuggestions. In Hypnotherapy sessions you’re in hypnotic induction where you are more receptive to new ideas and commands since the mind is at an open state.

Is it really effective? How does it work? Before anything else, this is not magic. Unlike the popular belief, it cannot magically reboot, reset or reprogram the human mind to achieve results. It is a series of extreme concentration followed by relaxation and focus that induces the mind to re-pattern its eating habits and retain them consistently. According to anderbilt.edu, studies showing weight loss as a result of hypnosis alone are few in number and suffer from methodological problems. There were people who underwent hypnosis for weight loss and after 12 weeks, they loss an average of 10.2lbs. The results were promising and interesting to the media, but the control group was small, and we cannot generalized the finding that it will be effective to everyone.

The core of the hypnosis therapy for weight loss is to reprogram or modify a person’s behavior towards food, diet, and other factors that trigger weight loss. For example, if one person is prone to binges because of emotional eating, hypnosis can suggest new reactions. When faced by a bad day or almost at the top of emotional eating, one can suggest that instead of venting out on ice cream, one can go to the gym and workout.

Hypnosis results convey that it is extremely important to know that behavioral modification in relationship with weight management is far more relevant and effective than hypnosis alone. You can ask your psychologist or a hypnosis specialist regarding this but before you commit on anything, consult with your physician first. It is strongly suggests that you make sure about the effects of a modified eating pattern to your health. Sometimes, eating patterns are responses to some underlying pathological and or dietary ailments such as diabetes.  For those who have nutrition imbalance, be extra cautious in putting your mind under hypnosis. Your health strongly depend on how and what you eat. Modifying them means putting your health needs compromised.

Raja Yoga

Raja Yoga

Rāja Yoga ("royal yoga", "royal union", also known as Classical Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga) is concerned principally with the cultivation of the mind using meditation (dhyana) to further one's acquaintance with reality and finally achieve liberation.
Raja yoga was first described in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and is part of the Samkhya tradition.
In the context of Hindu philosophy Raja Yoga is known simply as yoga. Yoga is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy. It forms an integral part of the spiritual practices of may Hindu traditions including Brahma Kumaris and Prajapita Brahma Kumaris religion.
Contents -
1 The term
2 Concept
3 Practice
4 Eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga
4.1 Yama
4.2 Niyama
4.3 Asana
4.4 Pranayama
4.5 Pratyahara
4.6 Dharana
4.7 Dhyana
4.8 Samadhi
The term Rāja Yoga is a retronym, introduced in the 15th-century Hatha Yoga Pradipika to distinguish the school based on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali from the more current school of Hatha Yoga expounded by Yogi Swatmarama. Currently (2011 C.E.)the term is also used to describe the meditation practice of the Brahma Kumaris.
Raja Yoga is traditionally referred to as Aṣṭānga (eight-limbed) yoga because there are eight aspects to the path to which one must attend. Patanjali uses the expression 'Kriya Yoga' in his first sutra of the second chapter: Tapas svadyaya ishvarapranidhanani kriya yogah (2:1), "Discipline, insight, and devotion are the pillars of Kriya Yoga". This is not to be confused with the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga of K. Pattabhi Jois.[citation needed] The Kriya Yoga propounded by Paramahansa Yogananda is closely related.

Concept

Raja Yoga is so-called because it is primarily concerned with the mind. The mind is traditionally conceived as the "king" of the psycho-physical structure which does its bidding (whether or not one has realized this)[citation needed]. Because of the relationship between the mind and the body, the body must be first "tamed" through self-discipline and purified by various means (see Hatha Yoga). A good level of overall health and psychological integration must be attained before the deeper aspects of yoga can be pursued. Humans have all sorts of addictions and obsessions and these preclude the attainment of tranquil abiding (meditation). Through restraint (yama) such as celibacy, abstaining from intoxicants, and careful attention to one's actions of body, speech and mind, the human being becomes fit to practice meditation. This yoke that one puts upon oneself (discipline) is another meaning of the word yoga.
Every thought, feeling, perception, or memory you may have causes a modification, or ripple, in the mind. It distorts and colors the mental mirror. If you can restrain the mind from forming into modifications, there will be no distortion, and you will experience your true Self. - Swami Satchidananda
Patañjali's Yoga Sutras begin with the statement yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ, "Yoga limits the oscillations of the mind". They go on to detail the ways in which mind can create false ideations, and advocate meditation on real objects. This process, it is said, will lead to a spontaneous state of quiet mind, the "Nirbija" or "seedless state", in which there is no mental object of focus.

Practices that serve to maintain for the individual the ability to access this state may be considered Raja Yoga practices. Thus Raja Yoga encompasses and differentiates itself from other forms of Yoga by encouraging the mind to avoid the sort of absorption in obsessional practice (including other traditional yogic practices) that can create false mental objects.
In this sense Raja Yoga is called the "king among yogas": all yogic practices are seen as potential tools for obtaining the seedless state, itself considered to be the starting point in the quest to cleanse Karma and obtain Moksha or Nirvana. Historically, schools of yoga that label themselves "Raja" offer students a mix of yogic practices and (hopefully or ideally) this philosophical viewpoint.
Lord Krishna describes the yogi as follows: "A yogi is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist, and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances be a yogi"


Raja Yoga aims at controlling all thought-waves or mental modifications. While a Hatha Yogi starts his Sadhana, or spiritual practice, with Asanas (postures) and Pranayama, a Raja Yogi starts his Sadhana with the mind as well as a certain minimum of asanas and pranayamas usually included as a preparation for the meditation and concentration. In Samadhi Pada I,27 it is stated that the word of Ishvara is OM, the Pranava. Through the sounding of the Word and through reflection upon its meaning, the Way is found.

In the Jangama dhyana technique of Raja Yoga, the yogi concentrates the mind and sight between the eyebrows. According to Patanjali, this is one method of achieving the initial concentration (dharana: Yoga Sutras, III: 1) necessary for the mind to go introverted in meditation (dhyana: Yoga Sutras, III: 2). In deeper practice of the Jangama dhyana technique, the mind concentrated between the eyebrows begins to automatically lose all location and focus on the watching itself. Eventually, the meditator experiences only the consciousness of existence and achieves Self Realization. In his classic Raja Yoga, Swami Vivekananda describes the process in the following way:
When the mind has been trained to remain fixed on a certain internal or external location, there comes to it the power of flowing in an unbroken current, as it were, towards that point. This state is called dhyana. When one has so intensified the power of dhyana as to be able to reject the external part of perception and remain meditating only on the internal part, the meaning, that state is called Samadhi.


Eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga


The eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga are:
Yama – code of conduct, self-restraint
Niyama – religious observances, commitments to practice, such as study and devotion
Āsana – integration of mind and body through physical activity
Pranayama – regulation of breath leading to integration of mind and body
Pratyahara – abstraction of the senses, withdrawal of the senses of perception from their objects
Dharana – concentration, one-pointedness of mind
Dhyana – meditation (quiet activity that leads to samadhi)
Samādhi – the quiet state of blissful awareness, superconscious(?) state. Attained when yogi constantly sees Paramatma in his (jivaatma) heart.
They are sometimes divided into the lower and the upper four limbs, the lower ones—from yama to pranayama—being parallel to the lower limbs of Hatha Yoga, while the upper ones—from pratyahara to samadhi—being specific for the Raja yoga. The upper three limbs practiced simultaneously constitute the Samyama.