Poor Mental Focus: The Universal Problem:
My last article reviewed how the average person can
understand the mechanics of assessment, plainly known as “testing” or even
“cognitive tests”. Many brain boost companies claim both recent and historic
cognitive findings, some cloudy, not accurately clarified. And, most digital
learning applications do not generate sustained focus.
The internet is awash with brain and cognitive articles and
podcasts with many view slants. My articles are rooted as a parent of three,
classroom and learning disabilities teacher, data analyst, researcher, and
artistic program designer applying puppetry.
To stay abreast with current
popular thought/mind processes, and to offer understanding and desire for
mental/physical wellness, I am visible on social media.
With that said, this article is on how deep learning with
fixed focus affects our lives and identities.
Identity Empowerment through Focal Strength
There are many types of over- layers of our focal identities:
on the family, religious, work, school, social, and emotional
event-spending.
Yet, the most important one to consider: How to take on new tasks and ignore
distractions.
My former articles have discussed how visual and auditory
memory integration becomes elusive with too much addictive screen time adherence.
It will destroy visual and auditory integration (necessary for deep
understanding/comprehension).
Once you completely “understand” a situation, and apply
rationale, your stress level lowers.
But, instead, we react impulsively. We all “obey” our
screens with compulsivity. Marketing strategies depend upon our compulsive
natures that we will react instantly to their clever lures. Ads pop up
continuously, diverting our thoughts and concentrated attention.
We apply cell phone “Focus” settings to turn out the
distractive onslaught of visual images. But, even then, we still do not focus on
new learning tasks optimally.
Engulfed by distractions, we multi-task that
further diverts the concentration at hand.
Creating Purposeful Goals to Sustain Focus
We may additionally have weak visual and auditory working
memory to focus effectively. Thereby, we may not integrate properly for good reasoning capability.
This soon unites with mental depression, ignited by constant screen adherence.
Furthermore, instead of creating a unique personal identity
to formulate the joy of our own being, we spend excessive amounts for concert
entertainment.
This brief surge of excitement does not compensate for our
lack of mental focus, or a sense of purpose, we sorely need for today’s
survival. Yet, we become addicted to this sketchy lifestyle expenditure
pattern.
We Search for this Elusive, Desired, Focusing
A recent neuroscience article stated findings re visual
stimuli and fighting distractions called “Beta Bursts,”and how they appear from
sustained, continued focus.
Brain frontal cortex neurons create “Beta Bursts” through
visual movement and fixed attention. To personally obtain a visual Beta Burst,
you must forcibly be directed towards a
goal, rather than distractions.
Brain neurons can be re-directed to an important task, but it does take
an enormous amount of determined energy to do so.
Okay, how do we create these goals for fixed focal
attention?
Solution: Daily, Progressive Procedural Learning.
But, which one?
There are many brain development choices: stimulation
devices, (but will not improve current cognitive levels), medical drugs, pills,
various digital, brain programs, (few will improve the critically needed
auditory sequencing capability), diets, all designed to reduce brain fog and
create learning prowess.
But, these varying choices do not necessarily make you adept
in following and retaining sequential, skill-set procedures, nor last.
My digital solution is a worthy consideration: The Bridge to
Achievement has 42 years in published, juried, Beta research and development.
1. Musical, rhythmical, facial focus with
chunking – visualization – pattern finding operations, is a good option to
obtain fixed attention for deep learning,
2. Consecutive,
determined practice is the next requirement.
3. The lessons
must then build on each other in difficulty level with purpose.
4. Then, the
learner should recognize their progressive improvement, and keep going.
5. Finally, the rhythmic, timed, visual
and sound adherence will re-formulate one’s brain cognition and integration.
Improvement is “not a quick fix”, but you can see improvement gradually,
peaking in a year or two, if you are motivated, and determined, with a
goal-set.
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Now, you can recognize and resolve your insidious
mental focus limitations, so you can take action to alleviate stress,
depression, and confusion.