Stretch and lengthen through your spine and reach your head upward as you take support from the sky. How to: Sit cross-legged on a folded blanket with your hips higher than your knees in Easy Pose.
Sukhasana (Easy Pose)īenefits: Helps you to center yourself, find peace, and quiet your thoughts. Yoga can help create those conditions by turning your focus back to your breath and your body, if even for a few moments, to help you get out of your head. These are the prerequisites for sustained attention. Whether you regard it as woo-woo or science, the reality is the same: you need to take yourself out of a state of tension to be your most focused self.
Science also indicates that early morning yoga can improve focus and that relying on time away from your deadline throughout the day in order to enhance your attention span. Recent research has shown that the wisdom of the ancient yoga tradition is true- slowing your breath to release tension results in decreased anxiety and an ability to withstand whatever is happening in life with relative grace and ease. When we bring tension and anxiety and white-knuckled determinism to any situation, that actually stifles our experience of focus.Ĭan you recall the last time you lost yourself in the lyrics of a song? The last time you felt compelled to keep reading a book late into the night (or into the early morning)? The last time you sat and stared, transfixed, at the stars? That, too, is focus. That’s not how sustained attention works. We overemphasize self-discipline.Īnd then, when we falter at being endlessly productive, we fall into fatigue and shame and find ourselves procrastinating, lacking creativity, becoming frustrated, and spiraling into burnout. So we attempt to concentrate more intently. It’s something we all say we want more of in our days.
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