The aim of education is to develop a child physically, mentally and spiritually. But what happens, the students till primary stage cram the bookish knowledge and pass the exams. On leaving the primary school, maximum students start getting exhausted and score less in onward classes. Parents start blaming the child and create strict atmosphere around him without understanding the real problem. This type of parental behaviour inhibits the personality development of the child.
The innocent kids pity themselves. They become disturbed, feel like crying, silent, moody and may even want to jump into the nearest river. The teenagers at the very early stage start thinking that there are endless sufferings in the world which are often pacified by making friendship with boys and girls. Then they start finding some lonely corners in the streets, picture halls, malls etc for dating. This doesn’t mean that the new generation is astrayed but it is misunderstood.
If we scientifically approach to improve the mind power of the students and guide them how to memorize in a better way, I assure you that maximum students will start dating with books and will have a clear view of their aims and ideals. Remember, asking the students to be confident during exams is asking a poor man to be a millionaire. Here I will discuss how to be confident in studies by adopting some practical techniques. Knowledge is the key to the confidence and confidence paves the way for the success. But here the question arises, how to gain knowledge when there is no concentration and less memory? Concentration can be achieved only if there is will, interest and hard work.
Scientists say that most people use less than 10% of their mind. Broadly speaking human brain is divided into two—left and right part. These two parts are connected by millions of brain fibbers. Dr Roger Sperry says that the left brain and the right brain are specialized in different modes of thinking and perceiving. Dr Sperry was awarded a Nobel Prize for this research. According to him the left brain is the logical part, it controls speech words, language etc. This part is methodical and tends to think in step by step logical fashion. Whereas the right brain is the creative part, it thinks in images and colours. It can remember complex pictures and songs (music). The right lobe thinks in intuitive way rather than logical way. Is it not surprising that we can recognize hundreds or thousands of songs? It means we all have excellent memory. We just do not know how to use it for studies and exams.
These two half brains do work like separate departments but in an interconnected and collaborating way. The left brain controls the right part of the body and the right brain controls the left part of the body. Cramming of the subjects is done by the left brain while creative works are done by the right brain.
❖ During meditation and deep relaxation, the left brain waves and the right brain waves happen together and is called synchronization. Due to this, mind power increases and the student can learn large amount of information very quickly with creativity.
❖ Move your finger under a line of text you are reading along with your eyes. Reading fast gives better concentration because the mind has to do more work and it has less time to get distracted. At first you will understand very less but by the second or third practice you will start grasping the matter in the text.
❖ Relax your eyes when you study. It often happens, whenever we tend to concentrate on our text, we hold our breath and stop blinking. Don’t do this. It will create tension in your eyes and body. Use your palms to cover your eyes without touching the eyelids and feel complete dark.
❖ Preview the chapter by just looking through or scanning anything before reading and it will determine the purpose behind reading.
❖ We remember better at the beginning and at the end of the learning period but very less during the middle. If we want to maintain our ability to remember high enough, we must take breaks after every 20 to 40 minutes.
These are the few tips to improve your learning power which will increase your knowledge and you will feel confident in your studies as well as exams.
To Increase Memory
In the previous chapters I talked about personality development but this is not possible if you don’t have control on your nerves.
This age is the most important stage of any person. At this stage new energy is entering the child and he is in his earliest days of manhood.
Before this age being child and immature transformation is not possible and similarly after the teenage it is not possible for any Tom Dick and Harry to change itself. But here the point arises that how will you know what is right and what is wrong.Every adolescent needs help in his or her own way. Parents’ and society don’t have much time to give guidance to the adolescents.
In this book I have tried many ways to solve some of these problems.
Do you know?
Do you know what this age is meant for? This age is meant for the adventures in life. Basically you are the actual heroes of the future. Don’t enter the rat race. You are born for the betterment of the mankind.
The main problem the teenagers have is the control of mind and the balance of thinking.
You all have seen that all children are born almost alike. The future of a boy or girl is visible in his or her teens. Some students in their childhood are very intelligent and some are dull but during teens due to sudden harmonal changes the conclusions change. Unexpected things happen, sometimes very intelligent students start scoring less in their teens because they are unable to cope the disbalance happening inside them. In such cases parents start getting frustrated. Where the teenagers start scoring more than primary classes there we shouldn’t go in detail. It is good if it happens so.Teenagers don’t do anything but the things happen to them.
Just think if teenagers of a country become balanced then future generation of that country becomes balanced and the country will grow in leaps and bounds.
First of all understand from where the problem starts and what is its solution?
There is a scientific proof that your mind is capable of doing miracles. You can use your mind to control emotions to abandon bad habits,increase memory, to solve your physical as well as mental problems.
If the memory is increased then the learning problem will be solved and then there will no less scoring. Then the students will become intelligent in masses. Moreover changing the syllabus and doing the evaluations easy do not solve the problem. Students have to memorize something to clear the tests.
Brain
When you throw a stone in a pond you see waves. The wave pattern of the heart is measured by ECG (Electrocardiograph). The brain waves are measured by EEG (Electro encephalograph).
The brain waves are of four types. The brain waves also have peaks which are similar to the peaks we see in water waves. The number of times the peak appears in one second is called “cycle”.
BETA (about 15 cycles/sec)
You are in beta or outer consciousness when you are wide awake and your conscious mind is in control. You are thinking logically, analysing and solving problems.
ALPHA (about 7 to 14 cycles/sec)
When you are day dreaming or just going to sleep but not quite slept or awakening but not yet awake.It is the sate of relaxed alertness. This is the stage of inner consciousness called Alpha.
THETA (about 4 to 7 cycle/sec)
This is associated with life like imagination. This brain wave is dominant in children of age 2 to 5 years. This is best for suggestions and inspirations.
DELTA (about 4 and below cycles/sec)
It is a deep dreamless sleep and deep relaxation.
A human brain has a left and a right part, whereas left brain is the logical part and right brain is the intuitive part. The two half brains exchange information through brain fibres connecting them.
Mostly the left brain and the right brain waves are independent and also reach peaks independent of each other.
Also these days it is believed that there is electrical and chemical basis for every imaginable mental state.
Now new studies have shown that the brain activity such as brain waves and secretion of brain chemicals are under the conscious control. The human brain is capable of much greater learning and remembering than had earlier been thought.
The alpha dimension has a complete set of sensing faculties like the Beta. If you learn to use Alpha faculties, you will be able to use your mind more effectively and widely. This is the sixth sense we may call it.
Before you can improve your learning with meditation you have to understand what is meditation and how it should be done?
Meditation
1. Choose a focus word or a short phrase for which you have deep respect.
2. Sit quietly in a comfortable position.
3. Close your eyes.
4. Relax your body.
5. Breathing should be normal.
6. Different people experience different things. Don’t care for that.
7. You are going from Beta to Alpha stage.
8. Practice daily for 10-15 minutes.
As a consequence those thoughts that disturb your mind will start decreasing and you will relax more.
Healing mechanism
Meditation has its own healing mechanism.
Step-I
To move from Theta the sleep level to Beta the awake level we pass through Alpha. Early morning we often pass through it as it is a natural phase.
You can also do the same process while awakening in the morning. Go to the wash room, and freshen yourself if necessary, then return to your bed and lie down. Get up after fifteen minutes. Now close your eyes and look upward, behind your eyelids at a 25 degree angle. This position of the eyes will help the brain to produce Alpha. After a few seconds start counting backward from hundred to one. Doing all this you will be in Alpha. To come back to Beta level count one to hundred. Use this hundred to one and vice versa method for ten mornings and nights.
After the practice of some days try to concentrate on some words or sound with closed eyes. After a few days reduce the counting from fifty to one, and twenty five to one, practising ten mornings each. Now you have learned two techniques one for going to your Alpha stage and the second coming out of it. After learning this you can apply this method any time of the day.
In this way you will learnto go to your Alpha stage. At the same time practice to learn to come out of Alpha stage by doing forward counting from one to hundred and so on.When you will learn to go to Alpha stage and coming out of it by counting 5 to 1 and 1 to 5 you will have greater control over your mind.
Step-II
To increase concentration you can visualize in front of you a small dot. Whenever you sit for meditation stay with this dot. Concentrate on making it more and more larger and still. At the start a lot of thoughts will enter your brain. Ignoring them practise to come back to your image again.
Doing these exercises you will become more imaginative, calm, happy and intelligent. Then you will be able to find your own solutions to the problems.
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