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Chapter1 Background
We all know that concentration is a very desirable skill, but how many possess it? I don't need to tell you why it is important, and what are its uses and benefits. It is a must for every person who desires to succeed, whether on a minor or a major scale, whether in the material or spiritual world. In order to gain success you need to be able to focus your mind, and to calm down its restlessness and tendency to constantly shift from one subject to another. Every act needs concentration for its successful performance. Working , talking, conversing, studying and playing require attention. Even washing, cleaning the house or cooking require it, in order to be handled efficiently.People are not born with the power of concentration. It has to be developed. Its development and training starts from a very early age. We try to grab the attention of a baby by making strange noises. Later we focus the concentration of the child by reading him/her stories. As the children grow up they are required to concentrate on whatever they study or read. All of these activities help to some extent to develop and focus the power of attention, but they are not enough.There are times when the concentration becomes very strong, though involuntarily, and without exercising real control over it. You have certainly experienced a few times a total blankness to the outside world, when you were absorbed in an interesting thriller or while reading a captivating book. This usually happens when we engage in activities that we enjoy and love.For this ability to be useful, it should be under the control of your will. You have to be able to decide where and when to focus your mind. Real and effective power of concentration should be under your control, and you should be able to exercise it whenever you need it.Every day you are presented with plenty of opportunities to strengthen the power of your concentration. Actually, every action can be turned into an exercise. Hold your mind on whatever you do, and try to concentrate without deviating to something else. It is true that special concentration exercises are necessary, but if you cannot find the time and place to perform them, you can turn the whole day into an enjoyable exercise. Focus on whatever you do and in time your ability would increase

We found that concentration is very useful to all of us.So that we would like to study at this topic.

Objective
1) For more understanding at concentration 2) Application of concentration to our life 3) study of concentration development to our study purpose 1. To have more attention an what we do 2. Practice concention for good memory 3. Practice concentration for The ability to focus your mind, choose your thoughts, study and comprehend more quickly. 4. To promote control of your thinking, peace of mind , freedom from futile and annoying thoughts, self-confidence, inner strength.,will power,decisiveness 5. To More powerful and efficient use of creative visualization , Enhanced capability to develop psychic abilities

Study area
Chapter 1 Background

Objective Purpose Study Area Step of conducting the report Chapter 2 Meaning Importance of the concept Concept Case Study Analyze of case study and idea from the case study Chapter 3 Application to the life in the university Summary

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Chapter2 Meaning
concentration n. a. The act or process of concentrating, especially the fixing of close, undivided attention. b. The condition of being concentrated. c. Something that has been concentrated. d. Chemistry The amount of a specified substance in a unit amount of another substance concentration n 1. intense mental application; complete attention 2. the act or process of concentrating 3. something that is concentrated 4. (Chemistry) the strength of a solution, esp the amount of dissolved substance in a given volume of solvent, usually expressed in moles per cubic metre or cubic decimetre (litre). Symbol c

5. (Chemistry) the process of increasing the concentration of a solution 6. (Military) Military a. the act of bringing together military forces b. the application of fire from a number of weapons against a target 7. (Economics) Economics the degree to which the output or employment in an industry is accounted for by only a few firms concentration n. 1. the act of concentrating; the state of being concentrated. 2. exclusive attention to one object; close mental application. 3. something concentrated: a concentration of stars. Idea of concentration power can be described as focused attention. It is the ability to direct the attention to one single thought or subject, to the exclusion of everything else It assists in studying and understanding faster, improves the memory, and helps in focusing on any task, job, activity or goal, and achieving it more easily and efficiently. It is also required for developing psychic powers, and is a powerful tool for the efficient use of creative visualization.

The Importance of Concentration

The ability to focus the mind is one of the most important abilities one should possess. As a matter of fact, most people lack the ability to concentrate. Their attention usually wanders, without being able to fix it on one subject for any reasonable period of time. What is concentration? It is the ability to focus the attention on one single thought or subject, excluding everything else from the field of awareness. A good ability, which can be gained through proper exercises, enables one to focus the mind on anything at will, without being distracted by thoughts, noises or anything else.

You need this ability when you read, study, meditate, work or while doing almost anything else. It helps you: - Control of your thoughts - Gain inner peace - Free your mind from futile and annoying thoughts - Improve your memory - Improve your ability to study - Conserve your energies - Work more efficiently - Improve meditation - Strengthen your intuition Every act needs attention for its successful performance. Working, talking, conversing, studying and playing require attention. Even washing, cleaning the house or cooking require it, in order to be handled efficiently. People are not born with the power of attention. It has to be developed. Its development and training starts from a very early age. We try to grab the attention of a baby by making strange noises. Later we focus the attention of the child by reading him/her stories. As the children grow up they are required to concentrate on whatever they study or read. All of these activities help to some extent to develop and focus the power of attention, but they are not enough. There are times when the attention becomes very strong, though involuntarily, and without exercising real control over it. You have certainly experienced a few times a total blankness to the outside world, when you were absorbed in an interesting thriller or while reading a captivating book. This usually happens when we engage in activities that we enjoy and love. For this ability to be useful, it should be under the control of your will. You have to be able to decide where and when to focus your mind. Real and effective power of attention should be under your control, and you should be able to exercise it whenever you need it. Every day you are presented with plenty of opportunities to strengthen the power of your attention. Actually, every action can be turned into an exercise. Hold your mind on whatever you do, and try to concentrate without deviating to something else. It is true that special concentration exercises are necessary, but if you cannot find the time and place to perform them, you can turn the whole day into an enjoyable exercise. Focus on whatever

you do, and in time your ability would increase. In this way you will not only strengthen your attention and concentration, but everything you do will be done better, more efficiently, and even faster. In time, as your attention gets stronger, thoughts will lose their power to distract you, and you will find that you can absorb yourself in whatever you do. This will increase your
efficiency, and make you enjoy whatever you do.

A good example of how concentration can have a large impact on intelligence is seen through the example of some people who cannot read and comprehend complicated sentences, but are capable of hearing and comprehending these sentences in real life. It may mean they just arent concentrating enough when they read as when they are listening. Listening leads to them being more interested in what is being said so they can focus on it deeper. The sound and/or social factors wakes them up and focuses their attention naturally. That means that solely because they were motivated their intelligence increased; that shows how emotion can influence intelligence. Concentration is relative to emotion, which is unconscious thinking about something. Concentration is also another word for consciously or unconsciously thinking about something, usually when it is normally hard to think about that thing. That is, you need to concentrate more if you are being emotional or not focused in order to stay in focus, so concentration might then be better defined as thinking under pressure, or thinking in the absence of emotion. That is, someone very emotional would concentrate and that would be thinking under pressure, the pressure coming from the emotion, and someone nonemotional might just concentrate without having to battle wild emotions or distractions.

Use of concentration
People sometimes refer to a concentration span , this is the time we can concentrate on a specific task before our thoughts wander. In learning concentration skills, we aim to extend our concentration span - bearing in mind that we will have a different span for different tasks. It cannot be expanded to infinity! Most people find their level for most tasks round about an hour, but for some people and some tasks it will just be a few minutes, while for others it might be two or three hours. The main barriers to concentrating are boredom, anxiety and day-dreaming. Thus in improving our concentration skills we need to counteract these barriers. The following three skills are basic to concentration: if you want to improve your concentration, start by practicing them. 1. Stop When you notice your thoughts wandering, say to yourself STOP and then gently bring your attention back to where you want it to be. Each time it wanders bring it back. To begin with, this could be several times a minute. But each time, say STOP and then re-focus. Don't waste energy trying to keep thoughts out of your mind (forbidden thoughts attract like a magnet!), just put the effort into STOP and re-focus. To begin with you will do this hundreds of times a week. But you will find that the period of time between your straying thoughts gets a little longer each day, so be patient and keep at it. 2. Attending This is about maintaining concentration and not giving in to distractions. It could be described as a sort of tunnel-vision, or as being focused: you keep your concentration on what is in front of you. If you are distracted, use the STOP technique to regain

concentration. You can practice attending in many situations: - eg. in a lecture, if people move or cough, ignore them, don't look at them, actively exclude them from the link or tunnel formed between you and the lecturer. - eg. in a social situation, keep your attention solely on one person - what they say, how they look etc. - and ignore what is going on round about. 3. Worry time Set aside one or more specific periods in the day when you are allowed to worry. It can help to set them just before something that you know you will do, to ensure that you stop worrying on time - e.g. before a favourite TV programme, or a meal-time. Whenever an anxiety or distracting thought enters your mind during the day, banish it until your next worry time, and refocus on to what you are supposed to be doing. Some people find it helpful to write down the banished thought: it is easier to banish a thought if you are sure you won't have forgotten it when you get to your worry time. It is important that you keep your worry time, and make yourself worry for the full time. If you find that you can't fill the time available, then make a conscious decision to reduce it. You may notice, particularly if you keep a list, that certain things keep reappearing: this is a fairly clear indication that you need to do something about them. 4. Active Learning Everyone has their own distinct learning style. Some learn by reading and then asking themselves questions, others learn by making condensed notes and memorising them, others learn by the associations they make to the material, and yet others retain a pictorial image of the material. Once you know your learning style, organise the material to suit it: if you don't, learning will be more of a struggle than it need be and your concentration will suffer. Having your own learning style involves having your own internal 'language': briefly, this means the words you use to translate and understand the material so that it has meaning for you. If you don't know how you learn best, try to analyse your experience either with someone who knows how you work, or with someone with expertise in this area. 5. Once you know what your concentration span is for a specific activity, decide

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whether it is acceptable or whether you need to train yourself to expand it - e.g. a listening concentration span of 10 minutes and a lecture of 50 minutes is a mismatch! To expand your concentration span, just try to keep focused for a little longer each time by using STOP! and Attending. Practice with something that doesn't matter in terms of the task: you could expand your lecture concentration span by practising listening to the news on the radio. 6. In between periods of concentration, do things to change your physical and mental activity. You could move around to boost your circulation if you have been sitting, or you could think about something completely different - and fun - to give your brain a new focus. 7. Give yourself incentives and rewards appropriate to the level of concentration you have had to maintain. Quite often they can be linked to the things that usually distract you. If you dream of sitting out in the sun when you are in a library trying to study, make your reward a period of sun-worship (with the appropriate sun-screen cream). 8. Be active in mental activity. Use a hierarchy of questions to help you focus when reading reference material or listening to a lecture, rather than passively reading through it or listening and hoping that something will stick - and then write brief notes about the answers to your questions. Ask yourself how you will use the material, where it fits into what you already know, what new questions it triggers. 9. Do tasks that need most concentration at times when you are mentally and physically fresh: concentration is harder to maintain when you are tired. This means you need to know the times of day when you work best: people vary as to when is their best time. 10. Experiment and see whether working with another person helps you keep focused on the task. It can often refresh interest in the subject by sparking off new trains of thought which then re-involve you in the task.

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Concentration case study

Sir Isaac Newton PRS (4 January 1643 31 March 1727 [OS: 25 December 1642 20 March 1727])was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. His monograph Philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws, by demonstrating the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the Scientific Revolution. The Principia is generally considered to be one of the most important scientific books ever written. Newton is considered by many scholars and members of the general public to be one of the most influential people in human history. From above chapter to see that is Ser Isaac Newton has concentration in around himself and doesnt ignore everything. That he has concentration occur result development new knowledge for human. He become famous.

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Analyze of case study and idea from the case study

concentration

Helpful Not Helpful Philippians 4:13 ESV / 19 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. HelpfulNot Helpful 1 Corinthians 9:25-27 ESV / 15 helpful votes Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. HelpfulNot Helpful 2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. HelpfulNot Helpful 2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, HelpfulNot Helpful Romans 12:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under

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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. HelpfulNot Helpful Matthew 11:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. HelpfulNot Helpful Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ... HelpfulNot Helpful Romans 12:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I

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HelpfulNot Helpful 1 Peter 2:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,

HelpfulNot Helpful Acts 17:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the

Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. HelpfulNot Helpful Ecclesiastes 12:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. HelpfulNot Helpful Acts 13:1-52 ESV / 2 helpful votes Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were worshiping the Lord

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and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off. So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus. When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them. ... HelpfulNot Helpful Acts 9:1-43 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ... HelpfulNot Helpful Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down. As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age? And Jesus answered them, See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. ... HelpfulNot Helpful Matthew 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they you, they have received their reward. HelpfulNot Helpful Isaiah 65:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, says the Lord. disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to

Chapter3 Application to the life in the university

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When we lived in social we should to improve characteristic in your life because this times we grow up. characteristic very important is concentration because now,status we is student we should to learn about concentration of everything such as learn and concentertion of study , concentration with a bunch of us , concentration of social you lived etc . Everyting is very importance when you grow up to work you have to concentration when you young . You have lived in social , office , family, our friends happily and have fun in your life.

Summary

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This paper is about intelligence, and the role that concentration and emotions play in it. I will show that as people age as adults their mind changes from a larger memory and learning ability to them becoming more emotional with age, and that this change is possible and fitting because emotion is very different from intelligence. Also, an understanding of the differences of emotion and intellect shows that since emotions distract from intellect, concentration (which can be defined as thinking under the pressure of emotion [since to give undivided attention you couldnt be disturbed by emotional factors]) is an important part of intelligence.

Reference

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Bartolic et al., 1999 E.I. Bartolic, M.R. Basso, B.K. Schefft, T. Glauer and M. Titanic-Schefft, Effects of experimentally-induced emotional states on frontal lobe cognitive task performance, Neuropsychologia 37 (1999) pp. 677-683. http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000005.htm(19/0 5/2011) http://www.thefreedictionary.com/concentration(19/05/2011) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/concentration(19/05/20 11) http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000004.htm(19/0 5/2011)