In the hustle and bustle of modern life, it sometimes seems challenging to concentrate. After all, distractions lurk everywhere. Fortunately, there are numerous natural ways to improve your focus and increase your concentration.
Let's look at the causes of concentration problems and some solutions you can try.
Causes of impaired concentration
Several factors can underlie a lack of focus and concentration. We highlight a few:
- Stress and anxiety: Stress and anxiety can confuse your thoughts and reduce your concentration. Prolonged stress can even lead to chronic concentration problems.
- Lack of sleep: Insufficient sleep affects not only your mood, but also your cognitive functions. Lack of sleep can reduce your ability to concentrate and slow down your reaction time.
- Nutritional deficiencies: Unhealthy and poorly varied diets can lead to deficiencies in essential nutrients crucial for proper brain function and concentration.
- Distractions: Constant distractions from technological devices and social media can interrupt your focus and affect your concentration.
Improve focus? 5 tips!
Reduce external stimuli
Without you perhaps realizing it, your brain is confronted with all sorts of stimuli throughout the day. From notifications on your phone to advertising flyers to incoming emails to colleagues at your desk. A cluttered desk or busy workspace also does little for your focus and concentration.
Therefore, start turning off notifications or put your phone on airplane mode. Clean up your workspace and start working with time blocks - 25 minutes of work, 5 minutes of loafing. Then suddenly focusing becomes a lot easier!
So do you want to reduce your concentration problems? Then allow yourself moments of rest.
Listen to binaural beats
Music, in a nutshell, consists of vibrations at certain frequencies (tones) that enter our brain. These vibrations activate parts of the brain, stimulate the production of neurotransmitters such as GABA and dopamine, and evoke emotions that belong to our personal brain programming. As a result, music can change your entire physical and mental state of being.
Binaural beats, even more than other music, are capable of affecting your brain and the brainwaves it produces. This is due to a special technique in which two tones at a slightly different frequency (expressed in hertz or Hz) are played simultaneously, one in each ear. Your brain compensates for the difference in these tones with a third "difference tone," which has a frequency corresponding to a specific brain wave. Beta waves (13-32Hz) provide focus, energy and clarity.
4-7-8 breathing
A simple but effective technique to help you relax and restore concentration is the 4-7-8 breathing. You do this breathing as follows:
- Breathe in through your nose for 4 seconds.
- Hold your breath for 7 seconds.
- Exhale slowly through your mouth for 8 seconds.
- Repeat this cycle several times.
This breathing technique calms your nervous system, reduces stress and improves your focus and concentration.
Meditating
One of the causes of focus and concentration problems is having an overflowing head. And an overflowing head can be relaxed through meditation. Just creating space in your head. Meditating puts you in a state where the constantly rattling little voice in your head temporarily shuts up for a while.
A short meditation session can ensure that you can then focus with renewed focus on that important task you were dreading like a mountain before.
Brain Support supplement
Our Brain Support supplement contains a very special berry - the Aronia berry, also known as the Brainberry. This is an excellent source of polyphenols - a group of antioxidants that includes phenolic acids, anthocyanins and flavanols.
Furthermore, our Brain Support supplement contains vitamin B12, which is good for concentration and vitamin B5 which supports in stress situations.
