Question
QUESTION: I FIND IT HARD TO STUDY, CONCENTRATE AND MOTIVATE MYSELF.
ANSWER: Hi, RJ.
Could you please say more about what your question is and how it relates to meditation?
The more specific you can be, the easier it will be for us to connect.
Thanks.
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QUESTION: how can i use meditation to gain more focus, to concentrate better and study?
techniques
Answer
Hi, RJ.
Could you say some more about, first of all whether you have some experience with meditation, and secondly, could you please write a paragraph explaining more about your difficulty studying, what other kind of concentration you are talking about, for example what kind of situations and also what you mean about motivating yourself - in what situations, what context. Do you mean you don't have goals for your life? Do you mean you can't get out of bed or hold down a job?
Also can you say more about what is behind the inability to concentrate and to motivate yourself? Is there depression? Trauma? Scatteredness?
I don't mean to turn the question back on you but it would be hard to say anything meaningful without understanding more about where you are coming from. Meditation, from my perspective, is not a mental focusing tool but rather is the inquiring into oneself, shedding light internally. So I wonder if you can do that a bit - look into what you mean and what this inability to focus is about - so that we can have a meeting of the minds and look at how meditative work may help.
If it would be easier for you to do this on the phone, let me know. I realize it may not be easy to look inside.
Best,
Jay
