Enhancing concentration- self

The transcript is a guided relaxation and visualization exercise that helps the listener enter a trance state to enhance concentration. It suggests imagining being in an elevator going down to different levels of trance and encourages focusing on details to improve concentration. It also suggests preparing and setting up a distraction-free environment to concentrate fully. The transcript ends with a suggestion to make necessary changes on an instinctive level to improve concentration and then counts back from 10 to 1 to bring the listener back to full wakefulness. Make yourself comfortable in a chair with your feet firmly grounded on the floor. Take a few deep breaths in and out, in and out, in and out. Now can you find a spot that you would like to look at comfortably? That's right. As you continue comfortably looking at that spot for a while, do your eyelids want to blink? That's right. Will those lids begin to blink one at a time, twice or three times before they close all together? Rapidly or more slowly? That's right. Will they just close now or will they flutter all by themselves first? Will the eyes close more and more as you get more and more relaxed? That's right. Close your eyes, just stay close as you're comfortable to go deeper, just like when you go to sleep. That's right. And I wonder what you would imagine if you were to imagine a trance lift. A lift that appears to be in front of you, that leads you down four floors, only as fast as you drift deeper. And in this trance state, how would that lift be decorated? Would there be any lift music? If there is, what is playing in the background? I wonder what that lift would feel like as you go down those four floors to the basement of trance, deep into the depths of your unconscious. As you step comfortably into that lift and drift deeper and deeper down from floor four to floor three, going as fast as you go, deeper and deeper in your own unique way, down deeper and deeper. As you can notice, what is at floor three? And no, it's not the floor for you as you drift to floor two. And as the lift briefly pauses at floor two, I wonder what you can discover. Before continuing to drift down deeper to the basement, but don't reach the basement yet, allow your unconscious mind to be fully prepared for the changes ahead, in a way your conscious mind may not know. And the journey to that final level can be a bit further as I quieten down in the background to allow you to complete your journey comfortably and fully. That's right, as you reach the basement and you can now exit the lift and enter a room where change can occur. And I wonder whether you'd be curious later to wonder how much change was left here with only your unconscious for company after you exit the trance. That's it. And you discover ways to enhance your concentration. As you begin to get into a situation you want to, concentration fully, you can find yourself instinctively shutting out distractions and gradually focusing in more and more on what you are doing. And it is interesting how you move your focus onto paying attention, close attention to every little thing you do. The more you shut down other things and put them out of your mind, you will enhance your concentration. And there is no need to try to enhance concentration at those times you need it. Because for concentration to occur fully it just develops by itself. And while that concentration develops by itself, you can just focus your attention on finer and finer detail about what you are doing. And if you are reading you can focus on what that voice in your mind sounds like. And how the eyes move and what they feel like as they move. And what speed that reading is occurring at. And if you are reading a book what do the pages feel like? What do they feel like and sound like? When turning the page. And you can focus down onto finer detail and as you do your concentration will increase. And I don't know whether you will decide to do that consciously or whether it will happen unconsciously. And in an appropriate situation you can prepare in advance to concentrate. You can get the mindset first and set up the situation and make sure the situation has as few distractions as possible. And take a few moments to really focus internally perhaps on breathing or feel the air as it flows through your nose. Then when you have prepared you can concentrate fully and I'd like you to have you take a few moments just to think about those times that you have entered that state of concentration. Even those times it was just for a few seconds. And there are thousands of times in your life that has happened automatically without you being aware of it. And you can begin to gather up all those times and learn from them now. Your unconscious knows how to concentrate fully. And it can be instinctive and automatic and can begin to get a sense of how you will know. You are concentrating fully in the appropriate situations in the future. If I was a fly on the wall watching you concentrate how would I know? What would I see? What behaviours? What body language? What will I hear? How does concentrating in those times in the future make things different? What are the positives of that? How does it impact on your life and the lives of those around you? And you can now take as long as you need over the next few minutes to fully and honestly make all the necessary changes on an instinctive level to ensure you can easily and effortlessly concentrate in the necessary future situations. So so In a moment I'm going to count backwards from 10 to 1 and I want you to be awakened one tenth of the way with each number until you are fully awake. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 back in the room.