How can we completely concentrate while studying?
It's not only about getting distracted during our study-time. Mind wandering is constant. People mind wander 47% of the time. And that means we live the present moment for only half our lives.Intrusive thoughts are almost always created by anxiety and/or negative emotional experiences. They hinder your concentration, encourage you to procrastinate , distract you from the task in hand and inevitably increase your anxiety which leads to an increase in intrusive thoughts.Trying to block out unwanted thoughts is actually counterproductive. Close your eyes right now and set a timer. Your aim is to spend a minute without thinking of a white bear.How did you get on? How many seconds did you last before the white bear appeared in your thoughts. And why do we think of a white bear when we have expressly told ourselves not to?Trying to suppress thoughts lead to obsession. So, don't block out unwanted thoughts or ear worms. Instead, congratulate yourself for recognising that you are experiencing them and realising that your concentration is wandering.YOU’re a HOMO SAPIEN.As human beings, we have this unique ability to have our minds stray. This ability of having our minds focussed on something other than the present is amazing - it helps us to learn, plan and reason.While most people think of mind-wandering as a lifting escape from daily drudgery, research shows that this may not be the case. In fact, mind-wandering appears to be correlated with unhappiness. Mind-wandering might make us feel less content, but it could also have a functional purpose. A study suggests that mind-wandering might be a sign of a high capacity working memory — in other words, the ability to think about multiple things at once.Here are a few solutions to it :1)Try to postpone the thought.Write a list of the things that are bothering you and then set it aside to be dealt with at an assigned point later in the day. This means that you don't have to hold that thought in your memory and you know you will deal wiht them later.2) Wherever possible , avoid multitasking, which can reduce productivity by approximately 40% by some researchers,as well as increasing stress and anxiety.3) Exposure:Allow yourself to think about the unwanted thought, so that it is less likely to pop up unwantedly at other times. This is painful, but it might work.4)Meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control and help to control unwanted thoughts.Everyone in this world gets distracted. It's natural. So , stay cool.
I get freaky scary gore images come to my head before I go to sleep?
Hi everyone I'm 16 turning 17, I was wondering what could be causing this to happen to me, its been doing it for like a month now Before I go to bed I turn the light off and lie in bed like any normal person But when I go to bed I get extremely graphic horrifying images come to my head, like seeing my friend just brake his neck right around and smile, and seeing weird bloody things scream with large teeth and many more twisted, then I can't sleep, then all I remember is waking up then next morning. but the thing is, I don't see many scary things or anything, I don't watch horrors often like once every 6 months. Please help, what could be causing this?? And my life has been exactly the same for the last 7 months ( well I think it has )
Is a brain transplant possible?
Although many scientists have challenged the feasibility of this process, few would say that it was not possible given current research into organ transplant and human cloning. The bodies created for harvesting would have to be clones, criminals due to be executed, or as you said, people with fatal brain diseases. But the brain stem has to be severed, so one of the most significant barriers to the procedure is the inability of nerve tissue to heal properly; scarred nerve tissue does not transmit signals well (this is the reason a spinal cord injury is so devastating). However, recent research at the Wistar Institute of the University of Pennsylvania involving tissue-regenerating mice (known as MRL mice) may provide pointers for further research as to how to regenerate nerves without scarring. There is also a potential problem of the new interface at the spinal cord, in that even if all the nerves are connected successfully, they may not transmit the same information as the same nerve connection in the old body. For example, a nerve that used to control the right index finger's muscle group might be connected to a different finger's muscle group, or another body part entirely. If this were to happen to the majority of the connections, the person undergoing the transplant might end up with a body which transmitted sensory input to the wrong destination, making it incomprehensible and potentially requiring many years of rehabilitation. An arguably more reasonable scenario is a partial brain transplant involving only enough tissue to provide key memories and a sense of continuity of identity. A fairly large but indeterminate amount of the brain is devoted to processing and controlling sensory, motor, and autonomic functions such as vision, olfaction, movement, appetite, etc.; if the goal is to move memories and/or identity from one body to another then these portions of the brain are likely both difficult and unnecessary to transplant. In al cases, in the near future, this is not a possibilty, it's an inevitability.
My wedding is in 2 days and I'm freaking out?
Does anyone have any advice how to calm the heck down? I'm trying to stay calm and rationalize with myself, but it's not working. I have anxiety, my stomach's all screwed up, and I cried in the car the entire way to work this morning. I'm taking 0.5mg of lorazepam twice a day, but it can only go so far. Now, I must mention that I've got anxiety issues in the first place, but this is way beyond anything I normally experience. I'm mostly upset about the weather. I've always wanted an outdoor ceremony. Growing up, I did not have dreams of my wedding. I never really gave it much thought. As I got older, the only thing I had known is that I wanted to be married outside. As of this morning, they are forecasting a 75% chance of rain and thunderstorms around the time our ceremony will be. We have an indoor option, but it's not in the same location as the outdoor ceremony site. So we have to make the decision Saturday morning as to what we're going to do. The other big thing I'm freaking out about is me. I'm worried that I'm going to look like a hideous mess and it's going to be in pictures for the rest of my life. This morning I noticed I had a pimple on my back in a place that will be visible when I'm wearing my dress. I'm so upset because I worked really hard to make sure that wouldn't happen, and it did anyway. I don't know what to do about it. They don't make make-up that shade of pasty white, so I don't even know if I can cover it. I'm going to feel very self-consious about it. I'm also scared about being the center of attention, having something major go wrong, upsetting a guest, etc. I can see that I'm very irrational right now, but I just can't figure out how to knock it off. I've tried to relax and it only works for very short periods of time. It's driving me nuts because I just want some peace! Any advice or words or wisdom? (alcohol is not an option because of the Lorazepam) Thanks!