Concentration through Meditation

Psychology has proven that meditation can improve your concentration. There are many forms of meditation that can help you focus your mind on a certain objective. Focusing your mind on a certain thing and not allowing it to think of anything else helps build concentration. Concentration, like any other mental task, improves through practice.

Kids these days are so used to concentrating on a number of things at once. Listening to music, while talking in a chat, while playing a game, while doing homework with the TV on in the background, has become common place. This is a very different environment from the silent classroom. Blame their poor attention span on too much technology. Kids can entertain themselves with the click of a mouse. Putting knowledge in ones head requires more time and effort then that. Humans didn't evolve with so many distractions! Instead of going to a therapist and asking why your child can't even focus on a simple conversation, get them to compartmentalise things. When they are doing homework, get them to do only that. Grades will improve.

Teach them that learning requires patience. Learning as we all know can be boring. It requires imagination to make it interesting. Learning isn't entertainment. To learn you must focus. And focusing takes practice. Just like any skill!

And THAT'S the alternative treatment for ADD!