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Here is a most heard slogan given by students is “I can't concentrate as my mind diverge when I try to study." As we came to hear from frequent college students that they have lack of concentration and their minds go in other world of fantasy while studying. This lack of concentration is mostly found only during studies whereas they easily concentrate on other types of chore like: playing your piano or guitar, studying any romantic novels, or in any movie. In these types of activities we have our full concentration.

Sometimes your thoughts are scattered, and your mind is clashing from one thing to another. At that point you need to concentrate on your weak point and overcome them. Here are points to overcome your drawbacks.

• Learning mental self regulation.
• Arranging factors that you can immediately control.

Training Your Wandering Mind: Learning Mental Self-Regulation for Improved Concentration

The great skill to concentrate is a learning point. It is necessary to have enough practice whether it is about dancing, writing and typing. Do not distract these plans with medicine. For example, when you are having pain you take a medicine for relief; it acts on the body without any harm.

Concentration procedures require practice. Apparently you will notice a great change in your concentration within six to seven weeks and you surely love the way of your concentration. You should practice the following techniques as below:

• Be here now.
• The spider technique.
• Worry time.

If these plans are not working on your mind then you can choose other mental tasks of concentration, try to use them for two-three days if you find any improvement than use another valuable concentrations.

Be Here Now

This acutely simple plan is apparently the most persuasive. When you observe your thoughts wandering in off path, just say to yourself “Be here now” then blandly come back to your task. Gradually do this hundreds of times a week. Afterwards you will find a gradual decrease in divergence in some days. Be patient in your chore and keep at it, and soon you'll see some improvement in your concentration problems.

The Spider Technique

Here is another plan that sounds cleverly simple and skillful. But it is the base for concentration because it helps you to look after your concentration and not give it in drawn abilities. Here is an example which helps you to concentrate on your task: “if someone enters your room, calm your mind and do not indulge yourself with them, keep doing what you are upto.” In that way you will not lose your concentration.

Worry or Think Time

Manage your chore with some important points do not overcome your mind with lots of work which disturb your mind, and that destructive points must be keep aside.
Main points to get on are:

• Set a specific time each day for your time.
• Let the thought go, perhaps with "Be here now".
• When you become aware of a distracting thought, remind yourself that you have a special time to think about them.

Diana Sawyer, a famous TV newscaster, was asked about the secret of her success and in reply she said that the one thing that she had learnt in her life is that there is no surrogate of paying concentration.

Here are five points through which you can FOCUS on your work regardless of the place where you are sitting or working.

F=Five More Rules to Improve your Concentration

The world consists of two kinds of people one those who work under frustration and the others are those who want to work under frustration. But for the time being we will consider that you are stuck in the middle of a work and you want to give it up. At that time, think only about one thing that just 5 more whether it is 5 more pages of a novel or a book, or 5 more problems of mathematics or any other task.

In every field of life you have to get this rule of 5 more minutes whether it is a student life or an athlete or any other occupation. Athletes increase their physical stamina by crossing the point of fatigue in the same way you can amplify your mental resistance by crossing your aggravation point.

O=One Thing at a time

According to Samuel Goldwyn he only seems confused when he is thinking. It’s all because when you are performing assorted tasks at a time, you are not able to give attention to a single task and you get puzzled and are also not able to concentrate on a single thing. So it is better that you act upon a single task at a time and give it a starting and ending point too.

You must queue your tasks according to their priority and than start performing them. The most important one should be done first and then so on.

C= Defeat Procrastination

Procrastination is basically delaying your work without any reason. R.D. Clyde once said that it is amazing that we want to know that when a task will be completed while we are not working on it.

If you delay a work without any reason than it is only your laziness and you are increasing the burden of your work, as if you will not complete it how is it possible that it will be completed by its own.

So, the next time whenever you are thinking of delaying something keeps 3 questions in your mind: 1. Do I have to postpone it? 2. The next time when I will be doing it will it be easier? 3. Do I want it to be completed as soon as possible so that it is no more on my nerves?

U= Use Your Hands as Your Blinkers

We can actually do a number of things at a time liking driving a car and at the same time talking to a friend. But at the time of our study we need to completely concentrate on our text book rather than the surrounding area. So the best thing for doing this is just make the cups of your hands and place it around your eyes, by doing this you will have a tunnel look and all the other visions will be blocked and your eyes will be on the text book. This will block the other visions and you will not ponder about them.

S= See as if for the First or the Last Time

If you are sitting at a place and your mind is not present there than just simply look around the room keenly and focus on the things. After a while you will realize that you are seeing this thing for a very first time in your life.

And keenly look at your loved ones whom you always take for granted. This will Velveteen Rabbit the world around you and will come to life in your mind.

Imagine your giving a speech in front of an audience and all your saying in “and um, uh….um” because you don’t remember the speech and this thing could affect your credibility and your rapport. On the other hand giving a speech, which you have memorized which you can deliver with confidence it will boost your performance.

Nevertheless, as we all know memorizing speeches is not easy it takes a great deal of time and effort. However, we can improve this by learning few principles that can help us in memorizing speeches in one month, one day or one minute.

1. Memorization works with existing cognitive structures: In other words, remember things by relating them to the things you already know.

2. Memory is aided by interest: If the topic of your speech is from of one your interest then it will be easy to memorize it.

3. Spaced repetition leads to memorization: Try to learn the speech in portions and repeat each portion with few breaks and then repeat the whole speech and doing this with few breaks in between.

Speech Memorization in One Month

This is the best possible period to memorize a speech but it is very unlikely to have this much time but this principle can be use for any speech when you have one week or more to memorize your speech.

Principle 1: Existing Cognitive Structures: As you have, a lot of time to work with you can start by creating a very general and broad outline for your speech. Then memorize it by learning it through repetition. In addition, each day add few details to this outline and learn it. If you fallow this step, you will see that in few days you will remember the speech like the back of your hand.

Principle 2: Interest: If you face some problem in memorizing your speech while using first principle then try to make your learning environment interesting and try to stay active while learning like you can walk while learning. In addition, this you can use your free time try to relate to the speech with the things of your interest.

Principle 3: Spaced Repetition: It is important to take breaks while learning and review the old data before moving to next data.

Speech Memorization in One Day

Despite the short time, the principles to memorizing the speech in a day is same as learn in a month.

Principle 1: Existing Cognitive Structures: As you have, one day to work with you can start by creating a very general and broad outline for your speech. Then memorize it by learning it through repetition. In addition, each hour add few details to this outline and learn it. If you fallow this step, you will see that in few hours you will remember the speech like the back of your hand.

Principle 2: Interest: If you face some problem in memorizing your speech while using first principle then try to make your learning environment interesting and try to stay active while learning like you can walk while learning. In addition, this you can use your free time try to relate to the speech with the things of your interest.

Principle 3: Spaced Repetition: It is important to take breaks while learning like in morning learn something then take a nap and then wake up and start by reviewing the old data before moving to next data.

Speech Memorization in One Minute

If you only have a minute or two to remember your speech, only one thing could be done

Principle 1: Existing Cognitive Structures: Use something that you already know and create a general structure for the speech and relate it to all the things around you and your interest.

The most important reason due to which the people are feared for going to the presentation is that they go blank and forget the speech or presentation. It is very common that a person practices again and again and when it comes to delivery he goes blank.

The best way to remember the presentations are putting some triggers in your presentation they may either be power point slides or any other thing which you will use in the whole presentation. These triggers will help you talk about the next upcoming point and in this way you can easily remember the points and can talk about them easily.
Here are four primary ways by which you can easily remember your presentation

1. Try to memorize your presentation or speech. But it is the worst technique for remembering a presentation or a speech because you will forget the speech within an hour and if you attending the 3 hour long seminars you will not be able to memorize the long speech or presentation.

2. Read the full written version of the speech as mostly the people write the full version of the speech but while reading it they seems unnatural and sound stiff.

This technique is mostly used for the business purposes where the presentations are read out in front of the board members but they apply some methods due to which the sound natural. Apart from this the presenter must also have a business tone.

3. The third technique to remember the presentation or the speech is the notes. Notes are basically the important points that are highlighted in your presentation or speech that are jotted down on an extra sheet. These notes help you emphasis on the main points of the presentation or the speech. But if you are supplied by the notes it does not mean that you don’t have to work hard you have to work hard to elaborate the points.

4. The last technique is the usage of images as your notes. Show these images to your audience and then give a brief story about the image. Apart from this the images also speaks and the rest of the story will be defined by the images themselves. Apart from this you can also make an outline which will help you remember the key points and later you can easily speak on them.

You can also create the mental images that will help you describe and memorize the point.

Following the above points you can easily remember all kinds of speeches and presentations and can deliver them easily but while delivering keep one thing in mind that you don’t have to feel uncomfortable on the stage or shy.
You can try all the above mentioned techniques to remember your speech or presentation but in all the above mentioned techniques triggers are important as triggers are quite helpful in memorizing the speeches and the presentations irrespective of the lengths of the speeches and presentations.

If you want to get a big social network and lot of success is by memorizing the names of the people. If you remember the names of the people they will be impressed by you and will always be there to help you. If you will follow the enlisted four steps you can easily remember the names of the people.

1. Commit

Make a commitment by yourself that you will remember the names of the people and it must be done in the conscious state. Don’t blame your memory for forgetting the names as if you want to remember names you can easily do it and you have to do it.

So before going to a party or at any place where you will meet the people prepare your self that you remember all the names and memorize that commitment you had made by yourself.

2. Concentrate

When you are not concentrating at a place and you have a distracted mind than you will not remember the names of the people. So concentrate while the person is telling the name and also form an impression of that person so that you can easily remember him or her.

If you have not listen to the name of that person than apologize from him or her and ask it again and memorize it and if you still cant get the name ask them again with an excuse that you are not able to hear it or understand it.
Portray the impression of the person in your mind, like how he or she looks and how was his or her attitude. Try all the ways to make the impression of that person so that you can memorize it.

3. Repeat

Repetition helps a lot in memorizing the name.
- As soon as you hear the name repeats it.
- Keep repeating it silently in your heart.
- If it is possible comment on the name so that you can get a clue.
- Try to use the name again and again in your conversations
- While leaving talk to the person and use his or her name.
- When you reach back t your home write it down.

4. Associate

Make a link between the name of the person and the image you had created in your mind about that person. Broaden the image and remember few things about the image in your mind with his or her name and if you are not able to make an association among the image and the name than don’t worry and try to make an image that goes with the name of that person.

If you are good at memorizing the images than you can make the image of your choice according the name and than link that image to the characteristics of that person.

All the above written points must be time consuming and will also require a lot of energy but the end product is quite productive so don’t worry about the time and energy.

The most common thing people complain is about their poor memory. Most of the people are unable to recognize the faces of their friends and family members when they meet them after a long period of time and most of them complain about not knowing the names of their family members and colleagues. They may recall faces of the people but find it difficult to remember names of people whom they know which is a big deal for most of the employees as they have to meet different people at different times and may be they meet them once in a month or in more or less time, they may forget the names which is a big issue for them as it will effect their career. Most of the people take it in negative sense and feel bad if you continuously recall their names which are not their actual names.

The problem of forgetting names is a common one which is experienced by almost all the people in different phases of life. This problem is not too big which cannot be solved.

I will try to explain two basic things in this part. It can be easily used to recall the names when we here the other person speak. This will enable you all to remember the names of different people by just listening to them; this is most successful skill which is very beneficial uptil now. The techniques or methods are as follows:

1. The Observational system
2. The Association system

In 1979 a test was taken by the scientists Goldstein in which people were shown a number of photographs of women’s faces, magnified snowflakes and ink bottles. All of the 14 images were shown to the 14 people who participated in the test 3 seconds and were then recalled after 48 hours. It was found faces were easily recognized rather than ink bottles and finally snow flakes.

The Observational system

When meeting the people you need to observe them keenly and you store some points of his or her personality in your mind so that you may save their names in your memory according to their characteristics. For example ‘Maryland’ it can be easily broken in to Mary and Land so it is not very much difficult to remember the name.

Another name ‘Indiana johns’ in this word it can be split in to two one in India and second one in Johns so it can be easily remembered by anyone as India is a country and John is a common name.

The Association system

In it you make an image of that person according to his physical characteristics and later you associate the name with those images. It may be time consuming and hectic but by the end of the day you will observe that your linking had proven fruitful and you can now easily remember the names and the faces of the people.

By applying these techniques you will easily remember the names and faces of your colleagues without the tension that after how long you meet them.

As the human beings live longer and longer on planet Earth and being a human, we continuously discover more and more about the origin of our world. At the first A.D., Many of us thought that the Earth is flat and you can sail your shallop too far and that will off you drop into the state of unknown. As our hunt for knowledge get to the heights, the thought that we were the center of the world prevailed. The more we start learning, the more we start realizing how much we truly do not know. Many scientists believe in the big bang theory, in that the world was created by the reaction of things moving outward after a huge implosion. People started thinking about time travelling. Travelling into our future for a few seconds can be possible with upcoming technology changes (Hardly we can accept) but difficulties strike when we want to travel into the past. Going into someone’s past is more problematic as many of physicists have argued that sending someone into the past would alter that world’s future to so hard extent that a new and different future would be created necessarily and here comes the problem of “Parallel World” for human beings.

A physicist by the name of Alan Guth (currently working as the Victor F. Weisskopf, Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) came up with above discussed parallel worlds theory based on many observations.

His theory prescribed that:
When the world began, instead of a gravitational pull to keep things together, there was a reverse type of gravitation working, which he coined a false vacuum and that do the repulsion. As proved by the scientists, our world is constantly expanding this theory seems plausible.

At the time of big bang, the “false vacuum” began to decay, creating amazing amounts of particles. These particles were similar to those, which began our world. According to his theory, the world is much larger than anyone had predicted.

If this theory is true;
These amazing and extra particles started became bubbles, much similar to the bubbles, which he believes, began our world. As the “false vacuum” decayed more and more, these bubbles are increased.

Moreover, this theory would prove the existence of many worlds, all of which would appear to have the same properties and abide by the same law of physics. This theory is not fully proved, so there is speculation as to what these different worlds hold.

There are two main ideas from the speculation of the other worlds:

The first is that these worlds are the same in matter and physical laws as our world. It is an exception that they were created by the varying degree and it allowed the other worlds to have every possible combination of particles available. These worlds would act effectively by the same principles, but would have every possible number of combinations there are. For example, our continents would be where oceans are right now and vice versa.

The second idea is that the other worlds would potentially be distinct the way that they may not work in the same way as ours does. A three dimensional vast world may not be what the pattern is. While both of these ideas are plausible, the first allows for the belief in parallel worlds, the idea that any given human can exist at the same moment in more than one place. If, as humans, we were able to tap into the power of traveling to these other worlds, we would be able to ‘meet’ our duplicates. While this is really a powerful thing to think about, one can imagine the possibilities it holds. If this would be possible that our own individual beings could meet each other and everyone had different experiences of time, think about the intelligence and knowledge we could pass from one to another. In one world you could be a surgeon, in another world may be a politician, and in any other world a cop. These options would be limitless in this virtuosity.

A set of theoretical twin universes that co-exist concurrently as our own are called parallel universes, also known as parallel worlds, multi-verses or meta-universes. Science fictions and TV programs often use parallel universes as an explanation for strange phenomena. They were once purely science fiction, but gradually, scientists in physics and philosophy and even theology started to contemplate into the possibility of parallel worlds as a reality and understand how they work. Although, presently there are a lot of contending theories in regards to the concept of parallel worlds. The basic idea is that if the universe is infinite, then simply pretty much everything that could take place has occurred, is taking place, or could happen. The science that seeks answers to phenomena that cannot be explained by the ordinary laws of physics and science is called quantum mechanics. Possibilities of parallel universes travel have been thought of since 1956 with the use of quantum mechanics.

Hugh Everett, an American Physicist, created a complete theorem which presented his idea pertaining to alternative realities. He developed the concept of parallel universes to describe the theory that each possible outcome of every single choice we have, actually does happen. Although we are only aware of the one road, there are many various other roads that are taking place simultaneously and every selection generates much more alternative roads. While in this universe you may choose path A, an alternate you will choose path B in a parallel universe. The existence of parallel universes is hotly debated. Some people declare that meta-universes exist close to us. These people believed that spirit-like entity such as ghosts may be nothing more than people from alternate universes which somehow move into our reality. Another theory is that parallel universes exist in another dimension, one beyond the four dimension world we dwell in. A growing number of scientists get involved with this field of research and study.

The Big Bang of our Universe, according to a current field of scientific study, is connected to a theory that the Big Bang was actually the result of two universes colliding. Some scientists are now saying that the big explosion we perceive as the beginning of our existence could actually be the consequence of two universes colliding, subsequently producing a new universe. Science may not currently be able to prove the existence of parallel worlds, but it doesn't mean that they are not reality either.

A number of individuals claim that moving from one universe to another is already possible and the process is called thought transference.
Quantum Jumping - some scientist have believed that in order to change your location (where you are), you just need to transform your frequencies or thought pattern.
Several people do believe that an alternate or parallel universe is not just made for science fiction even though the idea is not yet proven. Science is significantly moving forward with possibilities about alternate universes. It is a true phenomenon which requires more research.

There was a time when the people believe that the world is a plane sort of planet. It looks like very unreasonable to imagine of multiple universes above and below. It seems very insane and impossible, beyond real science fiction when you hear about the multiple universes, but it is a reality. There was a time when most of the scientists even not ready to talk about the multiple universes, but now most of them believe that there are multiple worlds exists. It is possible that we have infinite quantity of multiple worlds, and most of us happily living in one of the multiple universes. There are many universes having time, space, and different kinds of exotic matters. It is also possible that you could be a part of those universes in different shape with different character. Most amazing thing explained by the scientist is that many multiple universes may exist very near us, perhaps only one millimeter away. They also describe that the gravity we have is only feeble signal seep out by other universe into us.

For many years the multiple universes stood like a clip of twilight zone. Many science fiction writers earned a lot of money by speculating the possibilities of the existence of other multiple universes around us. They tried to reveal that Elvis Presley has died here, but still alive in other universe. The British Empire is still getting strength in another universe. Many serious scientists roll out these speculations and called them absurd, but it seems now, all those speculations were not absurd totally. Multiple universes are really exists around us and these universes are very stronger and stranger than the imaginations of many science fiction lovers.

All these are based after the super-string theory, dark matter and hyperspace forces, the physicists realize that to describe the universe three dimensions are not enough. The universe actually relies on 11 dimensions. Until now, most of the scientists have reached to a conclusion that the universe, we are living in, is also a bubble, one of the infinite quantity of membranous bubbles. All these bubbles ripple out as they shake out of the 11th dimension.

Can you imagine, what might have been happened, if any two bubble universes clashed with each other? Mr. Neil Turok of university of Cambridge, Mr. Burt Ovret from Pennsylvania University and Mr. Paul Steinhardt believes that it had happened in past. As a result, our universe was born due to a huge big bang. This idea spreads a shocking wave through the scientist community that turned the controversial theory of big bang on their head. It is possible that the big bang was not actually the start of everything, space and time may exist in reality before it. In fact, many big bangs might happen every time. However, this amazing story related to our universe creates an alarming allusion. If our universe created with this theory, then there is possibility of another collision again, what will be the result? Only time will tell us.

A precise group of equivalent universes also called as multi universe or Multiple Universes. This term of Multiple Universes also describe the possibility of physical reality of multi universes. Although in many cases the term “alternative reality” also has the same conditions to the parallel universe, however, parallel universe has the general attitude to imply a relationship without connotations. You can describe the term Multiple Universes as, “the different universes exist, but separated with a single type of quantum event from each other.”

As the time goes on and the human acquiring more place to live on earth, we discover many realities about our planet. In the beginning, it was observed that the earth was flat, but the quest of knowledge force us to the free space of skies and unveiled many realities about the planet.

Alan Guth, a physicist revealed the theory of multiple universes depend on his several observations. Many peers of professor Guth believe in this theory. According to professor Guth, at the creation of universe, an alternative to the gravitational pull to bring the objects together, a gravitation of reverse type also working to repel all of it, which he remarked as “false vacuum.” This theory looks like plausible, as the scientists of our world have proved that the world is expanding constantly from the day of creation. Professor Guth also explained in his theory about the universes that when the big band happened, the false vacuum started to decay, and creating large amount of different size of particles. These different sizes of particles are in same structure to our universe.

He also revealed that the whole universe is vaster than the prediction of any person. If we consider this theory, those created particles also started to decay in the shape of bubble same as our universe. The false vacuum as decayed more, the more it produces bubble, and creates more universes as a result. So we have to believe that many universes are exists in different shape, but in the same structure as we have our universe, with same properties, and with same regulations of physics.

Now we have two major ideas about the object combinations of these universes. One idea consists on the exception of similarities of physical rules and matters between these universes and our universe. However, there could be different combinations of same objects in all the universes, due to the different degree at the time of creation. For example, oceans on other universes would have different size and locations than our universe has, but it is confirmed that they also exist on the other universes.

The other idea depends on the exceptions of different attitude and physical, chemical structure between the other universes and our universe.

The first idea of the Multiple Universes allows us to believe that a person can present on many universes at the same time, and if you got the abilities to travel to these other universes, you may find other copies of yourself on different universes. It is possible that you would have different outcomes and different experiences on each universe, like a doctor on one universe, a thief on other, and a president on the other universe.

Anyhow, many idealists thought it a real phenomenon and need more study to prove it, rather than assuming them just a science fiction subject.