Can someone really improve their concentration in just 17 minutes through practice?

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Has anyone experimented with a 17-minute practice that states it can ‘rewire the brain’ for better attention and focus? Has it been effective?

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I'm a muslim and a kind of meditating during namaz is just amazing!
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haram
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Actually meditation is deeply encouraged in Islam. The prophets & their companions practiced deep self-work through seclusion. They would practice gratefulness, stillness, & wonder at the creation/nature/God…etc. There is a book by Imam Ghazali one of the most sought after Persian philosopher called “On Knowing Yourself & God”. You can’t know yourself without deep work/meditation/stillness etc. And if you don’t know yourself & your purpose in Islam you can’t truly know God/Allah.

This notion that mediation is something foreign to Islam is just not true.
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This is not meditation I swear, now close your eyes and focus on your breath for a while :D
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Lol.. the editing of this video really makes you think he tried to sell you not meditating but tells you to do it anyway... but its taken out of context because he was actually referring to the ideas in a book when he said that in his actual podcast
https://youtu.be/hFL6qRIJZ_Y?t=4251
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I believe when he is talking about not being meditation, he is referring to the open-gaze, widening gaze technique. This video has TWO techniques in it.
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It's so true!
I do mindfulness meditation and it's so similar to it, and it helped me a lot to focus
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I was expecting bs, but instead it served as a reminder for how much meditation used to help me. When i did it, it helped me with not just focus, but also emotional regulation and i felt so much more calm/less anxious. Then i fell off the habit and here i am, sitting on my bed for 7 hours, only able to write 1 paragraph.
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If Andrew would get to the point, then describe it clinically, in a step by step process, his information would be clear and concise.  I have attempted time and again to listen to his superfluous videos only to wish an abridged version exists somewhere.  If we clicked on the link it is because we probably understand we want/need to increase our focus -- so, Andrew, get to the point please!
Now I've lost focus again!  Damn!
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OMG YESSS ANDREW DID MORE HARM THAN GOOD ONLY TO FEED HIS EGO IT APPEARS
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“I’m not going to convince you to meditate” — then he proceeds to describe an exercise that embodies what meditation is all about… That is meditation and is better if you do it more than once
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This is a higher form of meditation called Kayotsarga and is an ancient Jain and Buddhist meditative exercise, where you bring self awareness to your internal body functions and calm them to relax and then reawaken from a calm state of mind in a very slow manner to achieve an energized and focus state, when properly done it can help you achieve very nice results, sometimes when practicing I have had times my headaches would go away because of relaxation and letting go of all thought processes and easing up the blood vessels and the nervous system in the body, its not really difficult and there are many shortened to elongated versions of this form of meditation available out there. There is a lot more to it actually than just the 17 minute version, it helps you calm your emotions to. If anyone has anxiety or too much stress in their lives and would like to help improve their current state of mind and slight momentarily improvement in thinking process and brain function even by a little bit , I would suggest to try it out, its a very simple exercise and it will help in most cases.
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To cut the long story short-  this is Vipassana.....a game changer.❤
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Wow thanks Doc! Will try this when I wake up. Thank you so much for your efforts, greatly appreciated Sir
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i am suffering from ADHD that i cant even focus on video ,,
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Breathe in, breathe out, feel the air in yr lungs and the inner connection in your body just 4 15-20 minutes :) Hope you are okay I also feel the same
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thankyou i will try it
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From your description, “Panoramic Vision” (when you are “mindful” to everything surrounding you) differs from typical definition of “Meditation”, when you “anchor” your attention to (for example) breathing. You have “attention blinks”, you “register” it, and you catch your attention and move it back to “anchor”.

So, I feel that “Panoramic Vision” differs from “Meditation”. But there is another term, in the middle, “mindfulness”, which you can also practice everywhere: when you eat strawberry, for example, don’t watch TV, focus on its’ taste, colour, etc.

I think Eckhart Tolle’s philosophy is “panoramic view”.

When I was teenager, I was doing “deep relaxation” instead of so called meditation, by trying to focus on heartbeat feeling in fingers, toes, feeling warmth in body, then counting from 10 to 0, then repeating some auto-suggestions, then falling into semi-sleep for 5-15 minutes naturally with zero thoughts, and “coming back” naturally, counting from 1 to 10. Maybe that’s why I was top student at high school.

I think deep relaxation and focusing on whole body (muscles, skin, organs) is more “panoramic view” than “meditation”. However, all meditations start from such deep relaxation, it is "warm-up" part of meditation (I think...)
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Buddha said it 2500years ago..and it calls 'anapanasthi meditation. '(Ana=breath in ,pana= breath out,sathi = focus)he taught this will help to focus,and memory boost.
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Samew with the yogis 5000 years ago.
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