Attention to the details: Yoga

One of the key factors that determine the effectiveness of the employees in the fast changing dynamics of the corporate world is their ability in paying attention to the details. This attribute is uniformly applicable to the entire gamut of the organisation starting from the entry level staffs to the top level senior executives.

Attention in today’s scenario:  In today’s information age, every individual is bombarded with millions of information in a day. Distraction is set in an individual due to the heavy volume of information handled. How to cope up with the distractions?

Awareness is an infinite field and attention is nothing but shifting the awareness to the specific task or information. Attention is just like a spot light in directing your awareness to a narrow region. Attention is the gateway to explore the finer details of the specific task or to gain entry into the internal world related to the task. Attention is nothing but the convergence of infinite potential of awareness.

A new world related to the task opens up with the intensified attention level which otherwise stays invisible in the normal circumstances. This gives rise to the opportunities to explore and move further. Now, the person thought, mind and his entire internal world are in perfect sync with the exposed world related to the task. In this mode, the external massive information become insignificant and fade away in the background. This perfect synchronisation generates the perfect results. Otherwise, in a normal circumstance, the massive information stays in the foreground acting as distraction.

Yoga & Attention: Yoga is a mind body practice where one develops the faculty of attention to the next highest level. Yoga practice is a journey of exploring one’s own internal world. Yoga practitioner systematically pays attention to the breathing, bodily sensations & his own thought process as well. Thus, a practitioner enhances and strengthens his attention faculty each and every time as he performs his practices on a regular practice.

In neuroscience, there is a law that states as “the neurons that fire together wire together”. This is the effect of regularity in the practice. As one repeats the practice, the neurons that relate to the attention faculty get fired and finally improving the attention faculty in the brain.

Now, the practitioner is in perfect tune with his own internal world with developed heightened attention faculty. When a task is given, it is natural for him to open up the internal world related to the task and get it aligned to his own internal world thereby generating the right kind of result.