RAS not tuned in

I have habit of reading tons of books on every subject possible. But since I have been trying to read 2 books Jesus Lived in India and Veronica decided to die.

My mind hasn’t been able to focus on the book. I felt even though I was reading the book my mind was somewhere else. After 2 minutes when I would buzz out of my trance for some XYZ reason and I wouldn’t be able to figure out what was the Last word I read. I would try to reengage attention to the book and hell I don’t know if I just read last 2 paragraphs or not. I can’t recall any of it. You know when you read same thing twice, your head is trying to race ahead of the predictability factor and you read faster because you know what is there.

This is when I realized that my RAS wasn’t tuned in. I was lost in series of thoughts, which I couldn’t even remember due to illusion that I was reading the book and not thinking. This is when you realize your brain want to do something else. Most people would just shut down the book or try to re focus to get the job done.

What actually worked for me was when I questioned my mind what does it want to do. I started writing out the flow of my head. It was full of rambling. Try this method out. When you feel you have no clue what you want to do at that very moment. Start writing.. Just see you have series of unclear thoughts buzzing you. You will feel sense of clarity after you have done it.

Don’t worry if your thoughts are repeating again and again. Just keep on writing till your brain can’t write anymore. You will realize that brain is trying to concentrate where your RAS is tuned in and only when you finish that task you will be able to do the work you were trying to do or otherwise it won’t be the work you were trying to accomplish

Though I would be researching on topic that how to do you tune your RAS into task, which you want to get done and then accomplish, what your brain was buzzing you about. May be this is the way you can get your 100% focus to something.