Building Sharp Focus, Help?

[DawnOfReality]

Hey bros/sisters

As a university student I realised that I am really lacking good concentration. I have been doing some inquiry on how my life would be both as a student and as a person that is going for that self-actualization and I came to the conclusion (quite obvious, I know, but convincing the mind is always painful!) that If I had a sharp focus I would be in a totally different situation and most of my troubles would not exist.

Now, I have been meditating not every day but almost every day for some months now, with Leo's guided meditation and sometimes without it, just in silence. I noticed that my mind does not quite shut down and actually I get distracted fairly easily.

Could you suggest any techiniques to meditate that are meant to improve focus? I reckon any meditation is about focus, but as I have been doing till now it helped in different ways but my focus ability is quite meh...

 

Edited March 18, 2017 by DawnOfReality

[100rockets]

Did you watch Leos new video today? Are you usually this lucky?

[Shin]

I did the exercice with the metronom for 5 minutes.

It felt like 1.

[cetus]

@DawnOfReality I usually place focus on breath/mantra and allow the mind to vanish into it. But after listening to Leo's new vid. today I decided to switch it up and make my point of focus concentration itself. In other words concentrating on concentration. It seemed to bring more presents of mind to meditation yet I was still removed, but not in a lazy way. So it seemed more active in a sense.

[DawnOfReality]

7 hours ago, 100rockets said:

Did you watch Leos new video today? Are you usually this lucky?

Yeah, when I saw it I was like "WTF, REALLY?!". Still have to watch it! I will come back here as soon as I have something to ask after having done some practice with what Leo suggests.