Circle of Concentration

Circle of Concentration. Or Minding ... It is based on a scientific principle which says that our mind can think of only one thing at a time. The mind can therefore be focused in such a way that we isolate other non-relevant thoughts and we can put our attention or “mind” on a particular matter, enabling us to think clearly and deeply about the subject. This also goes for using our other senses.

It is placing your mind at any given moment, knowing that it can only focus on one thing at a time? If you are performing, are you thinking about all that you have developed? Are you focused on playing your technique and “minding” the other performers or are you thinking about the audience and if the casting director you invited might be out there? By learning to control our circles of thought, we can mind things that we choose to mind and better keep ourselves from becoming distracted.

We can, with practice, learn to so focus our minds that we can better control our circles of thought. However, this practice of technique is, like the imagination, a muscle and must be regularly exercised to be useful when called upon.

Remember the human brain can only focus on one thing at a time. This is useful information. Knowing this, we can concentrate more deeply and fully.

Example:

I have four things to do. They are equally important, urgent and necessary things to do, called to make, persons to deal with, problems to solve, our a mix of some of all of them. Using COC / Minding technique one can queue them up one after another so that each one is done with full attention and least disturbance and thereby efficiently and effectively.