stop scrolling through comments and concentrate on the video!

"imagine if you train to distract yourself 6hours a day, 6 days a week, after a year... what are you going to be good at?" this hit me hard! Damn!

How to concentrate 1. Do one thing at a time 2. Practice it 3. Finish what you started 4. Understand the mind, learn how mind works. Once you know how the mind works you can control it and once you can control it you can focus it

If you are watching this not out of mere curiosity or entertainment but have actually recognised personal distraction and really intend to change, I wish you all the best, You are among the very few who have recognised it, let alone change. Edit 1 - I love all of you. Wish you the best. Let us beat distraction together. Edit 2- It helped me secure wonderful marks in school to achieve admission in a very decent college and thereafter, I am now, a successful student of law. Hope you do well too!

I watched this video around Jan 2018 just after graduating from my undergrad, i took an action and started concentrating. By October 2019 I started consulting as a technical Advisor for DFID, OPM UK, IMF, Uganda Revenue Authority, ..... etc. The only thing i can say it works and thank you.

*life is a manifestation of where your energy is flowing*

Hinduism and Indian sciences are so great!!

Honestly this is one of the best TED talks I've ever seen !! I regret why I didn't see this earlier .. Its true everyone , every motivational video just tells u have to concentrate and work hard to come up in life and stuff ..but no one tells us how .. This is so informative .. Im gonna see this over and over again whenever my mind drifts away

When someone speaks so clearly and eloquently, logically meeting all points of a topic and making it crystal clear and easily digestible to an audience, that itself is an impressive indication of their ability to concentrate. When you’re mentally aligned so staunchly to exactly what you wish to convey without even sub-moments of distraction, you’re naturally creative, funny & engaging and at the peak of your eloquence and intelligence. In a way, I even think intelligence is simply a measure of your ability to concentrate. Why is that geniuses just shut themselves up and intensely focus on one thing they do for an extended period of time? It is a way of incubating their awareness on an object of study for so long that it yields unbelievable, magical results utterly incomprehensible to the average mind. Yogis of the past really had it right in ancient India to develop droves of methods to articulate this lost art. Each breathing/kriya practice is engineered to center your mind and preciously improve what is termed ‘intelligence’ in today’s day and age. Sadly this knowledge is now horribly fragmented and known minimally, the mainstream still believing yoga to be a fitness & lifestyle gimmick to their pretense-filled, exterior life. The seriousness and grand scale of this topic is so underrated and grossly under-understood, I think it’s real time to reveal it’s true meaning and application to the deteriorating state of human affairs.

Man believe me he solved the entire generation's problem

Thanks Guru Dandapani... Sir, you have taught the big lesson in few and simple words... thanks and again

My mind immediately stopped wandering after he mentioned the awareness part. Crazy stuff

Video summary: The art of concentration is keeping your awareness on one thing for an extended period of time. Repeatedly bringing it back to that one thing when the mind gets distracted. We practice this by doing one thing at a time throughout the day. When you have a conversation with someone, keep your “ball of awareness” fully focused on that person. It drifts away, you bring it back, if it drifts away again, you bring it back. Over and over. The more you practice this, the better you will be able to concentrate. Life is a manifestation of where your energy is flowing. The benefits of being in full control of where your energy and awareness is flowing are endless. Other notes: Most people can't concentrate today for 2 reasons: 1) We're never taught how to concentrate. 2) We don't practice concentration. Instead, we're experts at distraction because we practice distraction, all day every day. If every time your phone beeps and you react/respond immediately, you are not in charge of your phone, and you are living in the world of distraction. To learn how to properly concentrate you must understand the relationship and distinction between 2 things: awareness, and the mind. Too often we allow external factors to manipulate our awareness to different areas of the mind.

DAMN THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEOS I HAVE EVER WATCHED

Dandapani - The God who rules the Tamils. Om Muruga 🙏

Take away points: - The mind and awareness are 2 separate things; ball of light analogy. - The art of concentration is the art of keeping awareness, that ball of light on one thing for an extended period of time. - Learn to concentrate by doing one thing at a time. - When talking with your partner, keep your awareness on that person, if it drifts away, bring it back. ‘Give him or her your undivided attention’

"Yes, Its OK for Monks to use emails, as long as there are no 'attachments' " :-)

This man is a genius. He is not just telling us to concentrate but explaining it in a beautiful way ,how to really control awareness and focus our concentration for an extended period of time. What a Highly valuable content this is.

No matter after how many years or how many times I have watched this, it still gives me a whole lot of things to takeaway🙏

"Learn to concentrate by doing one thing at a time". "Keep bringing awareness back". I practice meditation some minutes a day. As an Elementary teacher I am going to put these advices into practice with my students. Thank you.

One of the most underrated TED Talks. Deserves more appreciation. I feel pity for those 1.7k who disliked this video.

Dandapani is a gem 💍 he speaks so flawlessly that you can't be distracted 🔥

“As long as there are no attachments.” so beautiful. Connection > attachment

Buddha said: "Who is your enemy? Your mind is your enemy. Who is your friend? Your mind is your friend. Learn the ways of the mind. Tend the mind with care." Great Tedtalk. Thanks!

I'm really good at ignoring the distractions of my phone, schoolwork, and even my fatigue, and instead focusing exclusively on my video game.

I like the analogy of a ball and on a surface for awareness and mind. I'm really grateful to learn this knowledge and also love the note that life is a manifestation of where your energy is flowing. Now I will need to be confident to find where my passions are and practice concentration because that's where I want my energy to flow! I also remember one day I joked with a friend on a difficult subject or major he took upon, but what he said shocked me a lot, and still keeps echoing in my head: "It's not that hard if you pay enough attention". I was touched by this attitude and also felt different. It is a very powerful, inspiring yet encouraging statement that I kept in my mind. Hope ones who see this comment be happy and successful in your life. Good luck my friends!

Can’t believe I missed this valuable 17 minutes 7 years ago. But I'm happy I found it today, not 7 years later!

“Do one thing at a time and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all time.”

Namaste, I am grateful that the ancient wisdom of India and Hinduism ( yoga and meditation) is being appreciated and adapted all over the world now...

Wow, this brought a whole new light. Just amazing how much a few minutes of learning from other's experience can change your entire life.

For anyone who has to deal with the painful struggles of adhd, this is life- saving information.. quite literally! 😂🤍🙏

life ia a manifestation of where your energy is flowing. Amazing

It was the greatest video I ever watched on Focus. Hindu scriptures are soo good in almost evey area🛕🔱

simple and most helpful of all Ted talks ever staged . . . thanks

The realistic advice I've ever had, this teaches "how" and not "what" to do. You can clearly understand, your problems and then now I know where to start to change about myself. Thanks to this video it is really worth it to watch.

Marvelous, marvelous and just marvelous. What a lesson and most importantly how he taught us.

"Life is a manifestation of where your energy is flowing. And if you can't concentrate your energy, the things that you want to manifest in your life becomes very challenging"

To each beautiful soul, may you find what you’re looking for.

The Power of Unwavering Focus is a great book by dandapani. I recommend everyone to go through this book. He is really great.

"As long as there are no attachments" This man is the greatest comedian of all time.

Thank you UKposts for putitng this in my Recommended list. I seriously needed this. Thank you Dandapani ji.

I've just been watching master Shi Heng Li of the Shaolin temple on Ted, it's a good combination with this one, in my view.

It’s finally learning that I haven’t even been breathing the right way, then at 40 I find a psychotherapist who teaches me!! Practice certainly makes close to perfection!! 🙌

He speaks with such clarity and poise that the listener is bound to listen to it all with full focus. Way to go, Young Monk Dandapani! Please accept my regards.

One of the better, more useful TED talks!

This is a wonderful presentation! It brings up such important points. So many times we just need skills, not drugs.

One of my favorite Ted Talks. Have watched it several times over the years and have shared it with people close to me.

Man, Im so happy to see Dhalsim went from fighting in the streets to be a motivational speaker

"The art of concentration is the art of keep awareness, that ball of light, on one thing for an extended period of time." Dandapani

This is a superb video. I know for certain that if I had this knowledge and practised it, I would have enjoyed a fuller and more satisfying life. Thank you so much Dandapani for sharing. Keep spreading the "gospel" (Good news).

Hello, I have ADHD. By God's grace, I will overcome my distractedness by training my concentration. I have two goals in life. The first one is to get close to God, and the second one is to learn a language to native-like fluency. Now, for this year I will intensely be concentrating my focus. Please respond to this comment in 2023 (a year from now), and I will update you guys on my progress.

So multitasking breeds DISTRACTION because you are doing so many things at one point of time that u lose focus at individual things. Thanks a lot for teaching me this !

Yes! The director must be a practiced teacher and transmuter of energy. The audience must trust the director for this journey. I love these thoughtful ideas. Blessings!

Concentration is the key to the universe.

I feel 10x calmer after watching this. The way he formed a logical train of thoughts into our heads as well as the mind orb energy, that was something else!

I rarely ever add public comments(I think this is my third one) but, this is exactly what I needed. So very, VERY beautiful, and easy to understand at the same time-Thank You!

7:45 "the first thing I learned when I went to the monastery was to learn 'how the mind works.' because once you know how the mind works you can control it, and once you know how to control it you can focus it. you can't focus or concentrate something that you don't understand." "from the monk's perspective, there are two things you need to understand; one is that there is awareness and the other is the mind. imagine awareness as a glowing ball of light. Now imagine your mind as a vast space, with many different sections with many different areas within it (one area of the mind is jealous, joy, science, art..etc.) this glowing ball of light called awareness can travel within the mind and can go into any area of the mind it wants to. when it travels and lights up those areas of the mind, it becomes conscious of them, individually." "each day we allow someone or something to take our mind throughout the day from one area to another. when we allow that to happen it's called a distraction." this was an amazing talk. hopefully, in one year I can become more aware of my actions and learn how to concentrate further on what I want to achieve in my life...thanks TedX and Dandapani. My journey starts today -- Nick

This was enlightening. I have partially taught myself to concentrate already but through much force of effort; having a lesson plan / lecture (this video and others like it) makes for a fantastic resource to remind myself how it is done and how one should do it and how one recognises that one is doing well.

Truly a gift. This morning I asked for a message from the UNIVERSE...and this is what it delivered. Thank you! I am blessed!

*distraction brought me to this video and then it brought me to the comments halfway the video*

Watching this at 5 am gave me goosebumps... Thank you GURUJI from the bottom of my heart😇🙏🙏🙏

The Power of Unwavering Focus by Dandapani actually changed my life. I really appreciate the knowledge you have given us, Dandapani. This is really helpful and powerful.

I scrolled through the comments AFTER watching the video :)

"it is okay for monks to use email. as long as there are no attachments.!" Simply BRILLIANT!

I never ever commented on any UKposts videos in my entire life but this one changed my life forever, because he just taught me how to concentrate and it urged me to write a single comment which I’d probably never write. This is life changing speech cause I always thought that I had adhd now I’m even able concentrate on this comment for the first time in my life. Thank you so much I would practice it for the rest of my life, and I’m going to change my life

Had watched this video long time ago and it helped me relax. I had to come back to it today. Concentration is indeed very necessary. Mastering it is far much important. This video is great

I respect this teacher BLESSINGS SIR om namah shivaya 🕉🙏 🙇‍♀️ 🕉🕉🕉🕉 🙏🙏🙏

A very unique video on distraction and concentration... Love his way of explaining... Thanks.

This Tedtalk has changed my life. I have come here second time after experiencing the enormous change it brought. THANKYOU DANDAPANI. FOREVER GRATEFUL TO YOU♥❤

This talk is changing someone's life for sure. Thank you so much for the presentation.

Really nice. Kinda would like to hear more about that monk lifestyle and such

And that’s some really good piece of distra- nah, knowledge I would love to pay my internet bill for.

His voice is so soothing!!!

Literally to the 1% who's reading this, God bless you, may all your dreams come true, may you be successful in all spheres of life, stay safe and have a wonderful day :)

"Life is a manifestation of where your energy is going"

Absolutely loved this video. Thank you so much for this valuable information Dandapani 😘

Life is the manifestation of where your energy is flowing.- dandapani

I'm said to concentrate for 23 years but no one had taught how to..... Now I get it.Lots of respect to you sir.

5:57 thats the purest and most innocent self proud face ..

Were your focus goes energy flows... 15:52 “Life is a manifestation of where your energy is flowing”

This video came into my feed when I needed it the most. Thank you Dandapani. You are a light in this Dark World.

My life has been changed after I watched this video. Thank you TEDx Talks and thank you shree Dandapani ji.

Makes me wanna be a monk!

Patience, perseverance, and persistence are coming to win your goals. Yes to you who is reading this. Good things are coming your way, my friend. Sending you good vibes. Now go and visualise

Concentration is my very challenging for me... I couldn't get concentration since last 5-6 years. I'm disturbed at the age of 21. Now I bored my non - working/ lazy life.

One of the best TED talks, with little 'to-do' suggestions and more of a shift in awareness. I watched this till the end without skipping to another talk. Thank you!

Focusing on one thing is basically eliminating all the unnecessary stuffs in your mind , a simple way to do so is by ask and decide method which says whenever you concentrate and plenty other things come to your mind , then simply ask yourself (like what do you want to focus on?) And you will notice that you will decide the most important thing at that moment and ultimately your focus will be on the most important thing. I'm not saying that asking yourself will help you to focus for long , but with frequent asking and practicing you will able to stick on one thing for long. Lately I've used this way and it's quite helpful ... just thought of sharing...it might help y'all too.

good for him for speaking out against drugs and encouraging parents to learn to concentrate first

This was the most enlightened Ted Talks I ever listened to. I really learned something very useful from it.

This was really Mind Blowing. He explained us in a way that will stay in our awareness all throughout this lifetime. Great Man with Massive Aura.

This make so much sense! If you are able to identify this problem of not being able to focus, i think that's the first step to solving the issue Good luck to everyone who watch this! Practice concentration and bring joys and wonders to your life

Hara Hara Mahadev!

me: "ah yes this man has a fantastic point, i should really be less distracted" also me: *proceeds to watch 20 hours of ted talks with assignments due*

Wow, this is so wild; I'm a new Dandapani fan and so glad I came across his work!

This video helped me to experience a mental shift in how I think and let myself get distracted. I used to think the distracting thought is just as important as the thought it's distracting me from, so it's ok to keep hopping back and forth recklessly. Thoughts are abstract, and every one of them can feel equally important, so how could I prioritize? Now I see it's not about the importance of the individual thoughts. It's about the importance of my ability to focus, so I shouldn't let myself get distracted from what I chose to focus on, whatever its abstract inherent merit.

"Life is a Manifestation of Where your ENERGY is FLOWING"

"Life is a manifestation of where your energy is flowing."

8 years have passed, but it's Still relevant, a must watch for building concentration! ❤

Amazing! The first time when I could concentrate and focus on the entire video, wow. Thank you so much

When you say "go to TEDx and show how to distract",I blink my eyes o god it's for me...