Chapter seven focus and health a few years ago when I was diagnosed with attention deficit
disorder and was given the focus pills by my doctors in order to help me with my lack of
being able to pay attention hey what's going on memory master champion Lewis danger right here
with AE mind and in my better memory now book actually goes to the story as to how actually
got started in this field of memory improvement and one of the biggest triggers for me was the
fact that I was diagnosed with a VD or attention deficit disorder and essentially this just means
that my mind was not able to focus on one thing at a time it was always scattered and thinking about
either the pretty girl that I forgot to talk to that day or who was gonna win on the real world
challenges later on that night for that episode or something more important such as when I was
going to eat for lunch and dinner you see my mind will always be bouncing around and wasn't able to
get clear on the one thing that I need to focus on which was for example I'll be reading a book
in the class and it's one of the main reasons why I was actually selling class was because I would
read and about 10 to 15 minutes in I look up and I realize like what was this even about what was
I reading who was a character let's applaud I had no idea because why after the first sentence my
mom was already in la-la land I don't know if that had ever happened to you but it used to discourage
me in that and that's what led me to not doing my homework to not paying full attention when my
teacher was teaching and procrastinating and it wasn't because I wanted to do those things but
it was because I was discouraged at the fact that all my classmates were finishing their work and I
were actually able to pay attention and I was and so would see them finishing up exam very quickly
and I was just feeling like any random answer just to finish up and to catch up with the rest
of the class so it would be random patterns on the scantron sheet and I remember going to my doctor's
office and all they would give me were the instead I mean based drugs the riddle names and so on and
so forth the focus pills as they call them and that was their only solution now I'm not saying
that the doctors are bad for prescribing that I mean that's what they're taught it's taught to
give kids and give even adults these pills to help them to calm them down so they can fully
concentrate on the task at hand but honestly that didn't really help me out yes I saw an improvement
maybe the first two your second day I still remember my like my first experience with adderall
and the ritalin based pills that they gave me I remember taking the pill and taking a nap but then
afterwards when I woke up I remember standing up and looking at my room my room was always the mask
looking at my room it was like why am I such a pig and I remember that he just cleaned every square
inch of that room I picked up my mattress I put it out into the living room I just it every little
square inch of that bed frame I mean just buddies were scared to go into that room after I was done
with there oh so focused I was not thinking about anything other than just cleaning my room it was
actually very similar to the limitless movie when Bradley Cooper took the NDT pill and as soon as
he walked into his kitchen I mean he just want to clean everything that's exactly what I did I
remember around me for maybe one or two days afterwards but once it wore off that was in
I mean the only thing that I really felt was my heart racing and trying to beat out of my chest
as essentially an affront of meanness it has a very similar composition as mass or speed so your
heart's racing your blood is pumping and it's kind of weird how that works how you know your blood is
pumping more more oxygen and more blood flow to your brain but you're more calm and focus I don't
know how exactly the science behind that I'm not a doctor so I'm not here to give you any medical
advice if it helps you out great all of that I'm telling you here is my story as to how I got over
that honestly when I thought when I took these photos it was a temporary band-aid to this problem
and this pain that I was feeling of not being able to focus of always forgetting what I had to
do to a point where I mean I felt sorry for the fishes afterwards but uh I dumped all the pills
inside my toilet and I just flushed and I saw them just roll all the way down saying to myself that
there must be a better way and I was never going to go back to the psychiatrist to tell them my
ATD pills weren't working to give me higher doses and everything like that because honestly I wasn't
going to fix the actual problem what really helped me out was these three things number one focusing
on my diet focusing on the things that I put into my body on a regular consistent basis because you
know eating hot cheetos eating deep-fried anything eating pizza every day was definitely not a great
food choice when you're trying to focus at bay attention so focusing on my house is drinking
more water or putting more fruits and vegetables into my diet that was a huge contributor to my
ability to focus more because when I discovered that our body including our brains go was mainly
of the h2o substance that we put in that healthy clear stuff that we drink how like
I need to drink more of that and I notice that whenever I was feeling either groggy ur are not
able to concentrate on something it was probably because either I was dehydrated or on the verge
of being dehydrate so I started consuming more water that helped me out tremendously more water
based food antioxidant ridges berries blueberries strawberries flax seeds and flax seed oil which
are rich in omega-3 fatty acids which help bring performance I became a little monkey boy by eating
more bananas bananas are rich in potassium which I also learned that the brain uses a potassium in
order to help the neurons communicate with each other more effectively the next thing
that I started to do was learn how to meditate I mean just calming your mind being more centered
and hearing the now definitely helps you when you need to pay attention to say a book Diaries or a
teacher that you're trying to pay attention to in class or maybe just a friend telling you a story
of how their day went I've used the practice of meditation calming your mind I've kind of like
shooting your free throws before you go out and play a huge basketball game right you need that
practicing before you go out and try to actually focus on what's important like there's things
that I started to do more of and something that I still do to this day obviously is do more memory
training I train my brain to be able to absorb a lot of information in a very short period of time
such as memorizing decks of cards very quickly such as memorizing long numbers 3.14159265 I
mean that's fine I could keep going on and on but memorizing long numbers in a very short period of
time that how we are tremendously in like learning how to memorize names and faces and that led me to
compete in memory competitions I'm not saying that you have to be that extreme and go to that
level of extremity to improve your own memory but definitely just stay in a little bit of time maybe
15 minutes 30 minutes to really do any type of brain enhancing activities such as memorizing a
lot of info in a very short time or help you out to be able to focus more because for example in
many competitions we have to sit down for up to an hour memorizing tons of decks of cards or hundreds
if not thousands of numbers in that period of time that to give us sort of the three things
that help me to go from being diagnosed with a TD and taking these focused pills to having an actual
permanent solution to the problem that I had of not concentrating not paying attention of always
having my mind wander off and it's just all about practice practice practice practice makes perfect
practicing in the right field makes perfect so three things that I started to do or one any
better you know putting more water and water-based foods into my diet to was meditating on a regular
basis even doing like hot yoga because that helped me focus for 90 minutes eight on the
movements at hand and number three was doing my memory training exercises on a regular basis so
I want to know from you in the comment section down below like what are some of the expenses that
you've had with having either been diagnosed with a BD or just having focus issues I want to know
some of the stories that you've had and what are you going to do from this point forward to help
alleviate that so you don't continue to go down that path of having to constantly take medication
and have more of a natural path stopping you stay focused and pay attention and as a consequence of
that how can prove your memory as well so I gave you my case my strategy I want to know
what you're doing to help you out down below post comment down below like this video share with your
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