Focus training: An activity that helps me focus is exercising and over the past few weeks I have been injured on my left knee. I could tell it impacted my focus in school so for this week during my focus training I decided I would stretch for 10-15 minutes a day while I focus on my breathing; It would allow me to get back to health quicker, prevent another injury and the meditating would allow me to focus and get my mind right.
| Day: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Time (AM): | 8:45 | 8:30 | 8:32 | 8:45 | |
| How Long: | 8 Minutes | 12 Minutes | 11:30 | 13 minutes | 14 minutes |
| Result: | I was antsy and it was hard for me to sit still and just focus on my breathing. I ended up doing the bare minimum, however, I felt a bit more relaxed. | It was hard to push myself to do it, as I didn’t like it yesterday, but I pulled through and got a bit more time. I noticed I focused a bit better. It allowed me to get a lot of work done. Probably the most I’ve done during quarantine. | I was eased into the ideas of doing the workout. I can start to feel my knee a little better. I can sit on my heels for the first time in a while. During school I was focused as I knew the stretch was helping my knee and it allowed me to focus since I was in a good mood. | I woke up tired today so I used the stretch to wake me up and when I was done I was wide awake ready to start class. | The stretches started to get easy. I was able to focus and stay for a lot longer. And I think that is a perfect metaphor to my focus in school. |
By the end of the week I could see myself being able to sit and focus for a longer amount of time, an added 6 minutes. Mentally it prepared me for school and it was good to simply sit and think. It allowed me to get my priorities straight and allowed me to do a plentiful amount of work.
Not only mentally but physically I felt myself more relaxed. I also felt less tension around my injured knee. This also took away some anxiety I had about not playing as I knew I was taking the right steps in order to get back to exercising. I saw this as often I would spiral for minutes at a time worrying about my knee but when I began to lose focus this week I could feel reassured I was doing everything in my power to heal.
Compared to the beginning of the week I felt less stressed mentally and physically. I was surprised by how much it helped. I was able to prioritize my tasks of the day and anytime I would begin to stress I would remember my stretching and breathe where before I would simply u lose interest in the task at hand.
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