Concentration is one of the master keys of power.
Without it one cannot accomplish anything great or significant.
Concentration may be defined as a state of mind in which the total energies of the individual, physical as well as mental, are focused upon the thing he is doing or thinking.
All unconnected thoughts and actions are kept out of mind and all his forces are focused on the task in hand.
One who can do this has acquired the power of concentration.
You sit down to write a blog.
You had hardly finished 2 lines and you are reminded of the groceries to be procured from the local store.
You postpone it and sit down again to write.
After you have finished another line or two, the electrician turns up to fix the water heater.
You wait for him to finish his job before you start writing again.
You had just jotted down a line or two when your eyes wander around the room.
Your eyes lock onto that suit which has to be pressed.
An hour has passed and you had just started the blog.
This is a fair example of the lack of concentration.
This habit is an absolute bar to any worthwhile achievement.
How to gain the power of the mind to focus on one task at a time without allowing any of our thought or attention to wander elsewhere? It is very easy but not as simple as it seems to be.
Just refuse to let the mind wander.
Be the master of your mind.
The act of attention is necessarily involved in whatever mental act you are engaged in.
Select a task which requires accuracy and close attention.
Take a sum of addition and multiplication.
Do not allow your mind to take on any other idea or picture until it is finished and verified.
While adding or multiplying the figures, you can easily be distracted by the clamor of children playing on the streets or the honk of a truck passing by.
Now, this is just where you are required to make the essential act of concentration.
You have to shut the door on these outside distractions.
Turn back to your task and tell yourself that you will do only one thing at a time.
But the distractions can return with incredible persistence.
Don't let them bother or excite you.
Simply bring the attention back to the original subject of thought.
Another exercise is to simply count.
Count up to one hundred beginning with 2 and adding 2 each time.
The begin counting downward subtracting 3 each time.
This may seem simple.
Unless you have a finely developed power of attention, you will not be able to complete these exercises.
Every homely act of standing, walking, writing, shaking hands and a million other trivial acts offers training in concentration, if done consciously and attentively.
If I have made any improvement in the sciences it is owing more to patient attention than to anything else - Sir Isaac Newton.
Without it one cannot accomplish anything great or significant.
Concentration may be defined as a state of mind in which the total energies of the individual, physical as well as mental, are focused upon the thing he is doing or thinking.
All unconnected thoughts and actions are kept out of mind and all his forces are focused on the task in hand.
One who can do this has acquired the power of concentration.
You sit down to write a blog.
You had hardly finished 2 lines and you are reminded of the groceries to be procured from the local store.
You postpone it and sit down again to write.
After you have finished another line or two, the electrician turns up to fix the water heater.
You wait for him to finish his job before you start writing again.
You had just jotted down a line or two when your eyes wander around the room.
Your eyes lock onto that suit which has to be pressed.
An hour has passed and you had just started the blog.
This is a fair example of the lack of concentration.
This habit is an absolute bar to any worthwhile achievement.
How to gain the power of the mind to focus on one task at a time without allowing any of our thought or attention to wander elsewhere? It is very easy but not as simple as it seems to be.
Just refuse to let the mind wander.
Be the master of your mind.
The act of attention is necessarily involved in whatever mental act you are engaged in.
Select a task which requires accuracy and close attention.
Take a sum of addition and multiplication.
Do not allow your mind to take on any other idea or picture until it is finished and verified.
While adding or multiplying the figures, you can easily be distracted by the clamor of children playing on the streets or the honk of a truck passing by.
Now, this is just where you are required to make the essential act of concentration.
You have to shut the door on these outside distractions.
Turn back to your task and tell yourself that you will do only one thing at a time.
But the distractions can return with incredible persistence.
Don't let them bother or excite you.
Simply bring the attention back to the original subject of thought.
Another exercise is to simply count.
Count up to one hundred beginning with 2 and adding 2 each time.
The begin counting downward subtracting 3 each time.
This may seem simple.
Unless you have a finely developed power of attention, you will not be able to complete these exercises.
Every homely act of standing, walking, writing, shaking hands and a million other trivial acts offers training in concentration, if done consciously and attentively.
If I have made any improvement in the sciences it is owing more to patient attention than to anything else - Sir Isaac Newton.