Tag Archives: mental focus

First of all, I wish you all health, wealth and success in 2021. The best use for a new year is as a reset. If you have fallen behind and lost direction, then this is a great excuse to refocus on what matters to you and get around to taking …

So today, Donald Trump delivered yet another terrible bombshell. Some people are ecstatic, some people are livid. Whether you love him or hate him, one thing we can all agree upon is that he is almost certainly the most controversial president in American history. And he seems pretty happy with …

Have you ever worried terribly about something that never happened? Have you ever imagined with great certainty that something intensely bad was happening , but it all turned out to be utter nonsense? It’s been said that worry is negative expectation of future events i.e. actually creating negative fantasies about …

Have you ever had that feeling? That deep sense of purpose, that your life has some great meaning, and yet you have no idea what?… In this New York Times Bestseller, Sher and Smith tackle these issues head on and give you really practical advice on how to go from …

Dr. Baker’s book is an excellent course on The Theory and Practice of Meditation, gleaned from many decades of personal practice. It not only gives excellent material for the beginner to commence meditation practice. There is much deep wisdom for the extremely experienced practitioner too. Yet, all is explained in …

One thing that is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve in our modern world is focusing on what really matters to us in life and making consistent progress towards it. Multi-tasking seems to rule the day and appears ever more indispensable as the complexity of our lives increases. As we then try to do ever more within the same amount of time, things begin to unravel and it becomes ever harder to complete projects as we open more and more loops and fail to close the ones that we have already opened. Before we know it, even our most cherished projects and goals become never-ending ordeals that never quite seem to happen.

Concentration signifies the state of being at a centre ("con" and "centrum"). Applied to thought, it is the act of bringing the mind to a single point. Each human being must practise concentration subjectively and objectively. In other words, each human being aims with more or less precision at concentration on a point within and a point without his own world. Concentration "without" is illustrated when you devote all your attention upon Nature, such as learning a trade, a profession, a science, an art or some form of business.