Concentration: Educating the Will

Your next Mind Development Course teaches the skills of concentration as a means of educating the will. Often, when we put our mind on something, we think of something else and this, in turn, reminds us of something else. The mind wanders from one thing to another by associations, until the original thing is forgotten. 'Concentration' means putting all one's attention on something, and keeping it there for as long as one wishes to. So if you concentrate on a book, you are aware of the book and you are not thinking, looking or listening to anything else. If you are concentrating you are awake and aware. In much of everyday life, most people are effectively day-dreaming - at worst they are sleep-walking automatons. Their minds flip mechanically from one thing to another, never resting on anything for very long or intentionally. This process may go on for the whole of their lives and they never learn or achieve anything of consequence.

Unless we can wake ourselves up from this mechanicalness and sleep, we cannot begin work on ourselves and we cannot get things done in life. We must learn the mood of concentration - of actually BEING in the Here-and-Now, noticing and observing, and focused on our actions.

Concentration is a means to develop the will, so that life may be lived purposely and creatively, rather than as a reaction to the flow of sensations. Because you will not flit from one thing to another, like a butterfly, you will be able to choose to focus your mind on things, e.g., study or work, and will increase your skills and knowledge in these areas. Most importantly, you will be able to focus more clearly on your vision of what you want to achieve.

In short, your mental life is both intensified and broadened. The ability to concentrate is, therefore, a valuable skill which will enhance all other skills. Almost all the drills and exercises of Mind Development help develop your ability to concentrate. But are there are ways to improve your concentration directly? Yes, and this course teaches the best of them.

Click here to begin the Concentration course: Educating the Will

In addition to the Mind Development Courses, Trans4mind offers further free resources and also some excellent paid (with full email support) home-study courses to radically boost your progress on your path of personal and spiritual development. You can learn how to meet all of the challenges that life presents, obtain a new clarity of your purpose and identity, plus tremendous inner peace and enlightenment, if you choose to really follow through on these courses! Check out our Personal Development Courses

Overcome Social Anxiety All you need to know about overcoming shyness and getting conversations going smoothly Social anxiety plagues so many people, young, old, and in between. It's natural to feel awkward with other people sometimes. No matter how socially adept you are, you'll find yourself in the occasional properly embarrassing situation. But always feeling awkward and tongue-tied when you are with others is a torment no one should have to endure. And you don't have to... We've drawn on the findings of the very latest research into what influences social interaction and combined this with cutting-edge hypnosis sessions to create the ultimate path to feeling comfortable with anyone, anywhere. The ebook How to Enjoy Talking to People contains detailed extracts from the Hypnosis Download package, "10 Steps to Overcome Social Anxiety" and shows that it is possible for you to begin to feel more at ease in company. I hope this free excerpt from the course (and accompanying article) will show you exactly how you can look forward to being able to naturally enjoy all kinds of social interaction... Download the ebook: How to Enjoy Talking to People Read the article: Why Hypnosis Can Cure Social Anxiety

Print-friendly version

Copyright © 2004 Gregory Mitchell - Published by Trans4mind