Let's consider how you select what you eat. If you take the easy way and follow your lower desires, you'll be eating fast food or frozen food pretty much every day. It tastes good, it's easy, and it's cheap. But if you start to notice the effects on your body, you'll...
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Expel intruding thoughts
Here's an interesting quote from William Walker Atkinson: "A talented writer has said along these lines: "We moderns are unaccustomed to the mastery over our inner thoughts and feelings. That a man should be a prey to any thought that chances to take possession of his...
Easy to consume, hard to produce
In the previous email, we wrote about how we should use our brain's ability to focus, memorize and think actively instead of constantly being driven passively. But that's more challenging. In fact, it's straightforward to be passive; it's a lot harder to be active. In...
Our brain wants as little effort as possible
To develop - and maintain - a good concentration ability, you need to practice using them. In fact, Socrates was against writing (yes, actually putting words to paper) because it would atrophy our ability to memorize since we would be too reliant on the written words...
The art of attention
Here's an interesting quote from William Walker Atkinson: "Attention is not a faculty of the mind, but is instead the focusing of the consciousness upon one object to the temporary exclusion of all other objects. It is a turning of the mind on an object. The object of...
Become a master the movements of attention
Here's an interesting quote by Neville Goddard: "Attention is forceful in proportion to the narrowness of its focus, that is, when it is obsessed with a single idea or sensation. It is steadied and powerfully focused only by such an adjustment of the mind as permits...
Application of a mental law
Here's an interesting quote by William Walker Atkinson: "Psychologists have noted the effect of, and realized the important part played by that mental state known as Expectant Attention. Expectant Attention is that concentrated direction of attention toward some...
The fundamental importance of your attention
Your attention and focus is more important for your life than most people realize. This is not just a matter of being focused in whatever you are doing - as important as that is. It's much more than single minded focus and productivity. It's about your own self. What...
The negative process of concentration
Here's an interesting quote from William Latson, a famous New Thought writer: "Now what is concentration? In a word, concentration may be defined as being that state of mind which the total and entire energies of the individual, physical as well as mental, are focused...
The shape of your mind
William James, the father of psychology, wrote: "Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items...
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