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Concentration as the master key to power

Christian Larson once wrote: "Concentration of the attention is one of the master keys of power. Without it one can accomplish nothing great or significant. The most perfect perceptions, the most retentive memory, the most daring and picturesque imagination -- without...

Your sacred attention

Most people don’t really understand how powerful attention is. And that’s not surprising since it’s rarely explained clearly. So let’s be direct: your attention shapes who you are. It’s not passive and it’s not just what you’re looking at. Think of attention like a...

What are you doing with your attention

Thinking of your attention as similar to what you eat can reveal much about yourself. You already know that consuming too much junk food can lead to health issues, weight gain, feeling sluggish, and more. The same principle applies to what you consume mentally. If...

Attention as the guardian of your mind

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...

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...

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