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Attention is a narrowing

There’s an important sentence by William Walker Atkinson that deserves a closer look: "Attention is not an enlargement or increase in consciousness, but rather a narrowing, condensing, or limiting of consciousness." Let’s unpack it. It’s easy to assume that paying...

The vanishing time

It’s important, dare I say essential, to pay attention to how you think, what you do, and how you feel in your daily life. These three (mind, action, and emotion) shape your entire experience. They influence what you attract, who you become, and how the world responds...

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...

The development of mind culture

Here's an interesting quote from Charles Haanel: "Attention or concentration is probably; the most important essential in the development of mind culture. The possibilities of attention when properly directed are so startling that they would hardly appear credible to...

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...

The biggest plague we are facing

During the course of human history, there have been several ways our minds have been cut off from universal energy and its currents. Wars, plagues, terrible life conditions, and so forth — imagine trying to focus on developing your energy and relationship with the...

Constructive form of thought

Here's an interesting quote by Charles Haanel: "Imagination is the constructive form of thought which must precede every constructive form of action. A builder cannot build a structure of any kind until he has first received the plans from the architect, and the...

Condensed Laws of Attention

Here's an interesting quote by William Walker Atkinson: "A leading psychologist has given us perhaps the most comprehensive, and at the same time the most condensed, statement of the Laws of Attention to be found in any of the textbooks, which statement is as follows:...

The firm use of mental concentration

Here's an interesting quote by William Walker Atkinson: "To the reader who has had no experience along the lines of Mental Concentration, it may seem like a very easy task to focus the mind upon a subject, and then hold it there firmly and fixedly. But a little...

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...

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