The Power of Psychic
- Concentration
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LESSON
II. THE SELF-MASTERY: SELF-DIRECTION
POWER OF
PSYCHIC
- CONCENTRATION
Man from
a psychological standpoint of development is not what he
should
be. He does not possess the self-mastery, the
self-directing
power of Psychic - Concentration that is his by right.
He has
not trained himself in a way to promote his self-mastery.
Every
balanced mind possesses the faculties whose chief duties
are to
engineer, direct and concentrate the operations of the
mind,
both in a mental and physical sense. Man must learn to
control
not only his mind but his bodily movements.
When the
controlling faculties (autonomic) are in an untrained
condition,
the impulses, passions, emotions, thoughts, actions
and
habits of the person suffer from lack of regulation, and the
procedure
of mental Psychic - Concentration is not good, not because the
mind is
necessarily weak in the autonomic department of the
faculties,
but because the mind is not properly trained.
When the
self-regulating faculties are not developed the
impulses,
appetites, emotions and passions have full swing to do
as they
please and the mind becomes impulsive, restless,
emotional
and irregular in its action. This is what makes mental
Psychic
- Concentration poor.
When the
self-guiding faculties are weak in development, the
person
always lacks the power of mental Psychic - Concentration. Therefore
you
cannot learn to concentrate until you develop those very
powers
that qualify you to be able to concentrate. So if you
cannot
concentrate one of the following is the cause:
1.
"Deficiency of the motor centers."
2.
"An impulsive and emotional mind."
3.
"An untrained mind."
The last
fault can soon be removed by systematic practice. It is
easiest
to correct.
The
impulsive and emotional state of mind can best be corrected
by
restraining anger, passion and excitement, hatred, strong
impulses,
intense emotions, fretfulness, etc. It is impossible to
concentrate
when you are in any of these excited states.
These
can be naturally decreased by avoiding such food and drinks
as have
nerve weakening or stimulating influences, or a tendency
to stir
up the passions, the impulses and the emotions; it is a
very
good practice to watch and associate with those persons that
are
steady, calm, controlled and conservative.
Correcting
the deficiency of the motor centers is harder because
as the
person's brain is undeveloped he lacks will power.
Many
have the idea that when they get into a negative state they
are
concentrating, but this is not so. They may be meditating,
though
not concentrating. Those that are in a negative state a
good
deal of the time cannot, as a rule, concentrate very well;
they
develop instead abstraction of the mind, or absence of mind.
Their
power of Psychic - Concentration becomes weaker and they find it
difficult
to concentrate on anything. They very often injure the
brain,
if they keep up this state. To be able to concentrate you
must
possess strength of mind. The person that is feeble-minded
cannot
concentrate his mind, because of lack of will. The mind
that
cannot center itself on a special subject, or thought, is
weak;
also the mind that cannot draw itself from a subject or
thought
is weak. But the person that can center his mind on any
problem,
no matter what it is, and remove any unharmonious
impressions
has strength of mind. Psychic - Concentration, first, last and
all the
time, means strength of mind.
Through Psychic
- Concentration a person is able to collect and hold his
mental
and physical energies at work. A concentrated mind pays
attention
to thoughts, words, acts and plans. The person who
allows
his mind to roam at will will never accomplish a great
deal in
the world. He wastes his energies. If you work, think,
talk and
act aimlessly, and allow your brain to wander from your
subject
to foreign fields, you will not be able to concentrate.
You
concentrate at the moment when you say, "I want to, I can, I
will."
Some
Mistakes Some People Make. If you waste your time reading
sensational
stories or worthless newspaper items, you excite the
impulsive
and the emotional faculties, and this means you are
weakening
your power of Psychic - Concentration. You will not be a free
engineer,
able to pilot yourself to success.
Psychic
- Concentration of the mind can only be developed by watching
yourself
closely. All kinds of development commence with close
attention.
You should regulate your every thought and feeling.
When you
commence to watch yourself and your own acts and also
the acts
of other people, you use the faculties of autonomy, and,
as you
continue to do so, you improve your faculties, until in
time you
can engineer your every thought, wish and plan. To be
able to
focalize the mind on the object at hand in a conscious
manner
leads to Psychic - Concentration. Only the trained mind can
focalize.
To hold a thought before it until all the faculties
shall
have had time to consider that thought is Psychic - Concentration.
The
person that cannot direct his thoughts, wishes, plans,
resolutions
and studies cannot possibly succeed to the fullest
extent.
The person that is impulsive one moment and calm the next
has not
the proper control over himself. He is not a master of
his
mind, nor of his thoughts, feelings and wishes. Such a person
cannot
be a success. When he becomes irritated, he irritates
others
and spoils all chances of any concerned doing their best.
But the
person that can direct his energies and hold them at work
in a
concentrated manner controls his every work and act, and
thereby
gains power to control others. He can make his every move
serve a
useful end and every thought a noble purpose.
In this
day the man that gets excited and irritable should be
looked
upon as an undesirable person. The person of good breeding
now
speaks with slowness and deliberation. He is cultivating more
and more
of a reposeful attitude. He is consciously attentive and
holds
his mind to one thing at a time. He shuts out everything
else.
When you are talking to anyone give him your sole and
undivided
attention. Do not let your attention wander or be
diverted.
Give no heed to anything else, but make your will and
intellect
act in unison.
Start
out in the morning and see how self-poised you can remain
all day.
At times take an inventory of your actions during the
day and
see if you have kept your determination. If not, see that
you do
tomorrow. The more self-poised you are the better will
your Psychic
- Concentration be. Never be in too much of a hurry; and,
remember,
the more you improve your Psychic - Concentration, the greater
are your
possibilities. Psychic - Concentration means success, because you
are
better able to govern yourself and centralize your mind; you
become
more in earnest in what you do and this almost invariably
improves
your chances for success.
When you
are talking to a person have your own plans in mind.
Concentrate
your strength upon the purpose you are talking about.
Watch
his every move, but keep your own plans before you. Unless
you do,
you will waste your energy and not accomplish as much as
you
should.
I want
you to watch the next person you see that has the
reputation
of being a strong character, a man of force. Watch and
see what
a perfect control he has over his body. Then I want you
to watch
just an ordinary person. Notice how he moves his eyes,
arms,
fingers; notice the useless expenditure of energy. These
movements
all break down the vital cells and lessen the person's
power in
vital and nerve directions. It is just as important for
you to
conserve your nervous forces as it is the vital forces. As
an
example we see an engine going along the track very smoothly.
Some one
opens all the valves and the train stops. It is the same
with
you. If you want to use your full amount of steam, you must
close
your valves and direct your power of generating mental
steam
toward one end. Center your mind on one purpose, one plan,
one
transaction.
There is
nothing that uses up nerve force so quickly as
excitement.
This is why an irritable person is never magnetic; he
is never
admired or loved; he does not develop those finer
qualities
that a real gentleman possesses. Anger, sarcasm and
excitement
weaken a person in this direction. The person that
allows
himself to get excited will become nervous in time,
because
he uses up his nerve forces and his vital energies. The
person
that cannot control himself and keep from becoming excited
cannot
concentrate.
When the
mind can properly concentrate, all the energy of every
microscopic
cell is directed into one channel and then there is a
powerful
personal influence generated. Everyone possesses many
millions
of little trembling cells, and each one of these has a
center
where life and energy are stored up and generated. If this
energy
is not wasted but conserved and controlled, this person is
influential,
but when it is the opposite, he is not influential
or
successful.
Just as
it is impossible for a steam engine to run with all its
valves
open, so is it impossible for you to waste your energy and
run at
your top speed. Each neuron in the gray layers of the
brain is
a psychic center of thought and action, each one is
pulsating
an intelligent force of some kind, and when this force,
your
thoughts and motions, are kept in cheek by a conservative,
systematic
and concentrated mind, the result will be magnetism,
vitality
and health. The muscles, bones, ligaments, feet, hands
and
nerves, etc., are agents for carrying out the mandates of the
mind.
The sole purpose of the volitional faculties is to move the
physical
mechanism as the energy travels along the wires of
nerves
and muscles. Just for that reason, if you throw a
voluntary
control over these messages, impulses, thoughts,
emotions,
physical movements and over these physical instruments
you
develop your faculties of self-mastery and to the extent you
succeed
here in proportion will you develop the power of
Psychic
- Concentration.
Any
exercise or work that excites the mind, stimulates the
senses,
calls the emotions and appetites into action, confuses,
terrifies
or emotionalizes, weakens the power of Psychic - Concentration.
This is
why all kind of excitement is bad. This is the reason why
persons
who drink strong drinks, who allow themselves to get into
fits of
temper, who fight, who eat stimulating food, who sing and
dance
and thus develop their emotions, who are sudden, vehement
and
emotional, lack the power to concentrate. But those whose
actions
are slower and directed by their intelligence develop
Psychic
- Concentration. Sometimes dogmatic, wilful, excitable persons can
concentrate,
but it is spasmodic, erratic Psychic - Concentration instead
of
controlled and uniform Psychic - Concentration. Their energy works by
spells;
sometimes they have plenty, other times very little; it
is
easily excited; easily wasted. The best way to understand it
is to
compare it with the discharge of a gun. If the gun goes off
when you
want it to, it accomplishes the purpose, but if it goes
off
before you are ready for it, you will not only waste
ammunition,
but it is also likely to do some damage. That is just
what
most persons do. They allow their energy to explode, thus
not only
wasting it but endangering others. They waste their
power,
their magnetism and so injure their chance of success.
Such persons
are never well liked and never will be until they
gain
control over themselves.
It will
be necessary for them to practice many different kinds of
Psychic
- Concentration exercises, and to keep them up for some time. They
must
completely overcome their sudden, erratic thoughts, and
regulate
their emotions and movements. They must from morning to
night
train the mind to be steady, and direct and keep the
energies
at work.
The
lower area of the brain is the store house of the energy.
Most all
persons have all the dynamic energy they need if they
would
concentrate it. They have the machine, but they must also
have the
engineer, or they will not go very far. The engineer is
the
self-regulating, directing power. The person that does not
develop
his engineering qualities will not accomplish much in
life.
The good engineer controls his every act. All work assists
in
development. By what you do you either advance or degenerate.
This is
a good idea to keep always in mind. When you are
uncertain
whether you should do something or not, just think
whether
by doing it you will grow or deteriorate, and act
accordingly.
I am a
firm believer in "work when you work, and play when you
play."
When you give yourself up to pleasure you can develop
Psychic
- Concentration by thinking of nothing else but pleasure; when your
mind
dwells on love, think of nothing but this and you will find
you can
develop a more intense love than you ever had before.
When you
concentrate your mind on the "you" or real self, and its
wonderful
possibilities, you develop Psychic - Concentration and a higher
opinion
of yourself. By doing this systematically, you develop
much
power, because you cannot be systematic without
concentrating
on what you are doing. When you walk out into the
country
and inhale the fresh air, studying vegetation, trees,
etc.,
you are concentrating. When you see that you are at your
place of
business at a certain time each morning you are
developing
steadiness of habit and becoming systematic. If you
form the
habit of being on time one morning, a little late the
next,
and still later the following one, you are not developing
Psychic
- Concentration, but whenever you fix your mind on a certain
thought
and hold your mind on it at successive intervals, you
develop Psychic
- Concentration.
If you
hold your mind on some chosen object, you centralize your
attention,
just like the lens of the camera centralizes on a
certain
landscape. Therefore always hold your mind on what you
are
doing, no matter what it is. Keep a careful watch over
yourself,
for unless you do your improvement will be very slow.
Practice
inhaling long, deep breaths, not simply for the
improvement
of health, although that is no small matter, but also
for the
purpose of developing more power, more love, more life.
All work
assists in development.
You may
think it foolish to try to develop Psychic - Concentration by
taking
muscular exercises, but you must not forget that the mind
is
associated with muscle and nerve. When you steady your nerves
and
muscles, you steady your mind, but let your nerves get out of
order
and your mind will become erratic and you will not possess
the
power of direction, which, in other words, is Psychic - Concentration.
Therefore
you understand how important exercises that steady the
nerves
and muscles are in developing Psychic - Concentration.
Everyone
is continually receiving impulses that must be directed
and
controlled if one is to lead a successful life. That is the
reason
why a person must control the movements of his eyes, feet,
fingers,
etc.; this is another reason why it is important to
control
his breathing. The slow, deep, prolonged exhalations are
of
wonderful value. They steady the circulation, the heart
action,
muscles and nerves of the mind. If the heart flutters,
the circulation
is not regular, and when the lung action is
uneven,
the mind becomes unsteady and not fit for Psychic - Concentration.
This is
why controlled breathing is very important as a
foundation
for physical health.
You must
not only concentrate your mind, but also the action of
the
eyes, ears and fingers. Each of these contain miniature minds
that are
controlled by the master engineer. You will develop much
quicker
if you thoroughly realize this.
If you
have ever associated with big men, or read their
biographies,
you will find that they usually let the others do
the
talking. It is much easier to talk than it is to listen.
There is
no better exercise for Psychic - Concentration than to pay close
attention
when some one is talking. Besides learning from what
they
have to say, you may develop both mental and physical
Psychic
- Concentration.
When you
shake hands with some one just think of your hand as
containing
hundreds of individual minds, each having an
intelligence
of its own. When you put this feeling into your hand
shake it
shows personality. When you shake hands in a listless
way, it
denotes timidity, lack of force and power of personality.
When the
hand grip is very weak and stiff, the person has little
love in
his nature, no passion and no magnetism. When the hand
shake is
just the opposite, you will find that the nature is
also.
The loveless person is non-magnetic and he shows that he is
by his
non-magnetic hand shake. When two developed souls shake
hands,
their clasps are never light. There is a thrill that goes
through
both when the two currents meet. Love arouses the
opposite
currents of the positive and negative natures. When
there is
no love, life loses its charm. The hand quickly shows
when
love is being aroused. This is why you should study the art
of hand
shaking and develop your social affections. A person that
loves
his kind reflects love, but a person that hates reflects
hate.
The person with a bad nature, a hateful disposition, evil
thoughts
and feeling is erratic, freakish and fitful. When you
allow
yourself to become irritable, watch how you breathe and you
will
learn a valuable lesson. Watch how you breathe when you are
happy.
Watch your breathing when you harbor hate. Watch how you
breathe
when you feel in love with the whole world and noble
emotions
thrill you. When filled with good thoughts, you breathe
a
plentiful supply of oxygen into your lungs and love fills your
soul.
Love develops a person, physically, mentally and socially.
Breathe
deeply when you are happy and you will gain life and
strength;
you will steady your mind and you will develop your
power of
Psychic - Concentration and become magnetic and powerful.
If you
want to get more out of life you must think more of love.
Unless
you have real affection for something, you have no
sentiment,
no sweetness, no magnetism. So arouse your love
affections
by your will and enter into a fuller life.
The hand
of love always magnetizes, but it must be steady and
controlled.
Love can be concentrated in your hand shake, and this
is one
of the best ways to influence another.
The next
time you feel yourself becoming irritable, use your will
and be
patient. This is a very good exercise in self-control. It
will
help you to keep patient if you will breathe slowly and
deeply.
If you find you are commencing to speak fast, just
control
yourself and speak slowly and clearly. Keep from either
raising
or lowering your voice and concentrate on the fact that
you are
determined to keep your poise, and you will improve your
power of
Psychic - Concentration.
When you
meet people of some consequence, assume a reposeful
attitude
before them. Do this at all times. Watch both them and
yourself.
Static exercises develop the motor faculties and
increase
the power of Psychic - Concentration. If you feel yourself getting
irritable,
nervous or weak, stand squarely on your feet with your
chest up
and inhale deeply and you will see that your
irritability
will disappear and a silent calm will pass over you.
If you
are in the habit of associating with nervous, irritable
people, quit
it until you grow strong in the power of
Psychic
- Concentration, because irritable, angry, fretful, dogmatic and
disagreeable
people will weaken what powers of resistance you
have.
Any
exercises that give you better control of the ears, fingers,
eyes,
feet, help you to steady your mind; when your eye is
steady,
your mind is steady. One of the best ways to study a
person
is to watch his physical movements, for, when we study his
actions,
we are studying his mind. Because actions are the
expressions
of the mind. As the mind is, so is the action. If it
is
uneasy, restless, erratic, unsteady, its actions are the same.
When it
is composed, the mind is composed. Psychic - Concentration means
control
of the mind and body. You cannot secure control over one
without
the other.
Many
people who seem to lack ambition have sluggish minds. They
are
steady, patient and seemingly have good control, but this
does not
say they are able to concentrate. These people are
indolent,
inactive, slow and listless, because they lack energy;
they do
not lose control because they have little force to
control.
They have no temper and it therefore cannot disturb
them.
Their actions are steady because they possess little
energy.
The natural person is internally strong, energetic and
forceful,
but his energy, force and strength, thoughts and
physical
movements are well under his control.
If a
person does not have energy, both mental and physical, he
must
develop it. If he has energy which he cannot direct and hold
to a
point he must learn to do so. A man may be very capable,
but,
unless he Wills to control his abilities, they will not do
him any
good.
We hear
so much talk about the benefit of physical culture, but
the real
benefit of this is really lost sight of. There is
nothing that
holds the faculties at work in a sustained and
continuous
manner as static exercises do. For, as stated before,
when you
learn to control the body, you are gaining control over
the
mind.
The Power of Psychic
- Concentration
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