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Lesson VIII -
Concentration Gives Mental Poise
By Theron
Q. Dumont
You will find
that the man that concentrates is well poised, whereas the man that
allows his mind to wander is easily upset. When in this state wisdom
does not pass from the subconscious storehouse into the consciousness.
There must be mental quiet before the two consciousnesses can work in
harmony. When you are able to concentrate you have peace of mind.
If you are in the habit of losing your poise, form the habit of reading
literature that has a quieting power. Just the second you feel your
poise slipping, say, "Peace," and then hold this thought in mind and
you will never lose your self-control.
There cannot be perfect concentration until there is peace of mind. So
keep thinking peace, acting peace, until you are at peace with the
entire world. For when once you have reached this state there will be
no trouble to concentrate on anything you wish.
When you have peace of mind you are not timid or anxious, or fearful,
or rigid and you will not allow any disturbing thought to influence
you. You cast aside all fears and think of yourself as a spark of the
Divine Being, as a manifestation of the "One Universal Principle" that
fills all space and time. Think of yourself thus as a child of the
infinite, possessing infinite possibilities.
Write on a piece of paper, "I have the power to do and to be whatever I
wish to do and be." Keep this mentally before you, and you will find
the thought will be of great help to you.
The Mistake of Concentrating on Your Business While Away. In order to
be successful today, you must concentrate, but don't become a slave to
concentration, and carry your business cares home. Just as sure as you
do you will be burning the life forces at both ends and the fire will
go out much sooner than was intended.
Many men become so absorbed in their business that when they go to
church they do not hear the preacher because their minds are on their
business. If they go to the theater they do not enjoy it because their
business is on their minds. When they go to bed they think about
business instead of sleep and wonder why they don't sleep. This is the
wrong kind of concentration and is dangerous. It is involuntary. When
you are unable to get anything out of your mind it becomes unwholesome
as any thought held continuously causes weariness of the flesh. It is a
big mistake to let a thought rule you, instead of ruling it. He who
does not rule himself is not a success. If you cannot control your
concentration, your health will suffer.
So never become so absorbed with anything that you cannot lay it aside
and take up another. This is self-control.
Concentration Is Paying Attention to a Chosen Thought. Everything that
passes before the eye makes an impression on the subconscious mind, but
unless you pay attention to some certain thing you will not remember
what you saw. For instance if you walked down a busy street without
seeing anything that attracted your particular attention, you could not
recall anything you saw. So you see only what attracts your attention.
If you work you only see and remember what you think about. When you
concentrate on something it absorbs your whole thought.
Self-Study Valuable. Everyone has some habits that can be overcome by
concentration. We will say for instance, you are in the habit of
complaining, or finding fault with yourself or others; or, imagining
that you do not possess the ability of others; or feeling that you are
not as good as someone else; or that you cannot rely on yourself; or
harboring any similar thoughts or thoughts of weakness. These should be
cast aside and instead thoughts of strength should be put in their
place. Just remember every time you think of yourself as being weak, in
some way you are making yourself so by thinking you are. Our mental
conditions make us what we are. Just watch yourself and see how much
time you waste in worrying, fretting and complaining. The more of it
you do the worse off you are.
Just the minute you are aware of thinking a negative thought
immediately change to a positive one. If you start to think of failure,
change to thinking of success. You have the germ of success within you.
Care for it the same as the setting hen broods over the eggs and you
can make it a reality.
You can make those that you come in contact with feel as you do,
because you radiate vibrations of the way you feel and your vibrations
are felt by others. When you concentrate on a certain thing you turn
all the rays of your vibrations on this. Thought is the directing power
of all Life's vibrations. If a person should enter a room with a lot of
people and feel as if he were a person of no consequence no one would
know he was there unless they saw him, and even if they did, they would
not remember seeing him, because they were not attracted towards him.
But let him enter the room feeling that he was magnetic and
concentrating on this thought, others would feel his vibration. So
remember the way you feel you can make others feel. This is the law.
Make yourself a concentrated dynamo from which your thoughts vibrate to
others. Then you are a power in the world. Cultivate the art of
feeling, for as I said before you can only make others feel what you
feel.
If you will study all of the great characters of history you will find
that they were enthusiastic. First they were enthusiastic themselves,
and then they could arouse others' enthusiasm. It is latent in
everyone. It is a wonderful force when once aroused. All public men to
be a success have to possess it. Cultivate it by concentration. Set
aside some hour of the day, wherein to hold rapt converse with the
soul. Meditate with sincere desire and contrite heart and you will be
able to accomplish that which you have meditated on. This is the
keynote of success.
"Think, speak and act just as you wish to be, and you will be that
which you wish to be."
You are just what you think you are and not what you may appear to be.
You may fool others but not yourself. You may control your life and
actions just as you can control your hands. If you want to raise your
hand you must first think of raising it. If you want to control your
life you must first control your thinking. Easy to do, is it not? Yes
it is, if you will but concentrate on what you think about.
For he only can that says he will.
How can we secure concentration? To this question, the first and last
answer must be: By interest and strong motive. The stronger the motive
the greater the concentration.--Eustace Miller, M. D.
The Successful Lives Are the Concentrated Lives. The utterly helpless
multitude that sooner or later have to be cared for by charity, are
those that were never able to concentrate, and who have become the
victims of negative ideas.
Train yourself so you will be able to centralize your thought and
develop your brain power, and increase your mental energy, or you can
be a slacker, a drifter, a quitter or a sleeper. It all depends on how
you concentrate, or centralize your thoughts. Your thinking then
becomes a fixed power and you do not waste time thinking about
something that would not be good for you. You pick out the thoughts
that will be the means of bringing you what you desire, and they become
a material reality. Whatever we create in the thought world will some
day materialize. That is the law. Don't forget this.
In the old days men drifted without concentration but this is a day of
efficiency and therefore all of our efforts must be concentrated, if we
are to win any success worth the name.
Why People Often Do Not Get What They Concentrate On. Because they sit
down in hopeless despair and expect it to come to them. But if they
will just reach out for it with their biggest effort they will find it
is within their reach. No one limits us but ourselves. We are what we
are today as the result of internal conditions. We can control the
external conditions. They are subject to our will.
Through our concentration we can attract what we want, because we
became enrapport with the Universal forces, from which we can get what
we want.
You have watched races no doubt. They all line up together. Each has
his mind set on getting to the goal before the others. This is one kind
of concentration. A man starts to think on a certain subject. He has
all kinds of thoughts come to him, but by concentration he shuts out
all these but the one he has chosen. Concentration is just a case of
willing to do a certain thing and doing it.
If you want to accomplish anything first put yourself in a
concentrating, reposeful, receptive, acquiring frame of mind. In
tackling unfamiliar work make haste slowly and deliberately and then
you will secure that interior activity, which is never possible when
you are in a hurry or under a strain. When you "think hard" or try to
hurry results too quickly, you generally shut off the interior flow of
thoughts and ideas. You have often no doubt tried hard to think of
something but could not, but just as soon as you stopped trying to
think of it, it came to you.
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