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dozhier_ex_mentis
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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: Concentration problems. |
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| I've had lots of problems concentrating lately. I really don't know why. Does anyone have any advice or ways to focus? |
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dozhier_ex_mentis
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:13 am Post subject: |
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dozhier_ex_mentis
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ColinGS
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1. Get as quiet a place as you can.
2. Relax.
3. Tie a short string of knots. As you sit, hold the knotted string in one hand. This hand and the string in it represents your brain and your abilitiy to concentrate. The ball of knots is the chaos in your mind. The point is to decrease the chaos. So, pick any thought going through your mind, acknowledge what it is, why it's there. Then, push it aside. Turn the 'volume' of the thought down to 'mute' or any other way to get it out of your mind, but you need to forget about it.
There is energy being applied to that thought, so it can exist in your mind. Focus the energy into the thought disappearing or strengthening the other thoughts still in your mind.
When you've eliminated that thought, take the knot closest to the end of the string in the other hand, while holding onto the rest with the first hand. Do the same thing again for the next thought. Choose any thought rummaging around in there, get rid of it and take another knot in your hand and so on and so on.
If you still have thoughts and you've moved the string entirely into the hand that didn't have it when you started, put the string back in the original hand and continue from there. |
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Iansanityy
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This has helped me, or rather occurred to me during an enlightening moment of intense "trying" during meditation; at one point something clicked, felt experientially like when a little kid finally realizes that the cube can only be shoved through a square opening...that what I was doing by virtue of TRYING to do it, wasn't being done properly. Really, the essential goal of meditation is to sink and explore deeper realms of attention until your focus turns from a flash light to a laser, to get that however, all you need to do is release all inhibition or tension...This means releasing the expectation that something is going to happen. So if you can't stop thinking just relax and enjoy the mental slide show and allow it to happen as it will, then after a while of working with your mind rather than opposing it , it will begin to behave.
Its like trying not to think of zebra's when someone says "don't think of zebras"... Ironically your mind will immediately think of zebras. So by fighting to concentrate your reaction will naturally be the opposite. So in conclusion, rather than breaking a sweat while trying to capture your mind like a butterfly, learn to glide with it and it will natural glide with you. |
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