Super self-control: not being a slave to habit

Chapter 20

Focus Mental Energy: Improve Concentration
Language has super leadership.People not only have to learn to control their own inattention, which is the number one vice that hinders success.In today's colorful world, it is extremely difficult to maintain focus, activate it with sufficient strength and unswervingly put it into practice.If you want to do this, you must concentrate your mental energy on a specific goal, and exclude all distracting thoughts.

The will to focus is incredible.If you have a dream and never give up no matter how big the obstacle is, then the difficulties in life will disappear.You will also get what you expect.It really happens, and it really works.

— Yanni

The release of brain energy depends on concentration
There is tremendous energy in your head, but few actually realize it, and even fewer understand the art of harnessing the power of thought.How can you use these energies to your advantage?The key to deciphering this mystery is concentration.With a little practice, each of us can get pretty good at making the mental machinery in our brains work for us.

When engaging in a mental work, put your whole body into it, and get rid of all other distracting influences, and you will find that your mind can fully devote itself to the task at hand.Then, all problems will be solved immediately.You will meet no resistance, redundant work and wasted energy will be avoided.Every bit of energy is being put to good use, the wheels of your mind are turning in revolutionary directions, and every stone in the road has its value.These things are enough to provide the energy needed for the wheels of our thoughts to go forward.

The brain is the "control center" of the machine of the human body. After fully understanding it, any person can completely control it, and then control the whole body.Your thoughts are your instructions to your brain.However, when your thoughts are distracted, the corresponding substances in the brain cells do not respond.Only when you are mentally focused do your brain cells begin to actively work.

By borrowing a similar method of explanation from the natural sciences, we come to understand that the highest form of energy manifests itself by focusing all forces on a common point, so that by pointing to that central point to which all energies should go, these It will not dissipate in a larger field.Generators and batteries generate electricity, and if allowed, they will spread themselves out, but we can only force them to be released from a tiny central point and concentrated to another central point, so that we can get out of it. Gain strength.The same is true for the energy produced by steam. They can only be compressed in a small central point to release their energy, but they cannot release themselves widely into the air.The same principle applies to bullets, by compressing the bullet into a small space in the chamber, it is possible to unleash enormous force, rather than letting it spread out unchecked.

Perhaps, if I use a magnifying glass as an analogy, it will be easier for you to understand the power of concentration.Through a magnifying glass, light can be focused.However, if we shake the lens repeatedly, the light will move with it, so that the magnifying glass cannot produce any magnifying effect; as soon as we stop shaking the lens, we will see the immediate effect.

Therefore, if your thoughts are scattered, your power will also be scattered, and the desired effect will not be produced; once you stick to your goals and persevere, nothing in the world can hinder you.

Concentration refers to fully focusing on a subject or object in a short period of time without distraction; or insisting on staying on a certain object for a long time.To do both depends entirely on the relative forces we concentrate on the subject and object, and we should either stop them from moving, or focus them on some object.

Self-control expert hot comment
Concentration refers to doing something without distraction, which is a supreme state.If you want to do this, you must concentrate your mental energy on a specific goal, and exclude all distracting thoughts.This is like the mirror of a camera. If it is not in focus, the image of the object will be blurred.Only when the focus is adjusted properly will the image become clear and clear.

not focusing on success

Each neuron in the gray matter layer of the brain is the mental center of all thinking and behavior, and each neuron has some kind of intellectual capacity.When these forces (the source of all thought and action) are safely and systematically focused by consciousness, there are miraculous, energetic and healthy results.At this time, the sole purpose of will power is to mobilize the body machine by the power of nerves.It is for this reason that if you can actively control these messages: impulses, thoughts, emotions, physical activities, through these physical means, you can develop self-control.Your chances of success depend, in part, on the amount of focus you develop.

Spiritual power is not fleeting, fleeting, it is eternal.It is a creative force that is real and has an underlying fascination.We can use this power to create new circumstances and encounters for ourselves.

Your mental energy can complete your work under the guidance of your will. Of course they are working when you are awake, but even if you are asleep, they are still continuing their work, so some of us The most successful ideas appear after our conscious thinking activities have stopped, and the external manifestation of this situation is that when we wake up, we will suddenly find that the problems that have been troubling us have been suddenly solved. Even those difficult ones we've given up on.However, if you fail to control them, they will take over you and make you their slave.

Just as it is impossible for a train to run with all the steam valves open, it is impossible to ride the wind and waves on the road of life if you waste your energy.

When the mind is properly concentrated, the energies of all the finest neurons in a man are brought together in one channel, and he is thereby a man of great influence.Every human being has billions of tiny cells with great potential.Every cell has a nucleus, where the energy of life is stored and converged.If these energies of a man are not wasted, but conserved and controlled, he can be extremely influential.On the contrary, he will become insignificant and never succeed.

Anything or work that creates a stimulus that makes the mind, senses, desires, moods, emotions uncontrollable will weaken the power of concentration.This is also the reason why those who drink hard alcohol, let themselves be controlled by their emotions, those who like to be competitive, eat irritating food, and indulge in dancing to music to vent their emotions are extremely fragile and unstable. Lack of focus.And those who behave calmly and restrain themselves with reason can cultivate their concentration.Those who are dogmatic, self-willed, and impatient can occasionally concentrate, but this is erratic and intermittent rather than disciplined and consistent concentration.The energy on them seems to be controlled by spells, and it is very easy to disperse and waste.

Let's use the analogy of shooting a gun.It's nice that the gun fires and hits the target when you want to.But if it fires before you want to shoot, not only is it a waste of ammunition, but it can easily create other dangers.Most people are in this state.They allow their energies to explode without purpose, which is not only wasted, it can hurt others.They waste their strength, their charm, and thus their chances of success.Such people cannot be popular and achieve anything unless they learn to control themselves.

This kind of person needs to do all kinds of concentration training and must persevere.They should completely overcome their sudden, intermittent thoughts and manage their emotions and behavior.They must always train their consciousness to be steady and clear, and to place their own energies in their proper place.

Self-control expert hot comment
Many people's efforts are aimless, wasting a lot of time, ideas, and energy. If they work towards some specific goals in the vision, it may create miracles.In order to do this, you must focus your mental energy, train your focus, orient yourself on a particular thought, removing all distractions.

recognize your attention

If we really understand the importance of concentration, we can also actively control attention.Authorities with strong self-control teach students to experiment with familiar objects and do their best to discover as many details about the object as possible.Then, after they had listened to the students' lab reports, they would reassign them the same task, asking them to keep looking for new details, and so on, until they had found all the discoverable features the object had. up to the details.Next, a new object was placed in front of the students, and a new search began.At first they provide students with simple objects, then with more complex objects, and finally each student can easily face the most complex objects.

In this way, not only the concentration of the students will be greatly improved, but also the time of concentration will be extended, so that the students can put the maximum concentration into the real effort, so that one can Great success has been achieved in the form of telepathy.Because he is able to make himself "single-minded", devote all the great power he has acquired in telepathy to the object he wants.

The experiments which those in authority conducted on their pupils may be called mathematical, pictorial, analytical experiments, and so on.The reasons for these classifications are as follows: firstly, mathematics experiments require the students to concentrate their distracted attention, and only when students concentrate on the math problems can they come up with the correct calculation method.Secondly, according to the natural law of "practice makes perfect" and the principle of "diligence makes up for one's weakness", mental practice must require a lot of attention, and students will naturally master how to control their attention and will, which makes the ultimate psychological induction Intense forms of expression are possible.

In order to maximize your strength and influence, you must master the ability to focus your attention on one point.As long as we actively control our attention, we will achieve the purpose of concentration, so we will achieve a condescending vision, so our first step is to cultivate our attention.

Exercises to Enhance Concentration
We may fill our books with exercises designed to sharpen our focus, but which one is best for us?The best way is to discover for yourself what deserves your attention, because only in this way can you improve your attention.

Look for such objects around you and conduct careful observational studies.Then focus your attention on it until you see everything you should see, and then move on to other objects for deeper practice.For example, you can choose a page in a book, or if you prefer, the page you are reading right now, and focus your attention on counting the words on that page.Then look at how many words are needed in each line on average, and then look at how many words are in each word, each line, and each page.Go through the page to see if there are any misspelled words, or if there are any misnomers, etc.

In short, become absolutely familiar with the page you are looking at until you understand all the information on it.Then you can turn the page, and after reading this page in the same way, make a comparison between the two pages to find out the difference.As long as you are interested, you can keep doing it. Of course, if you are not interested, this work is boring.

If you want to arouse your interest, try to think about why you are doing this exercise in the first place.

Self-control expert hot comment
Constantly improving your ability to focus is the surest secret to self-control, and it explains why self-control varies from person to person.

train your willpower

To focus one's attention on a subject, and to ensure that one never distracts one's attention, may seem easy to the reader who has not experienced concentration, but with a little practice they will become clearly aware of the The difficulty of a task.

Thoughts are always in a state of endless movement, so people often change their minds, so it is difficult for people to remain interested in something all the time, like a spoiled child who always likes the new and dislikes the old.On the other hand, there are also people who focus their minds on the things they fantasize about throughout the day and become daydreamers instead of being pragmatic thinkers.Focusing our attention without a clear purpose like this is really wrong, because it makes our attention escape the control of the will.

Those who have been trained to bring concentration under the control of the will can use it when they need it and suppress its presence when they don't.

A person trained in willpower can completely focus his attention on a subject or object, seemingly completely absorbed by the subject or object in front of him, and ignore the existence of other things in the world.Moreover, after a task is completed or suspended, he withdraws his attention, relaxes completely, and continues to search seriously and soberly for other things related to his work.

The secret of concentration lies in the control of attention, and the control of attention lies in the tenacity of willpower.

Sully, a famous French psychologist, once said that "the authority of the subject is subject to the highest self-authority. The individual's abandonment or refusal depends entirely on his own preferences. I explain this view from several points of view. As long as I If my will requires me to focus, I will focus my attention on a point of view." He also said: "We can roughly define attention as the active self-director of thought, which directs itself to those The object of self-revelation at critical moments."

If you've never been able to focus on something for a long time, try the following advice: Pick a goal, focus on it, and stick to it for at least 10 minutes.It is not easy to do this, the thoughts will always wander, and every time the thoughts disperse, you will lose all your previous efforts.But please be sure to keep training.Once you can focus and give it your all, you have the power to overcome any obstacle in life.

The exercises in the following lesson are designed to enable you to gain willpower.Choose an object you don't like, for example a pencil, give your full attention to the pencil for 5 minutes, look at it intently, look at the whole pencil, then turn it over, think about it, think about its Use, its writing object, its composition, production process and so on.Don't think about anything else that has nothing to do with the pencil.Imagine that your purpose in life is to study this pencil.Imagine the world is nothing but you and your pencil. "There is but one world, and two objects, the pencil and I." During the practice, do not allow your attention to leave that pencil, not for a moment.In practice, you will realize how rebellious your attention is, but don't let it get the better of you, it may be boring for it, but it is for its own good, so you must persist, persist, and continue. persist in.When you subdue rebellious attention, you achieve victories you can't even imagine now.

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