Mental Fitness – We Need Concentration
Concentration is our most potent mental tool and essential in developing mental fitness. It is our main faculty we use when learning or reading and when we are in a receptive or listening mode. We use this faculty to help us focus upon important personal interests in everyday life. We also use it to deliberately programme our own mind and so develop grooves of comfortable opinions and attitudes.
Concentration is used to achieve pin-point energy upon one particular selected subject.Concentration is mind power. It is the element we require to accomplish anything.
The principle is simple. If you keep your thoughts upon success, you will most likely succeed. If you concentrate upon failure you will do doubt succeed in failing. If you concentrate upon power, you will become powerful. If you concentrate upon love, you will become loving and so on. Each of us develops our nature to attract circumstances by the power of our mind’s concentration. Poor concentration is a symptom of diminishing mental fitness.
A definite aim will ensure that any concentrated thought will bear fruit. So you must take care that the direction of your mind’s power is truly in accordance with your own welfare and interests as well of that of others.
Conscious effort of thought is required to build mental ‘muscle-power’ or strong mindedness, just as effort is needed to build physical fitness. The power of the concentrated mind can also be compared to the rocket fuel that gives our thoughts ‘lift off’ into space.
Concentration can also be used as a tuning-in device similar to tuning the radio. This analogy holds true in meditation when we wish to expand our consciousness in order to receive inspiration or intuitive guidance.
Concentration is the tool to help programme our mind. When concentrating, the emotions must be passive and co-operative to allow all our available mental energy to be used without emotional distraction.
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