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Reclaim your life by mastering one simple skill: mental focus

Reclaim your life by mastering one simple skill: mental focus

For most of us, the awareness runs wild and untrained throughout our vast minds. As a result, our awareness races from place to place, situation to situation, until it exhausts itself. Darting between the past and future, it might cover miles in a day, but it wasn’t moving toward any defined goal. It only stops to rest when exhausted.

A creature of habit, it returns again and again to the same places, even dangerous ones – even though it’s harmful to long-term survival.

To cover up your unresolved emotions, awareness must follow, not lead. But who is the rider?

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परिवर्तनमेव स्थिरमस्ति ~ My Focused Discourse on Self-help | Psychology | Emotion & Intelligence | Engineering & Innovation | Effects & Laws | the Cosmos. I publish on Saturday and Sunday Every week.

We become good at what we practice and most of us are experts at practicing distraction. We live in a society that trains us to multi-task and jump from one thing to another in an uncontrolled way. The great panacea for a world plagued by distraction is learning and practicing the art of concentration.

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