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May 7, 2021 · In The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar the titular character uses a stop watch to time granular concentration. As I mentioned before, the practice is very different from the normal focused attention instructions in a few key ways. We usually use the term “concentration” to describe generally getting absorbed in a book, or a TV show. But at a ...
- What Are You Looking at?
- Breakthrough with Intentional Distraction
- Your Attention Is Being Fought For
- One Step Further – Giving It Away
- What Did Jesus do?
- Dissatisfaction Creates The Distraction
- So What Should I do?
This verse in Habakkuk gives us some insight into what it takes to stay focused. The problem is usually we read this verse in a long term context. Pastors and leaders use this verse when they talk about church vision or long-range personal spirituality. We think about this verse on January 1st when we are trying to plan the year. Typically we don’t...
As with a lot of things, trying to eliminate the issue requires thinking about and dealing with the issue. What generally happens is we think about the thing distracting us, and then we get focused on that rather than not being distracted at all. Case in point … try not to think about a grilled cheese sandwich. Don’t think about it. Stop it. See…yo...
What do you see? Major companies are specifically studying how our brains work when it comes to distraction so that they can usethat to make addictive products. Sneaky right? Ya well, Facebook isn’t just a fluke…it taps into who we are as people on so many different levels. But what if amongst the noise we could spin it back the other way…what if w...
Let’s take this one step further. while we figure out how to impact our own lives, let’s also distract ourselves into someone else’s life. What if the most important activities in your day were looking for chances to give life to other people? Why does it seem so hard to get ourselves out of our own stuff and give away life, love or faith to someon...
Jesus was often distracted by people during His day today and it was when He engaged with these people that we saw incredible things happen. Think of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:7. Jesus intentionally went to the well and when He was engaged by the woman He was willing to give life to her from His spirit. I know he was their intention...
Dissatisfaction is usually amplified because you’re not filtering where you are and what you are doing through your identity. If your complaint is tied to your work, or your situation you need to take a step back. God probably doesn’t have you where you are because of where you are but because of who you are! Who you are doesn’t change because of y...
Here is a step by step plan you can use to help restructure your day today. 1. Deal with your dissatisfaction. I get it…you may not be doing what it is that you are really passionate about and you’re frustrated and it is constantly pulling your emotions in all kinds of directions. The key is to identify it and then make a plan to fix it. Maybe a jo...
To see how Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration help each other in the practice, we can look at the three stages of mindfulness practice given in the Foundations of Mindfulness Sutta. Take the body as an example. The first stage is to keep focused on the body in and of itself, putting aside greed and distress with reference to the world.
Oct 22, 2023 · Such a daily communion with the Presence of God turns anything that might begin as an intellectual concentration into a practice of spiritual concentration. The power of spiritual concentration can be emphasized even more if it is realized that what normally disturbs or distracts a person’s concentration takes place at a personal level of surface ego consciousness.
Nov 9, 2023 · Spiritual meditation practices can help improve focus and concentration by directing our attention inward and mastering techniques borrowed from various yogic systems. Focus is like a sharp light that brings mental energy to one thing at a time, while attention is the broad awareness encompassing our overall perception of the world around us.
Oct 22, 2023 · Such a daily communion with the Presence of God turns anything that might begin as an intellectual concentration into a practice of spiritual concentration. The power of spiritual concentration can be emphasized even more if it is realized that what normally disturbs or distracts a person’s concentration takes place at a personal level of surface ego consciousness.
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Only in deep concentration can you discover the hidden depths of your spiritual nature. Fortunately, concentration is like a muscle — the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. To increase your ability to concentrate, strive to make each meditation deeper than the one before. When you meditate with this kind of intensity, you will ...
