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                                               Practacial Psycology

                                        LESSON 2

If you are serious in mind control then you will have to subdue the hurry habit, or else it will undermine the growth and expansion of your powers. There are those that do not perhaps come under this heading, but they worry which is almost as bad as those that hurry.

When concentrating, the mind should be like that of a lake at first light in the morning, still and smooth which permits reflection, however hurry and worry make ripples upon the surface, like a light wind, and therefore stops any chance of reflection.

 Hurry and worry cause a ceaseless agitation, a turning back of the mind upon itself, a going over of the same chain of thought, in the endeavour to find a solution to some pressing question, which is rarely forthcoming, like that forgotten thought.

It is when the mind is relaxed, when it has gone along another line, that the missing information is ushered into the consciousness, or brought forth from the inner recess of the mind to the objective portion of it.

Different. temperaments find different methods appeal to then for the stilling of the mind. The Phlegmatic, slow moving mind is not touched by a devotional attitude, nor is the devotional temperament attracted by the purely intellectual, whilst the active type does not find comfort in either intellectual or devotional ways.

How can the hurry habit be stopped, like all habits we do things out of repetition, and then put some importance to them, for we think we are hooked on that certain thing and that the chain we have set up can not be broken, like smoking or drinking excessively.

Therefore, to break the chain you must do less, smoke less, arid drink less, change the habit and create a new one. By attempting less, whatever is taken up will be done more thoroughly, and this thoroughness will react on the mind, and the thinking will be more thorough.

When there is a need to hurry, the thought can act more effectively, more clearly, and it will, as a matter of fact, act more rapidly as time goes on, so that the fancied giving up of things it was deemed to be our duty to preform, will be seen to have resulted in adding to our efficiency.

By stilling the mind and by organising, one can learn to economise time, because by stilling the mind, will result in your seeing more clearly, where you can save time, and how things may be more effectively preformed to fit in with other things, thus allowing you to do that which you thought you could not otherwise have achieved. It is evident that once the mind is stilled, it is more easy to concentrate it on one subject and keep it there, and when this can be accomplished, you may be said to have reached the consummation of your desires.

If I say to you, that I can do whatever I think I can, you would probably look upon me with scepticism, and either put me down as a nut, or just simile and turn away. But quite really this is one of the 20th century aphorisms of New Psychology, yes, it is a scientific fact. and you can prove it as you would prove the theorem of Euclid.

The mind does not express a tenth of what it might accomplish; beneath the threshold of consciousness there reside the extensions of powers, exhibited in part; that the consciousness as we know it is a very complex thing, and not the simple phase of mental activity it once was supposed to be. Experimental psychology, has disclosed the fact that, " There are a million energies in man." What may we not become, when we learn to use them all ?. This is the work which lies before us at the present time, and which the coming ages will see immensely advanced.

The merest tyro, ( beginner) knows that if a man thinks he cannot do a thing, he really does it, or if he does, it is not done brilliantly. It is obvious that when a man doubts his own powers, he does not make the fullest use of them.

Confidence, in oneself has always been considered indispensable, for success in whatever direction a man might seek it, for the lees confident man does not really put forth his abilities, therefore, he naturally only invokes part of his abilities.

The first idea coming from this statement, is that, if a man can only think in a certain manner he will be able to do more, and this is because, thoughts running in a particular direction endow one with more force, just as the studying of a difficult problem causes a rush of blood to the brain, than when conversation or light reading is being engaged in. It is a law of nature that where there is a demand there is a supply.

By thinking that we can, we direct the attention into a particular channel, the conception of possibility arises, and with this, the latent power that is coiled up in everyone is stirred up. It is the call of the mind for something, and an immediate response is made to the demand.

If there is more power, then more ability must be the result, and with ability it is peaceable to double one's usefulness. Concentration demands ability to keep the mind one-pointed, and by a study of the laws of mind, we are able to focus the mind on whatever we desire.

Man must believe that he can, and by so doing, he will impregnate his mentality with the force of the idea, until it becomes a fixed thought. Then it is, that he will awaken the power that will render it possible, for him to do what he has set his mind upon. Remember, that it is the power you are to invoke, that will enable you to do, not the mere thinking that you can, and this is a point which needs bearing in mind. Too many people imagine they have only to think and their power is finished.

A mind which harbours DOUBT, is a mind which is confused, and this confusion is not always apparent to its possessor. You can only secure the fullest use of a power, by its being unfretted by others, and only by the fullest use, by using one hundred percent, do you achieve anything worth while. When forces are divided, there is a leakage in power, and one force neutralisers the other. when in a big crowd of people, one half wants to go in just the opposite direction to what the other half is going, many times the power is necessary in pushing through, this power is utterly thrown away. It leaves one with less power for whatever purpose we may need it.

if you would concentrate with ease, you must clarify the mind first; you must throw overboard much which you deemed essential to its well being. Doubt, for one thing, must be shown the door. The ructions created in the mind by this soul destroying negative, which is really a reflection, and has no solid existence, are gigantic, and accounts for many people having such average minds. Many will find much in their mental make up that is only a useless burden, and they should drop it. The student should dwell from time to time, on the idea that because he actually thinks and actually believes, he can improve his power of concentration, he really can.

While engaged in clarifying the mind, we will do well to consider some of the laws of the mind, its mode of working, the character of thought ect. Undesirable tendencies must be controlled, checked, directed, when they will help instead of hindering our growth. Every adjunct which leads to the raising of the mind, which takes it from so called realities of existence aids us in our task of learning to concentrate.

Do not pay attention to the negative part of anything, and as you succeed in doing this you will see everything in an extended vision, to say nothing of being happier for it. Happiness and True Faith in one' s self has more to with concentration than one would willingly admit at first sight. If we are happy we regard things in a different light, and we take an interest in them.

You must therefore begin your periods of concentration upon the things you like and that you have a deep interest in and the deeper the interest the easier it will be f or you to give yourself up whole heartedly.

To create an interest in a thing find where it concerns us most. It often happens you have to do something you do not like, and if that task calls for repugnance it is certain that you shall concentrate on it in a very imperfect manner. You will, in addition, use a far larger amount of vital energy in doing the work that you are Justified in doing. All mental force must be conserved, for you will find that your needs every once you Doses. Some spend nearly one half - many people much more - what they generate uselessly, and you should bear this in mind.

If you induce other trains of thought - and this is quite possible---you come to regard unpleasant duties in a new light. We see them as opportunities, opportunities to show the mettle you are made of. You begin to learn that you are grater than you supposed, and that knowledge alone warms to you to your work, quickens the intellectual powers, awakens the inventive areas of the brain, lends dexterity to the fingers or limbs, calls forth care and precision in whatever be the work.

The student who would learn to concentrate successfully must utterly reverse the methods which are generally taught, just as the east adopts just the exactly opposite system to that applied in the west in regard to Science, the former seeking to perfect the instrument by which knowledge of the universe is possible - the mind, or the subjective method, the west beginning with the universe and ending with man, or the objective method, so he must not commence with the without, but with the within.

 One must be serene; serenity is the positive aspect and worry, is the negative. It is not sufficient not to worry, but one must cultivate a deep, quiet, peace compelling atmosphere. Such an atmosphere of poise gives birth to forces awaiting our recognition.

we have to abandon the idea of striving to attain, of violent effort. Energy is necessary, so is ambition, zeal, faith and belief, but none of these things are to be used in the ordinary fashion. The spirit of serenity is the antithesis of strenuousness, and it is the strenuous life that is attempted by so many, which yields so little in the bulk of cases. It is only as one learns to be serene that one knows that there are finer forcer within us, and it is only by the co-operation of those finer forces that we can make the best use of our mental powers.

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