From Disorder to Discipline: Reframing Focus
Focus is a discipline that can be taught and practiced, not a disorder—before medicating for distraction, first learn and practice how to concentrate.
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Willpower
Every teaching, story, and reflection filed under Willpower.
Mind as a Mansion, Controlling Awareness
Anger, joy, jealousy, happiness — every state of mind is a room in a vast mansion. You are not the mind. You are awareness moving through it, and you can choose the room.
The Choice You Make Every Moment
You can choose which room of your mind to occupy—moving awareness from worry to gratitude is a skill of concentration and willpower you can train.
Two Moments That Quietly Control Your Future
The moments just before sleep and just after waking are two of the most powerful windows in your day—guide your awareness through them deliberately.
The Key to Superconscious Mind
The superconscious mind — the source of intuition and creativity — is reached one way: by holding awareness in a state of unwavering focus long enough to truly experience it.
Why Routine is Medicine for the Mind
You cannot reason your way out of fear because it lives in the instinctive mind; simple, consistent routines restore order and let clarity return.
Developing Willpower
Look at your life and look for opportunities to develop your willpower. Make this one of your life’s goals with a clear reason why you are developing willpower. To simply develop willpower is not…
Change Takes Willpower and Time
Changes in life are not instantaneous. We can resolve with all our will to change. Then we need to use that will to slowly readjust the patterns in our mind, body and nervous system. And this will…
Technology and Concentration
I’ve seen and heard many people hold up their smartphones and say, “These things are ruining our lives.” I beg to disagree. Smartphones are not ruining our lives. They are wonderful devices with…
Fear of the Future
You have fear when you are not confident in your own personal powers of creation. You are not confident you can manifest the future that you want by using your willpower. And because of this you hang…
The Journey of Awareness in Meditation
The mystic's goal is to control awareness in his mind.
How long does this high last?
Those of you who have been following my blog know that I have just returned from conducting Enstasy, my meditation confluence in Kerala, South India. One of the participants who had returned home to…
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