Concentration | Remez Sasson Blog on Self Improvement and Spiritual Growth

By Remez Sasson

Meditation is a technique for calming down the restlessness of the mind and awakening the spiritual consciousness. Regular practice brings inner peace, happiness and freedom from restless thinking. Meditation also relaxes the body and nerves, relieves stress and frees the mind from anxiety and worry.

In meditation you focus the attention on a certain thought, idea, sound or prayer for a certain amount of time. It usually involves turning the attention inwards, away from the external world, and when the mind wanders away, bringing it back to the meditation.

In it higher forms, meditation aims to free the mind from the subconscious compulsion to think incessantly, develop inner detachment and awaken the awareness of the Spirit within. Its regular practice awakens a new sort of consciousness, peaceful and blissful.

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The Importance of Concentration

By Remez Sasson

The ability to focus the mind is one of the most important abilities one should possess. As a matter of fact, most people lack the ability to concentrate. Their attention usually wanders, without being able to fix it on one subject for any reasonable period of time.

What is concentration? It is the ability to focus the attention on one single thought or subject, excluding everything else from the field of awareness. A good ability, which can be gained through proper exercises, enables one to focus the mind on anything at will, without being distracted by thoughts, noises or anything else.

You need this ability when you read, study, meditate, work or while doing almost anything else. It helps you:

- Control of your thoughts
- Gain inner peace
- Free your mind from futile and annoying thoughts
-Improve your memory
-Improve your ability to study
- Conserve your energies
- Work more efficiently
- Improve meditation
- Strengthen your intuition
And much more…

Here is a simple exercise to train your mind:

Count the words in any one paragraph in a book or newspaper, and then count them again, to ascertain that you have counted them correctly.

Do so with several paragraphs, practicing everyday.

When this becomes easy, try counting the words in two paragraphs, and later count the words on a whole page.

To enhance your focus and attention, count the words mentally, only with your eyes, without pointing you finger at them.

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