Concentration Part IIYou should regulate your every thought and feeling. A person who cannot regulate his thought, wishes, plans, resolutions and studies cannot achieve success to the fullest extent. A person who is impulsive is not a master of his thoughts, feelings and wishes. Such a person cannot become a successful man. When he gets irritated – he irritates others. When you are talking to any one – give him your sole and undivided attention. Concentration means success- because you are better able to govern and centralize your mind.

When you are talking to a person, concentrate your strength upon the purpose you are talking about. Watch his every move. But keep your own plans before you. Unless you do this, you only waste your energy. If you want all your powers, you have to close all the valves and direct your power on generating mental steam on generating mental steam. Centre your mind on one purpose – one plan – one transaction. Anger, sarcasm and excitement weaken a person. The person who allows himself to get excited will become nervous at times because he uses his nerve forces and his vital energies. Just for a steam engine it is impossible to run with all its valves open, it is impossible for you to waste your energy and simultaneously run at top speed. If you throw a voluntary control over these thoughts, physical movements, messages, impulses and all physical instruments; you develop your faculties of self-mastery. The extent you succeed here, in proportion you develop the power of concentration.

Any exercise that emotionalizes excites the mind, stimulates the senses, cause the emotions of appetite in to action, confuses, terrifies or emotionalize – weakens the power of the concentration. This is why – all kinds of excitement are bad. That is why – people who drink hard, sing and dance with their emotions, eat stimulating food, who are sudden, emotional and vehement – lack power of concentration. But whose actions are slow – are like the engineers of the mind – mind is a machine but someone is required to engineer it. Without it, one cannot go far. Direction is concentration. Controlled deep breathing is very important. Control the movement of eyes, mouth, ears and fingers. Each of these contains miniature minds that are controlled by master engineer. There is no better exercise than listening to what one is talking- this improves concentration.