Attention is forceful in proportion to the narrowness of its focus, that is, when it is obsessed with a single ideal or sensation. It is steadied and powerfully focused only by such an adjustment of the mind as permit you to see one thing only, for you steady the attention and increase its power by confirming it. The desire which realizes itself is always a desire upon which attention is exclusively concentrated, for an ideal is endowed with power only in proportion to the degree of attention fixed on it. Concentrated observation is the attentive attitude directed from some specific end. The attentive attitude involves selection, for when you pay attention, it signifies that you have decided to focus your attention on one object or state rather than on another.
Therefore, when you know what you want, you must deliberately focus your attention on the feeling of your wish fulfilled and to that feeling fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.
The power of attention is the measure of your inner force. Concentrated observation of one thing shuts out other things and causes them to disappear. The great secret of success is to focus the attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled without permitting any distraction. All progress depends upon an increase of attention. The ideals which impel you to action are those which dominate the consciousness, those which possess the attention. The idea which excludes all others from the field of attention discharges an action.
Forget those things that are behind you, and press forward to the desires of your heart. You can press toward the desires of your heart by filling your mind with the feeling of the desire fulfilled.
To the unenlightened person this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view, nor accept the world as it is. As was stated before, if you can imagine what you please, and if the images of your thoughts are as vivid as the images of the world around you, you are by the power of your imagination master of your fate.
Your imagination is you yourself, and the world as your imagination sees it is the real world.
When you set out to master the movements of attention, which must be done if you would successfully alter the course of observed events, it is then you realize how little control you exercise over your imagination and how much it is dominated by sensory impressions and by a drifting on the tides of idle mood.
To aid in mastering the control of your attention, practice this exercise. Just before you drift off to sleep, strive to hold your attention on the activities of the day in reverse order. Focus your attention on the last thing you did that is getting into bed and then move it backward in time over the fence until you reach the first event of the day, getting out of bed this is no easy exercise, but just as specific exercises greatly help in developing specific muscles this will greatly help in developing the muscle of your attention. Your attention must be developed, controlled, and concentrated to change your concept of your successfully and thereby change your future. Imagination can do anything, but only per the internal direction of your attention. If you persist not after night sooner or later you will awaken in yourself a center of power and become conscious of your greater self, the real you. Attention is developed by repeated exercise or habit. Through habit and action becomes easier, and so in course of time gives rise to a facility or faculty, which can then be put to higher uses.
When you attain control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life. You will walk in the assumption of the desire fulfilled as on a foundation more solid even than Earth.
What you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look. Since what we believe to be the real physical world is actually only an assumptive world, what appears to be solid reality is actually the result of expectations or assumptions. Your assumption determines not only what you see but also what you do, for they govern all your conscious and subconscious movements toward the fulfillment of themselves.
Your assumption is the hand of God molding the firmament into the image of that which you assume. The assumption of the wish for field is the high tide which lifts you easily off the bar of the senses where you have so long Lane stranded. It lifts the mind into prophecy in the full right sense of the word; and if you have the controlled imagination and absorbed attention which it is possible to attain, you may be sure that all your assumptions will come to pass.
What seems to be, is to those to whom it seems to be. You should assume the best and think only of that which is lovely and of good report. It is not superior insight but ignorance of this law of assumption if you read into the greatness of man some littleness which you may be familiar or into some situation or circumstances as unfavorable bold conviction. Your relationship to another influences your assumption with respect to that other and makes you see in him that which you do see if you can change your opinion of another than what you now believe of him cannot be absolutely true but is only relatively true.
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