Quotes About Inner focus

The sleeping or relaxed brain cuts off distractions and turns inward, as the right hemisphere becomes more active, leading to periods of greater connectivity.

He knew from his Chongg Ran training that the thoughts you most try to banish are the ones that most persistently push themselves back in.

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind. (39)

It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus.

Spiritual disciplines should always be means to spiritual ends, never ends in themselves. They are places of meeting God that do not have value in and of themselves. To treat them as if they did is to develop a spirituality that is external, self-energized and legalistic. Genuine Christian spirituality places the priority on inner transformation, not outward routines.

Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.

convierta en un hábito entrar dentro de usted de inmediato y concentrarse lo más que pueda en el campo de energía interior de su cuerpo.

If you have difficulty feeling your emotions, start by focusing attention on the inner energy field of your body. Feel the body from within. This will also put you in touch with your emotions

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

We might at first label the body's simple need to focus inward depression. But as we practice going inward, we come to realize that much of it is not depression in the least; it is a cry for something else, often the physical body's simple need for rest, for contemplation, and for a kind of forgotten courage, one difficult to hear, demanding not a raise, but another life.

In effect, writers give us a transcript of how the brain works because they look at the images turning up in their own minds with such concentration and dedication.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

What I say is focus your mind and respect your body. But mostly love your heart. I think that is where to begin, from there and then it goes out.

The mind is the lord of the senses, but the breath is the lord of the mind.

so I could think straight and become whole again.

Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.