Quotes About Focus

Whether you're sitting in a chair or on the floor cross-legged, sit up straight and keep your spine erect. Your body should be relaxed, but your mind needs to stay focused, so don't be so relaxed that you fall asleep. If your head begins to nod during meditation, it's a sign that you're moving into a slower brain-wave state, so don't worry too much about that. With some practice, your body will become conditioned and won't want to doze off. As

If you start keeping track of your thoughts and write them down, you'll find that most of the time, you are either thinking ahead or looking back.

if you're not in the present moment, you're probably in a program.

If your frontal lobe is orchestrating enough of these neural nets to fire in unison as you focus on a clear intention, there will come a moment when the thought will become the experience in your mind—that's when your inner reality is more real than your outer reality. Once the thought becomes the experience, you begin to feel the emotion of how the event would feel in reality (remember, emotions are the chemical signatures of experiences).

This power of intention is what we most admire about our heroes.

Cuando aprendes a usar tu atención y a vivir en el presente, cruzas la puerta que lleva al campo cuántico, donde existen todas las posibilidades.

for wherever you place your attention is where you place your energy. . . .

mentally rehearse that unknown future with a clear intention and an elevated emotion, and do it repeatedly,

realized back then that when crisis or trauma occurs, we spend too much of our attention and energy thinking about what we don't want instead of what we do want.

Even the emotional centers are cooled off in the limbic brain. As a result, what we are thinking about or focusing on will become more real to us than the external world. As those neural networks are shut off by the frontal lobe, we no longer process any level of mind or awareness in that part of the brain and we, therefore, are no longer conscious of the body, the environment, and even time.

When you hold clear, focused thoughts about your purpose, accompanied by your passionate emotional engagement, you broadcast a stronger electromagnetic signal that pulls you toward a potential reality that matches what you want.

Always Matter, Never Mind? Always Mind, Never Matter?

This is possible through mental rehearsal. This technique is basically closing your eyes and repeatedly imagining performing an action, and mentally reviewing the future you want, all the while reminding yourself of who you no longer want to be (the old self) and who you do want to be. This process involves thinking about your future actions, mentally planning your choices, and focusing your mind on a new experience.

The observer effect in quantum physics states that where you direct your attention is where you place your energy.

Most days, we move back and forth between beta and alpha states. Alpha is our relaxation state, where we pay less attention to the outer world and start to pay more attention to our inner world. When we're in alpha, we're in a light state of meditation; you could also call that imagination or daydreaming. In this state, our inner world is more real than our outer world, because that's what we're paying attention to.

when we put greater intention behind what we're doing, we naturally get better results.

Sabemos que se requiere una intención clara (un cerebro coherente) y una emoción elevada (un corazón

Y la segunda fue que no dejaría que me viniera a la cabeza ningún pensamiento que no quisiera tener.

Como la conciencia es atención, y la atención consiste en fijarse en las cosas, y fijarse en las cosas es estar presente

Cuanto más elevados son los objetivos, en mayor medida tu vida girará en torno a cómo comes, duermes y trabajas.

Perhaps the greatest impairment to purposeful practice is the presence of other athletes during a workout.

4º MANDAMIENTO: ENTRENAR CON UN PLAN

the Olympic podium-placers did these things: ?Paid meticulous attention to their goals ?Had a strong inner drive to stay ahead of the competition ?Concentrated on excellence ?Were not distracted by other people or athletes ?Shrugged off their own failures ?Rebounded from defeat easily ?Never self-flagellated ?Celebrated their wins ?Analyzed the reasons for their success ?Were very confident of their abilities

8º MANDAMIENTO: CONFÍA EN TU ENTRENAMIENTO