Concentration

Author(s): Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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ideas about other things that are waiting to be done. Therefore one thing to do towards the cure of mindwandering is to make a time-table for your activities as far as possible, and it will then be found that at times other than the appointed one ideas of other matters awaiting attention will not enter the mind.
As an exercise to help the cure of mind-wandering a system of thought can be used. For instance, you can take the character of some person and think upon it for ten or fifteen minutes, not letting the mind wander off, or if it does wander off, bringing it back again. It is better to take the character of some holy person. Examining the character you will find five qualities. These five qualities or characteristics can each be taken separately, and each one in turn be thought about for a short time, with illustrations from the person's life in support of the quality 'he did so-and-so at such a time and place towards so-and-so', etc. While thinking about any one of the qualities, thoughts about the
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