Concentration

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

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The cause is that we have acted in a way that has taken all the strength away from us. Also there is something wrong with the physical system, so that food instead of acting as nutrition, acts as an intoxicant, and the person easily gets irritated, with his servants or his children, or other persons or things.
The physical, mental, and moral causes must be all removed, and the practice of concentration is very helpful because concentration is just the opposite of nervousness, so while you are concentrating you are not nervous. Therefore the practice of concentration is a remedy for nervousness.
We can concentrate on our ordinary work, on dressing, walking, eating, reading, etc., to cure nervousness. Try to hold a piece of cardboard in the hand steady.
To cure nervousness there must be regularity of life,
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