{"id":161,"date":"2011-06-04T02:46:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T14:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-06-04T02:46:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T14:46:30","slug":"a-simple-exercise-to-develop-your-focus-and-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/a-simple-exercise-to-develop-your-focus-and-be-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Exercise To Develop Your Focus And Be Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n<!-- Post[count: 1] -->\n<div class=\"ezAdsense adsense adsense-leadin\" style=\"float:right;margin:12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8279754544979895\";\r\n\/* self improve3 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2464079329\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div>\n<!-- Easy AdSense V2.99 -->\n\n<p>It only takes a few minutes to experience the difference between what it feels like to be focused and being distracted \u2013 I\u2019ve been enabling people to focus for over fifteen years and I know that it works.    And each Monday and Wednesday, my <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>personal development<\/a> online readers get simple tips and tricks on how to focus their mind \u2013 and it\u2019s free!   And every day, people all over the world sign up to my online workshops to learn exactly the same thing.  So, <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>what is focus<\/a> all about?<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, you need to understand that focus doesn\u2019t come naturally.   The normal adult mind is either thinking about the past or worrying about the future.   The worry you know about \u2013 research shows that the majority of people are worried about not having any money, worried about how their children are turning out, worried about work, worried about growing old.   For each stage of life there is a set of worries.  And all this worry is focused on things that didn\u2019t happen yet \u2013 and, more to the point, things that we actually don\u2019t want to happen!   What kind of idiot wastes their energy on stuff that they don\u2019t want to happen?   A normal idiot!<\/p>\n<p>Whilst we are all conscious of worry, we\u2019re not aware that our subconscious mind is focused on the past and it\u2019s because of the past that we worry about the future!    We learned the things that we don\u2019t like about ourselves when we were young \u2013 and our subconscious mind continues to play the same old broken record.   And you never know that this is happening, so you\u2019ve never realized that you could do something about the problem.<\/p>\n<p>What you do need to realize is that you don\u2019t have to do anything to sort things out if you learn to <a href='http:\/\/www.gurdy.net' target='_blank'>focus your mind<\/a> on the here and now.   Yeah, that\u2019s what focus is \u2013 a now thing.   This is where you live your life, this is when you could do your very best if you were focused, now is the only time and place that you can be, you have no choice.   The choice you have, however, is whether you\u2019ll bother to turn up for your life or not.   Once you decide to turn up, everything will be transformed.<\/p>\n<p>OK then, what do you have to do to focus?   Well, here\u2019s your first training session, right here, right now.  Sit down somewhere where you won\u2019t be disturbed for five minutes.  When you\u2019ve got comfortable, close your eyes and do nothing except hear.  You\u2019re thoughts will try to distract you but, when this happens, just latch onto the next sound that comes your way.   When you try something as simple as this, you teach your mind to pay attention to what is going on in just this moment \u2013 and that is what focus is.<\/p>\n<p>And even if you just started with a couple minutes of sitting and listening, you\u2019ll discover something very important \u2013 the real world has nothing to do with the  crap in your head that you\u2019ve been paying all of your attention to.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwisdomhealthprosperity.com%2Fselfimprovementmastery%2Fa-simple-exercise-to-develop-your-focus-and-be-happy%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_256_24.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"24\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar a2a_config = a2a_config || {};\na2a_config.linkname=\"A Simple Exercise To Develop Your Focus And Be Happy\";\na2a_config.linkurl=\"http:\/\/wisdomhealthprosperity.com\/selfimprovementmastery\/a-simple-exercise-to-develop-your-focus-and-be-happy\/\";\na2a_config.onclick=1;\na2a_config.show_title=1;\n\/\/--><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It only takes a few minutes to experience the difference between what it feels like to be focused and being distracted \u2013 I\u2019ve been enabling people to focus for over fifteen years and I know that it works. 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