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Notes on Focus and Concentration
Random Access Memory
Focus is to the mind as Random Access Memory (RAM) is to the computer. You may have great computer programs for writing, graphic design, calculating etc. but if there's not enough RAM in the computer, the programs will be slow, limited and restricted or just won't work. In the same way you have biological programs that enable you to reason, imagine, intuit, memorize, create, calculate etc. and the less you can sustain your focus and concentration the slower, more limited and restricted these abilities will be.
The boundaries of Focus
Sustaining focus and concentration voluntarily requires effort of will. When you have stretched
your ability to sustain focus and concentration for as long as you can you come to the boundaries
which mark the current limit of your ability. You notice subtle shifts in your focus as the intensity
and power of the three experiential forces increase gradually until they reach the point of disrupting
your focus. To go beyond your current limit, to increase your ability to focus, you have to use
deliberate effort of will. When you sustain focus by deliberate effort of will you expand the
boundaries of your focus and your willpower starts to grow. When your willpower starts to
grow you experience growing pains, much like a seed that has to break its shell to grow into a
tree. Inside the bounderies of your ability to focus there is controlled clarity, just the one single
experience you chose to focus on. Just a few seconds or minutes away, outside the boundaries
of this controlled clarity, there is uncontrolled chaos, millions of different experiences competing
for your mind. Sustaining controlled clarity with deliberate effort of will for as long as possible,
expands the boundaries of your focus within time.
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© Gardar Gardarsson, 2003. All Rights Reserved.
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