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IV. Thought Control By doing previous awareness exercises, your mind may be

distracted. To deal with such situation, you shall keep your eyes half closed-

resting on an object or one spot three feet ahead of you. You are not to focus

on the object/spot. By doing this, you may have trouble with your wandering

mind. No cause for alarm. You practise control over your wandering mind with

patience and perseverance. Gradually you will succeed.

 

To deal with distraction of mind you may follow any of the two ways:

 

a) You have to follow your thoughts as a puppy in the streets follows any pair

of legs it finds in motion. It does not care for the direction where they are

moving. After some seconds, you shall make yourself aware that you are thinking.

You may say to yourself interiorly that I am thinking ......... thinking ......

thinking. By this you will be aware that thinking process is going on.

 

b) The other way to overcome distraction is to observe your thoughts as a man

stationed at his window watching passers by on the street. After doing this for

a while, you shall keep yourself aware that you are thinking .... thinking ....

thinking .... You may do any of the above two exercises for not more than five

minutes. Thinking tends to stop by making yourself aware of it. A distraction

charged with strong emotion: love, fear, resentment, sorrow-will not easily

yield to this exercise. Other exercises discussed hereinafter shall help you in

that.

 

to be continued...

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