http://davidtay.sg/2010/09/stay-focused/ Life Coaching with David Tay Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:32:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://davidtay.sg/2010/09/stay-focused/comment-page-1/#comment-549 sandy Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:11:54 +0000 http://davidtay.sg/?p=411#comment-549 Well, from my own personal experience - trying, struggling or forcing anything (especially the mind) to be still, only creates more of the same. I found that by ALLOWING it, smiling at it's antics, not paying any attention to it and especially not believing what it says, in other words STOP FEEDING IT YOUR ATTENTION - it will gradually take a back seat! Really!! Remember, what we resist - persists! I call it the ME-mind - and what you are wanting to cultivate (not by force or struggle) is the Free-mind, right? Think about it!! Well, from my own personal experience – trying, struggling or forcing anything (especially the mind) to be still, only creates more of the same. I found that by ALLOWING it, smiling at it’s antics, not paying any attention to it and especially not believing what it says, in other words STOP FEEDING IT YOUR ATTENTION – it will gradually take a back seat! Really!! Remember, what we resist – persists! I call it the ME-mind – and what you are wanting to cultivate (not by force or struggle) is the Free-mind, right? Think about it!!

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