I’ve seen a lot of articles that give tips on how to clear your mind and focus. “Go for a walk”, they say. “Eliminate distractions”. “Take a short break”. You give their advise a try, it works for 15 minutes, and then you’re back to square one.
This is not one of those articles. I’m going to teach you a methodology to clear your mind and focus that is 100% effective and works 100% of the time, and will enable you to take complete control over your thought process.
The first thing you need to understand is that there are two types of thoughts that you think: intentionally formulated ones, and auto suggestion, and that your brain is always imagining a concept of your body and a pictoral representation of a cloud of thoughts that surrounds it (which a lot of people sometimes get confused and think is their actual body), while concurrently remembering what it knows to be true in metaphysical reality.
Another important thing to understand is that we imagine our responses to external stimuli on the concept of our bodies in our imaginations before they appear on our actual bodies in response to the stimuli.
So we have our actual bodies in reality and reality, and our imagined concepts of our bodies, and on the spectrum of our imagined concepts of our bodies we also imagine pictoral representations of clouds of thoughts, and we first imagine our reactions to external stimuli on our imagined concepts of our bodies, and then they appear on our actual metaphysical bodies in response to the external stimuli.
In your auto suggestion thoughts, you think about your worst fears, and if you don’t know how to take control of your mind, you think about actions you could take that would bring them about and then start trying to make sure that there’s no logical case for taking those actions, and you’re having this debate with yourself on the spectrum of your imagined concept of your body and the pictoral representation of clouds of thought that surrounds it, and you’re looking for a logical proof that what you are feeling isn’t happening to you and that you are never going to be compelled into taking that action.
When an auto suggestion thought arises that’s based off of a false premise, the three primary (there might only be three, but I don’t want to present that as an absolute truth, because I’m not 100% sure that it’s the case) possible reasons why you might be tricked into accepting it as a thought that you can bridge off of in making sense of reality are: you feel ashamed of the fact that you seem to be considering taking an action that would bring it about your biggest fear, and quickly accept an imagined scenario that implies that you fear it in your acting to try and prove how much you genuinely fear it, it’s an auto suggestion thought about a scenario that implies the contrary of that fear or something you desire will happen and you quickly accept it in acting to try and prove how much you want that desired thing to happen, or it’s an auto suggestion thought that about a scenario that presents an idealized concept of yourself, and you accept it because it presents a positive concept of yourself in your imagined concept of your body and who you are.
If you don’t know how to control your mind, you take these auto suggestion imagined thoughts/scenarios with their implicit accepted false premises, and bring them right back to your logical case for not taking the action that would bring about your most recent biggest fear that you’re thinking about.
Now that you understand that, here is how to take control of your mind:
A little bit of preamble first that is complimentary to the methodology: if you don’t already use one, I highly recommend using a calendar app to schedule the time that you spend working on the tasks on your to-do list (I use Google Calendar), and I also recommend writing down the items on your to-do list too if you are not already doing it.
The first thing you need to do is think the intentionally formulated thought “focus”, and understand that “focus” is a mnemonic for “What am I doing right now? Focus on aligning my metaphysical body with doing that task”. Since it is an intentionally formulated thought, a concept of it will appear on the spectrum of your imagined concept of your body and the the cloud of thoughts around it, but it will also appear outside of the spectrum of the auto suggestion train of thought that you are thinking.
This is a proof that the mind is distinct from the body, and that your feelings are not happening to you. When you’re arguing the the case against taking the action that would lead to the one of your biggest fears in question, and you accept an auto suggestion thought based off of a false premise, you are assigning a feeling to the case for taking the action, and are thinking in dualities and taking that feeling to be a logical truth. You think of a good reason for not taking the action, you feel yourself pushing the pictoral representation of the imagined cloud of thoughts down, and then it pops back up and you think of a reason why that logical proof is actually false. And you feel it very vividly. And this keeps going until you either forget about the train of thought, or you find a logical proof that breaks through the false premise that you accepted.
When you think the intentionally formulated thought “focus”, you are concurrently imagining something on the spectrum of your imagination’s concept of your body, the pictoral representation of the cloud of thoughts that’s around it and the feeling that you have assigned to the case for not taking that action, and remembering what you know is true about metaphysical reality. The way it appears on that imaginative cloud of thought spectrum is proof that the feeling you have assigned to taking the action is false, that your feelings aren’t happening to you and that your mind is distinct from your real body, which is the metaphysical one.
So you think the intentional thought “focus”, and focus on aligning your metaphysical body with what you are doing right now, what the next motions that your metaphysical body is about to be doing in doing the task, and think about what the next task that you’re going to be doing afterwards is.
That imagined concept of your body and the pictoral representation of thoughts around it actually moves in line with the breath, and once you know all of that, if you take a deep breath right before intentionally thinking your “focus” mnenoic, you can completely control your imagination, and clear your mind of that string of imagination cloud and the unfocused thoughts you were thinking, and redirect it in a way that you want assigned to intentional thoughts.
Another thing that is very helpful is to ask yourself, “do I want to chose to stop doing this task” while you’re doing it, and then later ask yourself, “did I chose to stop doing the task” as proof that you were in control of your mind the whole time.
The last part of the methodology is how to react intentionally to external stimuli 100% of the time: when you encounter an external stimuli, think/remember your intentionally formulated “focus” mnemonic (remember that it’s proof that the imagination’s concept of the body is distinct from your metaphysical body, and you’ve only thought about your reaction, and it hasn’t appeared on your metaphysical body yet), and chose to go off of your intentional thoughts and what you remember to be true about metaphysical reality, and intentionally chose what you think and how you feel in response to the stimuli stemming from there (and encompassing your social relationships and attitudes and everything you know to be true within just remembering metaphysical reality and blocking everything else out).
That is the methodology.
The last thing I’m going to leave you with here is a reminder that you are remembering a concept of metaphysical reality that actually exists, stemming from your intentional thoughts, and you are never going to be stepping into a brand new alternate universe based on auto suggestion thoughts and your imagined concept of yourself that if you don’t scramble to remember things in the moment, you will lose key tenets of actual reality in.
