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Now when you think of problems such as you have been discussing here this evening, concentrate, Joseph, upon probable solutions, and imagine the solutions that can be worked out. [...]

A concentration will occur. [...]

[...] I see the feet and toes responding, and will concentrate more upon them tomorrow.

It would be most handy for him after some thinking to draw up his own statements of the areas of his main concentrations. [...] He can quite honestly state that such and such is outside of the area of his concentration, at the far periphery of his “field.” [...]

(Long pause.) Added to this, the two of you had a tendency to concentrate upon the problems, which contributed in a large manner to the entire situation. [...]

[...] If you concentrate upon your daily, natural prime events, you will not live under a constant sense of threat. [...]

[...] Keep up your concentration upon my suggestions, so that nothing important is allowed to slide.

(“Well, supposing we did concentrate upon increased sales, and did more publicity work on radio and television, for instance: wouldn’t these things increase Jane’s feeling of vulnerability? [...]

[...] Otherwise, your concentration is upon crisis. [...]

In your cases, you both began to concentrate upon the negative elements. [...]

[...] We therefore want the concentration upon, again, a therapeutic situation. [...]

People generally have been taught to play down their own heroism, and to concentrate upon man’s weaknesses, and so your newspapers contain categorized fact upon fact, emphasizing man’s errors and stupidities. It has become virtuous to keep track of these, as if concentrating upon errors will do anything but compound them.

You use such belief organizations to concentrate upon certain data and ignore other, so that consciously and unconsciously you organize inner and outer stimuli so that it makes sense according to your beliefs, and forms therefore a more or less dependable framework in which action and response are possible.

[...] The concentration must be on projects, and the more concentration is placed upon projects, the less will feed the symptoms. [...]

[...] The session contains more than is apparent, and there are developments that can arise from it as a direct result of concentration being directed elsewhere, a release of energy seeking new outlets in other words.

[...] The overall concentrations should not be on ridding yourself of any particular symptom, but on directing yourself properly toward your goals, for this direction and proper focusing will automatically result in the disappearance of symptoms.

[...] (Pause.) Let Ruburt follow the program faithfully, yet with a more carefree attitude toward it, with a more relaxed attitude, He should reread the book, yet in his free moments he need not concentrate upon the program. [...]

[...] Now concentrate on the feeling in the back of your skull. [...] Use my voice simply as a thread so that you can follow it, and it can bring you back safely but concentrate upon your own feelings and sensations. [...]

[...] Nerve patterns are being reactivated, circulation patterns reinforced, muscles contracting and expanding in their own exercises, right now, in a concentrated, rather intensified bodily commotion. [...]

[...] This merely involves a change of focus on my part, and a narrowing of focus and concentration. [...]

I believe that the light is concentrated directly in front of him upon the desk or tabletop, and that he sits more or less like this, with the light falling in front of him.

[...] It may well be a letter that you have written him, and he concentrates on my name; and thinks (pause) of a picture in a frame, of his wife I believe, but not one just taken.

[...] You are concentrating upon the problem in order to solve it, often scaring yourselves into further depressions. [...]

(Long pause.) I do not want to give you too much charged material in a concentrated period of time. [...]

[...] Children, however, will concentrate for hours at a time on subject matters and questions that interest them. They are often taken from such pursuits, and their natural habits of concentration suffer as a result.

[...] Your old idea of concentrating upon immediate sense data is good, to counteract these other tendencies.

Now: Underline five times: Whenever there are difficulties, do not concentrate upon the problem.

[...] Otherwise, the intense desire for a solution can lead you to concentrate upon what is wrong, so that it becomes the entire issue. [...]

[...] He has already learned a lesson, in that that same concentration can be applied to change the condition of this own psyche and physical body.

(Last night Jane was especially aware of her success at concentration in getting the table to move.)

[...] After death you will not concentrate upon the physical forms taken by time and events. [...]

[...] This is a mental and psychic exercise, undertaken by many, demanding great concentration, and is no more hallucinatory than any existence.

[...] It appears that intuitively at least Jane has made the right decision, to concentrate upon the books; at least they offer something the way she wants it to be. [...]

This means of course that deeply felt hope must be sardonically examined, that deeply buried faith must be stated with parried thrusts, and to that extent the paper speaks for a concentrated portion of your population so that our Jim Poett, who is a poet at heart, must appear in the slightly worn cloak of the skeptic. [...]

(Long pause at 4:12.) Politically as well as medically, such distortions have led to unfortunate conditions: the Aryan-supremacy biological ideas fostered in the second world war, the concentration upon “the perfect body,” and other distortions. [...]

[...] It necessarily also narrows your concentration and your understanding. [...]

[...] Your existence, and mine for that matter, on any particular level is predetermined by complete concentration or focus of inner selves upon the particular universe in question. [...]

[...] Complete concentration and focus is your answer.