A physical ascent to focus.

A physical ascent to focus.

How is it, that one develops this immense focus that defines a person? How can a person grow to a level of focus and then further reach the levels of SuperFocus? How can one immerse oneself into his work intensely?

Certain things seem to enhance the growth and sustainment of focus(not just basic, but even higher levels of focus). These include a constant dwelling on the objects of focus, a largely physical lack of mental interruptions, an inbuilt response-system in your head which prevents mental distractions, and a tremendous drive which grows with time. The drive isn't necessarily intense right in the beginning. It grows and grows proportionally to its exercise. It is not an instantaneous drive that we speak of, but a sustained 24-long drive. A drive which drives you, all the time. The way braces work for our teeth - applying a latent pressure in the direction of duty. It moves you at every instant, pushing you towards your goal, inch by inch. It grows and grows. It is a drive which starts to define you. It doesn't cease to exist when the immediate or final goal is reached, but continues and becomes a part of your lifestyle.

One is to support his growing focus with action. This is the water, this is its food. Your focus thrives on action. Give it the nutrients of your action, and its sustainment gets accelerated. It strengthens, and grows. Action seems to be the primary, life-sustaining elixir for your focus. Action, Action, Action. Act on your work. Mechanically start the engine of your creativity. The work shall flow, and along with it, so shall you.

A lack of interruptions is necessary for a continued state of flow. A complete physical isolation, though achievable, is pretty difficult to maintain for long periods of time. Some physical distractions are bound to come, unless you have the stellar opportunity of complete physical isolation. But the more major and important thing, is a lack of mental interruptions. And what is the best way to prevent those mental interruptions? By remaining lost in your work for longer and longer hours, so that the mindset of concentration on the task in right in front of you, and at hand, grows and spreads into your whole day. Condition your mind to think solely about the destination and the path. Nothing else. It by-default rejects the creation of any other thoughts.

Calm yourself. Quieten yourself.

Quiet.

Focus

Focus.

What is this one word, which makes me lost in a world of deep thought? What does it mean, in essence? How do we get to that level of focus, and then to the desired levels of Super-focus?
What are the ascents and descents?

Focus seems to be a concentration - a latent, constant, mental, physical concentration on what you want to focus on. A state of constant concentration on the destination, and the path. A concentration that is pretty hard to even initiate in the beginning, but one which adds more and more strength to you. Focus seems to be a state of mind. A state of mind in which every there is no scope for any decision which causes you to act outside your field of duty. It seems to overrule everything that hinders speed on the path to the destination.

It seems to be sustained by growing periods of intense concentration. It grows and grows, and then the continuous concentration power increases. You immerse yourself in your work, and relax only for the sake of relaxation - in order to give your mind and body the rest they need. Every time a distraction comes, you immerse yourself in your work more deeply. You push deeper and deeper, into the quietude of the depths of your mind.

To delve deep into the calm, undisturbed, intense depths of focus; to remain in the light, transparent, revitalizing water; and to delve deeper and deeper - this seems to be the state that strongly pulls me towards itself. Lost in your work, you become one with the Present - losing all sense, except the task in front of you. You become more and more intensely focussed and further strengthen your concentration and focus.

In racing games like 'Nfs: Most Wanted', there's a certain thing called the "Nitro" boost. Your car emits a blast of nitrous oxide, which gives you rocketing speed. Instantaneously. And in your period of nitrous boost, your surroundings blur. You're moving ahead in such levels of speed, that the objects at the side of the road - the trees, the buildings, the cars, the telephone booths; literally everything - blurs. You can see something similar to a time-drag. As if the inertia of those objects holds them back even as they get pulled by your tremendous speed. I don't know if you're a gamer, and if you know at all, about Nfs. But there' is a striking similarity between a sustained state of focus, and the scenario I just described. In fact, to me, both things are the same. While in a state of sustained focus, you're the car. Everything around you are the objects around the road. The road is the path of action and duty. So when you're immersed in your work so intensely, you lose sense of everything around the path. Everything else loses its clarity. Solely the path, and your destination. Everything else is a blurred vision, not worthy of your full attention, or even partial attention.

It is these intense levels of focus that are really worth being called levels of focus. Rest all is imagining that you're focussing.

SuperFocus. A word that I use to describe the highest levels of focus. SuperFocus.

To describe SuperFocus, SuperFocus is a sustained level of intense focus, for extremely long periods of time. Your levels of focus are so high, that your time of intense focus encroaches into eveything else. Your focus, becomes like a 'Yajna'. In the literal sense, it means "religious sacrifice", but in the way I understand it, 'Yajna' is like a consecration of all actions - every single one, done as an offering to the Divine. SuperFocus, in my view, doesn't go to such high levels when the destination is a physical goal. Yet, if the goal is a manifold one, it manifests in beautiful ways.

At the moment, since I am concerned only with the physical goal aspect of SuperFocus, I would like to write about that. I shall write about the physical aspect of SuperFocus in my next post.

Till then, Sayonara. :-)

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

When the going gets tough.......the tough get going....!

This is the truth that time has proven again and again. In fact, the situations getting immensely hard to handle, are a sign of your internal hardness. The more testing circumstances become, the more strong you become within.

For any great thing to be done on this earth, there is always resistance. A tremendous amount of resistance usually. TRemendous. But then, what great deed was done, without overcoming herculean opposition?

Gonna be posting every single day frm now on.

Hey All!

Frm now on, I'll be posting on this blog every sIngle day. Everyday. May not be what u guys may expect as such, but i will definitely write everyday. Hehe.

I know this is a lamely small post in length, but dunt worry, i'll keep building on that level onto higher avenues. :)

Study Well Everyone.

Luvv ya'!

Tata fr now. :D