subject: Personal Fitness: 7 Determining Influences of Mental Focus [print this page] Personal Fitness: 7 Determining Influences of Mental Focus
The world doesn't happen to you it happens from you. Your perception, or in other words, the way you filter the information coming at you determines your experience of reality.
The one thing you always have control over is your own mind. You can't control what comes at you but you have total control over what mental response and physical actions you take in response to it.
If you think as you've always thought you'll see what you've always seen. The eyes are extremely sophisticated light receptors but it is your brain that organizes the light into coherent images and it's your mind that tells you what you are looking at.
Whatever you focus on, with emotion, expands. The more you dwell on anything, especially a problem or undesirable situation, the larger and more powerful it appears to become.
Your dominant thoughts affect your actions and your actions determine your outcome/performance. When you're shown a new way to do something you might say, "Gee I never thought about it that way", or "I never thought to do it that way." The thought always precedes the action whether or not you're conscious of the process.
If a pick pocket meets a saint, all he sees is pockets; or in other words motivation affects perception. If you're hungry, you'll notice where the restaurants are as you drive down the street.
It's not possible to NOT think about something. In order to not think about something you have to mentally create it.
