By doing previous awareness exercises, your mind may be
distracted. To deal with such situation, you shall keep your eyes half closed resting on
an object or one spot three feet ahead of you. You are not to focus on the object/spot. By
doing this, you may have trouble with your wandering mind. No cause for alarm. You
practise control over your wandering mind with patience and perseverance. Gradually you
will succeed.
To deal with distraction of mind you may follow any of the two ways:
a) You have to follow your thoughts as a puppy in the streets follows any pair of legs it
finds in motion. It does not care for the direction where they are moving. After some
seconds, you shall make yourself aware that you are thinking. You may say to yourself
interiorly that I am thinking ......... thinking ...... thinking. By this you will be
aware that thinking process is going on.
b) The other way to overcome distraction is to observe your thoughts as a man stationed at
his window watching passers by on the street. After doing this for a while, you shall keep
yourself aware that you are thinking .... thinking .... thinking .... You may do any of
the above two exercises for not more than five minutes. Thinking tends to stop by making
yourself aware of it. A distraction charged with strong emotion: love, fear, resentment,
sorrow will not easily yield to this exercise. Other exercises discussed hereinafter shall
help you in that.
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