How to Enhance Your Focus | Sadhguru
i’m talking about attention not even about something just being attentive in the yogic systems we have what is called as dashavadanis what this means is a man will do ten things at the same time now when you don’t miss a thing everybody thinks you’re some kind of a superhuman being we can give you very dynamic processes through which you can scale up your attention to a higher and higher level [Music] my question is what means focus to you and which way can we apply focus in our daily life what’s your definition of focus okay there are many ways to describe this word instead of saying focus if you use the word attention would you agree that attention and focus are about the same thing there is a little difference there is there are no answers to it but when you say focus it’s just like focusing a light on something means only a focus is always a spot attention can be much more widespread see right now if you have clear vision i am having problems seeing the young man because you kept him in darkness there in the hall [Laughter] but if the hall was well lit i don’t have to focus myself to see the people who are sitting here i just need attention if i’m attentive i will see all the people here the way they are but now i get interested in this one young man then i need focus if i had only focus without the general attention about everything around me indiscriminate attention i’m talking about attention not even about something just being attentive because only because there is a certain level of attention and awareness within you you even know that you exist otherwise let’s say in sleep in your experience neither the world exists nor you exist all that’s happened is there is no attention because there is no attention there is no perception of any kind so first thing is attention that there is a general grasp of everything then there is a particular interest then we focus it down to that particular interest so what is the purpose or what is the definition of focus what is the use of focus where can focus get us we are focusing on something only because our attention is not keen enough if our attention was very keen you would not need to focus on anything in the yogic systems we have what is called as dashavadanis shatavandhanis what this means is a man will do ten things at the same time another man will do hundred things at the same time this is he will he will articulate a particular musical raga at the same time he will calculate a very complex arithmetic problem at the same time he will write poetry at the same time like this he will do 10 things or 100 things there are people like this you can either use that to just be a stage performer or you can just use it in your life you’re an entrepreneur it’s very important if you’re walking on the street you’re able to see something that most other people cannot see that is when you become a leader because you are able to see things others are yet to see that is when you take up a leadership position because essentially leadership means you’re on a perch once you’re on a perch you must see better than others so attention is that dimension which will put you on that perch if your attention if your attention has to be very keen about everything then you should stop discriminating in terms of i like this person i don’t like this person this is good this is bad this is nice this is not nice this is useful this is not useful if you do not make any kind of discrimination you just work on your attention not about being attentive about something just being super attentive not about anything see right now if you if you increase the voltage in this hall where you’re sitting when light comes on light is not thinking in terms of whom should i focus on when light comes on everything that is there in that room will be seen this is important this is a very important aspect of yogic process is that we go on working on our attention that we keep on keying up our attention to a higher and higher level a higher and higher voltage and intensity now we don’t encourage focus because focus means consolidate all that attention and put it on one person suppose you invested your entire focus on one spot and you found nothing worthwhile in that spot what will you do at the end of your life this is what is happening to most lives now you just work on making your attention itself so keen that even if somebody focuses on something they won’t be that keen if your attention is that keen you won’t miss a thing in this universe now when you don’t miss a thing everybody thinks you’re some kind of a superhuman being no no no this is not about being superhuman this is about realizing being human itself is super so if you cultivate your attention there are we can give you very uh dynamic processes through which you can scale up your attention to a higher and higher level how clearly you see determines how successfully you walk this life there’s no question about it how much lack of clarity there is in you that much blundering you will do in your life simply there is no question about this so if one has to get first of all work towards cultivating this attention first thing is you stop your sense of discriminatory looking that you don’t look at this person oh this is a man this is a woman this is the dog this is this this is that simply pay attention without any judgment if you just pay attention to anything and everything without any judgment you will see if you just pay attention to an ant there are phenomenal things you’re in germany who knows if you pay enough attention to an ant may you may come up with the best automobile on the planet because i have not seen any machine moving with as much dexterity as an ant moose but i think nobody has paid enough attention to an ant so attention raising the bar of attention is more important than focus for immediate purposes if you need to focus on something you can but right now you can do a simple experiment if you sit with your face slightly upturned like this and close your eyes you will see naturally there will be a focus between your eyebrows but you can be conscious of many things people around you your breath the sensations in your body you can be conscious of everything and still be focused so mental focus is a limited possibility but the attention enhancement of attention that ultimately delivers you to a space where you become conscious or in other people’s words super conscious is just conscious but people think you’re super conscious because of this you grasp everything as it is the most important thing for this is that your mind is not functioning like a prism distorting things and creating designs where they don’t exist your mind has become like a plain mirror it just shows everything just the way it is only when you see everything just the way it is you will have the ability to handle everything sensibly otherwise you make a mess out of many things and this is very important for an entrepreneur because you don’t have a job [Music]
