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=How to Cultivate Attention?= When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-july-1958#p9</ref> The best thing to do is to occupy yourself with something practical which will compel you to concentrate specially: studies, work or some physical occupation for the body which demands attention―anything at all that forces you to concentrate on what you are doing and no longer be a prey to these ramblings. But if you have the misfortune to remain there and look at them, then surely, as I said, you will get a headache. For it is a problem which must be resolved either '''Curated by a descent into practical life and a concentration on some practical effort or else by rising above and looking from above at all this chaos so as to be able to bring some order into it and set it right. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/27-june-1956#p54</ref> ==Reducing Distractions== When you are doing your work, you should concentrate only on your work and not on the people—there is no need to speak to them or pay any attention to them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/21-july-1936#p2</ref> But there is another way—to concentrate oneKarthikeyan''s attention and one's energy, think only of what one is doing and not of anything else, not to make a movement too much, to make the exact movement in the most exact way <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/22-february-1951#p27</ref> ==By Regular Practice== There seems to be only one solution to the problem. In the same way as an athlete develops methodically his muscles by a scientific and gradual training, the faculty of concentrated attention can be developed scientifically by a methodical training—developed in such a way that concentration is obtained at will and on whatever subject or activity is chosen. Thus the work of preparation instead of being done in the subconscient by a slow and steady repetition of the same movements, is done consciously by a concentration of will and a gathered attention centred on one point or another according to plan and decision. The chief difficulty seems to be to obtain this power of concentration independent from all inner and outer circumstances—difficult perhaps but not impossible for him who is determined and persevering. Moreover, whatever method of development is chosen, determination and perseverance are indispensable to obtain success. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/concentration-and-dispersion#p5</ref>
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