Bhathen Posted September 25, 2021 @freeform Can you please add more details on this: Quote Rather than finding where your focus is originating (which is a thing, but not for this practice) - find where this substance is hanging out - in and around your body. Something seems to have changed in the past few months and it seems a razor sharp mental focus has disappeared. Would like to know if there are methods to work on that? What actually is focus? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeform Posted September 25, 2021 Sure I can try at least. 6 hours ago, Bhathen said: Something seems to have changed in the past few months and it seems a razor sharp mental focus has disappeared. Would like to know if there are methods to work on that? When do you notice this? Is it in day to day life? Or when doing complex mental stuff - or is it when you’re concentrating on an object as a meditative practice? I don’t mean to answer a question with a question - just want to understand at what level we’re looking at. There’s a lot of nuance to this stuff… some people talk about ‘mind fog’ for instance - the issue can be originating at many different levels… from depleted kidney yin… to a suppressed liver… maybe a stagnant spleen. Or it could be from having lost a sense of purpose - it could be a result of meditative practice where attention becomes diffuse and doesn’t cling to mental objects… it could even be that you were using stress as a fuel for mental focus and through internal practice your stress response has dropped considerably and you now have to find a new way to focus. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
