The Power of Concentration
A Practical Guide to Mental Discipline, Attention Training, Willpower, Memory, and Personal EfficiencyBy William Walker Atkinson
Length4h 21m
About this audiobook
William Walker Atkinson's *The Power of Concentration* presents mental focus as a trainable faculty and a practical foundation for achievement, self-command, and spiritual development. Organized as a sequence of concise lessons, reflections, and exercises, the book addresses attention, willpower, visualization, memory, persistence, and the control of distracting thoughts. Its direct, exhortatory prose and recurring appeals to disciplined practice place it within the early twentieth-century tradition of inspirational self-help, while its emphasis on thought as an active force reflects the metaphysical assumptions of the New Thought movement. Rather than offering abstract philosophy alone, Atkinson translates these ideas into a program of daily mental training. Atkinson (1862–1932) was a prolific American writer, lawyer, businessman, and influential interpreter of New Thought, publishing under his own name and several pseudonyms, including Yogi Ramacharaka. His varied professional life, combined with his interest in psychology, occultism, and comparative spiritual traditions, shaped his conviction that personal transformation depended upon the intelligent direction of consciousness. The book thus emerges from a period fascinated by scientific management, efficiency, and the latent powers of the mind, recasting contemporary ideals of self-mastery in psychological and quasi-spiritual terms. This volume will reward readers interested in the history of self-help, New Thought, popular psychology, and modern ideas of productivity. Its claims may appear metaphysical by contemporary standards, yet its practical exercises and sustained attention to habit, concentration, and perseverance remain accessible. Read critically and historically, it offers both a useful manual of mental discipline and a revealing document of American spiritual modernity.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help
Length4 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Mystique of Enlightenment (Annotated)
2The Power of Concentration
3INTRODUCTORY
4LESSON I. CONCENTRATION FINDS THE WAY
5LESSON II. THE SELF-MASTERY: SELF-DIRECTION POWER OF CONCENTRATION
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6LESSON III. HOW TO GAIN WHAT YOU WANT THROUGH CONCENTRATION
7LESSON IV. CONCENTRATION, THE SILENT FORCE THAT PRODUCES RESULTS IN ALL BUSINESS
8LESSON V. HOW CONCENTRATED THOUGHT LINKS ALL HUMANITY TOGETHER
9LESSON VI. THE TRAINING OF THE WILL TO DO
10LESSON VII. THE CONCENTRATED MENTAL DEMAND
11LESSON VIII. CONCENTRATION GIVES MENTAL POISE
12LESSON IX. CONCENTRATION CAN OVERCOME BAD HABITS
13LESSON X. BUSINESS RESULTS THROUGH CONCENTRATION
14LESSON XI. CONCENTRATE ON COURAGE
15LESSON XII. CONCENTRATE ON WEALTH
16LESSON XIII. YOU CAN CONCENTRATE, BUT WILL YOU?
17LESSON XIV. THE ART OF CONCENTRATING BY MEANS OF PRACTICAL EXERCISES
18LESSON XV. CONCENTRATE SO YOU WILL NOT FORGET
19LESSON XVI. HOW CONCENTRATION CAN FULFILL YOUR DESIRE
20LESSON XVII. IDEALS DEVELOPED BY CONCENTRATION
21LESSON XVIII. MENTAL CONTROL THROUGH CREATION
22LESSON XIX. A CONCENTRATED WILL DEVELOPMENT
23LESSON XX. CONCENTRATION REVIEWED
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