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The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

How to Enhance Your Focus | Sadhguru

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Sadhguru differentiates between focus and attention, and how the key to success is to heighten attention and make the mind like a mirror that sees everything as it is Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive #Sadhguru Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm talking about attention, not even about something, just being attentive in the Yoga systems,

0:07.0

we have what is called as Dashava Dhanis, Shattava Dhanis, what this means is,

0:14.0

a man will do ten things at the same time.

0:17.0

Now, when you don't miss a thing, everybody thinks you are some kind of a superhuman being,

0:22.0

we can give you very dynamic processes through which you can scale up your attention

0:30.0

to a higher and higher level.

0:36.0

My question is, what means focus to you and which way can you apply focus in our day and night?

0:42.0

So, what's your definition of focus?

0:45.0

Okay. There are many ways to describe this word, instead of saying focus, if you use the word attention,

1:00.0

would you agree that attention and focus are about the same thing?

1:05.0

There is a little difference, there is, there are no answers to it,

1:10.0

but when you say focus, it's just like focusing a light on something, means only a focus is always a spot.

1:23.0

Attention can be much more widespread.

1:27.0

See, right now, if you have clear vision, I am having problems seeing that man,

1:32.0

because you kept him in darkness there in the hall, but if the hall was well lit,

1:39.0

I don't have to focus myself to see the people who are sitting here.

1:46.0

I just need attention, if I am attentive, I will see all the people here, the way they are,

1:53.0

but now I get interested in this one young man, then I need focus.

2:02.0

If I had only focus, without the general attention about everything around me, indiscriminate attention,

2:09.0

I am talking about attention, not even about something, just being attentive, because only because there is a certain level of attention

2:18.0

and awareness within you, you even know that you exist.

2:23.0

Otherwise, let's say in sleep, in your experience neither the world exists nor you exist,

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