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your desire, some thought of the mysterious, or the supernatural. If Concentration is the secret of power, then wherever you find power it must be the result of concentration. Man uses power. You in your Life are Power. Did you not concentrate you were power-less and to the extent that you have voluntarily exercised power, you have to that degree concentrated. So much power in manifestation, so much concentration.

The motto for Concentration is, One thing at a time! Concentration is only paying attention. How many times did we as children hear parent or teacher say when our mind was wandering Pay attention! The cat watching at the hole for the mouse and the pointer dog on scent, are types of concentration. Follow nature's evolution from cat and dog to Newton and Darwin and you find that Success is but materialized attention. Newton expressed it as Intending the mind!

A person naturally concentrates. The mind develops through concentration. The child concentrates but he can hold himself to one thought but a few moments. Upon this fact the kindergarten teacher instructs. Changes are frequent in the school day of her pupils. Parents forget this inability of immature minds and set too hard tasks for children; demand too much of them and then complain that they are not quiet,or restless, fretful, fickle; that they are inattentive and forgetful. All this is true. The wise parent would not have it otherwise lest the child have no childhood, and be old before his time. Wisdom recognizes this native condition and takes advantage of it by not overtaxing