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Another word for concentration could be “focused.” Concentration is important as you are tuning into a situation or a person because only specific information is needed. For example, there is not a need to know that five months ago this person started a new cycle in life, is going to sell the house, and move. If you own your own business, want to hire someone, and have three résumés in front of you, how do you know which person is best suited for the position. Most people know how to write résumés; consequently, the three applicants may look equally qualified. Then comes the interview, and each applicant puts on his or her best face. How do you get the information you really need to know about these people that, more than likely, you can’t ask them? Of course, none of them will put on résumé this fact: “Well, I’m really looking for a temporary stopgap before I go on to the company I’m waiting to hear from, but I really want the experience with your company for six months.” Because that information is available at some level to everyone, you can use your intuition to access this fact and discover that this person is qualified but does not plan to stay. Without this information, you may have invested a great deal of money in the person’s development. A question that the applicants wouldn’t know the answer to might be: “Will this person get along with the other people in the office?” Questions such as this are important and need to be answered. The applicants won’t know the answer, but you can. In concentration, you can be like a laser beam with the intent: “This is the information I want.” If you’re a doctor, you want medical information; if you’re a lawyer, you want legal information; if you’re a personnel manager, you want personnel information; if you’re a parent, the information you need will be different.

Concentration has very practical applications for the selection of information needed. It can be compared to a radio. You want a particular station; you turn the dial to get that station. When you learn to concentrate—like a laser beam—you focus and get the information you want or need. When I want information on the stock market, I believe that I’m tuning into the collective minds and decisions of the people in the investing world. I sense the direction of their investments when I want to invest in the stock. You may not want to know the whole history of the stock; you do want to know how it will be doing at any given time: Is it going up? How high? Is it going down? How far down? You want specific information.

The way other people teach interests me, so I participate in other people’s intuitive workshops. It is very interesting to hear about the same subject from many different perspectives. In some of the workshops, the presenters would say “Open yourself up and let anything come in.” There was no focusing on “This is the information I want.” For most of us, the “honing in” on needed information is the most practical approach.

Learning a few simple concentration techniques will be valuable to you as you seek pertinent information and will also make it easier to get the information. One technique is to turn your attention to the middle of your forehead, keep it there; when you feel your attention wandering, very gently bring it back again and again no matter how many times your attention wanders. Continue this for two or three minutes. This technique is said to stimulate the third eye or our ability to see psychically. Another method is to concentrate on your breathing. By working with these two simple techniques, you are learning focused concentration in a relaxed state.