Concentration: An Approach to Meditation

by Ernest Egerton Wood

This perennial best-seller by a distinguished educator assembles 36 mental and physical exercises for taming the natural drifting of the mind. Newly designed edition of a practical manual for success.

Genres: Spirituality, Psychology

169 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 25, 1985

Reviews

[Berfin Kanat]

Sistematik bir şekilde okursanız hayatınızı değiştirecek bir kitap. 1 seneyi aşkın süredir elimde, ha çalıştım ha çalışacağım derken hep erteledim. En sonunda normal bir kitabı okur gibi okudum. Şimdiki hedefim ise alıştırmaları zamana yayarak, yazarın da söylediği gibi altı aylık bir süreçte çalışmak. İradeyi güçlendirmek, konsantrasyonu artırmak ve düşünceleri kontrol edebilmek için çok güzel bir kaynak.

[Jeff Soule]

Ernest Wood spent his early years of esoteric exploration with the Theosophical Society. He met Jiddhu Krishnamurti in the late 1920's and eventually left the Society to pursue an independent path primarily focusing on Yoga. His writing is crisp and succinct. While those of you who have pursued a variety of esoteric writing will find many of the elements of Concentration familiar, his explanations are among the best I have encountered. He also provides numerous exercises which I found very helpful and enlightening. I have recorded these exercises in a notebook for regular use. There is no doubt that these exercises have improved my meditation practice a great deal. I am now on to his magnum opus Yoga and will report back on that shortly. If it's anything like Concentration, it will be very worthwhile.

[Agatha Astari]

I once attended an intensive 10 day meditation class, and faced plenty of missing links there. The teacher asked students to concentrate on one thing, without explaining the process of forming concentration. In this book, Ernest Wood filled those unanswered questions; how human mind works, how it drifts (which is a normal thing to happen), how it gets distracted and how to overcome. Furthermore, Ernest Wood also explained myriad of meditation methods, and the ones using mantra. It also thoroughly clears up the orderly stages of: (1) concentration (2) meditation (3) contemplation. Someone won't be able to meditate id he can't concentrate, and hence won't be able to step into the next practice, which is contemplation.

[David R.]

Self-knowledge

Concentration and basic memory exercises, all in the service of self-knowledge. Ernest Wood takes one from lessons on focusing the mind on the concrete to deeper ways of relating to yourself through the contemplative faculty arising from concentration. He does so artfully and smoothly.

[Özgenur Özdemir]

İçindeki alıştırmaları uzun bir süreye yayıp düzenli ve iradeli bir şekilde çalıştıktan sonra review güncellemesi yapacağım. Özellikle dikkat çalışmalarının çok verimli olacağını düşünüyorum.

[Mamie Winkelman-Pearson]

This will definitely be a book that I continue to reference in my life long adventure of taming my mind. :)