HOW TO CONCENTRATE You must build up a more positive spiritual body of thought for yourself, by thinking truths over and over until they become part of your mind. You will become so positive in truth by this method that you will feel the vibrations of truth, and nothing else. But this is a practice that must be made the work of a lifetime. The fruitage from it will be a spiritual body that shall grow and develop in power and dominion throughout all the progressions of spiritual life.
The way to overcome distracting outside thoughts is to cultivate your own thinking power by systematic effort. Find some special studies in Truth that are interesting to you, carry them with you, and use them as a means of concentration for the development of your mental power. The Spirit flows into the body only through the channels of one’s thoughts and feelings. In the thought or feeling of the Creator there is unlimited healing and transforming power, and as the mind is exalted to feel and think as the Creator thinks and feels, the thought power which creates perfection becomes the inspiration of the body, and the negative mind of the body evolves into an image of its peace and perfection, making visible 57
