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Let us consider concentration. You ask a man if he can
concentrate. He at once says: "Oh! it is very difficult. I have
often tried and failed." But put the same question in a different
way, and ask him: "Can you pay attention to a thing?" He will at
once say: "Yes, I can do that."

Concentration is attention. The fixed attitude of attention, that
is concentration. If you pay attention to what you do, your mind
will be concentrated. Many sit down for meditation and wonder why
they do not succeed. How can you suppose that half an hour of
meditation and twenty- three and a half hours of scattering of
thought throughout the day and night, will enable you to
concentrate during the half hour? You have undone during the day
and night what you did in the morning, as Penelope unravelled the
web she wove. To become a Yogi, you must be attentive all the
time. You must practice concentration every hour of your active
life. Now you scatter your thoughts for many hours, and you
wonder that you do not succeed. The wonder would be if you did.

You must pay attention every day to everything you do. That is,
no doubt, hard to do, and you may make it easier in the first
stages by choosing out of your day's work a portion only, and
doing that portion with perfect, unflagging attention. Do not let
your mind wander from the thing before you. It does not matter
what the thing is. It may be the adding up of a column of
figures, or the reading of a book. Anything will do. It is the
attitude of the mind that is important and not the object before
it. This is the only way of learning concentration.

Fix your mind rigidly on the work before you for the time being,
and when you have done with it, drop it. Practise steadily in
this way for a few months, and you will be surprised to find how
easy it becomes to concentrate the mind. Moreover, the body will
soon learn to do many things automatically. If you force it to do
a thing regularly, it will begin to do it, after a time, of its
own accord, and then you find that you can manage to do two or
three things at the same time. In England, for instance, women
are very fond of knitting.

When a girl first learns to knit, she is obliged to be very
intent on her fingers. Her attention must not wander from her
fingers for a moment, or she will make a mistake. She goes on
doing that day after day, and presently her fingers have learnt
to pay attention to the work without her supervision, and they
may be left to do the knitting while she employs the conscious
mind on something else. It is further possible to train your mind
as the girl has trained her fingers. The mind also, the mental
body, can be so trained as to do a thing automatically. At last,
your highest consciousness can always remain fixed on the
Supreme, while the lower consciousness in the body will do the
things of the body, and do them perfectly, because perfectly
trained. These are practical lessons of Yoga.

Practice of this sort builds up the qualities you want, and you
become stronger and better, and fit to go on to the definite
study of Yoga.

Taken From "An Introduction To Yoga" by Annie Besant

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