The Blue Rose Manuscript - Roots, Branches and Offshoots - Concentration

Concentration: The relative amount of a given substance contained within a solution or in a particular volume of space; the amount of solute per unit volume of solution; the action or power of focusing one’s attention on mental work.

You are familiar with concentrated essence from the flower oils and hydrosols you have sampled in the apothecary shop. 

Concentration eliminates the bulk of a medium to extract the essence blended inside it. 

Let me help you understand how you can concentrate and direct your mind so you can extract its essence in a similar way.

Whether we are awake or asleep, our mind never stops churning. 

We buckle under the weight of our thoughts, most of which are incidental and contradictory. 

Like the alchemist who distills the essence of a thousand roses into a single drop of perfume, so should you be able to remove the bulk around the core of your ideas to refine their content.

The theory of how to do this is simple, the practice not so much. The mind is like a scared little rabbit, constantly on the run, alert to the slightest noise, disturbed by the faintest memory. It never stops building defenses around itself and consumes enormous amounts of resources in the process.