John Audet

Strength of Will

Strength of Will

A strong will should not be confused with narrow mindedness. In fact it could be said to be the almost opposite. A narrow mind will take a belief and follow it religiously. It will go down a path that excludes all other concepts because it fears complications and challenges. This type of attitude requires the security of what it knows and with that comes familiarity and a bond. It stays within those confines acting in the absence of all else. Its rules clearly defined.

But a strong will does not do this. It concentrates on each thing in its own right. It is able to focus and appreciate every endeavour; thus opening the expanse of your inner consciousness that will give you confidence and experience. And as this confidence grows you become more receptive to different ways of seeing things and develop the ability to differentiate what is necessary and what is not. As your strength of will improves so does the achievement of your objectives.

Concentration of will is the key to developing inner strength. How strong you become depends on how much value you put on being true to your own nature. When you concentrate your whole being on any given task you will take the steps necessary to do it well. Everything within you is absorbed and you become that task. You know nothing and you are nothing, beyond the task at hand. You have peace in your absorption. Your whole perspective is your task.

You must want inner strength and position your will to achieving this result. If you can perceive then your mind will centre on what you need to do. It is your mind that will direct your flow of thoughts to bring about your concentration to the level that will keep you on the same topic until it is completed to your satisfaction. But the mind can be lazy. Even though you have instructed your will to do and focused on how, all will be wasted if you do not apply consistent effort. Practice meticulously what you aspire to do. Your practice must be regular, without aggression and definitely do not compete with yourself. As your inner strength and confidence grows you will find your need for rituals and conventions will lessen. Your ability to focus and scrutinise those things around you will show dramatic improvement. You will be able to see the beauty of the world and deliberate on the intricacies of its detail without excluding anything. Nor will you see your inner power as a threat to your existing beliefs. Your ability to see without fear will show and teach you things that before you had never known existed. By mustering your analysis you will experience a mindfulness of body and the abstractness of thought in all things around you.

It begins by:

Concentrate your will,

So that you become strong.

Concentrate your mind,

So it does not act independently.

Concentrate your efforts,

So that you maintain a consistency of purpose.

Concentrate your analysis,

So that you can see beyond the obvious.

Concentrate your being,

So that you can appreciate things for what they are.

John Audet