A lot of oldschool books say to focus on one thing, but what's the real truth behind that and do we really need to focus on one thing constantly, deliberately, to accomplish anything?

The Message of a Master's "One Thing" principle has been the keystone that caused an explosion in my understanding of the truth, in more ways than I can describe here. I have noticed that when I was indecisive or having not set a plan (e.g. what's the plan tonight, which bar are we heading to next), the vibration was lowering, but noticed as soon as there's a plan, I felt a surge of energy. In Abe's words: "momentum took foothold" and all other resistance appeared to subside and not matter.

That little incident (about which bar to go to) made me lock myself up in a house for weeks and try and understand it all. When I think/talk, if I have other thoughts pop in and I sort of stop the flow and try to hold on to them, the momentum slows down and I feel a drop in vibration (as the Russian proverb goes, "If you chase two rabbits, you'll catch none"). So I've been milking this idea and realized that I simply must choose either to continue with what I was thinking/speaking about or choose the thought that popped up and go with that. Any concurrency of thoughts meant disaster for the momentum. Incidentally, during this process I've discovered the following amazing fact: we don't actually think, we ask for thoughts, and if we relax in the moment and just say whatever comes, the asking is automatic and you appear to just say everything perfectly and all the other thoughts that popped up, all the questions that you had, get answered in their own perfect timing, it's as if by magic it's all synchronized. Yes, I am sure many of you know what I'm talking about. For me, it was a holy grail because I always hold on to thoughts to try and remember them, queue them up manually for speaking about later, but that's resistant and it violated the principle of staying on "one thing" (which basically says, be in the moment, no matter what, and it will all unfold, momentum will pick up, just don't tempt yourself with the old ways of trying to think this, that and the other, it's as if it doesn't even matter where you continue, as long as you get going on any topic, the answers unfold perfectly on all subjects). Incredible to find that whenever I let go of a thought and continue in the moment, I feel the moment when resistance from letting go of that thought subsided and the momentum of the present picks up, and I get the exact thought I was after. Having practiced it (out of inevitability really) I found a way to get any thought back; eventually simplifying the whole thing to: let it go, it will get solved. Which makes me now question, is there any point figuring anything else out? What's the point of thinking and reasoning? I find thinking and reasoning is slow, it screws everything up, it's like "asking thoughts to try and solve something based on ** logic that is slow, not based on any verifiable truth and what hasn't really solved anything".

So now I try not to mess with any other mental processes that are not cooperating with the laws of my being, my mind, and the universe, as hard as it sometimes is.

What is the real purpose of our reasoning mind? Is it just to understand that we don't actually do the thinking, therefore, let's just ask for what we want and stop trying to figure anything out? I've reached the point of realizing that my mind can't solve anything, I can only ask for answers, and even then, they're not necessary to be happy with what I know today. The Message of a Master says that the purpose of the Outer Mind as they call it, is to transmit desires to the Inner Mind. But this process happens automatically, so what's the use of forcing ourselves through a specific desire? Is the book essentially disguising a trick just so the mind is focused on one thing as a distraction (since it the reasoning mind can't do anything useful anyway), meaning no resistance can come in, but actually, we could be staring at the beautiful blue sky and still achieve what we want (except when we need to actually look at what we're doing)?

My vexation remains. I've finished reading As You Think (original title: As A Man Thinketh) and again, the message was to concentrate thoughts on one objective. It's contradictory to the new ways that say BE HAPPY NOW and all the answers here and what Abe and Bashar say, that it all unfolds perfectly if we just let go of the how, of trying to think or solve anything. Basically, as if our purpose is to think long and hard all our lives up until the point when we realize what our thinking mind's job actually is, and then cease all thoughts and trying to solve because WE CAN'T SOLVE ANYTHING, only the HIGHER POWER can do anything. So if my mind's job is to ... stay out of my own way and do what my consciousness is really inspired to do without any limits in my beliefs, can I now relax and stop trying to figure out any more? It's as if: if there's any mental effort whatsoever: it's safe to let it go. Is this correct? I found that I learn and grow automatically, without writing or thinking or talking (unless it's effortless) it seems the old ways of trying to remember, write, speak, catalog, was just the old mind's system that's on low frequency, regurgitation, abstract flawed logic that's not based on truth, so whether it helps or not, I cannot verify it therefore cannot be tempted to use it; there's only the true apertures of the mind: the laws of the being, universe and the truth. But sometimes/often I get stuck in the old ways, it's hard to let go of some new piece of puzzle or revelation about myself, so I try to think about it and integrate it, instead of enjoying my life. Does it mean I still have some things to clean up in my beliefs? Is it a case of the new beliefs just not being reminded of frequently enough that I slip to using old, resistant, mental processes of trying to integrate a new piece of self-understanding? It's simple to see that the thinking mind cannot understand the level above it, but can it just give up or does it need a little more nourishment of the new belief system, to remind it of how things really are and help it let go?

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At the same time, focusing on one thing at a time appears to be understated, underemphasized - for what it did to me is beyond words. Truly engaging in the present moment without actually trying to think, ensuring you stay here and now on whatever track of thoughts you're on, appears to summon the real you, a genius, a channel not unlike Bashar or Abraham. But I do feel a bit like a hamster on a wheel because when I stop the talking and the thinking, I don't know what to do after. The thing is, whatever does come out, after repeating it for weeks, every day, the beliefs seem to raise and ideas that I seemed to desperately grasp to the day before, seem more natural the next day (to my amazement, this was happening every day, I was terrified as to when the growth would stop!). I guess the question in this paragraph is, was my thinking really necessary for this growth to occur? It seems there's a line between speaking and thinking effortlessly, and then trying to effort to learn it in some way; since it's not really me but the higher power that does all the thinking, but the fact that the information flows through me, it does nourish the mind because it has to process these vibrations as thoughts and then via auxiliary channels and back via the ear etc... But anything beyond that seemed resistant to me and any attempts to write something, like affirmations, or "My Belief System" or "My Present Truth", just ended up being temporary scraps, serving as a temporary outlet for my present-moment belief and energy. I just don't know what made me learn all those weeks, what kept the mind afloat and reminded of its job and the truth. It seems to me even just speaking to myself to try and resolve or integrate a piece of some new information helps, as if it soaks into the subconscious. So the question is how can we learn without effort? Can we trust that we'll know and learn what we need, just ask for it, and let it go? Can we enjoy the thinking and then say, "okay, great, now I'll just let it go and let the universe sort it out"? Can we completely let go of thinking about it at all, and say "It will be thought of and understood even better"? What do I do, in terms of my thinking mind, to keep my beliefs afloat? Can I enjoy this growth of self-understanding to happen by itself? There's a word "Dogfooding" that seems appropriate to describe what I am getting at, is to use a tool to create itself (like software compilers that after several iterations are used to create newer versions of themselves), so in this case, to delegate it all to the higher mind without doubt.

Another messy question from me, sorry! I do hope my experiences may have resonated with some of you - in fact, I'm sure they have.

TY.