Willpower is a spiritual quality which makes all our inner quests and dreams a reality. Willpower is defined by my guru as follows "Willpower is the channeling of all energies toward one given point for a given length of time."
As explained in earlier posts -- It is not developing a strong will by having a lot of half-finished jobs. It is not developing a strong will by starting out with a bang on a project and then fizzling out. These only attach awareness to that which it is aware of and lead us into the distraction of thinking the external mind is real. One extremely important lesson in life ---- When we find ourselves not able to finish a project that we have started, because it got too boring or because its taking too much time. we have to be extremely positive and not allow the subconscious to become ramified with our basically being disappointed with ourselves. We have to work out extremely positively with our subconscious. -- Take a mountaintop attitude. If you are having a difficult day, tell yourself, "I'm working with my subconscious mind. Admittedly, things are not working out very well for me today, but I think I will have it all adjusted by evening." Then leap back in into the project where you had left it,work on it and finish it well beyond your expectations. Make every work you do satisfy your inner scrutiny and that brings about a little more willpower. Willpower has to be 'cultivated' like how we cultivate plants.
The habit of becoming constantly distracted makes it impossible for you to truly concentrate the mind or to realize anything other than distractions and the desires of the conscious mind itself. But with love & understanding of your own mind and with a constant positive attitude its possible to get right back on track and finish what we had started.
Driving a difficult project to completion doesn't take a lot of time. It just takes a lot of willpower. Someone can go along and work years and years and years and, with a minimal amount of willpower, constantly be distracted, constantly be complaining and constantly be unsuccessful. Another person can have the exact same approach and over a short period of time be extremely successful, because he has will. The previous way he lived his life, the previous things that he did, he handled in such a way that that willpower was there, or his awareness is a manifestation of willpower, and he goes soaring within on this will.
A person situated in the 'manipura' chakra is already doing pretty well in this arena. If you are working on a project creatively, you maintain your efforts until you bring it to a conclusion. It is such people who become truly successful in meditation.
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