负面情绪会让我们集中意识。

Negative emotions focus our awareness.

youdao

你可能喜欢冥想打坐，清除杂念，集中意识； 亦或许你喜欢读书，获取关于世界的新知识，你应该确保把这些事情安排在早上。

Whether you enjoy meditating to clear you mind and give you laser sharp focus, or reading to gain some new knowledge about the world, make sure you schedule in this time.

youdao

So it's very difficult, but what I come down to is that you just have to place your energy on your breath, and every time you notice your awareness drifts to somewhere else, you have to recognize this drift and let it go.

因此这很难，但我总结的方法是,只需要把能量集中到呼吸上，每次注意力不集中,飘到别处时，要意识到意识的涣散，并放手不管。

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