When we are beginning to learn meditation, it is important to develop our capacity to concentrate. In his writings regarding concentration, Sri Chinmoy comments that "Concentration is the arrow. Meditation is the bow."

The very nature of the mind is to roam and this is the one thing that people often find most challenging when learning meditation. If we can at first begin to harness the mind and develop the capacity to concentrate on a single simple concept, we set a foundation for developing the capacity to have excellent one pointed meditation as time goes by.

The following exercises are simple but effective concentration techniques offered by Sri Chinmoy: