Billi Silverstein
Psychotherapy

In a culture that celebrates speed and performance, focus has become one of the mind’s most challenged capacities. The harder one works to control attention, the more it tends to fragment. Thoughts scatter, decisions blur and even moments of rest can feel mentally crowded. Genuine focus does not emerge through force but through understanding how the mind organises and disperses its attention.

The optimum performance zone is often imagined as a mystical state, as though the mind suddenly glows with enlightenment and everything falls into place. In reality it is a little less dramatic, though no less remarkable. Psychologically, this zone is the meeting point of clarity, emotional steadiness and focused attention. It is where the mind stops running in circles and finally agrees to cooperate with itself.