Focus Improvement (Crystal Alchemy) (Patreon)

In plain terms, focus is the mind's ability to select one thing - an object, task, or idea - and allocate your limited cognitive resources to it while filtering out everything else. It's not a single on/off faculty but a directed state that varies in quality.

Focus has two dimensions. The first is width - broad (taking in a whole scene or many inputs) versus narrow (locked onto one point). The second is direction - external (aimed at the world around you) versus internal (aimed at your own thoughts, sensations, or plans).

Crossing them gives four styles of focus: broad-external (a driver scanning traffic), broad-internal (strategizing, connecting ideas), narrow-external (threading a needle), and narrow-internal (feeling your own breath). Some clinical models slice it differently - describing five types instead (focused, sustained, selective, alternating, divided) - so the number you get depends on the framework.

Whatever the right framework may be, this field will use a combination of all crystals to improve your focus in all aspects and layers. Use it until you feel you had enough.