- Breaking Free -
- Paying Attention -
- Paying Attention -
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What is it to pay attention? To pay attention is to observe, to notice and to witness. Paying attention depends on being receptive so you can take in information. In other words, you need to “be” an empty space in order to absorb what is around you. When you are full of thoughts your attention span is minimal and your mind interprets what it sees based on what it believes.
What pays conscious attention is your Soul or Higher Self. This non-physical dimension of you is a dynamic intelligence. Because your Higher Self functions outside emotional reactivity it has access to intuition and knowingness. It responds to the environment by becoming the quality of being that is most appropriate to relate to a situation. For example, when danger approaches your mind reacts with fear and thinks fast about all kinds of worst case-scenarios. Instead, your Soul can respond in a deliberate way with calmness, strength and courage. This conscious response can counteract unconscious fear reactions. But only when you pay attention!
Another common example of the difference between the reactions of your mind and the responses from your Soul is when your lover hurts you, and your mind reacts with anger to attack or withdraw from them in order to feel safe. On the other hand, your Soul can respond with strength, compassion, forgiveness, and make an appropriate boundary when necessary.
This mature way of responding to an uncomfortable situation becomes natural and effortless when you pay attention and see that as an adult, you are responsible for how you interpret what you experience. There are empowering and disempowering ways to interpret what happens. Your Soul’s expansive capacity to pay attention can access greater meaning and interpretations to facts than your reactive mind, as well as using rational common sense to know what to do. Remember, to pay attention is to be aware.
Awareness is innately intelligent and transformative. It knows and comprehends by virtue of connecting and sensing what is being experienced.
Sensing, feeling, and being touched by what you experience transforms awareness into presence. To be present is to be aware and in touch with all that is happening. Presence means being simultaneously affected by your surrounding environment and influencing it in an intelligent manner.
An example of paying attention and responding by becoming present is when a child gets hurt and they run to their mother for help. If she is present she responds with tenderness and care. She does so because she is tuned in, she senses her child’s stress inside her, which informs her what to do, and how to do it appropriately. The same goes for adult romantic relationships where the wife needs something from the husband, and he senses what is an appropriate response. Love is a medium that connects people while interacting with each other, pay attention to it!
Thinking distracts you from paying attention. When you think, you get distracted from observing what is happening in real time. The more you think the less attention you have available to observe clearly. Thinking disconnects you from naturally sensing how you are being affected by what you are paying attention to. Thinking is an activity that unconsciously generates feelings and emotions about what you are thinking not what you are observing.
For example, when you see someone and you automatically have harsh judgments towards them based on what you “see” is wrong with them, or their behavior, or how they present themselves, then you are not paying attention to who they are being, instead you are reacting to your thoughts about them. Thinking removes you from being present.
Thinking reinforces your limited identity. During infancy before your mind develops, you are an observer who doesn't think. However, without the capacity for reasoning and logic you couldn't understand what you were observing.
Learning and knowing what you are experiencing initially requires that you develop a sense of self. And so it is that you are endowed with a mind to learn to know by analyzing, giving meaning to your experiences and memorizing strong positive and negative experiences, which eventually became your core beliefs, the building blocks of your personality.
Thinking is how your mind maintains your ego identity. This identity is limited because it has the capacity to be emotional and rational but it is not capable of loving. Your mind cannot love, it can only think about love. Lovingness is a quality of being naturally accessed by your Soul.
Your ego identity continually reinforces itself through thinking and unconsciously re-experiencing a story that confirms your past experiences. This mental activity generates a familiar internal emotional atmosphere. Let me explain this. Thinking involves mental analysis to compare this and that, which requires having to pay attention to opinions/beliefs about everything, based on memory.
The moment your mind is influenced by memory it is automatically influenced by the emotional content in the memories. Beliefs and opinions come loaded with emotions from your past. When you are not able to notice that you are having an emotional reaction, which many times is out of proportion relative to what is happening, you are also not aware that you are behaving like a child, and that all of this is taking place unconsciously in your mind. Here is where it pays to be aware of how you are feeling and what you are thinking instead of identifying with your feelings and your thoughts. The quality of your attention depends on your self-identity. When you identify with your ego your attention is controlled by repetitive thoughts and familiar emotional patterns.
For example, a boy that was bitten by a dog when he was 5 years old can understandably come to believe that all dogs are dangerous. When he grows up he forgets the incident and continues to be afraid of dogs. As an adult, even if a friendly dog comes near him he can’t relax because when he sees a dog he automatically feels afraid in the same way as when he was a child.
This is an example of an adult not being able to pay attention without identifying with a memory that causes an emotional reaction. When this man learns to dis-identify from his mind and his emotions he can reason that all dogs are not dangerous, and better yet, if he encounters a dangerous dog he can protect himself.
Normally your attention gets cut in the mind’s commentary about everything you are perceiving or worst yet, instead of just a commentary it can be a conversation with yourself about what you are engaged in. For example, when you are talking to yourself while you are talking with someone else, your attention span is extremely limited, and you fail to take in most of the non-verbal communication between you and the person because you are busy thinking.
When you identify with being an observer you can be aware of your mind thinking and not be distracted by your mind’s bias of limiting beliefs and opinions while, in present time, you observe what is happening and how it is affecting you.
Cultivating the skill of paying attention means developing mastery of your capacity to observe and to witness without analyzing. Put differently, to increase your attention span you need to learn to be aware of paying attention and notice when your mind starts thinking and return to your awareness of paying attention. With dedicated practice to a variety of different exercises you will master noticing what your mind is attracted to and how this distracts your attention.
In summary paying attention consciously is essential for:
What pays conscious attention is your Soul or Higher Self. This non-physical dimension of you is a dynamic intelligence. Because your Higher Self functions outside emotional reactivity it has access to intuition and knowingness. It responds to the environment by becoming the quality of being that is most appropriate to relate to a situation. For example, when danger approaches your mind reacts with fear and thinks fast about all kinds of worst case-scenarios. Instead, your Soul can respond in a deliberate way with calmness, strength and courage. This conscious response can counteract unconscious fear reactions. But only when you pay attention!
Another common example of the difference between the reactions of your mind and the responses from your Soul is when your lover hurts you, and your mind reacts with anger to attack or withdraw from them in order to feel safe. On the other hand, your Soul can respond with strength, compassion, forgiveness, and make an appropriate boundary when necessary.
This mature way of responding to an uncomfortable situation becomes natural and effortless when you pay attention and see that as an adult, you are responsible for how you interpret what you experience. There are empowering and disempowering ways to interpret what happens. Your Soul’s expansive capacity to pay attention can access greater meaning and interpretations to facts than your reactive mind, as well as using rational common sense to know what to do. Remember, to pay attention is to be aware.
Awareness is innately intelligent and transformative. It knows and comprehends by virtue of connecting and sensing what is being experienced.
Sensing, feeling, and being touched by what you experience transforms awareness into presence. To be present is to be aware and in touch with all that is happening. Presence means being simultaneously affected by your surrounding environment and influencing it in an intelligent manner.
An example of paying attention and responding by becoming present is when a child gets hurt and they run to their mother for help. If she is present she responds with tenderness and care. She does so because she is tuned in, she senses her child’s stress inside her, which informs her what to do, and how to do it appropriately. The same goes for adult romantic relationships where the wife needs something from the husband, and he senses what is an appropriate response. Love is a medium that connects people while interacting with each other, pay attention to it!
Thinking distracts you from paying attention. When you think, you get distracted from observing what is happening in real time. The more you think the less attention you have available to observe clearly. Thinking disconnects you from naturally sensing how you are being affected by what you are paying attention to. Thinking is an activity that unconsciously generates feelings and emotions about what you are thinking not what you are observing.
For example, when you see someone and you automatically have harsh judgments towards them based on what you “see” is wrong with them, or their behavior, or how they present themselves, then you are not paying attention to who they are being, instead you are reacting to your thoughts about them. Thinking removes you from being present.
Thinking reinforces your limited identity. During infancy before your mind develops, you are an observer who doesn't think. However, without the capacity for reasoning and logic you couldn't understand what you were observing.
Learning and knowing what you are experiencing initially requires that you develop a sense of self. And so it is that you are endowed with a mind to learn to know by analyzing, giving meaning to your experiences and memorizing strong positive and negative experiences, which eventually became your core beliefs, the building blocks of your personality.
Thinking is how your mind maintains your ego identity. This identity is limited because it has the capacity to be emotional and rational but it is not capable of loving. Your mind cannot love, it can only think about love. Lovingness is a quality of being naturally accessed by your Soul.
Your ego identity continually reinforces itself through thinking and unconsciously re-experiencing a story that confirms your past experiences. This mental activity generates a familiar internal emotional atmosphere. Let me explain this. Thinking involves mental analysis to compare this and that, which requires having to pay attention to opinions/beliefs about everything, based on memory.
The moment your mind is influenced by memory it is automatically influenced by the emotional content in the memories. Beliefs and opinions come loaded with emotions from your past. When you are not able to notice that you are having an emotional reaction, which many times is out of proportion relative to what is happening, you are also not aware that you are behaving like a child, and that all of this is taking place unconsciously in your mind. Here is where it pays to be aware of how you are feeling and what you are thinking instead of identifying with your feelings and your thoughts. The quality of your attention depends on your self-identity. When you identify with your ego your attention is controlled by repetitive thoughts and familiar emotional patterns.
For example, a boy that was bitten by a dog when he was 5 years old can understandably come to believe that all dogs are dangerous. When he grows up he forgets the incident and continues to be afraid of dogs. As an adult, even if a friendly dog comes near him he can’t relax because when he sees a dog he automatically feels afraid in the same way as when he was a child.
This is an example of an adult not being able to pay attention without identifying with a memory that causes an emotional reaction. When this man learns to dis-identify from his mind and his emotions he can reason that all dogs are not dangerous, and better yet, if he encounters a dangerous dog he can protect himself.
Normally your attention gets cut in the mind’s commentary about everything you are perceiving or worst yet, instead of just a commentary it can be a conversation with yourself about what you are engaged in. For example, when you are talking to yourself while you are talking with someone else, your attention span is extremely limited, and you fail to take in most of the non-verbal communication between you and the person because you are busy thinking.
When you identify with being an observer you can be aware of your mind thinking and not be distracted by your mind’s bias of limiting beliefs and opinions while, in present time, you observe what is happening and how it is affecting you.
Cultivating the skill of paying attention means developing mastery of your capacity to observe and to witness without analyzing. Put differently, to increase your attention span you need to learn to be aware of paying attention and notice when your mind starts thinking and return to your awareness of paying attention. With dedicated practice to a variety of different exercises you will master noticing what your mind is attracted to and how this distracts your attention.
In summary paying attention consciously is essential for:
- Noticing all that is happening.
- Choosing the most resourceful options.
- Making intelligent and compassionate decisions.
- Having effective, clear and powerful communication.
- Trusting your non-rational inner resources of intuition, inspiration and inner guidance.
- Discerning what is true or false.
- Separating facts from fiction and knowing reality from fantasy.
- Knowing that falsehood, fantasy and hallucinations are produced by your mind.
- Knowing that observing reality and the apprehension of truth depend on being Self-Aware.
Augment this attention with the Power of Intention. These two factors have changed my life and they will change yours. Life is incredibly simple. We manifest what we believe in. This is why Club Elite spends billions to attempt to control your mind and limit your beliefs. But the times they are a changing. A consciousness revolution is occurring. Science is recognizing the power of invisible forces. Quantum physics and the science of conscious energy are challenging Newtonian physics and billiard ball cause and effect scenarios. Deductive science is being severk As Bruce Lipton has said, it's not what we can see that is important. It's not the graphite particles standing at attention under orders from the magnet. It's the invisible power, the force, that is causing this to happen. That is what is important.
For decades now, Americans, like graphite particles, have allowed themselves to be controlled by Club Elite. Although elites have been manipulating and controlling the public since the beginning of civilization, this time it is different. We are living in the crosshairs now and our very existence is in jeopardy.
Humanity has begun to realize that we are interconnected human beings destined to help and share and not exploit and kill one another. Our scientific focus is shifting from what we can see to what we can't see, the visible to the invisible, matter to energy, Cause-Effect to Intention-Manifestation, Newtonian to Quantum physics. It is a huge paradigm shift, as monumental as the "earth is flat". It will breed a whole new way of thinking -- a new consciousness, a Thought Evolution. It is coming and all you have to do is think and feel some compassion. Find your personal truth and let new waves of thinking wash over your core. You will change, as will those around you, and eventually, so will the world.
For decades now, Americans, like graphite particles, have allowed themselves to be controlled by Club Elite. Although elites have been manipulating and controlling the public since the beginning of civilization, this time it is different. We are living in the crosshairs now and our very existence is in jeopardy.
Humanity has begun to realize that we are interconnected human beings destined to help and share and not exploit and kill one another. Our scientific focus is shifting from what we can see to what we can't see, the visible to the invisible, matter to energy, Cause-Effect to Intention-Manifestation, Newtonian to Quantum physics. It is a huge paradigm shift, as monumental as the "earth is flat". It will breed a whole new way of thinking -- a new consciousness, a Thought Evolution. It is coming and all you have to do is think and feel some compassion. Find your personal truth and let new waves of thinking wash over your core. You will change, as will those around you, and eventually, so will the world.
Change starts first between the ears. The more we think, the more aware we become, the more improved our decisions, beliefs and choices will all be. This phenomenon is happening now. The power of intention and the development of a global consciousness is here -- in hundreds of books and videos and thousands of articles. The seeds have been planted. Awareness and a global conciousness have begun to grow.
Never forget that ONLY YOU can control what you think.
The "seeds" are everywhere
"Subtle interactions link us with each other and the earth when human consciousness becomes coherent, the behavior of random systems may change. Random number generators (RNGs) based on quantum tunneling produce completely unpredictable sequences of zeroes and ones. But when a great event synchronizes the feelings of millions of people, our network of RNGs becomes subtly structured. We calculate one in a trillion odds that the effect is due to chance. The evidence suggests an emerging noosphere or the unifying field of consciousness described by sages in all cultures." Professor Roger Nelson, Global Consciousness Project.
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The Bottom Line
Envision a world:
- where our leaders talk about the real infrastructure project which is to transform our death culture into a life culture.
- where our engineering skills could be applied to feeding a starving world with toxic free food products.
- where forced vaccinations and the prospect of human microchipping are never considered.
- that addressed our melting planet.
- where renewable energy products and potentials were brought into public view and not suppressed by energy monoplies whose profits would be threatened by these products and this technology.
- where openness and truth were the mainstays of government and media.
- that appreciated and supported art, culture and compassion.
- with no hedge funds, let alone -- hedge fund managers.