Conscious Awareness: Pay Attention To Your Attention

When talking about resonance (see previous post) I’ve been coming to realise more and more that the old saying “Your Energy Flows Where Your Attention Goes” is just as important as your vision for yourself.

What do I mean by that?

Well, think about it. When you fall in love, where is your attention? On the object of your affection right? Absolutely. Where is all your energy going? Same place! That’s a pretty obvious example and I was wondering if it applies most or all of the time.

Let’s take a look at some other scenarios:

• You have an exam coming up and you really, really, really want to get a good mark. Where is your attention? Does all your energy go there too?
• You’ve been caught out doing something you shouldn’t do and tomorrow, someone wants to talk to you about it. Where is all your energy tonight? Yes it seems to work here too.
• Your child is ill. Really ill and you sit by the bed, listening to them struggle. They have your attention and you are as exhausted as they are.

I think we can see that when the stakes are high, this old adage really seems to work. I also choose to think that it works even when things don’t appear to be so critical we just don’t take the same notice of it and that is where some of our difficulties begin.

When we set a goal, make a promise to ourselves to quit something or do something (smoking, drinking, exercise… you know the kind of stuff I mean) we really focus our attention (and our energy) on it and make a commitment to ourselves. However, over time our attention wanders to other matters, other people, other problems and we begin to give our energy to these other things.

We’ve stepped out of the flow of our initial intention, given our attention to something else and the wheels fall off the original plan. The goal is never reached, the habit is never broken, our problems remain unsolved. It’s interesting isn’t it?

So given that there appears to be a correlation between intention, attention, energy (resonance) it becomes really important for us to remember to remember what it is we want to achieve or who it is we really are.

• My personal desire in writing this blog has been to share what I have learned (and continue to discover) about the path my journey has taken as I really focus on my continuing evolution as human being.
• My discovery of my intensely spiritual nature combined with my absolute desire to make a difference of some kind on this wonderful planet. I’ve chosen the sharing of wisdom – mine and others – as my vehicle.
• Thus far, the development of practices that sustain me has been the most effective things as I discovered as a way of maintaining my focus (attention) on my desire.
• Connection with my higher sense of myself through meditation, care of my physical being by eating pure food and drinking pure water, daily exercise (I love walking and yoga), connection with a community of like minded people (both in the real world and online), continuing education (books, courses, e-courses).

You’ve heard all of that before I’m sure.

What you may not have heard though is to NOT give your attention and thus your energy to things that do not sustain you.

• I read only the weekend papers these days. After years of reading a daily dose of “news” about crime, terror, lies and corruption, I decided to just do a weekly update. I’m pretty fussy about what I read, even then. My attention is no longer held by the sensationalism and rubbish usually filling the pages of many so called “newspapers”.
• Add to that all those trashy magazines I used to read – no more.
• Even my television viewing habits have changed radically. I know the big stuff going on in the world. I know the important stuff. I don’t care about the rest, the do not sustain me. I no longer give my attention and energy to them. We no longer resonate and my life is to much the better for it.

Of course, this didn’t happen over night. It wasn’t even difficult, it came really naturally as the evolution of my consciousness continued. I have no idea what my next “thing’ will be but I know when it comes, it will be as natural as breathing.

You are free to choose in every minute of every single day of your life what you are going to give your attention to. What we all need to remember is that once something has our attention, it also has our energy – it affects our energy, our vibration, our resonance, for better or for worse. We will be raised up or we will be pulled down. It’s always up to us.

I hope this helps with something in your life.

Have a wonderful, wonderful day.