Mastering The Secrets Of Higher Attention

Attention is the ground itself of the possibility you have to become a different human being. It is a rare convergence of energies that produces possibilities within you that don't exist without them. Exercises in attention introduce you to the fact that you don't currently possess your own attention the way you think you do.

To be able to differentiate between fact and feeling is the first step in eventually being able to use your attention properly. Facts stand by themselves, but feelings always come with something that justifies them.

The only time you find yourself in trouble is when your attention has been taken over by something that is serving itself while pretending to serve you. Being able to reclaim your attention is the first step to discovering a world in which freedom awaits you.

In this exercise, you will need some food that you can take bites of as you work on keeping your attention while eating. To place your attention on what you choose doesn't mean that you resist or refuse what has come to claim your attention

Working to place your attention where you want it has nothing to do with thinking - it belongs to a different part of you that is capable of connecting to the world above you. There is a direct relationship between what you have given your attention to and how your interior life is going.

In this exercise, you will again need some food as we go further in combining the 7-step sensory and eating exercises. When we eat, our attention is literally seized by the part of us that wants to extract desire from the food

There's a quality we must have if we ever wish to truly change -- in this instance, to do the work interiorly that produces in us a seed change in our character. In order to be able to do that, we must have vitality. We must have a certain interior tension that has not been squandered away, spun off by the kind of things we do that drain this vital energy.

If your efforts are sincere, you will be educated by the Divine itself. Each time you work on a new skill, if you work properly your very involvement will introduce you to possibilities that you didn’t know existed prior to that moment.