I know it's not a popular opinion, but when I hear or read the phrase, 'What you focus on appears', I want to gnash my teeth and slap my own head. How on earth did we ever get sold that line? To be clear, I understand that there is an element of truth to it, but giving us that as an instruction is like giving us a GPS without showing us how to turn it on and then letting us belittle and shame and guilt ourselves because we got lost.
Love that! There is a time to focus but it is not the answer to what we desire. Focus to me feels very masculine, very "rarrgh", very fleeting. Attention, on the other hand, feels softer, more spacious and gentler. Attention to me feels like I actually really do desire that thing that keeps bugging me.
Also, I love how you flipped it in the end. What aren't we giving our attention to? There's a reason for that too. Thank you!
Love that! There is a time to focus but it is not the answer to what we desire. Focus to me feels very masculine, very "rarrgh", very fleeting. Attention, on the other hand, feels softer, more spacious and gentler. Attention to me feels like I actually really do desire that thing that keeps bugging me.
Also, I love how you flipped it in the end. What aren't we giving our attention to? There's a reason for that too. Thank you!
This made me stop and rethink my own views/understanding of focus vs attention. Lots to contemplate and mull over in my own mind, wonderful post!