The Focus Of Our Lives
Science shows us that we create our own realities whether consciously aware of this or not. The sensory filters we have and use are essentially interpreting those things in our environments for us to make sense of our lives in the manner in which we were conditioned to do so. Where our focus is centered pretty much determines whether we continue to go along with our conditioning or change it to our liking.
If I told you to not think of a white rabbit, no matter how hard you tried you probably will keep going back and forth to that image for the next few minutes even doing so against you will. It's like when you hear that song on the radio you don't like but find yourself mindlessly singing along. So many things in our lives follow these scripts. Where the hell did these scripts comes from? Why do we think the way we do about the things we do?
Most of it is in fact conditioning with some sprinkles of evolutionary thought processes. The beautiful thing about us humans is that we can actively and consciously create new concepts, new scripts, new narratives to follow. We are the only species of animal that can do this. That's why we have smartphones, uber, Instagram, 15,000 different types of cereal and why most animals in the natural world are still living exactly how they are since the time they evolved into that animal.
Too many of us are truly unaware of our potential. We don't take the time out to develop our ability to focus. To decide specifically where to put our attention to change something, most importantly, how we think. It is a superpower we are all capable of. It just takes mindfulness, desire, commitment and time to do so.
Each and every one of us has done it. We do it whenever we give into a fear of ours. When we feel something threatens us, our fear focuses every piece of our attention to that thing. Now we either decide to run or fight. This depends on whatever we have been conditioned to do. What if we started to practice reframing? What if we started to practice saying to ourselves, "Am I really in danger?" Where am I better served putting my focus? Do this often enough and it will create neurological changes in your brain and you will in fact change the way you think and thus feel about that particular fear. I know because I have done it.
It's taken me about two years and almost 70,000 pages of reading for it to start to really lay tracks but it has. I do not think the same way I did two years ago. This has changed the way I feel about things as well. I feel more deeply the emotions and feelings I normally feel, I just do a better job of not getting lost in them and it is in that space where our true power lies.
I can embrace pain without letting it take me over. I've let go of being overly critical and judgemental of feeling things I was uncomfortable feeling in the past. They're just feelings and it's ok for us to feel them. It's what makes us human. Calling someone too emotional was viewed as being as an insult to me in the past but this is necessary to get us to move and create motion. Emotions are our energies in movement and our feelings are what we think about the direction. The flexibility we have is that we can change direction or, if we are seasoned enough, we can change how think about the direction. This is changing context and it makes all the difference in the world with how we deal with adversity.
Practice putting your focus where it serves you best helps you to create the reality you desire. Since our realities are all products of our own creation, why not create the best experiences and realities possible? Too many of us are focused on creating the worse, time to change focus for some of us.
#elliotyi
#paradigmleft
#habits
#mindset
If I told you to not think of a white rabbit, no matter how hard you tried you probably will keep going back and forth to that image for the next few minutes even doing so against you will. It's like when you hear that song on the radio you don't like but find yourself mindlessly singing along. So many things in our lives follow these scripts. Where the hell did these scripts comes from? Why do we think the way we do about the things we do?
Most of it is in fact conditioning with some sprinkles of evolutionary thought processes. The beautiful thing about us humans is that we can actively and consciously create new concepts, new scripts, new narratives to follow. We are the only species of animal that can do this. That's why we have smartphones, uber, Instagram, 15,000 different types of cereal and why most animals in the natural world are still living exactly how they are since the time they evolved into that animal.
Too many of us are truly unaware of our potential. We don't take the time out to develop our ability to focus. To decide specifically where to put our attention to change something, most importantly, how we think. It is a superpower we are all capable of. It just takes mindfulness, desire, commitment and time to do so.
Each and every one of us has done it. We do it whenever we give into a fear of ours. When we feel something threatens us, our fear focuses every piece of our attention to that thing. Now we either decide to run or fight. This depends on whatever we have been conditioned to do. What if we started to practice reframing? What if we started to practice saying to ourselves, "Am I really in danger?" Where am I better served putting my focus? Do this often enough and it will create neurological changes in your brain and you will in fact change the way you think and thus feel about that particular fear. I know because I have done it.
It's taken me about two years and almost 70,000 pages of reading for it to start to really lay tracks but it has. I do not think the same way I did two years ago. This has changed the way I feel about things as well. I feel more deeply the emotions and feelings I normally feel, I just do a better job of not getting lost in them and it is in that space where our true power lies.
I can embrace pain without letting it take me over. I've let go of being overly critical and judgemental of feeling things I was uncomfortable feeling in the past. They're just feelings and it's ok for us to feel them. It's what makes us human. Calling someone too emotional was viewed as being as an insult to me in the past but this is necessary to get us to move and create motion. Emotions are our energies in movement and our feelings are what we think about the direction. The flexibility we have is that we can change direction or, if we are seasoned enough, we can change how think about the direction. This is changing context and it makes all the difference in the world with how we deal with adversity.
Practice putting your focus where it serves you best helps you to create the reality you desire. Since our realities are all products of our own creation, why not create the best experiences and realities possible? Too many of us are focused on creating the worse, time to change focus for some of us.
#elliotyi
#paradigmleft
#habits
#mindset
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