Our attention is our reality
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As Einstein said, " All is emptiness, and form is condensed emptiness."
How often have I myself experienced these swings of the promised formulas of cause and effect, and only been disappointed. How many times have I been promised that doing " X " (something spiritual or psychological) will surely end my difficulties. I practiced it diligently (whether it was meditation, working out the body, breathing, or playing the roles of my parts, and so on), and still the pain remained or came back again. Most psychological and spiritual systems require faith and conviction. Our Attention-our Reality, asks you to recognize its effectiveness based only on subjective experience. If what I write about does not cause a response in you, forget about it. It does not mean that you are not pure enough, not developed enough. It just means that my methods of managing your attention are not for you. Of course, it's not for everyone.
In the next Chapter, we examine our attention through sequence. At each stage, I ask you to experiment with exercises that pave the inner path through the increasingly limitless journey of your Attention – your Reality.
Chapter 2. Steps on the way to your attention
It is not easy to bridge the vast Gulf between the invisible, floating particles and the practical, easily visible nature of our daily lives. But it is possible.
When I built this bridge myself, I began to see this process in terms of"steps." Each "stage" actually denotes certain understandings and experiences that can be passed through to "pass" to the next stage. This can be compared to the "keys to the door", when with each new understanding it becomes easier for you to move to the next stage, or level of understanding, through which we will pass. When you go through one step, new doors open, new experiences are explored, and you can move on to the next step.
These steps are the "keys" to your Attention, and therefore to your desired reality.
My point is not to create another key or model for a group of people to follow, but to provide you with simple exercises that stimulate new experiences in practitioners; in such a way that your so-called desired reality can begin to shift. Each step includes one concept and a sequence of exercises by which this concept can be experienced at all levels – mentally, sensually, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Psychology and psychotherapy is based on the principles of Newtonian physics-a simplistic view of the world: everything can be reduced to small units, acting and reacting to each other, cause-and-effect measurable, predictable way. I. e. about any Attention and consciousness to us do not speak and do not take it into account. When consciousness and attention are still accepted as a working concept, it is seen as something to be remade, reinterpreted, cured, changed, elevated, or healed.
Here, on the contrary, I provide you with experiential experiences by which you can begin to perceive the desired reality and establish a connection with it through your Attention.
Many psychologists focus on combining the" parts " of a person. For example, let's say your part as a child, pretends that everything is fine, and behaves in a way that your mother loves you. And the other part is very angry and always tries to prove my mother wrong. Conventional psychotherapeutic approaches would encourage the evil child inside to Express himself, and the helpful child to stop pleasing his mother in everything. Or two of these parts could be "understood" as a mechanism of growth that contains resources that you can use in adult life. Perhaps your desire to prove your mother wrong has further led you to develop good business skills. Some therapists would argue that if a given psychoemotional state is "recognized" as part of the personality, the problem (whatever it may be) will be solved. Most forms of psychotherapy involve trying to create a" new "belief on top of an old problematic one, suggesting and evaluating that it is better to have a "positive" program, belief, or solution than a "negative" program, belief, or solution.
My experience, which we are talking about, creates stages of understanding that lead you to experience the situation not as conflicting parts, but as a relationship.
Ultimately, the point is to experience a common relationship in all reactions. When you experience (such as fear or anger), specific reactions begin to lose their certainty and importance.
So my method does not nurture the Association of false selves of early childhood; it does not re-think trauma as a resource; and it does not reprogram beliefs.
First of all, my method is interested in those who are beyond all parts, all traumas, all false selves. Indeed, the pure experience of your Attention is not directed toward the unification of something; it is directed toward the awareness and experience of the oneness, absence, or interaction of all parts. It is in this experience of oneness that the real wholeness can be experienced and it is this wholeness that is the context for everything else. More importantly, it is the context that already exists. It is a matter of realizing what is, namely the common unity in which we all participate. This is the space where problems disappear and you appear!
Let us now briefly examine the seven steps before examining their origins and conclusions. Each step represents a "quantum leap" or simply a "click" in understanding.
This will happen to you at each of the stages of understanding, which in turn will "remove" the levels of limitation. At some point, perhaps after the practice and exercises that accompany each step or "quantum leap", there is a change and you find yourself on a new stage. With each step, the sphere of your perception expands, embracing an ever-expanding horizon.
First-stage
As an observer of the contents of my mind (thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, associations), I am more than the contents of my mind.
Anyone interested in Eastern practices will recognize the obvious sources of this first level. The cornerstone of most meditation disciplines is the practice of observing, "witnessing," or becoming aware of the contents of one's mind or state of existence. In this way one observes concrete thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, emotions, and in the process one acquires the feeling that one is separated from the flow of content and is something more.