Wednesday, November 8, 2023
To most people, focusing implies an inner tension. That’s why we crinkle our brows or squint when we are “focusing.” We’re told that what you focus on grows. Go outside and focus on a tree. Are you “making” it grow? Focusing, as we’ve come to understand it, is a false pretense of telescopic superpowers. If you are focusing on your career, that simply means you keep the concept of “career” in the anxiety-inducing forefront of the mind. Your so-called career is conceptual, and if you stop thinking about it, you might lose it. How preposterous!
Wouldn’t it be awful if you stopped focusing on “yourself?” You might not exist anymore! But that might be exactly what the world needs. The very idea of “me” is taking too much mental bandwidth. All of this focusing keeps the mind mired in concepts, leaving no room for an open channel of good ideas and creative flow. Don’t fill the space by focusing on concepts. Let space focus itself through you and in you.
Your best self is not focused on anything; but rather your best is a relaxed emptiness that invites the channel of divine flow to express itself through you. You are the channel through which the divine communicates, but not if you are focused on the falsehoods of focus. When you attempt to focus, you are holding non-truths (concepts of past, future, career, family, health, wealth, “me”). When you lose yourself in the present moment, let go of concept, and fuse to what is, you are pure, holy, divine, and One. Staying true to yourself opens the channel of divine flow. Focusing on yourself keeps the flow out of reach. To open the valve, release the concepts and lose yourself in the wonderment of now.