Do we carry Pain-Catchers ? Bits of attention energy fixed on past traumas (memories), become obstacles during my waking hours and as a result I feel less joyful, less alive and less active. May be a "part of me" made those bits stick when it was overwhelmed by pain and suffering and not being able…

I have observed in myself two types of beliefs: consciously adopted beliefs (some of which might qualify as "knowledge") and unconsciously adopted beliefs. They usually have an emotion attached. Consciously adopted beliefs are easily accessible to my conscious mind. I decided to adopt them because they make sense, feel satisfactory and/or comfortable, and fit the…

Confess or Criticize ? Memories of events and actions also drift when they don’t fit the mental structure I use to make sense of the world. If my belief of who I AM won’t accommodate things I experienced or acts I committed, that belief will drift around in my mind. Secrets and hidden agendas are…

Do you have Dis-aligning Beliefs ? Decisions I made in the presence of drifters do often not produce the intended effect. If it seems difficult to make a decision, it is often because of float from  incomplete data. Handling the drifting bits of data by getting the missing data, seems to correct that problem. I…

Attention Bits at Drift is the result of, not yet having fully completed and integrated a past experience or a current reality. It may comprise of: hidden agendas resisted experiences misunderstood words secrets and undelivered messages incomplete projects and information violations of agreed upon communications procedures incomplete/inaccurate data about someone, something These drifting bits float…

Is the Economy of our Attention, the Economy of Bits and Pieces ? For many centennia, the focus of our Attention has been on stuff: pieces of substance, based on atomic matter. Can you now imagine a world without any memory chips, computers, cell phones, and Internet? Today’s focus of Attention is on non-substantial, sub-atomic…

Zoom into all your Pains instead ? Maintaining a tense, emergency mode of attention, will tire you out. So you need another cup of tea or coffee to muster the energy to keep paying attention or grab a cigarette or a class of wine to relieve the tension of narrow focus. Chronic 2D Object-Attention prevents…

Does 2D Attention wear you out ? Chronic 2D Object-Attention will create a behavioral loop. Narrow focus exacerbates fearful circumstances and then when circumstances have changed and we are no longer in danger we tend to remain a narrow focus as a way of avoiding our residual feelings of fear and anxiety. 2D Object-Attention is…

 2D Obsession ? We clunk around in body-armor of habitually tensed muscles because of chronic defense reactions. Other muscles have to compensate for that, greatly hampering fluid performance. We are masters at narrow focusing our attention away from thoughts, feelings, memories of the past. When they do come up, we try to repress them again…

Are the programs running you ? The incessant mental chatter prevents you from connecting with your inner stillness: the pure awareness which is inseparable from being, and which is the background space within which words become thoughts. Mental chatter also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering, often to…