Your Attention and Your Happiness
Past, present, and future. These are the three things we are concerned with. The more your attention is fixed on the past the more unbalanced a person is. If a person is fixed deeply in the past they are psychotic. The more a person is in present time, the more their attention is on themselves, which is neurotic. The best place to have your attention is in the future. The present is driven by the future. You can control your attention. The first step is to get your attention fully out of the past. How many times have we dwelt on those past experiences? “But what if I had said that?”, “Should I have asked her/him?”, the list goes on. This is counter productive and is essentially a waste of energy. Think of all these beautiful moments of life that pass by when these things are dwelt upon.
How can you shift your attention?
There are two kinds of therapy, subjective and objective. Therapy which make you look at your past and mental image pictures are subjective. This is a higher level of therapy and should be undertaken when your attention is out of the past. That sounds strange, but think of it this way, all the time you have spent dwelling on things how come they are still unresolved? The answer is that you are missing a key element somewhere. If you spotted the real cause of upset, the problem would simply disappear.
Objective therapy involves getting your attention off the past, and into the present. They are mainly concerned with getting ones attention from oneself, out into the here and now of the physical universe. This tends to brighten ones perception as you are not focusing inward on yourself anymore.
Exerciese
- In the room, Locate an object
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Look at an object
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Walk over to the object
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Touch an object
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Repeat and continue until you feel brighter
This may sound very strange and very simple. It is very simple. You may even start to think to yourself “this is stupid”. Well, that is just your mind fighting back, this is the very thing you want to become cause over! When you are fully in present time there should be no “mental chatter” or even any counter thoughts whatsoever.
