FOCUS

2014, FOCUS

SEPTEMER 18, 2014

We are taught that to Focus on something is to train our energy in one place to the exclusion of all other places.  Is this True?  How do you Believe about Focus?

Think of a laser beam or a magnifying glass.  Both focus light.  

They do so by gathering many strands of light to one place of entry, and then tightening their exit point.  This method works only if there are many strands meeting at one place.  One strand of light, bent and focused, would not have the same effect.

If one were to cut off the entry of even some of those strands entering the meeting point, there would be a different formula made by commingling and exiting.  Where were these strands before they were called into service by this meeting point?  How is it that some strands and not others have come to this place of focus?

Think of the power of vision.  Some humans see the color green where others see the color blue, and some haven’t the visual cones to perceive in that color spectrum at all.  Now, consider a fish or a bird or an insect:  how do they perceive in that color spectrum, and above and below it?  Can you imagine what it’s like to see a color you’ve never seen before?  What exists in your environment today that contains vibrations which, if you were capable, would make that object appear a different color in the wavelength spectrum?

This is Focus.  Focus is specific and individual.  The signature of Focus is constructed by the signature of the person applying the skill.  Your style of Focus is different from every other person’s style and quality of Focus.  It is colored by your experience, your beliefs, and the qualities of other skills that balance, support, and oppose it.

Focus, therefore, is the individual and unique ability of an entity to draw forth influences, commingle them, interpret them, and open themselves to the perceived feedback available from the products made by that alchemical brew.  Focus is a process, a skill, and even an artform.  Subject A looks at a person, place, condition, or thing and sees a subset of terms related.  Subject B calculates for a different subset, and You for another subset.

While many factors in each of A, B, and C subsets may be similar, many will be different—unless the participants are dishonest, overly socialized, or unable to express themselves for other reasons.  Combining things in new ways is how new things are made.  It is how problems are solved.  It is how things move forward.

What is it then, when we say we are Focused?  Ideally, we should mean that we are considering, with great determination, the outcomes available to us concerning a certain alchemical brew or commingling to which we currently invest our energy.  We are not Excluding all other things, but Including a certain set of possibilities that might lend themselves to the highest outcome.

Focus has great scope.  It may leave the very tiniest endpoint where the final product has been offered, or it may search within the field of combined energy streams, and outside them, to look for specific ingredients yet lacking—or disharmonious to the whole.  Focus is meant to be a purification of sorts, lending to the final product the ultimate combination of energies and ideas.

Sometimes it is quantum physics that solves that housewife’s woe, and sometimes it is the housewife that solves the quantum master’s woe.  Keeping the field too narrow does not allow for unseen ideas to enter.  Keeping the field too broad, un-Focused, leads to chaos.

Imagine an ordinary funnel, with its tiniest point being synonymous with Focal Point.  The largest end of the funnel is feeding into the tiniest point of the funnel, various ideas.  Not all of them will ‘fit’ or be appropriate or helpful.  Perhaps the image of an elephant will not help you to make a smooth batter—then again, maybe you will remember the way that an elephant runs, and use your spoon in just the same way, yielding the desired result, or maybe you once saw an elephant in a parade and remembering the music, you beat your batter at that rhythm and suddenly find it smooth.

Do not judge the ideas inside the larger end of your funnel until you’ve decided how they may serve you.  It is sometimes very surprising.  Is this daydreaming?  Can Dreamtime and Focus work together?  Yes.  Just as Distraction and Dreamtime work together, Focus and Dreamtime work together, too.

Distraction, in its healthy and helpful form, is the action of spreading out, actively seeking, and recruiting.  Focus, in its healthy and helpful form, is the action of gathering in, inventorying, and selecting.  Both have darker sides, taken to extremes, when Distraction is energy missing in action, and Focus is energy turned internal and non-responsive.  We do not speak to those conditions.

Just as meditation has often been taught as Focus without interruption, Focus has been taught as precise attention without interruption.  How utterly boring!  And in the end, how utterly less helpful and forward moving this would be (if it could actually be accomplished).

You are a beautiful, complex being, living among other beautiful, complex beings, within worlds and worlds and worlds of beautiful, complex beings.  Do not attempt to live small.


 

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil.

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