3 u2e. I propose that attention is captured, (directed) by a feeling

MORE IN THE WISDOM CORNER, I will keep repeating important word-pictures in different contexts to get use to them. Later I will gather them and see how to prioritize them.

External Feelings come from your 5 senses. Every incoming vector is recognized and self-explained. Even when you are just sitting "doing nothing", the feeling is your normal muscle tone, your breathing, and your weight in the chair. "No external feeling" is when you are in surgery, or under other drugs, or asleep.

Then Internal Feelings come from every previous thought, each that also elicits a feeling, (a level of bodily contraction). It could be subtle, or it could be a strong feeling like love on the positive side or injustice on the tension side. These internal feelings lead your attention to more thoughts, until another thought/feeling comes in, that hey, maybe you are late for your appointment, or you need to meet this other deadline. But the same train of attention moves forward throughout your day.

So knowing this, which feeling do you give priority to and why? Do you author where your attention settles, or are you swept away by other people, and by the so-called events? Sure, we have to handle "things", but let us say it takes a little discipline. Don't turn by every cracking twig.

Attention is captured by these sensations and they can come very fast. That's where the discipline comes in. If you've read this far, you also might want to talk about the mechanism of managing human doing. Turn away from attention grabbers that are wasting time for this question, (as with a non sequitur), These other arguments might even have some value, but for now you have chosen to concentrate on this one thing. Make a note to get back to it. You have energy and attention. Give it to yourself in this way, and give it to the world. So, let's start.

When we concentrate on one thing it takes some discipline not to pick up thinking with an alternate focus. That's if we want to go deeper into this one focus that we've chosen, and not skip around our merry way. Maybe you really don't want to look deeper here, where we are maybe saying everything that crosses you mind may not be true? It might engender unsure feelings. Clearly unsure feelings are the gateway to the new, and to any kind of real growth.

"Uncertainty is the Gateway", and it feels scary. Do you avoid uncertainty (which is growth) at all costs?

Millions of thought patterns are here to pick up. But please come back. This discipline is actually the key to empowerment. In reality Empowerment is the main thesis for every other thing in life. With empowerment, everything and every knowing becomes possible, (in its time). Part of empowerment is to learn to "put down" thought patterns that do not serve the moment. The next step in that knack is to learn "not to pick them up" in the first place. I could talk about that later.

What is the power of seeing that a recognized situation is a mental construct? Well, if we built it (consciously or unconsciously) we can in theory rebuild or modify it. Look where it takes us, compared to where we prefer to go? Nobody can tell you exactly how to change your life. It is you that must try, and then measure the results. Longer term results, (the changes, or the no-changes over the decades) are evident. There are also ways to see the short term. You feel an immediate sense of relief when you change the thought pattern around a biting event. (When you change its verbal context.)

Let’s keep talking about it.

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