style="font-size:15px;"> In general, setting one’s attention free, calling it back and “dragging it away from something’ is a big job, which we will successfully complete along the course. For now, let’s ask ourselves the questions where our intelligence and soul are? This can be seen as a useful complement to the work you have already done.
Fig. 10. Location of the information in the space of consciousness that causes the reaction of the body of different strength and quality.
This task is based on the following observation: the things that “steal’ our attention can be inside our body as well as outside. We began by letting go of the tension-causing sensations in the depths of our body, and as a result, we have decreased the overall level of tension. Nevertheless, we also need to deal with what is at a distance and drains our energy, attention, and a part of the resources of the nervous system.
Topics, which disturb our mind, can be allocated along the vertical and horizontal axes. The most harmful are those worries, which have managed to creep into the core of the body and reach the solar plexus.
However, we need to work through everything that is “on the way’ to the core.
Where is my intellect?
Exercise 4: Paying attention to the problems and sorting them out: if they are dead-end, go away from them, and find the solutions to the problems that have something promising!
Stage 1: Going away from dead-end problems
1. Diagnostic phase
Ask yourself a question: “Where is my intellect? What is my attention focused on? What is it busy with? What is it aimed at?”
At the level of sensations, there might appear an image of your intellect, being an octopus with its tentacles (or an amoeba with its pseudopodia). This “creature’ has spread in different directions and left them there.
Things that keep our attention are often found above our head, in front of it, or above it.
In our mind, choose the fattest “tentacle’ and walk on it to find out what is hiding at its end. You will see that it is holding your attention with your internal vision. Either it will be an image, that reflects the essence of the problem, or you will somehow realize what draws your attention.
2. Phase of evaluating spontaneously formed conditions and finding a solution to them
As far as each direction is concerned, you decide whether to keep it and invest your effort in it or whether it is enough and it is time you got your energy back.
Different tactics
It is quite likely that once your eyes are closed, you will find out that some part of your attention is filled with mental notes and post-its: these are the reminders about the things that require your attention, and you should not forget about that because they are important. Moreover, you have no right to rest until they were resolved.
Perhaps, some of these errands do not deserve the high priority you have given them, and their importance was ascribed spontaneously.
Some part of your attention can also be lost in the errands, which have long lost their importance, and you simply need to walk away from them.
3. The phase of changes: the solutions to set your energy free!
A) As far as investing your attention in something that has no future, stop yourself right away and simply observe how your energy, which you have given to this, goes back to your body (as light, warmth, a stream of water, or something else that is pleasant). The “tentacles’ are being pulled in, and the surface of the “ball’ is getting smooth.
Meanwhile, the things, that are not of your concern, or which have lost their relevance, should return to where they came from in the first place.
These actions will give you an opportunity to focus on what is important and relevant right now.
B) If there are justified reasons that require your attention, but they can wait, then you make a note in your agenda and realize that you will return to this issue in own time; until that moment, you don’t have to worry about these issues.
Energy comes back to you, as well as that chronic, but inactive “bulging’ in this direction will smooth.
C) When it comes to urgent issues, make your decisions right now: in what order are you going to do it, and how are you going to do it? Then you have to do it.
If you need ideas to help you find the solution, there is an additional exercise for this purpose.
While mentally remaining on the issue, use the “tentacle of your attention’ to scan the space for necessary solutions. Are they near or far? Most likely, they are already on their way. And it is also likely that they are in the same direction where the problem is.
From feeling preoccupied to working
Within your mental space, there is a trajectory of ideas, which help you solve this or that problem: this trajectory is an arc. From afar, that is: at the front, and from above, it moves towards you, to the upper frontal part of your head. Then it goes into your body. Your task now is to give way to these bright ideas. Let them flow into your head, and then spread over your body. They come at the level of the chest, making your soul calmer and firmer, making your willpower stronger at the level of solar plexus: let your confidence of success grow and turn into determination.
Along with growing determination, tension will be decreasing, and you will be able to move into action.
These exercises reduce empty worries preventing your body from spending your intellectual energy twice on the same issue. You remember about the issue, you act and solve it, and then you forget about it! You do not need tensions, all you need is to solve and act according to the principle “One thought, one action.”
When you give way to your sensible ideas, something like light, water, a little cloud, or another kind of something positive pours into your body. You begin to feel calmer.
This is a step-by-step algorithm according to which you work.
Stage 2: Finding solutions and confidence
– Where is the knowledge useful for solving these problems? Is it near or far? In what direction is it located?
– What does it look like? Is it a cloud, a sun or something else?
– Should you let them come closer to you and enter your body?
– Observe the way it is happening: a ray of light, a cloud or a stream of water “settles’ in your body.
– Explore what it feels like to be filled with useful information. How much of that necessary knowledge do you have now?
– If
