Use the following exercise to gauge the difference between sharp and focused awareness; note the word awareness rather than thinking has been used here, for it is the openness of your awareness that will attract the power you need for completion, the thought arises as a consequence of your mental evolution; stare at a blank space on the wall, make sure that there is nothing obstructing your visual perception such as a picture or mirror, or stare at a large piece of plain flooring or carpet. Now think of any object and focus on it with intention, and then keep your focus on the imagines object, thinking of the detail that it entails. Notice how your awareness moves into the mind very quickly and the wall (or floor) fades into the background, leaving the imagination to take over in the foreground of your awareness. You can clearly see the blank objects with your awareness and no thinking is necessary, however when you think of an object, it pulls itself to the front of your awareness and distorts your focus.
Now you have a dual system of awareness at work; you are staring out into the world at something whilst thinking of something else. This is one of the biggest problems that humanity faces today; they are acting in one way and thinking in another. Here is man’s (or woman's) puzzle - he wonders why he cannot reach his goal, although fails to realise that most of the time his attention was placed on his daydreaming thoughts rather than what he should have been focusing on, his own reality in front of his face which needed his full attention.
Now you have a dual system of awareness at work; you are staring out into the world at something whilst thinking of something else. This is one of the biggest problems that humanity faces today; they are acting in one way and thinking in another. Here is man’s (or woman's) puzzle - he wonders why he cannot reach his goal, although fails to realise that most of the time his attention was placed on his daydreaming thoughts rather than what he should have been focusing on, his own reality in front of his face which needed his full attention.
What happens now is that man believes that because he has put his actions and intentions in one place, then sure enough the result of these ideas would reap the rewards that he set out to materialise in another moment. When he does not reach the goal he intended he begins to feel a ‘failure’ or that life isn’t fair and has dealt him an unfair hand. What is really going on with these dynamics? In actual fact, his mind is more powerful than his actions, therefore he has truly spend most of the time daydreaming about several things, probably hundreds of different thoughts via his untamed mind throughout any given day and this is what he has created, a chaos that he cannot contend with. This will surely confuse the one who does not realise what has happened and thus he falls further down the pit of complex problem solving, ever searching for the exit out of the maze he has lost himself to.
