Saturday, November 24, 2012

Day 15 -Never Enough Time to Write VII - Attention Diversion

Attention diversion is one of my primary obstacles to consistent writing.  Although I do not participate in watching sports, or many of the activities that most of us indulge in, I do divert my attention from being right here with myself in breath to other things, anything that can serve as an excuse not to be right here. 

 

For instance, when I sit down to write, often times I will take a ‘quick few seconds (that often become minutes and even hours)’ to surf the internet and read about various wars, or rumors of wars, or the economy, or political interests, or a multitude of other interests such that mostly have to do with the condition of our world and the so many forms of suffering that we all go through all over the planet; or I will get on Facebook, or check out the main desteni.org site (again after just checking it out) to see if anyone responded to my latest post, or I will check my email accounts, or I will practice piano, or I will play online chess, or watch TV.  I guess you can say that I spend a lot of time in the ‘digital’ world, and although these activities are not problems in and of themselves, they are all serving as ‘attention diversions’ to my being ‘here’ with myself directing myself in every moment of breath doing what is necessary to be done within the starting point of oneness and equality and what is best for all.

 

I also participate in these ‘attention diversions’ to almost the same extent while at work. 

 

My reason for allowing myself to participate in these ‘attention diversions’ is that I reach a point, quite often and quite easily, where I just simply need more ‘stimulation’ than what I can get while working or writing self-forgiveness, because of my participation in thoughts that ‘I am bored’ or ‘writing of working isn’t fun’.

 

In addition to these ‘attention diversions’ I also be caught up in things that I actually do need to tend to such as working, spending time with the kids and partner and family on occasion, taking care of my kids, taking care of my pets, taking care of my house, or cooking for the family or just myself, of which I participate in these activities all to a certain degree that I feel is adequate, within being ‘responsible’.   In addition to my consistent work schedule, I am often times ‘whisked away’ to go take care of these responsibilities as they occur; and therefore my time is very difficult to manage in general, and often times even more difficult to manage because of the fact that I waste so much of the time that I do have on ‘attention diversions’.

 

So, I see how these ‘attention diversions’ are serving to assist me in abdicating my self-responsibility because by participating in these ‘attention diversions’ I am not directing myself in every moment and thereby giving my power away to that which is ‘catching’ my attention because I am deliberately allowing myself to be distracted because I don’t want to do what is required to be done in every moment of breath from the starting point of equality and oneness and what is best for all.

 

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing my attention to be diverted away and separate from me here.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to be here as breath in every moment.

 

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to follow my curiosity and ‘lose myself’ within entertainment, playing piano, reading on the internet, playing chess all while in the meantime not being aware of who I am here in the moment.

 

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to deliberately distract myself from what is here, because I do not want to do what requires to be done in the here moment.

 

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to deliberately distract myself from what is here because I do not want to hear what is begin said in this moment.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I need to be ‘stimulated’ in some way, whether it be reading about something interesting, or eating, or playing piano, or getting on Facebook, or watching TV, or playing chess, or socializing, or going to an event, to be having ‘fun’ and enjoying my ‘life’.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to separate myself from being right here as breath by participating in the thought that I need to ‘do something fun (outside of myself here) in order to be enjoying my life’.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe and participate in the thought that ‘I cannot just be right here as breath in every moment, but that I need to be stimulated and entertained’.

 

I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to see, realize, and understand that what I am doing by participating in the thought that ‘I cannot just be right here as breath in every moment because I need to be stimulated and entertained’ is in-fact justifying the seeking of an energy fix/high to ‘stimulate’ me as my mind in order to continue my existence as a mind consciousness system.

 

I forgive myself that I have allowed myself to connect the thought that ‘if I am not doing something in this very moment that is stimulating and entertaining then I will not enjoy my life’ to the emotional experience of being ‘bored’.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in and create the emotional experience of being bored which I use as an excuse to seek an energy fix by doing something that entertains me as my mind.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that life is boring by just being here in every moment as breath.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear being bored.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear just being here.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to ‘break-up’ the time that I do have to write by participating in fleeting passions and desires as to derive energy from something, anything, rather than to discipline myself within every moment of breath to be ‘here’ so as to be the most effective that I can be within the starting point of oneness and equality and what is best for all.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I cannot just be ‘here’ within and as breath as me directing me from start to finish each and every time that I write self-honesty, self –forgiveness, and corrective application.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to follow my thoughts, feelings, and emotions because of my idea of this being necessary for me to be a ‘happy and content being’, in separation of myself here as life.

 

I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to see, realize, and understand that the only reason I participate in ‘attention diversions’ is so that I can avoid being ‘here’ directing myself in and as each and every breath.

 

I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to see, realize, and understand that the constant ‘need’ I have to find out the latest on what is going on in the world, or with the economy, or on the desteni site, or on Facebook is only because of my need to participate in an ‘attention diversions’ to keep me from being here with myself in each and every breath because I fear being here with myself in each and every breath.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear the stopping of my mind.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to fear that if I remain ‘here’ and direct myself as life within each and every breath that I will not ‘live’ that I will not ‘enjoy’ myself and that I will therefore be ‘bored’.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to define ‘living’ and ‘enjoyment’ within seeking activities that I can derive energy from outside of myself thereby supporting myself as my mind in separation of myself ‘here’ as life; and within that I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to see, realize, and understand that ‘living’ and ‘enjoying’ myself is something that I do in every ‘here’ moment of breath while remaining ‘here’ in equality and oneness – that when I participate in the thought that I need to do something ‘out there’ to enjoy myself or have fun, that this is a flag-point for me to see that I am abdicating myself to my mind which requires energy to survive.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see and acknowledge to myself that when I participate in ‘attention diversions’ I am diverting myself from being ‘here’ within the breath so that I can live me as my mind; and within that I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not act when I see these flag points by simply taking myself back to being ‘here’ by breathing and living here one and equal within and as each and every breath.

 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed ‘attention diversions’ to stop me from realizing myself as life.

 

When and as I see myself going into the thought that ‘I need to go on the internet , or play piano, or watch TV, or get on Facebook so that I can avoid being bored’ as an attention diversion when I sit down to write or when I am at work or working around the house, I stop and I breathe until I am clear and bring myself back here as the breath, because I see, realize and understand that my need to be stimulated because of my fear of being bored is of my mind and can be stopped within breathing and being here.  Furthermore I see, realize, and understand that creating ‘attention diversions’ so that I can avoid being ‘here’ doing what needs to be done is exactly what is standing in my way of stopping my mind and birthing myself as life in oneness and equality.

 

When and as I see myself going into the emotional experience of being fearful of being bored and then seeking to participate in an ‘attention diversion’ when I sit down to write or am at work, I stop myself in that very moment and bring myself back to myself in and as breath.  I bring my attention back here as the breath in equality and oneness keeping myself’ here’ as the breath so that my attention is not able to be directed separate from me ‘here’ and not able to be diverted outside of myself.

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