Being in the World: Where is Our Attention Span?

Where attention goes, energy flows. The things we focus on we get more of. This can be good or bad. If you focus on lack, you attract more lack into your life. If you focus on abundance, you get that.

To he who has much, more will be given. To he who has little, more will be taken away. It’s quantum law, not woo-woo.

Something which concerns me (and I’m not preaching or judging here, because I’m as caught up in this as anyone else) is the amount of time we spend looking at devices, instead of being in the world.

If we’re not placing our attention on the world, will it simply fade?

Many years ago, before we all had mobile phones, I read an interesting thing. I cannot quote the source, because I don’t remember the finer details, but it was an article about a man in the 1920s, who was capable of remote viewing, who looked into the future and said he saw everyone walking the streets, looking into what he called “little boxes.”

He said everyone seemed to be hypnotised, under some kind of spell. He found it disturbing.

Could the little boxes he saw be our mobile phones?

We are so distracted by them. In restaurants and cafes, people look down at them instead of looking around, taking in the ambience of the place or talking to each other.

We often mistake being on our devices for relaxation, when it is far from it.

Parents now give phones to little ones in prams to distract them in shops. Kids don’t bother looking up when they cross the road, they’re so busy scrolling. When I went to the cinema to see a film, the whole place lit up once the film started, kids in every row, looking at devices.

If attention goes where energy flows, what happens to the world when we stop giving it our attention?

What happens to relationships when we ignore and neglect our partner?

If we have a friend we’ve outgrown, we tend to stop spending time with them, giving them attention, and sooner or later they fade out our lives.

Are we letting the natural world fade out of our lives by not giving it enough of our attention? Are we making our relationships less rewarding by not nurturing them? Are things becoming greyer because they are not held in the light of our appreciation?

If what I am suggesting resonates in any way, it might be worth consciously investing attention in the things in the world that are essential to health and well-being, to our deep soul nature, by stepping into the Now moment, taking time each day to notice the beauty and flood it will the energy of gratitude, letting it know it is precious to you.

We could do this with anything really, that we don’t particularly want to lose, be it a friend or lover, a smile from a stranger, our favourite tree, a gentle breeze or a patch of rare sunlight because to do so is to call in more of the same.

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