Our attention is our reality - страница 4

In the next Chapter, we examine our attention through sequence. At each stage, I ask you to experiment with exercises that pave the inner path through the increasingly limitless journey of your Attention – your Reality.

It is not easy to bridge the vast Gulf between the invisible, floating particles and the practical, easily visible nature of our daily lives. But it is possible.

When I built this bridge myself, I began to see this process in terms of"steps." Each "stage" actually denotes certain understandings and experiences that can be passed through to "pass" to the next stage. This can be compared to the "keys to the door", when with each new understanding it becomes easier for you to move to the next stage, or level of understanding, through which we will pass. When you go through one step, new doors open, new experiences are explored, and you can move on to the next step.

These steps are the "keys" to your Attention, and therefore to your desired reality.

My point is not to create another key or model for a group of people to follow, but to provide you with simple exercises that stimulate new experiences in practitioners; in such a way that your so-called desired reality can begin to shift. Each step includes one concept and a sequence of exercises by which this concept can be experienced at all levels – mentally, sensually, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

Psychology and psychotherapy is based on the principles of Newtonian physics-a simplistic view of the world: everything can be reduced to small units, acting and reacting to each other, cause-and-effect measurable, predictable way. I. e. about any Attention and consciousness to us do not speak and do not take it into account. When consciousness and attention are still accepted as a working concept, it is seen as something to be remade, reinterpreted, cured, changed, elevated, or healed.

Here, on the contrary, I provide you with experiential experiences by which you can begin to perceive the desired reality and establish a connection with it through your Attention.

Many psychologists focus on combining the" parts " of a person. For example, let's say your part as a child, pretends that everything is fine, and behaves in a way that your mother loves you. And the other part is very angry and always tries to prove my mother wrong. Conventional psychotherapeutic approaches would encourage the evil child inside to Express himself, and the helpful child to stop pleasing his mother in everything. Or two of these parts could be "understood" as a mechanism of growth that contains resources that you can use in adult life. Perhaps your desire to prove your mother wrong has further led you to develop good business skills. Some therapists would argue that if a given psychoemotional state is "recognized" as part of the personality, the problem (whatever it may be) will be solved. Most forms of psychotherapy involve trying to create a" new "belief on top of an old problematic one, suggesting and evaluating that it is better to have a "positive" program, belief, or solution than a "negative" program, belief, or solution.