Focus

Focus, worry, anxiety and importance. What causes you to lose your focus? Is it boredom or worry or anxiety or outright fear? What are you worried about? What are you fearful about? Do most problems have solutions? Can most things be taken care of with reasonable ease?  

Consider how much of your life you spend worrying about your more basic needs – money, food, shelter and survival. Now most of you have jobs and a home and a car and some level of comfort. It may not be the level you wish for, it may be a long way from that level, but you have some comfort. Think about how the worry or anxiety of “not having” keeps you from living fully daily. Most of you are in a place of scarcity every moment. You are putting your focus on what you might have or what you think you want and not truly examining what you have. Most of your situations are not as dire as you think they are, but they may be lacking in the “extras” in life. Your society is very big on the extras - the big houses, the newer cars, the eating out, the expensive shoes or clothing, the convenience of living. 

How many of you are concerned about the way others see you in your car. Is it the right kind of car for your image? Does it tell people you are successful and well off? Does it represent you? Does it represent your soul? Now go to your home. Is it palatial enough to allow others to be impressed with you? Or is it comfortable and easy for you to live in? Who are you trying to impress? More importantly how are you trying to impress? Are you attempting to make you and others around you comfortable with the trappings, the external or are you honestly revealing to them who you are by your being, your soul? 

What are you putting in the soul bank? What are you feeding your soul? What vehicle is your soul riding around in? These are questions you might be better served to ask. Now we are not suggesting that you live in filth and poverty to “prove” you are more concerned with your soul - that is not your society! What we are suggesting is that you do an honest evaluation of your situation. Are your basic needs being met? Are they being met well? Again, by this we do not mean necessarily that you live in luxury and roll in money, but rather does your life seem somewhat comfortable. Do you have a bit of extra money, food, space in your life? If you can answer yes, then you need to move some of your attention from “survival” mode to spiritual mode. Take some time for your spirit/soul to rest and commune. Put your focus on the internal and not the external. Allow yourself the luxury of meditation and introspection. You will be amazed how when you shift that focus; the worry and anxiety begin to subside and the peace of reality begins to emerge. From this place you can begin to find the growth and strength that you have been seeking externally. 

We go in love and possibility.

Namaste

From We Are All In This Alone - A Spiritual Journey to Self - Insights of Babaji with Heather Cronrath available on this website