Day 284: Where Your Attention Goes
The more we concentrate on something we desire, and the more vividly or in detail we do it, the faster our energy moves.
It can also be repeated exposure to the same type of thing over and over that acclimates us to accept it, or desire it, or believe it.
As far as exposure, someone in my inner circle started sending me chihuahua reels in FB Messenger. After I clicked on a few, my feed became flooded with them. I stopped clicking, and after a while they disappeared.
But now I'm seeing posts from chihuahua rescues from all over, and none of them in Mexico. So I couldn't adopt if I wanted to. I'm not clicking on those, so I hope they will go away too.
The thing is, the first adoption post I saw, my heart melted instantly because I had been indoctrinated by those cute reels to feel differently about chihuahuas than I did previously.
And it happened so fast, it was scary.
Now I have a better idea of how the algorithm can radicalize someone without them even being aware of it.
I'm someone who pays close attention to my thoughts and emotions, and my feelings about chihuahuas were shifted in a matter of days.
If I lived in the U.S., I could have been persuaded to adopt one of these babies even though I have two older dogs already, and I swore when they are gone, no more.
But I heard my inner dialogue questioning if I could give an elderly dog a home for the short time it had left.
It's crazy how easily it happens.
We need to understand that our attention is always training us.
Sometimes it's training us toward something we didn't consciously choose. And sometimes, when we're clear and intentional, it trains/focuses our energy toward what we actually want.
Concentrating, or focusing, on what you desire is very powerful in a good way.
And it's so simple. Where our attention goes is what we create more of in our life.
The last few months, I've been taking more AI workshops. I want more automations to give me back some of my time.
The other day I was reading an email that asked for suggestions on what kind of skill her readers wanted her to make next.
I thought about what I wanted, wrote it, and then remembered that she doesn't do social media in her business, so she's not going to build a skill outside of her brand. I deleted it and moved on.
And a few hours later, I get an email from someone who doesn't email very often, and it says she is releasing something that does more than what I was going to request, for a very reasonable price, and it will pre-launch this week.
For me, when asking and receiving start to speed up like this in my life, I know it's because something big is coming in my life. Usually meaning I'm going to be asked to put myself out there in a much bigger way, so I'm being given what I need to prepare.
The first time I recognized this happening was when I moved back to the U.S. after the cancer and didn't have a clue what I was going to do after my husband decided he wanted to live in the house I had bought to flip.
So I was doing Tony Robbins ' 30-day course that I'd been doing every once in a while over the last decade, and this time was completely different.
Rather than answering the questions quickly like usual, I was sometimes writing so much and going so deep that it would take an hour. And the things I was writing, I didn't know where they were coming from.
I remember telling my husband that something big was coming. I could feel it.
And it was. It was a completely new career that I never could have imagined and more money than I thought I would ever make. And so much fun.
So, now I'm feeling a more low-key version of that. Something I haven't felt since 2000-2001.
It's all about listening to our inner voice, recognizing where our thoughts are going, and monitoring how it feels in our body.
And then letting the Universe take the wheel and guide us to what is ours.
Because our attention is not neutral.
It can happen unconsciously, like my sudden softening toward chihuahuas because my feed kept showing them to me.
Or it can happen consciously, when we focus on something we truly desire and feel the energy around it begin to move.
That's why we have to pay attention to what we are giving our attention to.
What is this making me feel?
What is this making me want?
What is this making me believe?
Is this mine?
Did I choose it?
Does it open me or pull me somewhere I don't actually want to go?
Those questions matter because repeated attention becomes familiarity. Familiarity can become desire. Desire can become belief. Belief can become action. And action becomes the life we are living.
So yes, concentrate on what you desire and give your energy to what feels aligned.
Let the Universe bring you the next pieces.
Just make sure the desire you are feeding is actually yours.
Today's Gentle Practice
Think about one thing that has been getting a lot of your attention lately.
Ask yourself:
Is this shaping me in a direction I consciously choose?
Notice what it is making you feel.
Notice what it is making you want.
Notice what it is making you believe.
Your attention is creative.
Give it to what you want to grow.
With you,
Lynn
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