38. Expand Your Focus and
Perceptions - Going Beyond a Limited Focus
to the Many Layers of
Perception
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Expand Your Focus and Attention
- A
Restrictive Focus Gives More
Attention to a Foggy
Consciousness
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Expand Your Focus and Vision -
Guidance and Answers are Present
with a Clear and Open Vision
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Expand Your Focus – Going Beyond
a Limited Focus to the Many
Layers of Perception
The majority of individuals have
made up an unthinkable amount of
rules, controls and benchmarks
for themselves on what they
should be, what they should do
and what they should have and
they place these overlays on the
top pedestal of their ‘gonna-do’
demands. Even with all these
controls they still have drama,
they still feel unfulfilled and
they still ask for guidance and
answers from someone in their
outer reality. Because they
place their attention on the
events that trigger the most
reaction and they focus on the
drama games of their
experiences, their 5 senses only
allows them to perceive the
outcome, but cannot comprehend
or understand what motive is
going on behind the scenes of
that issue.
When
you are stuck in the mind you
can’t
see the big picture of something
that is happening in your life.
You can’t perceive what the
energy structure is all about
behind the scene of that event.
What would the energetic motive
be, behind that event? Do you
have a limited narrow vision, to
where you can’t see the forest
for the trees?
Do you focus on just a limited
perception and potentials
without realizing that you have
a choice, because there are many
layers that will give different
insights, awareness and
understanding within every
scenario?
To address and solve your
issues, problems and challenges
to expand your focus can be
broken down into 2 categories.
Analogy of a Limited Focus
Many Layers of Perception
Let’s take a look at each
category.
Analogy of a Limited
Focus – Within your
reality there are many
layers of limitations that
reflect your perceptions,
your level of consciousness
or awareness. An example of
a limited focus is the
statement that ‘you can’t
see the forest for the
trees’! Another statement is
that ‘you can’t see the view
through a dirty window’!
When you put these two
statements together to form
an analogy, you can observe
many different layers of
perceptions and levels of
consciousness. Say, if you
are looking out a dirty,
foggy or cloudy window you
will not be able to see the
view of the forest clearly
that exists outside, let
alone what is in the
forest. However, if you are
focusing on the dirty
smudges on the window that
is all that you will
concentrate on – the smudges
and dirty spots on the
window, and you will not be
aware or even see the forest
view in the distance. You
may have a peripheral
vision, an awareness of the
forest, but you are not
focusing on the forest. You
are focusing on the dirty
window, which does not give
clarity, and this is a layer
of consciousness that you
are experiencing in your
reality. This layer, the
dirty window refers to what
is happening in your world,
what you are focusing on
now. It is your
physical-material reality of
what you need and desire to
sustain and maintain the
necessities in life. To
fulfil the passion of your
heart and to fulfil your
soul’s desires for growth
and evolution you need to go
deeper into the forest to
discover other perceptions
and realities about self and
life.
Many Layers of Perception
- As your awareness opens up
you begin to step out of
your comfort zone, you begin
to step out of the mind and
you begin to take your focus
off the foggy window, which
is your physical-material
world and allow your vision
to expand beyond what you
know or what you have been
concentrating on. It is to
understand that when you
focus just on the outside
world it will not completely
fulfil and satisfy you, when
you are not creating your
inner passion, so the
searching in the outer
continues with the risk of
the ‘insteads’ – the
addictions to surface. You
will realize that there is
more to life than just a
foggy dirty window, and
there is more than just lots
of trees outside that cloudy
window. Each layer is
limited and each experience
within your life leads you
to becoming more aware and
open to what lies beyond the
cloudy window and the first
group of trees.
Often you can stay in that
comfort zone seeking guidance in
the outer world before you are
forced to make a change. Change
is often uncomfortable, but
allows your consciousness to
grow, and as your awareness
opens and expands you will see
beyond the smudgy window and the
first group or line of trees.
As you open up you will see the
forest and what’s in the forest,
the wood and the shrubs. As you
move on you can bypass what is
obvious and what can be seen,
but to feel and know what is in
the depths of the forest, what
lies beyond the surface of the
ground – the roots in the earth
and the wood in the tree – to
the cells of matter and so on.
Perceptions go a long way as
nothing is separate, it is
contained within ALL. It is the
awareness of what is contained
beyond what you can see,
perceive and conceive, what is
underneath the surface of the
ground and what is behind the
bark of the tree and even what
is lurking behind each tree. All
is connected but often you only
perceive one thing, the dirty
window or just a few isolated
trees. There are many layers
and many other scenarios, but
you must be ready and willing to
discover beyond what you know or
what you want to know. This is
known as ‘not all things are
what they seem – there is more
to what is seen’.
Expand Your Focus and
Attention –A
Restrictive Focus Gives More
Attention to a Foggy
Consciousness
Within every scenario and
every issue there are many
layers of perception. Do
you focus on a certain
perception as being one
thing or one-way? It depends
on whether you have a
limited focus of only
perceiving one layer or
whether you are more open
and aware to realize that
because there are many
layers it allows you to
understand the situation
with greater awareness,
wisdom and acceptance of why
that event occurred in the
first place.
To address and solve your
issues, problems and challenges
to expand your focus can be
broken down into 2 categories.
Restricted Focus
Attention Follows
Consciousness
Let’s take a look at each
category.
Restricted Focus - An
inadequate, limiting or a
restricted vision is not to
be able to focus or
concentrate on seeing what
is really there, let alone
seeing the energy structure
behind the scenes. When you
focus just on one thing,
when you are looking and
searching for one thing only
– that is all you will see,
because that is all that you
believe in. Your vision is
focused on the path that you
are travelling on and your
metaphoric peripheral vision
is ignored and your inner
idea of what is in the
distance or what the
energetic motive could be is
unthinkable for the
imagination. Focusing on
that particular aspect will
limit you from clearly
observing the distant
opportunity or defining
deeper perspective or
understanding the wisdom of
the event. When you take
your focus off the dirty
window, to look past the
smudges on the window, you
will be able to place your
attention on the view to
whether the smudges will not
bother you or hinder your
perception. That is, when
you take your focus off the
dramas of your
physical-material reality,
you will be able to place
your attention on the choice
that you want in your life
to allow new ideas and
opportunities to come in,
because you can move past
the stormy drama games in
your reality.
Attention Follows
Consciousness – Through
control and self-discipline
you can fight, force and
strive to get things from
your outer material world,
but that only brings stress,
conflict and ill health and
when you have achieved it,
you are still not fulfilled.
Nothing new can come in when
you focus on the outer, the
foggy window or foreground
trees, because at your
present level of awareness
or consciousness is limiting
the new potentials and
opportunities to flow in.
When you take your focus off
what you don’t want – to see
beyond the trees or the
dirty window is when new
perceptions can come in. The
limitation of only seeing
the trees and the dirty
window and not the view of
the forest is when you
cannot step out of your
comfort zone. When you
cannot view what is deep
within the forest, the
darkness of the forest is
when you cannot step out of
the mind. When you cannot
allow yourself to walk into
the deep forest of
self-discovery is when there
is inner conflict within
you? The forest is a
reflection of you. What are
you fearful about? Perhaps
you can see the forest, but
can you walk within that
forest – to discover what is
within you, so you can get
to know you? Do you feel
safe in dense, shaded or
dark forest areas? Do you
fear getting lost in the
denseness of discovering who
you are? What issues are
hiding in the dark shadows
of the forest that bothers
you? Can you see another
lack of clarity or a feeling
of being unsafe in dense
shaded areas? Your fears
that you are placing your
attention on is following
you because that is the
level of consciousness that
you are reflecting.
Energy responds to
consciousness. Your energy is
where your attention is being
placed and it reflects your
level of consciousness. When
you lack direction, when you
don’t live your authentic
nature, when you feel limited or
restricted and when you fear and
feel unsafe about something or
when you doubt or mistrust
yourself to be, do or have
something, it is because you are
placing your attention on
something that is not serving
you in an empowering way. ‘What
you identify with controls you
and where your attention goes
your energy flows, to increase
and magnify with use’. The more
you focus on your limitations,
the more trees will grow to hide
the forest, to bury the wood so
the forest will appear darker
and more unsafe.
Expand Your Focus and Vision– Guidance and
Answers are Present with a Clear
and Open Vision
Looking outside of yourself to
seek answers for your questions
will disempower you. Are you
ready and willing to ask
yourself the questions about
your issue? Can you trust the
answers and know that what you
hear is appropriate? Do you only
want to hear a particular answer
and ignore anything else? Do you
have an expected outcome to that
answer or when it should occur?
Are you in a safe space so you
can open up and have a clearly
defined vision about your
issues?
To address and solve your
issues, problems and challenges
to expand your focus can be
broken down into 4 categories.
True Guidance
Answer is Contained Within
Know-No-Agenda
Clearly Opened Vision
Let’s take a look at each
category.
True Guidance - The
more you focus on your dirty
window the less foreground
trees you will see in the
forest view that is outside
that foggy window. When you
become engrossed in a
certain perception, you
become more limited to where
you can’t even see the wood
in the forest because you
are just focusing on the
trees. Those trees that are
growing outside your forest
are alone and exposed to the
high winds and the storms
that roll over the
undulating plains. These are
the outer conflicts that
occur in your
physical-material world,
that battle with your body
in your environment. The
shelter from these outer
storms, which is the
perceived as your dark
forest, it is within you,
but are you afraid to go
within the forest to seek
shelter, to seek guidance
and validation in how to
cope with the storms of the
outside world? Nothing
outside of you can give you
true guidance and direction,
because others are at a
different level of
consciousness, they a
different belief system and
are having different
experiences and no body can
walk your path for you. You
are your best guide and the
only guide!
Answer is Contained
Within - Every answer to
every question sits right in
front of you, but can you
see it - is it not clearly
defined when you are focused
on something else like the
foggy window of what others
say and do and what your
fears, lacks and limitations
are about and your
foreground trees of doubt
and mistrust. All of your
answers are within you, but
you must be awakened and
trusting to ask yourself the
question. When you go
outside of yourself for
answers you lose your power,
trust and worth. The mind
can only perceive what it
knows and what it can see
and that is your physical
material world. ‘The mind
doesn’t know beyond what it
knows’, so it doesn’t know
what is in the forest, what
is within you, the
intelligence of who you
really are.
Know-No-Agenda - When
you do look into the forest
you might see something, but
it may not be what you want
or expected, so you close
the door on that idea. When
you have an agenda, when you
expect things to look a
certain way, and when you
think the outcome should
occur within a certain time,
you will not see other
perceptions, ideas or
potential outcomes, because
you are focused on achieving
a certain thing. Agenda
limits the structure of
energy. You are missing the
point! You will miss the
opportunity for something
grander to occur, because
you are not at home and at
peace with yourself when you
don’t live your authentic
nature and when you don’t
live in the now moment. You
are not at home nothing can
come knocking at your door,
because you are not open and
acceptance of all things and
you cannot open up when you
don’t feel safe.
Clearly Opened Vision
- The shadow potentials are
always there behind the
scenes, but they are dormant
when your mind is only
focused on what it knows.
Your mind is like a
parachute – it only
functions when it is open.
You can only open up and
have a clearly defined
vision when you make
conscious choices to go
beyond a limited
perception. You can only
open up and be clear about
your scenario when you feel
safe in that now moment.
When you are willing to open up
to the unknown, to go beyond
your present imagination, to be
‘out of the mind’ scenario, you
will be able to feel and
perceive new potential
outcomes. This knowingness
becomes so clear, your vision
will be defined at a blink of an
eye, faster than what you can
put words to it. It becomes an
‘ah-ah’ and you will know what
it is all about.
