How many ways do we have of saying this?
Stay in present time.
Concentrate.
Ignore distractions.
Pay attention.
Stop dwelling on the past.
Focus.
Don’t get pulled off purpose.
Stay the path.
Discipline yourself.
And how many mental techniques and administrative tools have we developed to helps us remember and do the above?
And why is all the above it necessary?
Quite simply it is because your attention is pulled out of present time and into the past by losses and moments of pain and unconsciousness.
For instance, have you ever had a disagreement or argument with a person and walked away without resolving it, continuing to stew on it?
Ever had someone say something unkind or unpleasant to you and thought about it on and off for days?
Let’s look at how this plays out in real life. Let’s say arbitrarily that you have 1000 units of attention you can apply to thinking or any other task you are doing, like driving your car.
Let’s assume that when you have an argument, disagreement or loss you lose just one attention unit from your potential maximum that you have to focus on things. Just one in a thousand. Not a lot. Just .1 of a percent.
After you look over your past life you might be forgiven for wondering how you can still function at all, considering you’ve most likely had more than 1,000 times in your life when you have hit your arm, bumped your shin, taken the skin off your knee, been invalidated by another in school, jilted romantically, not gotten the exam result, job or promotion you expected, been rebuffed by a partner… …the list of ways you can experience loss is almost endless!
In fact, one researcher estimated that the average person has only 30% of their attention units still in present time. That 70% of the average person’s attention units were encysted or trapped in past losses.
That’s a pretty sobering thought, when you consider the average person drives around with only 30% of their available attention units available to them. On the same roads as you and me!
Sort of goes some way to explaining some of the things you see when out and about. That and a lack or personal ethics. But that’s another story for another day.
You may have even seen somebody do something pretty wild and wondered to yourself, or even out loud, “What in heaven’s name does he think he’s doing? Where IS he?” Meaning he is not here, accurately observing his environment as it is in present time.
Truth is, he actually IS someWHEN else as well as someWHERE else. Too many of his attention units are not here in present time, where he is now. They are stuck back in time and at a place where he experienced a loss.
This all seems pretty grim until you learn there is a way you can recover these attention units from the past and place them at your disposal in present time.
In a simple exercise, done at home, in your own time and at your own pace that takes just 15 minutes a day. From a book that costs less than $50 including postage.
Contact me if you would like to naturally and comfortably have more attention units in present time.