Exercises in Paying Attention

Learn the piano-Buy a Casio, not a Grand, Baby Grand or upright a $49 investment in Attention.

Cook a recipe from newspaper or cookbooks. Find THE ingredients & follow directions.

Go Hiking to burn off the food and pay attention to the scenery, your likes & dislikes.

Learn a language-Rosetta Stone has the tools to make payant attention tres simple.

Write-poetry, essays, personal history, or blog.

Attend different churches or culture and pay attention while in their costume.

Volunteer-Its will always be new. Get out of a rut and put your attention out.

Work with children, with or without an agenda. Keep them safe by paying attention.

Become a member- join, enroll pay attention to the new rules.

Paint or draw-Try a circle, a straight line, or get a stick figure to pay attention to you.

Learn hypnosis-But first get de-hypnotized by paying attention.

Build a model-ship in a bottle. From the pay enough attention & you get patience lessons.

Wine tasting- Well i say give it a taste.

Learn computer skills- If you are over fifty.

Mentor/Mentee- Help someone else pay attention by you paying attention.

Work out & Dance. Try NIA.

Organize an event-Advanced exercise in paying attention, often beyond patience.

Analyze the stock market-someone should.

Fantasy sports- Lessens the chance for sports injuries.

Use your opposite hand-do not do as you have always done-put on the other shoe 1st

Learn NEURO LINGUISTIC PRACTICES

Practice flirting- remember only practice paying attention.

Get a new hair style-I have a number for a great stylist in Alamo, California.

Learn to give a massage-Its a giving and receiving lesson.

Travel in a new way-take the bus, the ferry, unicycle or pogo stick.

BECAUSE *Paying attention burns 3 times the amount of calories as couch potatoing.

Golden Rays of Happiness

I ate all yellow fruit today.
Golden pineapple, banana peel yellow, peachy yellow peaches, a sunny mango, all of these I feel the energy and see the smiley face of happy.
A happy to be me start to my day.

I dress in gold and look for music that radiates sweet tunes of happy.
Not Bach, or Ravel, some of Chopin has my mood ‘pitter-patting’ to piano etudes of mirth, but I won’t settle for sounds that drop me into silent movies, I wish an epic of Joy-Ah Beethoven Ode to Joy-his 9th-“Oh friends! Not these sounds! But let us strike up more pleasant sound and more joyful!

This morning I wish to celebrate the joy of the golden rays of happiness and tell my story till the spark of divinity lights appreciation for all of precious humanity.

Thirty-three (I used to lisp firty-free-get wiff-it Gary) years ago I embarked on a study of the Cosmos. A search to seek the source, the origin of the adventure which had turned into a world I belong in and felt alien too.
My insight was that it was not the world, but my awareness of the world, which answered my quest.
I began to see myself as a cosmologist, a student of God, and turned my awareness toward mimicking the creator.

What is the creator’s mode of awareness?

God goes for its attractions. God is attraction. A corollary was I could go for my attraction as if I created the attraction.

Another corollary appeared quite soon.
The creator’s multi-dimensional nature became aware of itself.

The contradictory nature of my cosmos,

saint & sinner,

aware/oblivious,

love/hate,

attract/repulse

desire/resist

and all I wanted-I didn’t get , and all I didn’t want I got.

It all became evident.

Now 33 years of sorting out my attractions, distractions, repulsions, resistances, an old friend, a book, Another Roadside Attraction reappeared in my life.

Ah, inspirations, awareness’s attractive friend, whose glimmerings, like the leaves of the poplar out the window, reflect, not create light. Fashioning movement and insights in phraseology that attract and contradict knowingness and nothingness.

Upon reading I knew we had left the Dark Ages, found treasures and entered a Golden Age of happy. I know it again-Enjoy the Golden Rays of Today.

Namaste

gary

Varieties of Attention

I am on a mission. A pure mission to share ATTENTION, but there is more than one type of ATTENTION, and some types are counterproductive.

When training clients it's counterproductive to have my ATTENTION FIXED.

Time is an issue and it fixes my ATTENTION when people are late.

Where is my ATTENTION?
@It’s important to share the material.
@Better late than never.
@Better late, with attention on empowering the audience than fixing one’s attention on a clock.

I started by acknowledging where my ATTENTION is fixed:
@I am not prepared.
@Who do I think I am?
@They won’t show up.
@They’ll forget the book.
@This is a tough class.
@They’ll hate me.
@This is just like school and they hate school.

Handling FIXED ATTENTION means decide to change. (Change is inevitable, but FREE ATTENTION is not), acknowledge where your ATTENTION is. Then move it to another object. Repeat this process till the FIXATION loses its glue and slides easily from one object, thought, emotion, sensation, desire or wherever you want it to be. With ATTENTION in a fluid state it's a good time to create goals, aims, & move toward your compelling future.

The process of letting go of stuck ATTENTION also works on the other kinds of ATTENTION:

My BIASED ATTENTION:
@They don’t care.
@There uninterested.
@They are going to resist.

My OTHER DIRECTED ATTENTION:
@I don’t have to do this.
@I’m not getting paid enough for this.
@This is weird.

My DISORIENTED ATTENTION:
@I can’t pay enough attention to do the exercise.
@I wish I was somewhere, anywhere else.
@I can’t pay attention THIS time of the month.
@These hot flashes.
@What’s this all about?

FREE ATTENTION creates participation, the key to making life a PARTY.

Namaste, Gary
And then THEY PARTICIPATED!