117. Focus

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CXVII

Requirement for 5DI:

The Discipline of Focus

Lecture based Questions:

1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.

Well, you know what to do! How lucky we are! We have hundreds of helpers—all wishing us well and helping us whenever we ask.

2. How does focus improve the quality of life?

Intentional manifestation, simplicity, persistence, clairvoyance, thoroughness, accuracy, skill, and creativity all require focus or concentration. It creates stability in a world of distractions. It puts a true direction on your arrows of thought. All of us go through training courses in the Mental World to increase our proficiency in this highly regarded discipline. The correspondence to our physical lifestyle is direct and obvious; the more focused you are on a subject, the more you build the archetype for its manifestation, and the more you attract it into your life.

Focus is also effective in solving the obstructions to success that our neuroses have established. By turning away thoughts from the problems and zooming in on the healing and the goal, energy is properly directed to feed the constructive archetypes for a more peaceful, liberated, and satisfying life.

3. What does focus look like clairvoyantly?

When a person is active in focus mode, you can see that the eyes of the Astral Body are enlarged and resemble lenses. Protrusions extend from the AB and either attach to thought forms or to persons or objects that are the subject of concentration.

At the fifth dimension, the Mental Body expands in size and grows more colorful. The better a person becomes at focusing, the more solid and well defined the MB becomes.

4. Can a person focus and multi task at the same time?

One can focus for short periods of time on several alternating subjects. The more practiced one becomes at concentration, the more effective the person is at using any amount of focused thought.

Because the Mental Body is very quick compared to the physical brain, it is also capable of maintaining a bead on a certain goal while simultaneously attending to several other activities. This mode is enhanced through a daily practice of solely focusing on said goal without any distraction for the space of five to ten minutes. This pushes the reset button on your list of priorities so that your goal and the archetype for its manifestation grow in clarity and weight.

5. Is meditation the best way for me to expand my powers of concentration?

Yup. Keep in mind that meditation can take many forms. Besides sitting quietly in thought, you would find that body disciplines such as martial art, Tai Chi, ballet, Pilates and boxing are great activities for cultivating mental acuity. Also effective are sight-reading music, video games (such as Mario Brothers, Klondike, and Tetris), and training for a new skill.

6. Is this skill easier for some people than for others?

The ability to concentrate resides dormant within each of us. The incentive to cultivate it, however depends on several conditions.

First Rays are always goal and acquisition oriented, and so they learn the value of focus early in their development. Consequently, they appear to surge ahead of other members in their Soul Clan as they embrace this discipline as far as their capacity allows.

Second Rays have brilliant flashes regarding anything to do with communication. Their priorities usually cause them to put off focus training until the end of their spiritual training. They are notorious for impressive achievement in a project and then becoming distracted by people, who are always very important to this social spirit.

Third Rays are natural giants of deductive thinking and correlating data to make interesting hypotheses. The ability to focus on a single line of thought usually becomes important near the 3DI. Before then, a cynical attitude can distract such a person from recognizing its value.

Fourth Rays have powerful moments of concentration during the creative process. The rest of the time, there are many bright colors, shiny objects, and various subjects of interest that tempt the creative mind away from a successful focus on achieving goals or manifesting physical conditions. After many lifetimes of different experiences, they learn to harness their talents for a successful and peaceful lifestyle.

Fifth Rays find focus to be a very natural path, especially when there are puzzles to solve. Applying this skill for strategy planning and whole-life balance is a skill developed during later incarnations.

Sixth Rays develop this skill more easily during group efforts of prayer, learning, or development. Their mental bodies stimulate growth energy from the expansion of other minds in the vicinity. Their Guardian Angels connect them to people who will act as catalysts for gaining focus.

Seventh Rays enter the mode when engaged in an activity that involves categorizing, sorting, ritual, or structure. Their natural sense of obligation and responsibility can sometimes pull them away from this type of discipline and scatter their resources and energies.

7. Meditation Exercise: Five Reasons Why I Fabricate Myself Gold

•Sit comfortably so that your body does not distract you. Close your eyes and breath deeply and slowly.

•Place a fingertip (using your inferior hand) in between your eyebrows and concentrate on the sensation of pressure there. Breathe deeply for 10 reps.

•Cross your thumbs under your chin so that your fingers cradle your jaw. Breathe for 11 reps.

•Cross your hands at the wrists over your collarbone. Breathe for 12 reps.

•Fingernails and knuckles touching each other, place all your fingertips on the heart chakra. Breathe for 13 reps.

•Place hands in Gratitude Position (thumb knuckles touching Third Eye Chakra, fingers together, hands straight together, fingertips pointed upward). Breathe for 14 reps.

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A Moment In the Desert

a story for your spiritual landscape

And then the child went into the shadow behind the great rock

and found a nest of tiny chicks belonging to a flock of quail.

Their softness and vulnerability touched and softened his heart.

He sat cross-legged at the edge of the nest

and he delighted in watching them for a space of time.

Eventually he became aware that the chicks cried and were hungry

and that the parents were calling out, waiting to feed them,

so he cautiously rose up

and padded without sound to the other side of the rock.

The sun was hot and friendly on the surface of the great boulder.

The child explored its texture

with an interest that eclipsed the world around him.

The rough places, the smooth veins, the worn down planes and curves

all had his attention and his caresses.

Nowhere within his reach was there a part untouched or unnoticed.

The sun descended below the horizon and the air chilled around him.

He dropped his arms and walked away from the desert

toward shelter, toward nourishment, toward the company of loved ones.

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