The practice of anchoring our attention in the present moment helps dissolve the suffering born of revisiting any painful moment...
As consciously as possible -- preferably in the movement of a single, slowly taken in-breath -- gather all of your attention into the words, “I AM”... And then on the out-breath... (silently say, or think the word) “HERE"...
Being able to let go of any negative state takes place naturally as you see that the only thing binding you to it, and its misery, is your own attention.
To see how easily our attention is given away to what limits, or otherwise corrupts us creates -- on the spot -- not only the necessity to reclaim it, but each such shock serves to renew and strengthen our intention to never lose (sight of) it again.
A rose doesn’t “try” to be beautiful; it never struggles to win one’s attention, or to prove its value. Any part of us -- pressing on us to try and make a favorable impression -- of any kind, upon anyone for any reason...
If we see how much of our unhappiness is self-created, through being inattentive to our own interior life, then accordingly, we can learn to re-direct our attention, placing it where we will within what is right and bright. But, there is only one way to realize this reversal: we must work to see how wrongly directed attention works against us. Perhaps a thought pops into your mind about a pr...
Persistent painful problems in life are born out of one essential weakness: our inability to direct and keep our attention on what we choose to be in relationship with in the moment.