In this Saturday discussion a student asks for clarification on the principle of identification. Guy tells us that to begin to catch the waves of identification that eventually lead to suffering, we must properly divide our attention and give it fully to both our interior and exterior worlds...

Topics Covered: Our true nature must be returned to it's authentic, original place in the scheme of creation, where it is properly nourished. But how do we return to this celestial home that is within?; Our relationship with the Divine is only entered into by the realization of a new order of attention; As goes our attention so comes our experience. Without attention, there is no connection...

Topics covered: suffering, unnecessary suffering, attention, attentive, negative imagination, worry, anxiety, stress...

Part 1: The main reason we must always remember to hold our chin up whenever negative thoughts try to drag us down is because whichever direction we choose first in that moment is what the rest of us will follow. Part 2: As goes our attention, so comes our experience.

Classroom Talk: 3/27/2022 - Attention touches whatever level of being into which it reaches. Sustained attention connects these levels and, if maintained, allows for an exchange of energy between them. Consistent connectivity permits and gradually grows into a form of systemic symmetry, until all levels involved are permanently integrated.

Student Talks: 4/1/2022 - Key Lesson: Attention touches whatever level of being into which it reaches. Sustained attention connects these levels and, if maintained, allows for an exchange of energy between them. Consistent connectivity permits and gradually grows into a form of systemic symmetry, until all levels involved are permanently integrated.

Classroom Talk: 10/9/2022 - Without an anchor, a ship is carried off by any shallow current or wave that passes beneath its bow. And so it is with us... as long as we try to navigate through this life without being able to anchor our attention in a place of our own choosing.

Student Talks: 10/14/2022 - Key Lesson: Without an anchor, a ship is carried off by any shallow current or wave that passes beneath its bow. And so it is with us... as long as we try to navigate through this life without being able to anchor our attention in a place of our own choosing.

Where is my attention? Guy Finley explains why this is an important question. The resistance I feel when things don't go the way I want them to go isn't resistance to what's happening but to my unseen expectations of how I think things should be. Then my mind connects my attention to my body, and my body literally becomes a mirror of that internal conflict.

Topics covered: Our consciousness is our circumstance... a spiritual fact that we can't hear enough and can't experience enough; Something within us is the first to judge us right after that very same nature does something harmful; Your mind can't wait to place your attention on something you don't want. If your attention doesn't belong to you, then you will experience exactly what you don't want.

Topics covered: Reports on the Attention Exercises; Setting an intention invites second force; Your essence is like a lightning rod for you to discover your chief features; Faith is of the heart but it begins with the intellect through reasoning; Struggling to employ directed attention to overcome zero attention is the most valuable type of work; You have to understand what it means to come to...

Classroom Talk: 12/08/2024 - We are not bound by any unwanted condition, but rather by our failure to realize that we've become unwitting prisoners of our own misplaced attention. Which means that before we can liberate ourselves from this bondage, we must first do the inner work it takes to free our attention from the unconscious nature that misdirects it.