Attention The Great Vivifying Force; Intention the Power of the Will January 1, 2007
The Hindu literature states that God created in three waves of force:
- The first wave, Will-Force-Intention
- The second wave, Love-Wisdom
- The third wave, Active-Intelligence
Will-Force-Intention is the masculine component, cosmoslogicaly speaking, Love-Wisdom is the feminine--the creative bed, the nurturer. When the two meet, Will-Force-Intention inseminates Love-Wisdom and produces the child, Active-Intelligence or materialization.. This trinity-formula is an archetype-stencil for all creation. Masculine meets feminine creating child. Positive meets negative bringing forth a new product. Activity provokes the Void and creates creation.
Attention is the great vivifying force. Wherever it lands, something lives. Attention is at the discretion of intention. Will-Force-Intention is the hand that directs the flashlight that holds the beam of attention. For example, we may intend to meditate; we intend to lose our connection with this material world and enter into the spiritual sphere of peace, mind-still, serenity. We do this by making the body completely comfortable, thus removing attention from it. To all intents and purposes the physical body disappears from our attention; it lives only in the attention of others. Similarly, with the emotional body, which, when it quiets, essentially disappears, -- as does the mental body which can quietly drift away, leaving only the expansive space of a serene background. This is intention, or will, removing attention from the body, from the emotions, from mind chatter, fulfilling its intention to arrive in the realm of peace.
There is also the matter of the qualities of attention: For example concentrated attention focuses the force. But another type of attention "soft-focus" attention, is relaxed, surrendered and expectant, all at the same time. This is a kind of attention we employ when we meditate; this is what happens in the midst of the lucid dream or lucid meditation; this is the state of mind we invoke when we use free-floating attention while listening to a patient, - or the kind of attention when we are in the midst of the creative search such as when we are listening, or learning, attending. It is soft-focus attention that we employ when we invoke hypnosis, or when we become the Reiki practitioner scanning the surface of the patient, and imparting energy to the patient.
My friend, Jim Oschman said that he believes that inflammation can be relieved by bringing an attention (presumably soft-focus attention) to the area of the body in need. He said that he first thought of this when he interacted with Reiki practitioners who said that it was necessary in order to produce relief of pain or disorder in that part of the body, to bring the patient's attention to that part of the body. I believe that in so doing the Reiki practitioner is himself/herself in a state is soft-focused attention, and that by effort of Will/Intention directs the patient's attention to the area. I believe that in creating is soft-focus state of mind, a similar state of mind is invoked in the patient as the patient is encouraged to relax. From this, an envelope of coherent energy is produced, which surrounds them both, inducing a coherent flow within each and between the two. Under these circumstances special powers of the mind are invoked, and with the bringing of attention to the disturbed part of the body there is not only the flow of energy exchange from the healer to the healee, but a flow and balance both within the healee and between the two. Attention directs the flow; intention starts the process. This is similar to what we do when we invoke the power of the mind by going into a state of soft-focus attention (meditation) and visualization, which in turn, invokes the higher powers of the mind. Will-Force-Intention meets the Love-Wisdom, and produces the product, Active Intelligence.
In 1915, Freud Wrote an Article called "the Unconscious". In that, Freud described the fact that when we bring something up from the unconscious mind, and attach a word to it, we achieve mastery over something that was previously hidden. Looking back we see that Freud described a similar process: The interpretation coming from the analyst, reached into the patient's unconscious, liberating the unconscious content into the light of consciousness and then applying the word, to stamp it, so to speak and into consciousness reality. This too is an exercise of all the fundamentas which have been described above: The soft-focused attention of the analyst; and receptive soft-focused attention of the patient; the intention to bring it up and have it resonate in coherency (recognition) -- and then added stamped into consciousness-reality by further intention.
Will-Force-Intention meeting Love-Wisdom producing the product, Active Intelligence
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