The title references an age-old “woo-woo” adage. Even so, the math still checks out. For esōterikos (pertaining to what is inside) purposes—what we focus on expands. Example: focus on the good = more good starts to show up in your life.
The process of manifesting goodness is as follows:
- Make a list of the top ten things you are thankful for.
- Read that list every morning before the start of your day and right before you go to bed.
- When reading each item on your list, try to get into the feeling state of how/why you are grateful for the thing listed.
- Imagine what your life would be like without the ten things on your list.
- Begin to notice how often your mind naturally tends to gravitate towards looking for more things to be grateful for.
The aforementioned process is geared towards shifting your internal attention towards positivity. It is a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that rewires the mind and fine-tunes the spirit. There are more steps in the process of manifestation, however, I believe I have made my point: When energy flows to a place, the result is expansion.
As for the nonsensical, evidentiary, results-driven data approach—where energy is focused, matter/particles expand/transform/diversify. Example: when sunlight travels to Earth, photosynthesis occurs in plants and produces glucose and oxygen. Animals and humans alike consume glucose to gain energy in order to perform cellular functions required for life to keep on lifin’.
The process of glucose production is as follows:
- Chlorophyll (green pigment found in plants that absorbs sunlight) absorbs photons (particles of light). The photons’ energy literally excites the electrons in the chlorophyll into a higher energy state.
- Because the electrons are excited, they enter into an electron transport chain (think electron-powered conveyor belt inside the leaf). When the electrons move along this conveyor belt, their energy helps push hydrogen ions to one side of a thin wall called the thylakoid membrane (the site of the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis).
- When chlorophyll expels its energized electrons, it needs new ones. The plant solves this problem by splitting water molecules. The water provides new electrons, hydrogen ions, and oxygen. The plant then releases most of the oxygen into the air, which is part of the oxygen humans and animals breathe…
There are more steps in the process of glucose production; however, I will spare you more scientific jargon as I believe I have made my point: When energy flows to a place, all kinds of cool, almost magical things happen.
Now that both avenues of equifinality have been explored, we can focus primarily on the esoteric, as even the scientific mind must now at least subconsciously accept convergent conclusions.
Do you find yourself looking out at the world with disgust, characterized by a “holier-than-thou” judgmental juxtaposition, quintessentially similar to that of an Anakin-to-Darth-Vader reverse version of Jesus Christ? Have you always been an expert in seeing the speck in your brother’s eye, all the while failing to see the plank in your own?
This is perhaps due to where you have placed your attention, as energy flows where attention goes. If you look out into the world constantly judging and condemning, seeing evil here and there, only seemingly surrounded by corruption and indignation, well then… you have elected to expand that aspect of life by placing your attention on it.
People who are truly happy and have chosen to focus on the positive aspects of life don’t spend time condemning others. They are wise enough to know that focus expands.
“No matter how hard you squeeze an orange, you’ll never get apple juice.” – Wayne Dyer
Meaning: no amount of hatred will come from a loving being. Let this be your gauge.
But also let your esōterikos disposition give you a reference point. How do you feel about life right now? What are your thoughts about people whose spiritual or political views oppose yours? If you find any semblance of discontent in this regard, then you can be assured that you have chosen to focus on fear. Anger is the mask of fear, yet anger only shows up when the fear is big. This article is the symposium of how things “get bigger” in our reality.
So why is it that you have chosen to focus on that which you are fearful of in such a vast Universe of delightfulness? How can the world become better if you are fixating upon, giving attention to, directing energy toward, and expanding that which is to be feared? Why do you choose to hypnotize yourself with the same news stories filled with digressive frequencies, yet you secretly hope for salvation?
When you focus on the things that are displeasing to you, the same quite magical process that turns light particles into glucose is happening within your being but with an exception. Instead of producing byproducts that assist in the natural process of co-habitual evolution, you are creating more of the same things you hate about the world—you become the ignorant culprit of suffering.
Life is hard. We’re floating around on a rock in the middle of infinity. I find myself complaining or being critical far too often, but then I stop and remind myself: “This is what you’re choosing to focus on? Out of all the things that are good in life, this is your choice?”
I’m surely not telling you to ignore your problems or the seeming tribulations of the world, but let your frustration equate to healing in all aspects of your endeavors. Without control, absent manipulation, devoid of cruelty, and bereft of malice, what solutions can you bring to an ailing world?
Take this with you today throughout your day and when you find yourself focusing on the unsavory aspects of life, say to yourself: “What you focus on expands.” If you would like to see, hear, and experience more of the thing you are focusing on, keep at it. If you dislike the thing you are focusing on, try to shift your attention to what you are grateful for.
If there is something you think you can do about the problems of the world that doesn’t ostracize, condemn, berate, penalize, or exclude others—if there is something that can produce countless positive byproducts that add light to a dark room and healing to a hurting world, then do that.
Do you think your higher power (God, the Universe, Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Krishna, or whatever name you prefer) looks down upon you in all your undertakings, both secret and exposed, and sees perfection? Yet you are loved and believed in. So why is it that you would not give your own brother this same extension?
