Attention Exercises

[Job]

Let's begin by developing attention, being more attentive to the five senses. This can and should be done while reading. In fact, it should and can be done any time:

Exercise 1 (Three-Fold Attention)

1. First, begin by bringing the attention to floor, 'notice' the ground under foot. Do this while still looking at the book and reading, and continue to do it after reading this step. When it can be done for a good moment, first hold it for five seconds, and then move on, while still holding it...

2. Now, if that can be done, try something a little harder...With the attention on the floor and on the book, bring some attention to the wall, just ahead. Do it while looking at both the book and the ground...

3. Ok, hold these three objects—the wall, the floor, and the book—for ten seconds, don't loose attention to them...

Now stop. If that worked, move on to the next thing. If it didn't, try it again until it works, till the three-fold attention can be held for what seems like ten seconds.

Exercise 2 (Ticking Clock)

4. Now, if there is a ticking clock in the room, if it can now be heard after it was mentioned great, keep the attention on it while reading. If it can't be heard, hear it. Ok, while hearing it, direct attention to the ground. Now see the ground and the book and hear the clock all at the same time for fifteen seconds (listen to 15 ticks of the clock to tell)...

If it can be done longer, keep doing it, till just the slightest attention is lost (do it as long as possible, up to 20 seconds if possible)...

Now stop. Notice how easy it is to tune out? To loose attention to the senses?

[Job]

For those who might have tried the method, do you mind sharing what might have happened when holding the three-fold attention for 15 seconds?

What happened to the level of awareness through the senses? Did it remain constant? Did it peak? Did it fall?

What does the method imply about the level of constant awareness through the senses throughout the day? Is it constant? Or is it subtly interrupted?
 
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[Vvid1012]

Iv only done this a couple times... It seems as though it goes through subtle peaks.  When it peaks I seem to lose track of one of the objects or noise...and then refocus

[Werp Weg Alles]

I was able to hold the clock the book and the ground all at once for the 20 seconds, however I did notice in my first one trillion() tries that my attention went to one thing and then I had to start over and try again.  However, I think in the end I was able to do so because of all the things that I'm usually engrossed in.  Usually I have at least one of my iPod earbuds in listening to music, while I'm involved in conversation, while writing up some notes for a class, its all being done at the same time without thinking about it, and that was the trick for me, don't think about each thing individually just know its there, accept it, and tell your mind to pay attention to it without thinking, lol I'm not that good with words, I realize it.

[Job]

By chance, what happened to the level of awareness through the senses while holding the Ticking Clock?

[iNNERvOYAGER]

By cheating a little, I can read this post, maintain awarness of the ground under my feet, while watching, listening to the National Geographic Channel feature on the Ferrari factory works. I couldn't keep attention on the wall because it wasn't interesting enough.

By chance, what happened to the level of awareness through the senses while holding the Ticking Clock?

Early mornings, I sit in the living room and all I can hear is the TIC TIC TIC clock on the wall.

After a while I can eventually forget about the clock and not hear it, and even get to the point where I notice, that I can't hear it. (like, " ah great, I dont hear the clock, wheww!)

I dont have enough time in the mornings to mess with the clock, so I wear ear plugs now.

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Job,

"Now stop. Notice how easy it is to tune out? To loose attention to the senses?"

Is this the purpose of the exercise, to demonstrat how to tune out distractions?

The reason I ask is because Adrian mentions trying to keep (Three Fold) attention on three areas, the heart, between the eye brows and the crown.

Or is the exercise to practice Three Fold Attention and to tuneout distractions?

[Job]

It isn't to tune out. I posted both of them on the forum because I was doing an experiment. There was something I wanted to know from the experiment. That is, whether it is was effective in stimulating consciousness.

That's also the reason why those questions were later asked. I was giving time for people to try the techniques, so there wouldn't be any ideas about what's supposed to happen.

If anyone could really continuously hold attention on them for the amounts of times given (even for only a few seconds), he or she would notice that the state of consciousness subtly, or intensely, 'peaks', then attention gets broken again. The 'peak' depends on how long the attention is held.

Attention to the senses isn't a constant thing. There are many breaks which occur in it throughout a day. For example, a thought might arise, re-rooting a small amount of attention from the senses. Movements, and even speaking, take some amount of attention away from the senses. This is natural though (attention has a limited span). When it's used in one area, it's lost in another.

On the other hand, there are some unnatural breaks which happen in a day. Dense subconscious thoughts can sometimes re-root a large amount of attention away from the senses, and also an activity. With subconscious breaks, the attention isn't simple re-rooted by one's being. If it were, it wouldn't dwindle (weaken) altogether. It would go to another use and appear to dwindle (e.g. vision might dwindle, but mental activity boosts). That is, attention wouldn't be lost altogether. Rather, it would transfer, resulting in an apparent dwindle from its original direction, but it would boost in the new area it is directed to (vision dwindless = thought boosts).

With 'subconscious' breaks though, attention dwindles altogether (both the senses go dull and thoughts aren't being perceived). This happens a lot in a day (which is the reason why time to do an important task seems to dwindle away sometimes). It happens unnoticeably though.

There are many subconscious breaks in attention throughout a day. On a micro-level, those occurring even simply in a single instant could not be counted even if people had twice as many fingers to count, on each hand.

Most people don't know it, but the subconscious is made up of a number of parasitic anomalies from the 5th dimension. They propagate (reproduces themselves) and nourish at the expense of the being. The being is made up of essenses (6th-dimensional particles of light which emanate consciousness). It is the reason why people are conscious in the world.

The 5th-dimension anomalies absorb essences and vital energies, propagating off of them. The re-absorbing of essences is called enlightenment (gathering of light). So, enlightenment has a meaning (the re-accrual of luminous particles).

Relating back to attention: learning to sustain attention can be very beneficial, so far as an expansion of the conscious state is concerned. It results in the stimulation of essences (consciousness 'peaks' when it's sustained).

A possible explanation of what is happening:

On a micro-level, the free-flowing pull of essences (those not entrapped in the anomalies) which are currently being used are sustaining their micro-attentions, while a person is sustaining attention. The anomalies try to re-root the free essences micro-attentions (to gain influence over them and then re-direct their attentions to absorb them) but are incapable.

This has a reverse affect. The anomalies micro-attentions begin to short-out. Their micro-attentions (coming from the entrapped essences) are not properly doing their tasks (re-rooting the micro-attentions of the free-flowing essences). So, the anomalies loose influence over the essences within them. As a result, those essences begin to flow out of the anomalies to the free-flowing pull. On a macro-level, a person will see 'peaks' in consciousness.

Relating back to the ticking clock and three-fold attention exercises: the exercises won't permanently re-accrue consciousness though (take back every last essence entrapped in the anomalies). That purpose can be found in another method, which I won't explain here because it takes a certain amount of basic conscious expansion and knowledge.

One person seemed to have been able to 'peak' the conscious state through one or both of the exercises:

Vvid1012:
Iv only done this a couple times... It seems as though it goes through subtle peaks.  When it peaks I seem to lose track of one of the objects or noise...and then refocus

[iNNERvOYAGER]

very interesting, thanks.

"What does the method imply about the level of constant awareness through the senses throughout the day? Is it constant? Or is it subtly interrupted?"

Brings to mind awareness of when it's hot, cold, uncomfortable, pain from muscle exersion and waiting just enough time to continue exersion. When doing sports, the level of awarness of all the senses is high with constant concentration that occludes thoughts of worry or conflicts and difficulties to the point of being mentally still and concentrating on developing muscle memory and profeciency.

I'm wondering about the sense of passing time when working at the desk. For example today the morning went really slow, then suddenly I was busy and forgot about lunch, took a 30 min walk for lunch break, got busy again and suddenly it was time to go home.

Can you comment on what the effects of anger or frustration are with-in the context of the theory you've described for us?

For example, how important or beneficial is it to maintain discipline to reduce or eliminate the impulse to let's say start swearing when during a task, an unexpected difficulty arises?

Thanks again and I'll try the exercise a few more times this weekend.


 

[Job]

I assume the noticeably variability in time which results from subconscious breaks wasn't explained in sufficient depth...

In the previous post the discussion of time variability was explained vaguely. This is due to the fact that I had to be frank and considerably brief.

There really isn't enough knowledge to go in to the mechanics. What I can say, though (from having had varying levels of consciousness and purging 5th-dimension parasites) the concept of time varies with the level of consciousness and influences of the parasites.

When they trigger boredom, time appears monotonous and redundant (long). When they trigger excitement, fast-pacedness, the result is a 'flush' in time. Which is more harmful, conscious-wise? I couldn't really say...

Both anger and frustration are triggered by the parasites. Frustration is generally long-lasting and more subtle. Anger is generally an excitment. If anyone were to be able to truly remain calm in an angry situation, the same person would notice spontaneous reactions occuring throughout the body
(due to shorting-out of parasitic micro-attentions), though he or she wouldn't be affected by the anger. What's more, the anger would noticeably occur involuntarily (beyond her or his influence).

I recall an account that a friend told me in which he became angry (didn't remain calm). He claims to have lost all consciousness at a point (the anger was so intense) and he did some irrational things which he was later told about.

Angry people, in general, don't tend to see every thing which they do. People even call some of these things instincts (spontaneously attacking without conscious control). I recall another situation in which a police officer claimed to have developed "tunnel vission" and reacted, without control, instictively shooting a man several times in response to a fearful situation.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tunnel%20vision

Some things (like swearing) are a bit different. They are more subtle. Anger is a parasitic influence of the body (although it influences the mind too). Mental dialogue (speaking to onself mentally) goes a bit deeper.

Try falling asleep, without loosing consciousness. Doing this, hypnagogs begin to appear (triggered by the parasites). In this stage of sleep, the mental dialogue (as well as other mental activities) can be witnessed to be separate from oneself.

Mental dialogue is difficult to get rid of (it's so subtle). Anger, fear, and frustration are much easier (causing more seeable reactions in the body). They do originate from the parasites in the 5th dimension but, for the most part, are not very profound (subtle). Dialogue might be impressionistic-->It originates at more profound depths beyond the mind and body (it is generally hard to see).

Stimulating consciousness should also help, naturally, to begin to see bodily reactions and mental dialogue, which occur involuntarily. Also, it should aid in shorting-out attention breaks.

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/index.php?topic=23922.0

[iNNERvOYAGER]

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/index.php?topic=23922.0

That's a good one. Last Friday evening while being a bit lazy after a week of work, I was asked to do some chores. Instead of becoming annoyed, I used my attention to notice everything in the room and the result was very good, giving me a positive energetic approach.

I did a variation of the attention exercise while driving today. Looking at the road, feeling my feet on the pedels, being aware of the gauges and intruments. When doing this, I extend my attention into the periphery of my vision until my attention becomes visualized as something like a giant glowing sphere that feels the environment as I move along. We are lucky to have pine forests along our highway and I "feel" the trees in my bubble of periphery awarness.

It's sort of trance like, similar to my meditation, except that I'm keeping track of all the senses and driving the car safely.
One peculiar sensation comes from the feeling where the lips meet, as the jaw slides side to side. I imagine that as one of my first memories from the womb, just learning that I was aware of having lips. (wet the lips, then slide the jaw from side to side, and possibly trigger a memory)

The interesting part as relates to your post, is how the attention is hijacked by the erruption of unimportant dialogues.
I practiced quelling the dialogues while driving and reasserted my attention into the periphery bubble.

Your account of the anomalies' influence on the flow of essence is fasinating. If, and hopefully when you have time, can you please point me towards more material on this subject?

regards, iN vO

[Job]

Try taking walks to exercise conscious attention. I used to do that. Through them, I was able to expand the conscious level incredibly (though not even nearly to its full capacity). Through the walks, I got to states of consciousness so heightened that they are unfathomable to human imagination. Though, they seem absolutely natural when attained.

Consider senses more intense than those of animals which are ordinarily considered highly sensate (even a grizzly bear, which can smell at over a hundred or two feet away). What's more, the sense of smell appears one of the lesser faculties.

Generally, I found that the longer walks that I took, the higher the state of consciousness was heightened. There were two regrettable things to the walks though. The first was that the physical body has limitations and grows weak with too much exercise. The second was that the essences become re-enveloped within the 5th-dimensional parasites whenever the attention is no longer exercised. This results in a diminish in the senses and any psychic faculties that are obtained as a result of the walks.

On the other hand, that's where the disinitigration of the entities becomes important. Through exercising of the conscious state, using the walks to aid, and disintigrating the parasites the state of consciousness fluctuates (though it heightens in its intervals).

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I would point you to a site or two. On the other hand, they both seem almost politically based sites, with a limited flow of ideas. I don't wish anyone to become entrapped within any such organizations because they can be hard to get out of. Not that people simply can't leave. Only, they have become attached to the organizations' leaders and become subordinate. There are, without a doubt, many things that can be learned from at least one of such organizations. True, people can reach a "mountain top" so far as knowledge is concerned in them. Yet, from there, they are given no wings to soar into the sky. The result is subordinace to the leader(s) and cause, coupled with an overlooking of organizational limitations.

It's grave indeed because there are no longer promises of higher knowledge, only noticeable 'holes' within the organization's structure.

This might help though:
http://www.gnosisonline.org/Biblioteca/en_books/Revolutionary_Psychology.zip

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Ah, excellent. I'll be reading that over the next few days.

Thanks and much appreciation.