[SufiMystic] Early Morning Attention Shifts

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What a coincidence! After my clumsy attempt at describing attention here,

'uarelove' posts this link, where "Sri Sadhu Om describes an approach to

Self-inquiry that is more like Self-attention or awareness watching

awareness or awareness being aware of awareness and less like asking a

question 'Who am I'." [in the book The Path of Sri Ramana Part One]

 

http://home.talkcity.com/GaiaWay/infinite_freedom/OM7.htm

 

At 03.04.02-06:50 AM Jan Sultan wrote:

>Observe yourself early in the morning when you are still half asleep. The

>attention shift from 'deep sleep' to dreaming to semi-wakefulness and back

>again is very interesting. Observe and follow your breathing, how it

>changes. Notice the feeling in your brain area, the feeling in you chest

>area. Before the outer senses take over see how you 'feel' inside. Discover

>the 'inner you'.

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>This is the time to learn more about these three states, actually not

>really states but just a matter of where our attention is focused on.

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>I suspect these involuntary attention shifts can be made into voluntary

>ones by observing and learning about them.

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>As I observed sometime back that the 'deep sleep state' is always with us.

>[it is just covered/hidden by all the other activities.] So is the 'dream

>state'. This is just the usual house keeping / filing activity going on in

>the brain [sub-conscious mind?]. And I suspect the thoughts too are always

>with us. ... It is all a matter of where our attention is fixed or not fixed.

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>Inside us there are areas of peace and quiet, areas of turmoil and worries,

>areas of fear and insecurity. Where do you want your attention to rest?

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>Of course, our aim as seekers is to rest attention on our 'Self' as much as

>possible. [Having first 'discovered' the 'Self']. This is attention

>directed back at itself!

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>Just thinking aloud ...

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