This is Cynthia Sue Larson with RealityShifters dot com
Today I'm talking about the power of attention
and how we can fine-tune our focus. The reason this is
interesting to me is that just the other day I was on a walk,
right through here actually, in this beautiful area that you're looking at
in this video. I was walking with my dog.
This is a normal walk that I take almost every day
not always the same place but pretty often a pretty similar walk.
Except on this particular occasion, as I was on the walk,
I noticed a sign that said "Place Trilling."
And as I saw that sign which I'd seen so many times before,
for some reason, on this particular morning, I wondered if that might be the
same place
that Professor Trilling, one of my beloved
physics professors from UC Berkeley, might live. And I further
wondered if it would be possible for some opportunity for me to be able to
see Professor Trilling, and
perhaps tell him how much I appreciated his class, and still remember it
decades later. So these are thoughts that were going through my head as I was on this
meditative walk.
And the very next day--
that one day was a very separate occasion--I was just meditating, walking,
having fun walking along with the dog. The next day,
same thing. I'm walking with the dog, meditating again, as I usually do.
Except this time, my dog decides that he wants to stop and take a look
at a goat sculpture, which looks like this. I don't know if you can see it very well,
but it's kind of a little bit of a motley thing.
It's a wood carving; it's goat sized. It's got some remnants
some sort of fur on on the sculpture still,
but it looks enough like a goat that my dog was fully
riveted by it. And thanks to the fact that he stopped
and was staring at this goat, right at the same time this was happening
I saw what looked like might be Professor Trilling--much older than I
remembered him,
but now it's been decades later--was being assisted by a younger man, who was a
middle-aged man, to get into the front seat of a car.
During the time that my dog was so fascinated by this goat sculpture,
I got the opportunity to kind of check things out without being
obnoxious. And I recognize, Wow!
I've got the perfect moment right now to go and approach the younger man, the middle
aged man,
and ask if perhaps this might be Professor Trilling that he's with.
So I do. I walk over and ask this question.
It turns out that is Professor Trilling, and
and I tell them middle-aged man that I really loved taking classes with him, he
was one of my
favorite physics professors at UC Berkeley, if not the favorite,
and he said, "Why don't you go tell him yourself?"
So I did, and that was
extraordinary! I was just amazed.
If you look at what happened here, on the day before,
I had been on a walk and I'd wondered number one, if it was possible that house
might belong to the Professor Trilling that I knew.
Number two, I was wondering
if I might get a chance some day--not necessarily the very next day, but at
some point,
to see Professor Trilling and talk to him and tell him how much I appreciated
his class,
which I did! And the third thing that was happening here is very interesting
because it involves my dog and his fascination with goats.
It's just something he adores. I'm not sure why, but it's his favorite thing.
So the fact that there just happened to be
on this day a sculpture stature of a goat
that my dog was riveted by so he was standing there
giving me the opportunity to then approach Professor Trilling
is one of those remarkable things that normally
you might think doesn't happen that often, however it really can be expected to happen
quite a lot
when you meditate, because in a state of meditation,
you can actually access a feeling like you're in a waking dream.
This is something I talk about quite a lot in the subject of
lucid living in the book "Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical
World."
And the reason I find it particularly interesting in this context
is that there I am, meeting a professor of physics
who I loved at UC Berkeley, and he was one of the professors
who introduced me to the world of quantum physics, and now
I'm honored to be able to share tips and
examples and some of the explanations for why these
sorts of extraordinary coincidences, synchronicities,
quantum jumps, reality shifts--whatever you want to call them--
can regularly occur. And of course, I talk about that also in my book, "Quantum Jumps:
An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity."
So something that I'd like to leave you with after looking at all these
different
ideas today is how you can bring the same concept
of the power of attention and fine-tuning
your focus into your life by making
time for meditation so that you can get that opportunity to disengage
from whatever worries you might have about the past
and future that could be in the form of regrets, concerns, doubts, fears, whatever.
All that
emotional junk. You can let go of it when you meditate.
And it is very much like disengaging from one set of gears--
this is an example I often use--where you can disengage, just like putting your foot on the clutch
pedal in the car
in that meditation, so you're not engaged with all of those distracting
thoughts, and you can let your mind wander to something
wonderful, such as meeting a favorite professor,
getting the job of your dreams, finding someone
who is a perfect friend or loved one for you,
and so on and so forth. So I'd like you to think about that
and keep asking my favorite question, "How good can it get?"
Until next time, this is Cynthia Sue Larson with Reality Shifters
dot com.