Attention is one of our most powerful resources, and it is far from passive. The observer effect is the phenomenon in which the act of observing something necessarily changes it. Conscious attention activates a reciprocal energy exchange between you and whom or what you're valuing with your attention.
To be continuously releasing our expectations of what we’re attending to is to bring the world to life, through our relationship with it. In “practices for paying attention”, challenge yourself to let go of the aim of definitive knowing. Instead, pay attention to the world through your entangled movement.
Bringing it back to Wayfinding Topic 4:
We don’t discern where we’re going by focusing our attention on the distant future, constructing plans and contingencies for an abstracted existence. When we do so, we collapse the wave function of living and drive ourselves crazy trying to operate through time as if standing still. There are steps and order to creation but they are up close, not far away.
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7 practices for paying attention (audio)