Chain Reaction:

Attention is the Currency of the Universe (forth installment)

By Royal Star Allah

You might be ready - really ready - especially if your life is falling apart. Desperation has a tendency to inspire stubborn hearts and minds to change. In making that statement, I am not insinuating that you are stubborn. I, the Author, am stubborn. I stubbornly hold onto the idea that the human mind digests only the information it is ready, from moment to moment, to make the flesh of humanity.

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Ideals are curious things. Because the imagination can momentarily re-arrange matter into any combination curiosity can entertain, politicians and policy experts teach how easy they imagine it is for large groups of humans to adopt and practice, in a relatively short passage of time, what leads to universal peace and harmony. Practical experience shows and proves, however, what happens in the imagination doesn’t always translate well into time and space.

Having the experience of that gap – the distance between being able to catch the glimpse of a solution and the physical manifestation of said vision, is being human. We are the caretakers of ideas, choosing to dress the garden (physical Universe) with them. Hence, the innate human power to conceptualize, or “name” things.

It is intoxicating, to be able to think: to picture things in our minds.

If you do not mind, dear Reader, for the remainder of our written communication, in order to remain useful to each other, let’s you and I choose to NOT go outside of ourselves. Let’s choose to remain inside psychological space. After all, the power we seek aligns with the knowledge of Self, not the knowledge of others.

Scientific inquiry, or studying the mechanical transportation / transformation of physical matter, has its limits. Once the landscape of Reality is made plain, it is up to you and I to make the choice to self-actualize.

Normally, in a capitalistic system, self-actualization is mistaken as going from poverty to riches, from an open display of lack to an open display of enrichment. That’s not the definition for us. It is based on the outer, instead of the inner.

Remember, the solution to poverty (belief in lack, or permanent victim stance) is not more money (material things, or positive reinforcement of acceptance.) Give poor people fame and money and the people will live up to the adjective of poor. Consciously, with clearly thought out rationalizations, the individual person will make choices resulting in the money leaving their hand, or the material thing leaving their possession.

Genius-level creativity will justify how the money is/was spent towards good. Maybe it retires an outstanding debt. Or, it was used to provide an uncelebrated milestone/victory. For whatever stated reason, the money is not saved, or stored away, so it can concentrate in one space. Money concentrated as assets and/or liquid cash is the opposite of poverty.

Concentration of any one thing is the opposite of being impoverished in it. All problems are the result of an imbalance. Correct the imbalance and the problem is solved.

For the purposes of our conversation, we need to use a different definition of self-actualization, one that originates and is resourced by the Self and not reinforced by social feedback.

The solution to low self-esteem is not increased outer social reinforcement of personal acceptance. You can say, “I love you”, all day long to a depressed person and it does nothing to elevate them out of their depression. The depression is lifted once that person chooses to say, “I love you” to themselves.

Just like the above study of poverty, low self-esteem is the byproduct of a form of lack. It is an aspect of internalized oppression. At some point in a person’s life, crucial doors were dramatically closed in that person’s face. After a while, the accumulation of painful, direct experiences results in a haunted personality. The echo of those closed doors haunt said person whenever he or she attempts to assert themselves. The risk of making themselves vulnerable to the experience of another closed door is too great to bear.

HOW WOULD YOU INSPIRE SOMEONE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THEMSELF?

Hopefully, the ideas collected here are capturing your attention. A glimpse of the future should flash before your eyes. I imagine a sense of being surrounded by opportunity washes over you every now and then.

If circumstances have forced you to read these words, I do not want your boredom to make our conversation a form of suffering for you. The intention behind the clear mental picture is to alleviate suffering, not encourage it. Ideally, each paragraph is bristling with electricity in your imagination.

If you accept the invitation extended here, boredom will be a thing of the past.

So will be a lot of things in your life.

The United States landscape is made up of those who live here. Families are the basis of a nation. Change the individuals who live in a neighborhood, or community, and the personality of that neighborhood, or community, changes.

If our society is filled with problems, it is because we have not inspired enough persons to change the quality of whom and what they are to become the solutions. In the remaining time between us, let’s choose to investigate how to develop the quality of the human being.

This is the purpose driving the distribution of the ideas collected here. Dynamic personalities are needed. Dynamic personalities are those willing to accept the duty of raising the vibration of first themselves and secondly, all those whom they come in contact with. As the quality of the vibration within the human body, so will the quality of our interactions.

Raising your personal vibration is work, a special kind of work. It is so special, over the years, three reactions have developed to it. The majority of those who receive an invitation to become a dynamic personality, read the job description, become momentarily inspired and then abandon the work. A more advanced group of persons will see how the application of the ideas collected here benefits them. Then, using their skill to beat the law of averages, concentrate resources and live in luxury. A precious few, actually choose to take up the work of raising fallen humanity.

Attention is the currency of the Universe. As a human being, the contribution you make to the Universe is awareness. You are able, thanks to the unique make-up of your brain, to be aware. You can see and experience the beautiful arrangements of matter as it swirls around you, changing forms and conditions. You do so with this thing called attention.

Attention is flowing through your body. It is called a current of electricity. Storming continuously inside of your brain, electricity travels along your nerves at the terrific speed of 268 miles per second. Thanks in part to that current, the human form is electro-magnetic. Magnetic levels are controlled by the choices you make to concentrate or dissipate your attention.

New ideas do not exist. The above association of electricity with human attention is ancient. The fundamentals of being human are well known. Those who mastered the art of applying the fundamentals are not well known. Dynamic personalities are needed.

How are you choosing to use your attention? Right now, you are reading a book. You are consuming mental food, directing the electrical storm inside of your brain to conceptualize the ideas (mental pictures) communicated by the written word. I imagine that you are reading these words to yourself inside of your head. Your imagination is doing that.

WHAT DO THE YOUTUBE VIDEOS YOU WATCH SAY ABOUT YOU?

The fact that you read sets you apart from other persons. Reading develops the imagination. Readers can use their brains in ways non-readers don’t access.

Whatever you give your attention to – meaning, devote a portion of the electrical storm inside of your head to make mental pictures of – grows. Whatever you remove your attention from, dies.

Intellectually accepting this truth is easy. It does not cost any time, talent or energy to agree with the fact that attention is the currency of the Universe. Focus a business person towards growing a business and the business will grow. Distract the business person and the business will fail. If this is true for a business, why would it not also be true for the society where the business is?

If attention is the currency of the Universe, when you enter conversation with another person, watch where you place your attention. Are you focused on the content of the conversation? Is it like listening to an animated book report, where two persons repeat the highlights of a television show or sporting event? Do you hear the comments of famous echoed from your own mouth? Many a talking point is defended or refuted by the other person.

Maybe, mesmerized by love, you will choose to listen to the other person, giving them the spotlight. It will not take long before you recognize the other person is really talking to themselves. Your facial expressions and non-verbal cues are all the audience they need. With just a little encouragement from you, genius-level performance art entertainment is possible as the person re-enact their day.

Now, what if you choose to focus on yourself?

YOU are a human being. YOU are just as connected to every other human being – right now – as you and I are connected – right now - via the written word. Thoughts are things, which travel at the terrific speed of 24 billion miles per second. Thoughts travel above the boundaries of time and space.

If you focus on yourself, you will discover that what is true for you is also true for everyone else. Listening to someone is hypnotic because you are listening to an extension of self. The current flowing through the second person is connecting to the current flowing through you. A charge forms. That charge is why the conversation is so enjoyable.

Now, what happens if you choose to focus on yourself and 1) let the other person be right. Would conflict ever occur between you and another person if you didn’t need to be right? The normal drama caused by wanting to win the other person’s agreement evaporates. It’s okay if the other person views the world differently than you do. The other person is an extension of your mind, anyway. He or she is simply expressing additional information on how a particular idea can be “named.” Allow them to use the “name” they wish to use for the idea (mental picture) at hand.

2) Choose to focus on the good and speak exclusively from a positive frame. This is heavy vibration-raising work. The average mind-set (individual and collective) is so negative, this practice will make you stand out for consistently being cheerful and positive.

This is a consequence of developing a dynamic personality. It inspires weak-willed persons to become an enemy, trying to prove the world is filled with more problems than solutions can answer. Only the strongest of wills can withstand the pressure of being positive.

Lastly, if you choose to focus on yourself, you will learn coincidences do not exist. In a world of cause and effect, where it becomes difficult for you and I to determine where you begin and I end, how can anything happen by chance? Every act that reaches your doorstep was set into motion by an act that occurred outside of your attention.

This series is only a glimpse of a higher idea, a clear mental picture designed to inspire more dynamic personalities.

I build that you permit more mental food to cross your path.

I conclude this final installment with the same affirmation we started with. May it now resonate at a higher vibration than it did when you first read it.

INFINITE AVENUES OF PERSONAL EXPRESSION EXISTS. ALL OBSTACLES TO SHARING YOUR TIME, TALENT AND ENERGY ARE ILLUSIONS. IN REALITY, EVERYONE WANTS MY HELP. I CHOOSE TO EXTEND MY HAND IN SERVICE AND GRATITUDE. IN RETURN, I RECEIVE SERVICE IN GRATITUDE.

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(1) Chain Reaction: Can you BANK in IDEAS?

(2) Chain Reaction: Changing the Social Landscape for Good

(3) Chain Reaction: Inspiring Self to Make History

(4) Chain Reaction: Attention is the Currency of the Universe