For most of us, the awareness runs wild and untrained throughout our vast minds. As a result, our awareness races from place to place, situation to situation, until it exhausts itself. Darting between the past and future, it might cover miles in a day, but it wasn’t moving toward any defined goal. It only stops to rest when exhausted.
A creature of habit, it returns again and again to the same places, even dangerous ones – even though it’s harmful to long-term survival.
To cover up your unresolved emotions, awareness must follow, not lead. But who is the rider?
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We become good at what we practice and most of us are experts at practicing distraction. We live in a society that trains us to multi-task and jump from one thing to another in an uncontrolled way. The great panacea for a world plagued by distraction is learning and practicing the art of concentration.
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