Our attentions are stretched then. Our awareness burdened by the mundane. Our stress levels at the mercy of the callings of animate and inanimate objects. The plethora of screens surrounding us have added to the awareness and attention problem.
Examining the nature of attention reveals some interesting features. It's like jelly: it's wobbly and sticky. When we get pinged on IM, or get an email on the crackberry or a text message on the iPhone, the attention wants to wobble and hobble to that new distraction and tend to it.
We cannot fight it, but we can shepherd it back to home base where it can be healthy and nourish our body and mind; rather than starving them of spiritual stability. The attention's home is in the heart. So distractions are ok, as long as we quickly wobble back to home base of the heart.
So, let's make it the key action for this week of Swadisthana Chakra, the source of our attention. Let it squat in the heart like a hipster from an Occupy Movement. Wobbling out to attend to mundane matters, with the intent of returning to the heart ASAP.
