Attention

These days everyone wants your attention. Attention is the beginning of the mind. It is a desired quantity by advertisers/business owners and power mongers, as well as teachers and people in distress.

Your attention can go to either dissipating your power or collecting it. Light entering the eyes collects attention and, with it, the power of the Force. Distractions dissipate it. So the Jedi acolyte must master their attention -- the center-point of their mind.

Attention is dissipated with

• careless movements,
• mindless eating,
• excessive talking, and
• uncontrolled muscle strain.

In order:

• Movement consumes chi. Chi is the force of life itself, so the Jedi cultivates mindful movement.
• Eating the wrong foods takes chi, because those cravings come from other powers within the inter-connected soul. Without being mindful of what those powers are, you create a path of destruction.
• Excess talking bleeds out the energy of the heart where the core of power is stored.
• Muscle strain takes a lot of energy, when it is uncontrolled it spills out, wastefully.

Attention is collected and focused with

• mindful gazing (from yang),
• directed movement or exercise following deep learning,
• didactic talking (where it flows back to self), and
• eating whole foods.

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The first lesson of attention is use of eye contact. When encountering people you make eye contact with, you neither stare down nor look away. Something in the Force guided the encounter together and you don't want to miss it.

The second lesson of attention is focus. The universe brought your eyes towards something, now you function as the categorizor of it -- is it something you need or something to remember for later?