The Momentum of Grace / Broad Consciousness

We can experience an intermediate stage between focused attention (polarization of attention) and diffuse attention (broad looking/listening).
It occurs when we try to move from one to the other, during the transition. So we move from one to the other like a series of compulsive jumps.

This is the opportunity to see the suffering that arises from such a reflex.
Polarization exhaustion pushed to its maximum.
There is also a parallel with the psychological disorder (habit) called hypervigilance and from which often suffer children who have picked up the sad habit of constantly trying to monitor their environment beyond reason.

Everything becomes the object of high and constant mistrust. The personalities that these children develop are acute, piercing and their analytical capacity, their speed of association high. Also, their access to serenity, to the appreciation of existence, are proportionally reversed. In meditation, this hyper-vigilance can be the object of observation.

It may also be that by bringing to our attention the psychological behavior of sharply focusing attention, successively applied to the multitude of available objects, we are able to defuse this reflex and initiate the practice of broadly embracing the world. It is also an act of faith, of letting go, of a simple and nameless momentum of grace.

©FJ Dec 2023
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