Focus

Ever notice how when you focus on something that you begin to see it in more places around you?

For example, if you focus on the color red and think about the color red and look at some things that are red for several minutes, you will begin to see things that are either red or have red in them (maybe things you never noticed before).


Have you ever been shopping for a particular car and then afterward you start noticing more and more of that make and model on the road? It's like everyone is buying them! In reality, they may have been around you all along, but now in some area of your brain you've become focused on this vehicle. It's everywhere you turn.

If you stop focusing on it, your awareness of the object will dissipate. You're probably not still thinking about the color red, right? :)

What's also interesting is that sometimes we can focus on something to the point we start seeing the opposite image of what we have given our attention (you see the negative side of things instead of the positive). The red square on this post - focus on it for a long enough period of time, you will actually see the negative (a blue-green) when you look away from it.

What are you focusing on today?
What draws your attention?
What are you most aware of?
What do you seem to see every time you turn around?

Peace.