What Is All The Fuss About?

Have you had your eyes dilated? I have on numerous occasions. Try at that moment to read a book, or focus on something close to you and you understand that focus can really impact your life. I am surprised at how much of life can be out of focus and we act as if everything is going perfectly. Focus is one of those things that allow me to fine tune my life, and participate in the process. Often we operate on auto pilot and then have the nerve to complain about what is happening in our lives.

Day 50: Forest Fires, it's as if nature understands that it cannot look in the review mirror hoping to find answers for what lies ahead. It amazes me again and again how quickly life can restore itself simply by using this amazing process. Focus. Place your energy where it is needed at any given moment so that the transformation may begin. What an amazing life lesson to understand and integrate into our daily lives.

What is all the fuss with focus? I gave a talk a couple weeks ago on focus in which I took off my glasses and I ask everyone in the community to do the same. For me I've become so reliant upon my glasses that when I take them off my world is out of focus. What I recognized to be true today is when I take my attention off of where I'm going and place it somewhere else. Past or future. I am at that moment putting my life out of focus. All I really have is this moment. Am, I enjoy it to the fullest?

I find it is our human condition to seek to put the focus on the condition that created our current circumstance rather than focusing on creating the change we wish to see in our lives. When I was initially diagnosed with cancer I remember wanting so desperately to put my focus on how this happened, what created this? It was this divine wisdom from within which said if you stay in this consciousness you will die. It was at that moment I was willing to shift my focus from how and why to where do I want to go next? Is this the way I wish to live my life?

One of the greatest questions that I like to ask myself and my clients are if I could live in any way I wanted without restriction with absolute freedom and abandon what would that look like? I am amazed at the number of times that I have not known the answer. If I did I still choose to place my focus on some past situation or circumstance.

How exactly do we choose to move on?

Moving on after a devastating shift in life can be frustrating. It can also be liberating and freeing. Once I knew I wished to live rather than die from this dis-ease that was consuming my life. I had this overwhelming sense of freedom. I began to live each moment as if it were the final moment of my life. There was this freedom that happened when I put all of my focus on the now rather than everywhere else I had been putting it all of my life. Instantly my life began to transform. Regardless of what procedure was happening to my physical being I have found this place of freedom in my life because I was putting my focus on living life to its fullest.

I have discovered that in order to make this monumental shift in life we often need some natural disaster to propel us forward. Often a natural disaster is a break up of a relationship, the death of a loved one, or the loss of a job. All of these are natural disasters in our sensible world. Yet today I know and understand having journeyed this path it was the birthplace of unlimited freedom. It was the awakening of my soul to live now. It was this valuable lessons that placing my focus and my attention solely in this moment, living life to the fullest, is when I am truly most alive.

I love you,

Rev Allen