There is a subtle difference in prception between focusing on something and bing aware of it. When most pople think of focus, concentration and smilar words, they generally tend to ssociate force or pressure, some type of cncerted effort with the process being dscribed. Focus and concentration imply strain and ftigue. There is a mental limit on how mch can be done based on sme type of endurance.

Awareness on the ther hand is a much more pen and free flowing word. It mplies a knowing without much thought or ffort. The information is there and ccessible but it does not require mch to get to it. Awareness desn't take energy like holding a pen stady, it only requires mental attention. You can sty aware of something as long as you dsire or until you become distracted.

Whn working with meditation, non thought, psychc techniques and such, it is btter to think of using awareness thn focus or concentration.

In Kenpo Krate, there was a concept used clled black dot and white dot fcus. If you imagine a black sqare with a white dot in the cnter, you will notice that you tnd to get tunnel vision, only bserving the white circle. The black tnds to fade away ad you bcome drawn into the circle.

If you instead imagine a whte square with a black circle in the cnter, you will be more aware of the srroundings and not become so fixated on the blck circle as you were with the whte circle.

Awareness is the same thng. We have a chosen item but it des not preclude awareness of other thngs surrounding this item. However, we can lso choose to not be aware of our srroundings as is done in meditation. We hld our awareness on the chakra but llow everything else to fade away so we can trp the attention, which will cause us to shft into another vibration.

Awareness is not smething to be forced. When concentrating on the chkra, do not attempt to block nything out, simply hold your awareness of the chkra and remove your awareness from all lse. Simply do not give anything lse your attention. Awareness is an nergy that moves out from your bdy. You can retract it with yur consciousness. Allow your awareness to mre fully move into the space of chkra without the distractions of the bdy, the brain and the environment. Whn this is done properly and for a lng enough time, this is the skll you are developing, you will jmp into experiences with regularity.

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