Focus Carries Energy

What you consciously focus on carries a lot of energy. You can prove this to yourself, if you want to, just like I have. Let me tell you how.

Have you ever tried to tiptoe past someone’s room who was intently working on their computer? You were trying not to make any sound, being sneaky? And didn’t that person notice you anyway?
Have you ever been looking at someone who can’t see you, but suddenly they looked up and noticed you looking at them?
Or vice versa – you had a feeling something was going on, looked up, and someone was staring at you?  You felt it, at some level, in your consciousness.

You wanted to get out of bed without waking your spouse, but the slightest noise you make always seems to wake them up?

That time you tried to put away the dishes, but someone was taking a nap in the living room, so you moved very quietly, concerned the whole time – and even though you only made a little bit of sound, clanking the dishes together minimally, they still woke up and saw what you were doing?

Why was that? Haven’t you always wondered if there was anything you could have done to be “more quiet”?

It turns out, the fact that you were focused on the other person, every little sound you made was directed at them energetically. You can’t feel it, but it’s true. You direct the sounds and (and thoughts and feelings) that you make, towards whatever you are looking at or whoever you are focused on. As a ninja, you’re your own worst enemy, in a sense; attempting quietude but doing the very thing that focuses and directs all the noise completely at your target! They couldn’t help but hear it. You did that, without realizing it.

Haven’t you had the experience of talking to a shy person, and when they spoke, it was a normal volume and they were facing you, yet you couldn’t understand what they said? They weren’t looking at you, they were focused on something else; the right words came out, but because they had defocused the connection away from you, so you didn’t receive the message. They are so irritated: why does everybody say “what?” when I speak? Are they all deaf?  No, it’s just that you’re not focusing your energy.

Lecturers and singers are taught to “project” their voice towards the furthest chair in the auditorium – and it really works. Sure, it’s partly breathing and using your diaphragm, but it’s also the focus.

We human beings are tied together by Emotion. Your emotional part of you is extremely powerful as a connector, to connect you to whomever you are with at the time. It’s less powerful if you let your mind focus on other things; when you’re “distracted”, people can feel it. Again, that’s just focus.

HOW TO BE REALLY STEALTHY

Knowing this, it’s time test this out – try to do the very opposite – practice directing your sounds away from the napping couch person, the sleeping spouse, the focused computer user.

Intentionally focus your consciousness in the opposite direction of the person you’re trying not to disturb – look in that direction, stare at something over there, focus on that. It could be anything – a fruit bowl, a window, the car parked outside the window, a door knob, anything. Keep focused! Think about that thing, try to feel that thing from a distance.  You don’t have to focus on “not disturbing” someone, just let that go; they’re unimportant right now.  Focus in the other direction.

You will be amazed – it actually works! The person who is sleeping will not hear the sounds – it’s just a pleasant and calm background sound to them now.

If you need to sneak past someone, away from someone, or up to someone, you can do it now. Might come in handy some day.

FOCUSED ENERGY EXPERIMENTS

How little sound do you need to generate, for your friend to hear you at a distance, if you focus directly on communicating with them? Maybe in a crowded and noisy room? If you focus your body, emotions, AND your mind, all at once, can they hear you better? Can you create a tunnel of directed energy between you and them, to send the message that nobody else can hear?

STORY FROM WORLD WAR II

When my father was in Army basic training during World War II, he was only 19 years old, and brought back so many amazing adventures and stories from those days of old. One amazing story he told was about the time his buddy ended a practice war game that his group was in, in the first 10 minutes of the game.

The leaders divided everybody into 2 teams – the red team, and the blue team. Each team had an elected “general”, in a tent, at one end or the other end of the land they were practicing in that day. It had trees, hills, a stream, rocks, a lot of variety to it. Which ever team captured the other team’s general would win, and the intention was that it could last for hours of complex strategies and maneuverings before one team would eventually win.

Now my father had a couple of buddies, and one of them was Native American, a quiet young man trying to learn the military ways just like everyone else. After the “rules” were explained and the game officially started, my dad’s buddy said something like, “I’ll be right back,” dropped his rifle on the ground, and walked away from everyone, deep into the woods. My dad and everyone else continued what they were doing, hiding & creeping forward, trying to reach better ground to try to “capture prisoners” and edge slowly closer to the enemy camp, and hopefully not get captured themselves.

Not 10 minutes later, the leader ran around shouting “STOP! EVERYONE STOP WHERE YOU ARE.” The entire game had to be stopped because of this one man – he had snuck around in the forest, past dozens of “enemy” soldiers, walked right into the “enemy” camp, walked right up to the general, an captured him with his knife!

The leader was SUPER ANGRY about this – that’s not how the exercise was supposed to go! Everybody back to your starting places! And no more of that fooling around, you need to take this seriously or you will be thrown into the brig. Back to your starting places – let’s do it right this time.

My dad tried really hard not to laugh from that; after his buddy returned to his team, a sheepish look on his face.  Well, he only did what was instructed!  He won the game!

It occurred to me from this story that my dad’s Native American pal had an amazing skill of sneaking around, near, and past other people without being noticed. I’m sure that part of his knowledge was how to move like an animal, defocused, sans thoughts, in order not to be spotted. An incredible skill that everyone in the Army should probably learn and practice, but of course the whole idea was never even considered, it was squelched like most true skills and strategies in the Army, according to my dad.

I’m sure that story is a testament to what can be done if you practice & learn how to focus your emotions and mind, when you choose to.

WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING HERE

This is actually part of human development – the perfectment of you, a powerful human being. You’re learning about a power that you didn’t know you had, today. You have the ability to focus your mind on something you choose, to serve a purpose, because you are in control, and you can do what you want. You can direct your emotions, turn them off and on, positive, negative, whenever you want to, whenever you need to. These are tools in your toolbox, which many people don’t learn to control, but you can.

It’s part of becoming a conscious human being who is in command of their physical body, emotions and feelings, and mental power – you can turn it off and on, direct it where you like, re-direct it away from pain towards joy, and so forth.  It takes work, it takes practice. You can do it!  If I can do it, you can do it too.