What I want to know

“With a small shift in awareness, the world starts to speak in a very different way.”—James Bridle

Where we direct our attention creates our world, both individually and collectively.

What I want to know is why do we permit the superpower of our attention to be sucked into a vortex of negativity…

…when it rains diamonds on the planet Saturn**

…when the call of a mother humpback whale can travel 600 miles through the ocean.

What I want to know is why do we direct our attention to old white guys wearing suits and spouting inanities….

…when there is a fairy trail outside Milburn, New Jersey with 100 tiny, whimsical cottages, lovingly created by a mother who wanted a safe place for her autistic son to explore the wilderness.

….when a Sumatran orangutun recently healed a wound on his right cheek by making an ointment out of an herb. He didn’t go to the doctor or buy an advertised pharmaceutical. He simply listened to the hum of aliveness that calls to us all.

What I want to know is why do we focus on news, social media and political ads specifically designed to distract, enrage and make us fear each other… ….

….when a flash mob danced to “Let it Go” at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

…when clematis and iris and columbine are putting on the show of their life right now.  

Rather than waste our attention on mediated content, let’s go outside and tune our superpower to Mother Nature and her teeming aliveness. It’s humming all around us.

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)

**More than 10 million tons every year.