Awareness
By JediSanctuary forum Member Kisagod
I do not know who said it or which post it came from, however I read here once a story of two me walking down the street. One man says to the other "that is nice, listen to how beautiful the crickets sound (may have been diffrent insect). The second man stops and listens intently, finally he hears it and remarks to the first man, "How could you hear that in the first place?" The first man removes a coin from his pocket and drops it to the ground, as the coin strikes the ground everyone in the vacinity turns and looks. The first man then tells the second "we all hear what we want to hear".
The moral of this story is simple, what we want to hear, we hear, I can not tell you any great profound way to teach yourself focus.
However, I can try, Go out to any remote area, small wooded area if you can, sit and meditate if it helps, but focus on all the sounds around you, the smells, even the colors of everything you can see. Now try to narrow your focus to only one color, one smell, one sound, isolate the ones that you want to sence, block out the others. Now switch your focus to a new color, smell and sound, once you have gotten comfortable with isolating a single sence attampt to bring them all back together.
Teach youself to incorporate this ability to your daily life.
May the Force serve you well.
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