Reclaim your attention and discover yourself.

Have you ever tried to view a full-body reflection of yourself in a shattered mirror? The answer is likely to be no for most people. However, we're all doing the equivalent of this daily with our attention. Perhaps, the most under-rated and frittered away of our mental assets.

Imagine your unsullied human attention as a clear and polished mirror. Then take a hammer to it and smash it. You then  have some semblance of  what has happened and continues to happen to the mass of human attention as we try to stay on top of an increasingly fast-paced and technology-driven daily existence.

If our sense of self ( full-body reflection) is intimately bound up with our attention, then there could be a population-wide epidemic of sub-clinical identity crises, as we increasingly find that the  freedom of directing our attention is usurped by the artificial exigencies of keeping up with all that's happening around us.  

This is the theme of the book by Matthew Crawford, a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, The World Beyond Your Head.

However, while Matthew Crawford focuses on the problem as a socio-cultural one and therefore likely intractable; except at perhaps the level of the individual; from the point of  view of sahaja yoga the shattered attention is an evolutionary epiphenomenon and has a mass solution.

The solution is this.

The shattered attention is epiphenomenol because it is secondary effect of a deeper malaise. A malaise that has increased the incidence of stress as a medical condition and all the health implications of that . The evolutionary imperative is 'adapt or succumb'. People are adapting by taking up meditation in increasingly larger numbers.

Meditation serves as attention- training. Meditation helps, but unless a spark is added to the process the full potential of a reconstituted attention is not realised. That spark is 'kundalini awakening'.

The result is an 'enlightened attention' (see: Superhuman Awareness), which has the capacity of action in it.

To take the first steps to self-discovery do this : Achieving a lot with a very little.