Attention control and Realisation

By Arjen Broens

In psychology there are two possibilities in attention control: Stimulus driven (pleasure and addiction, lost in reactions) or Goal driven (business, school, religion, greed risks and active ignorance of anything other than the goal)

This book here deals with the third, unmentioned possibility: paused attention with looking without a goal or reaction to a stimulus, the magnet is turned off to send the attention back where it came from, no outside stimulus or goal is attracted or attached to it.

Therefore, the changes are seen to come and go. The outside stimuli are observed but not followed as there is no goal in place to align with or ignore to.

What this does is turning the attention inside, back into its origin so we are able to have a look there what is going on and what it is going on for, this self we have learned to cover up with layers of personalities, dependencies and falseness, trying to bend reality and getting the feeling to get away with that.

And you’ve wondered where the feeling of getting sabotaged comes from, this constant tension, not getting there.
Perhaps because there is no way to bend or divert reality into an imaginary world of I, me and mine.

This book will send you back home, the way you came, this time for good with your attention firmly in your control or at least revealed what is going on.

It leaves the hard work to you but also the trophies that come with it.

Enjoy this one, I certainly did in discovering this in me and writing about it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arjen Broens
• Release date: Dec 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005300197

Arjen Broens

Born in The Netherlands, moved to The Highlands in Scotland on the evening of 11-11-2008, didn't look back. From Edinburgh to Inverness, living in the middle of no where, deer and nature all around.Started to look within to find what was under the false personality which, as a child, I felt, was there to cope with the world of grown ups around me from a very young age.When the 1st 3 years of my life were full on encouragement to laugh, walk, talk, pursue to experience when it all changed into correction, telling me what not to do without telling what I could do from 5 years onwards.I started to see that we all are caught in this merry-go-round, this appearance we hold up and started to write books where, in the past I had my diaries to get me through.Aikido came into my life after a few lessons Jiu-Jitsu to gain confidence where I firmly decided not to want any killing reflexes in this body I left Jiu-Jitsu for Aikido and Iaido which changed my life entirely in a very good way.Books were coming to me at the right time: NLP got me into the right mind set and bumped into it in a second hand book store during a holiday in Ireland for just under a Euro.I chose to invest 30 min each day from then on to change me into who I am: confident, unattached, competent and self assured with life, nature and animals. Pure self and learned from there to listen to my heart with my mind as a worthy advisor to what's going on out there. Thoughts are just options.Started to publish my books in 2013 after both my parents passed away on a very respectable age.Sharing my thoughts and later, my experiences without thought infecting my being, understanding thought and how it is hijacked out there from a very young age and to keep you away from your core inside: the real you you are.Enjoy my experiences in this life, written down for whoever has support by them or fall into your lap as books fell to me without a search, life just happens.Discovered that the real reality is the life support system out there: no books, no gods, no symbols, no religions, no past, no future, just nature as it is is enough, always perfectly on time although our egoic state of mind will disapprove...What Is is now and moving fast into a new now, no time to think as thinking is way to slow to get the real and exact signals, impulses into our senses.Loving what I do, doing what I love: working in construction in the heart of the Highlands, meeting great people on sites and elsewhere.Enjoy life.

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Arjen Broens

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According to psychology there are two possibilities in attention control: Stimulus driven (pleasure and addiction, lost in reactions) or Goal driven (business, school, religion, greed risks and active ignorance of anything other than the goal)

This book here deals with the third, unmentioned possibility: paused attention with looking without a goal or reaction to a stimulus, the magnet is turned off to send the attention back where it came from, no outside stimulus or goal is attracted or attached to it.

Therefore, the changes are seen to come and go. The outside stimuli are observed but not followed as there is no goal in place to align with or ignore to.

The question pops up: what is controlling the direction of attention: habit or choice, who’s choice? What exactly is this I that remains, stripped from all influences and personalities as personalities are habitual forms in our story, we tell ourselves.

So, when attention is not directed, not reacting to a stimulus and not chasing a goal, what is left to observe as attention must have a source to start from, an origin. You can watch attention and inattention in yourself so, this cannot be you.

You can watch thought and the stream of thoughts, you can watch the upheaval caused by an abundance of thought and also the silence when thought is just passing by, not affecting, not leaving a magnetic trace, asking or perhaps demanding your attention but you are not giving it. Just let the nagging die out.

When all that attention is at ease, resting, not going anywhere, what is left, is a view to look at the source, you, without all the influences, pure and natural.

From there you can see that you are in control where you wish to put your attention on, your freedom to choose where to put your attention on. You can only see the source in a paused attention state and that is exactly the target meditation, true meditation aims for: to clarify, not to classify your core being.

Clarifying by a pause in directing your attention: not humming a recital, sitting in a fixed position, calling names over and over or watching a dot on the wall. None of that.

Once you do this and are able to pause your attention, you will realize that you are free and always are free to choose where to put your attention on. This is yours and yours alone.

The practice is effortful but the realisation is totally effortless, just hits you when you realize it, see it.

The influences of a goal, a projection and certainly a stimulus will all obscure that core seeing, seeing who you really are, which power you really have, drags you away from the visibility, this is where you feel lost and suffer.

School, college and university provide enough goals with tonnes of stimuli besides the social stimuli to weigh and certainly goals you need to create out of the billion options given to be classed as a good person, externally referenced of course, to keep you from seeing reality.

This constant demand to make a choice does not leave the option open to not to decide, to not to choose and this option becomes and certainly feels available by looking without defining where to look for or expecting a certain result. To look at where you look from.

No judgment (past) and no expectation (future) are the first steps to start towards the state where you align with the now, here, almost