Have you noticed the early arrival of beautiful blossoms on the plum trees and warmer temperatures brightening your mood?  They certainly do mine!  However, if we are primarily focused on problems such as work challenges or health issues we may hardly notice the changes.  How is it that our focus so often determines our reality and our mood?!!!

Intention plays an important role here, too!  If you are intending to LEAP forward this year or win a gold medal your intention is clear and your focus is to realize your intention. Then life happens and there may be “noise on your radio reception” when it comes to your intention.  When you are aware of the noise which often starts in our own heads, we can turn up the focus button and dial down the noise button.  (The noise is often worry!)

Early on when I worked with the “noise” I thought it was a given and that I really didn’t have choice about it. Now I know the buttons are there to be dialed or the issue is to be dealt with!

Recently, I became aware that when I over focus I can drop out truly being present to my own body and its needs.  I became aware of this through the NSA, Network Spinal Analysis, work I am having done.  The work’s end goal is to increase well-being by reducing tension in the body and allow the body to provide you with important information.  The first thing that happened was I became very aware of the “noise” I created frequently in my head because of my judgments about myself. That translated into tension.  Tada!

Now as the weeks have passed since I have been using NSA I feel more sensation in different parts of my body (my shoulders – pretty tight sometimes, my chest and now my extremities).  I can now see more clearly how the mind-body connection either supports my well – being or not.  The tight focus on the goal at hand is now expanded.  I can also notice on how my current focus is supporting my body or not.  Exciting and enlivening!

How is your focus supporting you?  Your body?

If you have noise, what are you doing to dial it down or deal with it?