Focus: Applied Spirit

James 2:24 (King James Version)

24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

Good Day Everyone,

Well, the tax man has cometh and gone! Whew. Glad that's passed and onto "onwards and upwards". Which brings me to my topic for today. Applied Focus.

As most of you know, I am NOT a Biblical Scholar. I don't think I've ever read it all the way though. But often times a passage comes to me unbidden, as I'm "asking" a question internally. So I love to look them up and see what instructions are there for this earthly walk.

My knowing is that this life here on earth is a very practical walk, and that my spirit loves the opportunity to be here and have a body! It's the practical mastery of how we get things done and create exactly what we want that occupies a lot of my focus. The "how" of it.

Lately as I am learning a new skill set for my career (technology) and marketing, I have found myself overwhelmed with the amount of new information and the time to do everything I need and want to get done.

Several options have been offered. One mentor supplied a "tracker" all beautifully created on an excel spreadsheet so that I can put in the 5 daily tasks to get done and the 5 daily habits that I want to encourage. At the end of the day I get to score myself and see if I've gotten it done, and then worse, on time.

It's an interesting tool to see where one tends to wiggle - or play. I for example do NOT like to be nailed into a specific time to get a thing done, but prefer to have my 12 hours to move freely from task to task. I prefer a more "organic" movement to my day. This is something of another experiment. Because I don't believe it matters how you organize it, what really counts is can I bring the fullness of my "pure, positive focus" to bear on my task at that moment in time.

In James2 2:24 we are told that faith without works is dead. I find a much broader meaning in this phrase as instructions to us on how to apply our spirit to our daily life no matter what the focus we have chosen.

So we begin with a desire to do something, create something anew. This I have. I check the first box on the list.

Secondly we then have to believe that this can be done, despite the facts that we perhaps don't have the requisite skills at the moment, need people or things that we can't possibly know at the moment or how they might arrive, and perhaps even, we need even the energy to get this thing done or even begin it. So fortunately all we have to do at this point is muster up the faith. A belief in things unseen. I check that box too.

For me this step sounds like "I know my good is at play. I know that I create the whole of my own reality. I know I have asked; and It is given." This is the platform for a new creation. The belief that I can and that I am supported by all creation. It is the way it works. I check the next box.

The next step in this creative masterpiece is the acquisition of the necessary skills to "do" what it is I have set forth. With the faith and belief that I can, that all I need will be placed perfectly in my path as I require it, I then, begin the necessary doing. I learn. I practice. I physically commence doing the certain things that are the logical next steps to creating what it is I want. I use my rational thinking mind to discern the steps. I check the next box.

Learning and doing are where we apply the focus.

Let's talk a bit about focus for just a minute. Focus is a really great word, because it almost sounds like what it means.

fo·cus [ fṓkəss ]

noun (plural fo·cus·es or fo·ci [ fṓ s ])

Definition:

1. main emphasis: concentrated effort or attention on a particular thing The committee's focus must be on finding solutions to the problem.

2. (plural fo·cus·es) area of concern: an area of concern, responsibility, or investigation an inquiry with a narrow focus

3. concentrated quality: a concentrated and unified quality to bring focus to the problem http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861612620/focus.html

So, focus is concentrated effort and attention with a unified quality. This is where I have all my powers right here right now. This is where, when I use my free will (decide to, discipline myself to, direct my focus at my insistence for me) to pay attention to this certain task at my hand with the full, pure positive undivided focus of my energy - my Spirit. The energy of my focus that runs through me is the same energy that creates worlds.

So in my now moment I have chosen by my free will to apply my Energy, and to focus it. I check the next box.

How I do this matters as well. I can be trying to multi task, in which case I will dissipate my focused energy or I can bring my full, undivided attention to bear on this task, loose myself in the task and go right into the zone. Here, with my Energy fully focused, lost in the Zone with my full absorption is where the magic happens. Hours turn to minutes. I learn and retain with amazing speed and clarity.

The next step is the application in focus of this new skill, the practicing of this new skill. Once again I am "applying" my focus (attention/Energy) to the new skill. If I pay a pure positive attention to this application, once again I slip into the Zone and the magic happens. I get Good at what I'm applying mySelf to.

Faith, believing I can do anything I set my mind (focus) to and then the works, which is the suiting up and showing up for the adventure of learning and creating something new. The practice: keeping the "naysayers" at bay in my human mind. "Thanks for sharing, guys, but could you please take that OUTside. Right now I'm busy, happily focusing on this task, this practice, this new skill and while I'm not a pro at it yet, I'm having a really good time learning something new."

We are not "justified" by anything. We need not be justified. We are here! We get to be here! In the body, on planet earth, and we get to create anything we want. The power is in the pure, positive application of the focus of my Energy - my Godchip - my Source Self who is really lovin' every minute of this new adventure.

So get thee behind me, human mind. Get out of My way and take with you your miserable doubts and fears. I have joyous and raucous and boisterous and bodacious creations to manifest, and I cannot be bothered with the diminishing or the division of my Focus Spirit. It goes where I say, as I am sovereign in all things pertaining to me.

This dog wags the tail here, not the tail waggin' the dog.

I think I'll just get about this new creation with great focus and for the pure unadulterated joy of it. Let's just see what I can do next....

Thanks for Reading!

Kath