I never really noticed or paid attention to birds until I married my
wife. They were of limited if any interest to me. But marriage is a great
clarifier. Less like a torch and more like floodlights, this key relationship
illuminates large portions of personality. Quite soon I began to take an
interest which eventually became a
delight in taking time to observe and enjoy the behaviour of birds in our
garden. The current mission is to entice red bishops to visit on a regular
basis. I didn’t choose to focus on birds like a telescope zooming in. I simply
grew to enjoy them. My attention was changed in a way that involved my
participation.
Biofocusing is about giving living attention (I don’t think you get
another kind) the freedom it needs to work fruitfully. Somewhere between
babyhood and adulthood, awareness is moulded by experience into patterns that
stabilize into a sense of self and reality. Those patterns, which are entirely
negotiable, are usually taken for granted until there’s a problem. Problems
require solutions and biofocusing is a concept I’ve put together as a versatile
tool, a bit like a Swiss knife, to free up awareness and consciousness. I call it an active concept, because it’s
something you do rather than merely think about.
To get those red bishops landing, we’re looking for a landing area and a
reason to land. We’ve got the plants they like to swing from, and the next step
is the flat bird-feeder. Any ideas that will help, my contact details are in
the website.
To ponder: if your mind is free, is it focused or unfocused?
