The Power of Awareness - Chapter 12

Your imagination is able to do all that you ask in proportion to the degree of your attention. All progress, all fulfillment of desire, depend upon the control and concentration of your attention. Attention may be either attracted from without or directed from within. Attention is attracted from without when you are consciously occupied with the external impressions of the immediate present. The very lines of this page are attracting your attention from without. Your attention is directed from within when you deliberately choose what you will be preoccupied with mentally. It is obvious that in the objective world your attention is not only attracted by but is constantly directed to external impressions. But, your control in the subjective state is almost non-existent, for in this state attention is usually the servant and not the master — the passenger and not the navigator — of your world.

There is an enormous difference between attention directed objectively and attention directed subjectively, and the capacity to change your future depends on the latter. When you are able to control the movements of your attention in the subjective world, you can modify or alter your life as you please. But this control cannot be achieved if you allow your attention to be attracted constantly from without. Each day, set yourself the task of deliberately withdrawing your attention from

the objective world and of focusing it subjectively. In other words, concentrate on those thoughts or moods which you deliberately determine. Then those things that now restrict you will fade and drop away. The day you achieve control of the movements of your attention in the subjective world, you are master of your fate.

You will no longer accept the dominance of outside conditions or circumstances. You will not accept life on the basis of the world without. Having achieved control of the movements of your attention, and having discovered the mystery hid from the ages, that Christ in you is your imagination, you will assert the supremacy of imagination and put all things in subjection to it.

Summary

Imagination's Power Depends on Attention

Your imagination can do all you ask proportional to your attention. Progress and desire fulfillment depend on attention control/focus.

Two Types of Attention Direction

Attention attracted externally is occupying present moment impressions. Attention directed internally is deliberate mental preoccupation.

Master Internal Attention Movements

In objective world, attention is servant to external control. Subjective attention control allows changing your future as you please. Withdraw attention from external to focus within on chosen thoughts/moods.

Achieve Fate Mastery

Mastering subjective attention makes you master of your fate. No longer accept outer dominance having found Christ in you as imagination. Assert imagination's supremacy and subject all to it.

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