WHATEVER HOLDS YOUR ATTENTION

Whatever state holds your attention holds your life.

You know the story in the Bible of the so-called insane, naked man hiding behind the tombstone in the graveyard. He is supposedly possessed by demons that he doesn't want cast out, irrational as it seems, but are cast out.

Later, he is seen fully clothed and dwelling at the feet of the Master. The implication is clear, something has changed. That something is a state of consciousness.

Graveyards essentially record the past, history, where the dead are buried. The symbolism here might stretch the belief of some, but old ideas or experiences as such warnings like "Let sleeping dogs lie"or "Let bygones be bygones" are just another term for cemetery. It's the place where things go to be buried, never to be exhumed.

In this case, the graveyard of ideas and previous grievances.  "Remember not the former things, not the things of old."  To recall or dwell in the past is to return to it.  Returning to to it is a state and, like it or not, that state, holding your attention, likewise holds your life.

Like all living things, it requires energy to stay alive. When you forgive and forget you withdraw that energy and the thing can do only what all living things eventually do when energy is finally withdrawn, die.

And so it is that whatever state holds your attention holds your life.