Want Attention? Go Inside - (3523)

Sorry don't mean to offend with such an abrupt title.

I think it is better to have the policy of treating ourselves harder than we treat others. If we ever catch ourselves wanting some kind of attention, or wanting to be listened to etc. we can say to ourselves: "ok time to go inside".

Really in my experience that is much better. Mostly we only have something subjective (of course not always) to say anyway and inside of ourselves there is a lot to see and enjoy being with. Plus, something on the aside, you avoid that feeling of being absent and outside of yourself, which is a recipe of just waiting to feel offended when we may be challenged or rebuked. When we are well inside of ourselves we don't get offended so easily. Have you experienced that before? If you have you are onto something good - keep it up right!

What else can we really do if we are not being listened to or are being ignored, but go inside or brood? Forget brooding, I reckon it is much better to chose to go inside and listen to the movements of life in our inner psychological country.

I think this is a pretty good skill to have. It can help out a lot in the sphere of personal relationships.

Sometimes if we listen very carefully to what another is saying we can sort of realise what they are really on about and then what we may have wanted to say needs to be changed.

The ego in us is polarised in relation to us. Undoing that polarisation is very interesting, actually liberating.

It may be that the desire of wanting to be listened to is actually something inside of us wanting that we pay more attention to ourselves. That is, something is wanting that we go inside and listen to what is going on inside of ourselves. It is like it is ourselves being the one we have been wanting to hear from. Like a part of ourselves is wanting the presence or attention of another part - i.e. more unity within our inner parts.

Anyway, if we have a gymnasium with people that goes along the lines of the title of this post, this is a good skill to cultivate and doing so will make the gymnasium gradually disappear, for the next one some time later to appear.

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