What the heck, you might say. What do flying cows have to do with anything?
Bear with me. It'll all make sense. I promise.
In a recent comment to one of my posts the lady who wrote the comment shared that her thoughts have mostly been 'untethered' throughout her life.
I thought using the word untethered was probably an accurate description for her, but it is a very kind word to describe what most people's thoughts are doing.
Out of control crazy is closer to where I would put it.
We only need to look at the world, look at the principles and codes, the underlying beliefs, the guidelines which rule most people's actions.
And then look for love and honor and respect and gratitude and treating others the way we want to be treated and how much of that is missing in our world.
And then consider the blueprint needed, the blueprint our thoughts would have to create, in order to create this "nasty" reality.
Warning: it could be quite frightening to really look at that dynamic.
It would be no surprise if we were to draw the conclusion that only a psychotic mind could be able to create this.
"Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?" comes to mind.
Yet, here we are.
I don't do doom and gloom so while this is one way of looking at our reality, and certainly a valid way, this is not, not by a long shot, a complete picture of our reality.
The dichotomy of human existence is our ability to create acts of an utterly horrific nature while living in the midst of life's greatest treasures and beauty and wonder and magic.
I once heard a monk talk about flying cows. (See, I told you it'll all make sense)
He said that seeing cows fly by outside our window would be astounding, amazing indeed.
But if we just look at our hand and move our fingers, flying cows are insignificant in comparison to the amazing wonders and magic needed to create and gain the ability of something as wondrous yet simple as the reality of our hand and the ability to move our fingers.
Living in Song means living in the moment. It means being aware in every moment of the amazing wonders in the reality of our hand, or all life around us for that matter.
Why is it then that in most of our waking reality our waking consciousness utterly ignores the mind boggling beauty and magic of life while problems, personal and global, take up much or most of that waking reality of ours?
I am not suggesting to pretend the problems don't exist. I am suggesting to create, or add, an approach to consider solutions for solving our personal and global problems which include the root cause of those problems.
Most people's attention is where others want it to be. And it's not just one or a few main things, by demand, it's all over the place.
News, media, sports, entertainment, video games, iGadgets, religions, Madison Avenue, government, educational institutions, industry, and on and on and on, what do they all have in common?
You've guessed it. They all want to control your attention, and they are doing a very very excellent job of it.
There is a pivotal line about that in the movie Gladiator where Maximus asks the audience in the arena, "are you entertained yet?"
My suggestion on how to deal with that? Simplify.
Simplify what you are spending, simplify what you are focusing your attention on.
As Kay always says, we only really have two things in life, time and attention. Where are you spending your's?
The question on how to simplify is a subject worthy of more in depth contemplation and I might share some of that in future posts.
For now, just ask yourself every time you are watching TV, you are listening to the news, you are groveling in some thought, you are fighting with someone, real or in your head (which is just as real), etc, etc, etc, ask yourself, is that really where you want to spend all your attention and time, which are both limited, in this lifetime anyway?
And, is that what you want to create more of in the world?
In the past we've talked about Song watches. The idea was, and still is, to carry a watch and set an alarm every five or ten minutes, or whatever interval works for you, and when it rings, or vibrates (some watches do that) you check in with yourself as to where you're attention has been, where your attention is, and you shift it back to your Song, if Song is your thing, or shift your attention back to something different, something you want it to be in.
Nowadays this can be done with most of our iGadgets and if that works for you, go for it.
I've recently (surprise) simplified the process.
I use a plain wrist band. It's right there in front of me all the time.
Just by looking at it I'm reminded to check in with my mind, my thoughts, my feelings, my emotions, to see where they're all at.
And, when I happen to find myself extraordinarily distracted by anything, I stop, take the wrist band (which is really just a simple stretchy string) and move it to the other arm.
Warning: some of us may find ourselves doing a lot of string moving throughout the day, which may make you appear very suspicious to the people around you.
After taking note of where your thoughts and feelings are, which I suggested for you to do in a previous post, this is another suggestion to help you not only keep track, but to change your thoughts and feelings right then and there.
Try it, you might just enjoy it as much as I am.
But if wrist strings aren't your thing, use whatever works to help you take steps to take your attention back and guide it where you want it to be, iGadgets are just fine, but make sure they really do the job for you.
The lady making the comment also shared about having a conversation with her 20 year old son and talking with him about creating reality with our thoughts.
I was impressed. I would like to hear more of those stories of 20 year youngs even considering the possibility.
Her son was partly right though with saying that everyone else's dream was not his so his alone couldn't make a difference.
We do live in an interactive universe and we all create our collective reality together.
But, and that's a big but, most people's attention, as I described above, is all over the place.
Their thoughts are racing between a million different things all the time, and the life energy they have available to them to put to those thoughts is, in most cases, merely a trickle.
In a way it's wasted attention, which when you have billions of humans put together does create something usable, barely.
If one focused human knows their Song, controls their attention and has access to and dexterity with the full force of Life Energy available to him or her, it can change the world, or at the very least will have an enormous impact on helping to change the world.
This is what Chea and Domano always told Kay, "One person can change the world, it just takes one to truly wake up and that can change everything."
It reminds me of the Egyptian goddess Sesheta. She is so clear of mind and heart that anything she puts her intentions to instantly manifests, like poof.
What is magic to us is just physics to her.
So it starts with each one of us to know ourselves, to take control of our attention, focus it where we want it to be, at what we want to create and don't let anything distract us from that.
That's what the Spirits have been talking about during all the Ceremonies about the oil spill, but especially during the second Bone Throw: we need to learn to focus.
And we just might, no actually I'm sure we will, surprise ourselves as to what we are truly capable of.
It starts with one, or a few of us and it has to start somewhere.
Yes the collective consciousness still has influence, but never underestimate the power and impact of a few clear focused intended minds and hearts on shaping reality, especially when they're wearing wrist strings. 
Love and Song,
Helmut
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