Attention Span of Adults
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Author: Nat Smith
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We blame children for it constantly... their lack of attention and focus. But what about the attention span of adults? Are we any better?
I mean, how often do we become completely bored with new stuff! Clothes, gadgets, games, houses, businesses, credit cards, gym memberships� the list goes on and on. We get something, it holds excitement for a short period then we almost forget about it, moving on yet another new thing to get that same excitement feeling. It is like an addiction that needs constant feeding.
We get a new phone, only to start throwing it around after a few months like it doesn�t matter anymore.
We wash and polish our new car every week� for about 3 months! And then bit-by-bit it creeps in� the apathy for it. It gets abit dirty and we say next week we will wash it. And the next week goes by, and still no clean up of that precious car we worked so hard to make the money to buy.
The same goes for relationships. We have all heard about the �honeymoon� period where our new partner can do no wrong, everything about them is exciting. We see all our similarities, �he has two eyes, and oh my God so do I, we must be soulmates!�(ok an over exaggeration here, but you get my drift. But over time we start to see more of our differences and things we don�t like in our partners. It�s like we start to see a more balanced perspective of them (and one that is often far more realistic!).
So what is it inside us that make�s us lose interest and become even careless about our things over time? It�s like we get used to having it, and the bright shiny object it once was no longer holds the same excitement or value to us, nor continues to make us feel really good.
Well maybe our eventual indifference and addiction to new things is actually trying to show us something.
To me it is a purposeful internal mechanism that ensures we do not continue to place our attention on, and put all our value into, outside things.
By having this boredom feeling over time, we start to realise, hopefully, that it happens with everything around us. Every single thing we have been excited about throughout our life diminishes in excitement and value to us over time.
And I don�t feel it is just our ego getting bored and wanting new things to play with to keep us amused. I believe that is only part of it.
What is really happening is that consciousness itself is trying to get us to wake up to this pattern playing out.
It is trying to get us to see that nothing in the outside world is permanent and nor can it keep us fulfilled for any great length of time. And it is not meant to. This is so we eventually wake up the fact that only ourselves can hold this eternal fulfillment for us.
Joy is an internal feeling that yes, can be sparked by outside things, but only for fleeting moments. It is your internal Joy that you awaken that stays with you. It is from knowing who you are and being the full expression of yourself that keeps that joy light burning feverishly inside you.
Ponder for a moment a time when you were just �you�, the full expression of you. Did you feel absolute joy for yourself in that moment? Can you notice that it was never about the outside world in that moment, that feeling came from inside you?
Joy is an internal feeling that must be found within� for you to feel it longer than that new car feeling.
Find it within, and it will always be there when you chose to feel it!
About The Author: Nat Smith is an author, mentor and the co-Publisher of �Into-Me-I-See� Digital Magazine, facilitating the collaboration of many of the world�s leading Conscious Wayseers to share their wisdom and raw life experiences. Please go to http://into-me-i-see-mag.com/ to download all of our issues for FREE.
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Article Title: Attention Span of Adults
Author: Nat Smith
Word Count: 676
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We blame children for it constantly... their lack of attention and focus. But what about the attention span of adults? Are we any better?
I mean, how often do we become completely bored with new stuff! Clothes, gadgets, games, houses, businesses, credit cards, gym memberships� the list goes on and on. We get something, it holds excitement for a short period then we almost forget about it, moving on yet another new thing to get that same excitement feeling. It is like an addiction that needs constant feeding.
We get a new phone, only to start throwing it around after a few months like it doesn�t matter anymore.
We wash and polish our new car every week� for about 3 months! And then bit-by-bit it creeps in� the apathy for it. It gets abit dirty and we say next week we will wash it. And the next week goes by, and still no clean up of that precious car we worked so hard to make the money to buy.
The same goes for relationships. We have all heard about the �honeymoon� period where our new partner can do no wrong, everything about them is exciting. We see all our similarities, �he has two eyes, and oh my God so do I, we must be soulmates!�(ok an over exaggeration here, but you get my drift. But over time we start to see more of our differences and things we don�t like in our partners. It�s like we start to see a more balanced perspective of them (and one that is often far more realistic!).
So what is it inside us that make�s us lose interest and become even careless about our things over time? It�s like we get used to having it, and the bright shiny object it once was no longer holds the same excitement or value to us, nor continues to make us feel really good.
Well maybe our eventual indifference and addiction to new things is actually trying to show us something.
To me it is a purposeful internal mechanism that ensures we do not continue to place our attention on, and put all our value into, outside things.
By having this boredom feeling over time, we start to realise, hopefully, that it happens with everything around us. Every single thing we have been excited about throughout our life diminishes in excitement and value to us over time.
And I don�t feel it is just our ego getting bored and wanting new things to play with to keep us amused. I believe that is only part of it.
What is really happening is that consciousness itself is trying to get us to wake up to this pattern playing out.
It is trying to get us to see that nothing in the outside world is permanent and nor can it keep us fulfilled for any great length of time. And it is not meant to. This is so we eventually wake up the fact that only ourselves can hold this eternal fulfillment for us.
Joy is an internal feeling that yes, can be sparked by outside things, but only for fleeting moments. It is your internal Joy that you awaken that stays with you. It is from knowing who you are and being the full expression of yourself that keeps that joy light burning feverishly inside you.
Ponder for a moment a time when you were just �you�, the full expression of you. Did you feel absolute joy for yourself in that moment? Can you notice that it was never about the outside world in that moment, that feeling came from inside you?
Joy is an internal feeling that must be found within� for you to feel it longer than that new car feeling.
Find it within, and it will always be there when you chose to feel it!
About The Author: Nat Smith is an author, mentor and the co-Publisher of �Into-Me-I-See� Digital Magazine, facilitating the collaboration of many of the world�s leading Conscious Wayseers to share their wisdom and raw life experiences. Please go to http://into-me-i-see-mag.com/ to download all of our issues for FREE.
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