your attention is the most valuable resource in your life and everyone is after it we live in a world that's highly optimized to distract you right and suck your energy because your energy follows what you give your attention to advertisers are trying to get your attention right now I'm getting your attention other people are getting your attention Etc so you have to selectively choose what you actually give your attention to some and some people give you energy when you give your attention to them and other things and people just take it from you so you need to actually really pay attention to the quality of the interaction that you are having with the thing or person that you are giving your attention to with the food right with the Habit with the content that you consume if something is always just taking your energy and taking and taking and taking this is just going to leave you drained and numb and dull and you can't really live a profound life you can't really self-actualize and self transcend if you're habitually drained by various things in the external world so some things and people just take your energy and they just suck your attention other things actually get it and then they give to you because well they actually care they have a high enough moral development to the point where they actually will care about you so I I want to actually list some examples now some very extreme examp examples so you get a very clear idea of what I'm talking about and I'm saying that your attention is the most valuable resource in your life right so your energy follows your attention and what you give your attention to has formative powers or not formative Powers it has a formative effect on your mind and your life right so some examples of this are reading a book for 12 hours versus mindlessly scrolling on Instagram for 12 hours right we can see from this very clear extreme difference that one is going to have a very profound effect on your mind where the other one is just going to be sucking your energy and just taking your energy usually just for personal gain for a very selfish motive it's kind of like sick and twisted actually another good example is practicing meditation for 1 hour a day versus eating hot dogs and watching TV for 1 hour a day this is going to a huge shift that occurs over time just based off of simple things like this right basically what you repeatedly give your attention to so you get to choose what you give it to the problem is that Humanity has figured out how to hijack your attention Humanity's figured out how to manipulate you to give you or to how to manipulate you so that you give things and people your attention so that you just like mechanically buy from them or just help them with their own agenda and their agenda doesn't actually give you any value right I have there's nothing wrong with making money or advertising or technology the problem is when this stuff is used in a exclusively selfish way that doesn't actually provide meaningful and healthy value to people and people are just addicted to this junk so the problem is basically that people have figured out how to manipulate you right social media um news and media junk food gaming online shopping streaming in Services Etc various companies and stuff have basically figured out how to exploit you right so that you just get sucked into things right and they actually create addictions within your own psyche so you actually get addicted to things that are dysfunctional for you right and you don't really know any way out especially because this is baked into our culture most people don't really know other ways of being in the world they just see what everyone else is doing and they just do that because this is just how they've been programmed they just watch TV and eat junk food and scroll on their phone they don't meditate or clean up their diet or go on meditation Retreats or um you know Etc self-actualized self transcend they don't really know any other possibilities that exist so without learning how to protect your attention right and give it to what's meaningful and healthy for you it will end up getting sucked into something unhealthy rather fast in our modern world because there's so much unhealthy garbage that is just so stimulating it's just so easy to grab your attention when you have no discipline when you have no impulse control when you have no vision for your life when you're not clear about your values and who you want to become when you don't live your life by a certain set of principles right when you don't have any psychological structure to build your life upon your psyche is just easily distracted easily infected right so you actually have to counter all that noise that is trying to infect your mind and focus your attention on what's meaningful and healthy for you you need some kind of boundary some way to counter all the external BS all the external noise that's actually just trying to infect you for personal gain right so this is why you actually need to know yourself right that's what the Greek said they say know thyself right you have to actually uncover your values take personality tests read books study psychology right practice meditation connect with like-minded individuals spend time in nature eat for nutrition not to escape yourself and sit this one's my favorite sit in an unstimulating and undistracted room by yourself have you ever noticed how you can't really do this you jump for stimulation all the time you always have to be doing something you always have to be escaping yourself essentially this is really what's going on and our call culture is not really going to change anytime soon there's going to continue to be an endless bombardment of advertisements and new games and new TV shows and new crap for you to spend your money on new material garbage that doesn't actually really do very much for you and just sucks your energy for you to be spending your money on right it's basically this ridiculous amount of stimulation that's completely unhealthy for you causes all sorts of mental illness and just cracks and holes in your psyche and it's all being done really for the benefit of others right you're actually just being exploited so you need to figure out how to protect yourself from this so your entire life does not yet sucked away that's why I said give me a few minutes of your attention right and I'll save you years I literally talk to people who say they spend 10 hours a day scrolling on their phones right and it's not just phones it's it's all forms of distractions and just highly stimulating garbage that just infects your body your mind mind your awareness right your whole experience of yourself really your being your soul right you need to actually have strong boundaries with this stuff be aware of this stuff and actually have structures and habits in your life that counter those things various principles and values that actually counter that stuff so that you can be healthy because we live in a extremely sick world right and of course we're not taught this in school ever it's not shown on the media on the news at night of course not right so you need to defend yourself from the numb existence that most people are unfortunately living due to ignorance you need to defend yourself against the constant bombardment of distractions our culture is built on escaping reality escaping ourselves and escaping the present we can't just be present in our existence we can't sit in an unstimulating undistracted room by ourselves without freaking out right we get bored angry we're just too neurotic we're too addicted we have all these coping mechanisms to just escape and avoid right so our culture is just built on escapism and basically the avoidance of unprocessed pain really from childhood stuff we've been running from over and over and over again we're in this constant cycle of just pain avoid pain avoid pain avoid and all this emotional pain especially doesn't go anywhere gets stored in the body and it plays itself out in a cyclical fashion it Cycles it come back around to bite you in the ass over and over and over again you're always avoiding right you're never cleaning up what's going on inside you you remain stuck in a cycle so you need to pay attention to how you feel when your attention is absorbed in certain things feel the quality of the energy that certain things actually give to you certain foods right when you wake up in the morning right pay attention to the quality of the energy that um waking up and scrolling does for you versus waking up and meditating or waking up and having some water with with you know squeeze some lemon into it waking up and going for a run spending time in nature waking up and reading or journaling right basically as you go about your day giving your attention to certain things notice the felt experience and the energetic flow between you and the thing that you are interacting with right the people right there's always an energy transaction basically between you and what you give your attention to right when you really practice a lot of Med meditation you get very sensitive to this you become very aware of this you can't ignore this anymore this is just your lived experience it's like the the default right so notice the quality of the energy that you get from certain things if it's just taking from you and what it's giving you is feelings of exhaustion or just dysfunction or sickness you have to cut that stuff out of your life right some obvious examples of that are just like fast food endless entertainment endless scrolling Etc if it gives you energy right it adds Vitality to your being right makes your body feel alive right makes your mind feel clear sharp Lucid rather than foggy numb and dull right those those things are great that's like meditation nature Reading Writing spending time by yourself reflecting you know in solitude spending time with healthy people right who actually care about you right interacting with things that want to be giving you energy right Fair energy exchange right it's basically how the world works there's always an energy transaction going on and some people are just trying to scam your energy right you need to interact with people who want to give to you right and especially want to interact with people who it's just very natural for them to be giving value because they've transformed themselves into someone who effortlessly provides value right these people exist right want to interact with habits Foods Etc that give to you right rather than just always taking from you that's it for this video you can apply to work with me one to one link is in the pin comment and the description take it easy