Spiritual Attention Span

[anagogy]

There is but one technique for this growing or nurturing of will and faith, and that is the focusing of the attention. The attention span of those you call children is considered short.

The spiritual attention span of most of your peoples is that of the child.

Thus it is a matter of wishing to become able to collect one’s attention and hold it upon the desired programming.

This, when continued, strengthens the will. The entire activity can only occur when there exists faith that an outcome of this discipline is possible.

what do you think improves (or disimproves) the spiritual attention span?

does having things like the internet and constant opportunities for distraction decrease this ability to focus the attention?

The act of consciously choosing what we place our attention on strengthens our spiritual attention, which, I would define as "conscious attention", as opposed to "unconscious attention" which is just normal attention. A regimen of meditation is extremely helpful in this regard.

I think that the many distractions of modern day society do tend to weaken the attention span. Out of all the practices offered in the Ra material, I consider this section the most important to me, personally.

Attention is everything.