Energy Flows Where Attention Goes: Building Community

There's a lot going on in the world right now that can keep you paralyzed with shock if you let it. Everything feels so important to pay attention to, but energy flows where attention goes. I don’t know who said that first, but it is a principle that has always been understood. Knowing how to utilize this principle has never been more important. We are living in a time when something is always stealing our focus, attracting our attention. It is imperative that we put attention where we want energy to flow.

It seems like every time you connect to anything today, someone’s rights are being violated, taken away, or attacked. It feels very important that we know about all of these instances, but it also feels futile. We can know about them without focusing our energy on them. Do we want our energy to flow to the problem or to the solution? But what is the solution? What can we as individuals do? Build community.

If we as a people put our energy into building community, and pouring into protected classes like women, children, and marginalized groups, we are making it impossible for any outside actor to break us. When we connect and strengthen our relationships within that community, it will fortify our strength. When our attention goes towards strengthening the bonds between humans, the energy will flow towards that end. 

Furthermore, we will take the energy and power away from the groups who are trying to steal our focus. Without that, what do they have? Nothing. When we allow our attention to focus on what is important to us, we will see more clearly. Rather than living in a state of constant anxiety, our energy will flow towards building an unbreakable fortress of unity.

Love and Light,

Maria