There is much to be said about the language of paying attention. In German, it is called gifting attention. In Spanish, it is to borrow . It is something that can be given or taken , held , captured, bought and sold . It is the most valuable (and perhaps the only) thing we truly own. And it is all ours.
The Geometry of One is this attention. The first step is to become a master of our attention by paying attention to our attention. Interesting, isn't it? But that self-reflection of pointing our attention back on itself is the true first step of self-awareness.
Mastering this step can take years. We are so used to having our attention flit from thing to thing, screen to page to person to thought. And our internal voice, "the Narrator", is constantly chattering away about all the things it is observing. Calming that voice and bringing it to a state of quiet, of stillness, is the Zero-Point.
It takes tremendous self-discipline to reign in our attention. It is more like a wild stallion that has to be caught and tamed - we cannot force it into submission. We’re better off building a relationship with it. But how do we do that?
The first step is to acknowledge its existence. And even deeper within that is the absence of the IT, as it is not othered from YOU, but is YOU.
We become the aggregate of all the things we give our attention to. Within that giving there is invariably a taking, whether it is conscious or subconscious. With consent, or without.
The recognition of whether you are consensually giving your attention to something is at the root of the topic of SOVEREIGNTY. You are a sovereign being when you take back control of to whom and what you are giving your attention. Once it is back within your domain, you set the rules, you determine where and how it flows. The quality of it, the depth, the power of it. And once you have taken it back, "the Kraken" that feeds off of what was being stolen from you no longer wields such power.
“The Sovereign is the one who exercises power without limitation.[...] The term also carries implications of autonomy; to have sovereign power is to be beyond the power of others to interfere.” – Cornell University of Law
When your own Sovereignty is on the line, what could be more powerful than learning to harness your attention?
And through this practice, we are building a toolkit for how to harness our attention - the Geoemtry of One is the first tool. A continuous flexing of a new muscle - to refocus our focus by regularly asking the question "where is my attention right now ?"
And you do that again, and again, and again, and again....