Focus:

Winifred Galagher:

"That your experience largely depends on the material objects and mental subjects that you choose to pay attention to or ignore is not an imaginative notion ... When you focus on a STOP sign or a sonet, a waft of perfume or a stock-market tip, your brain registers that "target", which enables it to affect your behavior. In contrast, the things that you don't attend to in a sense don't exist, at least for you. ... Indeed, your ability to focus on this and suppress that  is the key to controlling your experience ..."

Die Welt, in der wir leben, wird durch dasjenige eingefärbt, auf das wir unseren Fokus richten. Ändern wir unseren Fokus, richten wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit neu aus, so wird die innerlich erlebte Umwelt umgestaltet. Wesentlich sind auch folgende Aussagen:

"As the poet says in Beowulf, >Every life has more than enough sadness and more than enough joy.< By skillfully managing your attention, your are able to experience both in a balanced way and stay oriented in a positive, productive direction. John Milton might have been thinking of the power of focus when he wrote: >The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.< "

Jedes Leben birgt viel (oder genug und ausreichend) an Freude, an Leid. Dennoch kann es passieren, dass  sich ein Mensch beispielsweise im Leid oder in manchen Ereignissen verliert. Das Spektrum an Ereignissen wahrzunehmen, positive und negative, darum geht es wohl. Um also im Erleben nicht zu sehr in eine Schieflage zu geraten.