Mindfulness and Discovery
What seems to be important in my foray into mindfulness and pain is that mindfulness opens a door to discovery. This is supported by quantum science, which identifies the potential for learning as an aspect of the quantum field and which can be accessed by attention. The change that develops due to the placement of attention arises from what a person discovers in that process.
It seems to me discovery is what was happening as I spent time giving my attention to the pain at the back of my neck. Not only was there change in the pain, there was change in my ability to relate the pain to various relationships in the way I use my body. Changes in my perspective were simultaneous with changes in my use of my body and changes in the pain.
This isn’t predictable as a process. Human thinking is generally linear, and what is scientifically identified as the quantum field operates without the limitations of dimensions and time. Prediction can’t accommodate non-linear factors, since it seeks to project from a present into a future,
which is dependent on the linearity of time.
So, rather than looking at mindfulness as a way to find potential solutions for the pains or problems I have, I’m thinking it’s probably best for me simply to wonder with amazement and curiosity that there’s this avenue of exploration into my own state of being which offers me the potential for discovering more and more about the nature of my own attention.
Photo by Lucrezia Carnelos.