Learn now to pay attention and feel like you’re sharp as a tack, or at least not, as they say, the dullest tool in the shed.
Woman with Satellites
In a world that drives us crazy with all that information that comes at us from everywhere, it’s so easy to feel like you’re losing your mind. It used to be that the world was so much simpler with less information to keep in mind and fewer balls to juggle in the air.
You remember when we got news on the TV or the radio. We only had four channels. Remember how you had a TV with the rabbit ears, or a hangar with aluminum foil. You’d get four channels, CBS, ABC, NBC, and if you were lucky and you put the aluminum foil a certain way, you’d get PBS. And then, when you went out to your car, you’d get AM and you’d get FM. If you had a phone, you got one call at a time, and if someone tried to call you, and you were talking to someone else, they got a busy signal, and they’d just have to wait. There was no such thing as call forwarding or people with multiple lines. But today, the world is not so simple. There are so many more channels of information that bombard your brain at any time, it’s so, so overwhelming. It makes you feel that you’re driven, distractible, and have ADD.
There are literally thousands of channels and ways of getting information, either satellite radio or satellite TV. Then we have cable, iPods, cell phones, voice mail, we have so many different ways of getting information, that it’s no wonder that we are driven to distraction. However, most of us don’t have the typical ADD that people fling Ritalin at or Adderal at. You know, the type that’s distractible, inattentive, and impulsive – the kids who get the Ritalin thrown at them usually have problems paying attention to details. They can’t pay attention to the work for long periods of time. They don’t follow through with their homework. They’re disorganized. They don’t plan ahead. They lose things all over the place, and they’re hyperactive. They fidget in their chairs, they leave their seats, they’re always running around. They’re so driven. It’s easy to say, just throw Ritalin at that person. We’re going to learn how that particular type of brain may have problems paying attention in the classroom, learning in captivity, if you will, but that type of brain may be uniquely designed to be a satellite dish for intuition.
You my have trouble, in your forties, your fifties, or even later, paying attention in the world and you may feel that you have late onset ADD or early onset dementia, but that’s just not the case. There are four basic ways in which you can feel like you’re developing attention deficit disorder (ADD), and there are ways in which to solve those problems.
The first of four different ways of feeling that you’re losing your mind, you can’t pay attention and you can’t remember is if your hormones are a mess and your immune system is on the fritz. If you have chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, environmental illness, chronic infections like sinus infections, allergies, if you have rheumatoid arthritis or some other kind of joint problem, or if you are in some type of treatment for cancer like chemotherapy, when your immune system or your hormones are on the fritz, you are not going to be able to pay attention, and you’re going to think that you have ADD and you’re going to want your doctor to give you Ritalin and that would be a mistake.
The second type of distractibility is when your emotions are a mess or you’re panicked and frenzied. If you have depression, if you have anxiety, panic, it’s hard to pay attention because all of your circuits are focused on other emotions, and there are many people who think they have attention deficit disorder and they feel somewhat better initially on Adderal or Ritalin, but after a month or so, their brain is a fuzzball again.
The third type of attention where you think you have ADD is when your attention is elsewhere, something else is bothering you inside. All your attention circuits are busy, so you’re not going to be able to pay attention to the outer world in class or at work and you’re going to make mistakes, and you’re going to think you have ADD, and you’re going to want medicine for it, and once again, medicine will be a mistake.
The fourth type of attention deficit is when you have satellite dish intuition, and that is where your attention problems are really a form of intuition. Your attention may be focused intuitively on others, people who are in pain, agony, or suffering, so much that it’s almost like your bi-locating. Your brain is with someone else and it’s not present at your desk at work or at home with your partner. In this particular situation, someone might say to you, “Hello! Base to Ruth? Come in Ruth!” You might feel like you’re a space cadet or a space shot, and they might want to medicate you, but in fact, your problem is not ADD, you have a problem with intuition.
So, what do you do if you have these four problems? This morning I did a reading on John, 29, he called me for a reading said, “What do I do? I’m making so many mistakes at work.” When I read him, I saw that he was working in an organization that was horrendous. There were people over him that were very impatient. I didn’t even think it was the right company for him. When I went to John’s body, I looked at his head, it felt all red and inflamed. I looked at his neck, thyroid, heart, breasts, lungs, every area of his body, and I saw that his bowels were in an uproar and his skin was all red. And in fact, John had hives. He said, “Why am I making all these mistakes? Why can’t I pay attention, and why do I have these hives?” I said, “John, your intuitive guidance is telling you through your distractibility and your rash that this is not the right work for you. You need to look for a better organization where you feel safe and secure.” Because John had so much inflammation in his system, his mast cells and his immune system were releasing cytokines, cortisol, and norepinephrine. They were literally frying his brain apparatus for attention and preventing him from paying attention.
The second type of attention deficit disorder can be seen in Tina, 43. Tina called me for a reading and wanted me to tell her what her health was letting her know what about her life was out of balance. I said, “Tina, you had huge trauma in your life growing up. There was drama. There was violence, and in fact you feel like the issue of home is terrifying for you.” When I got to her body, I saw that her brain and body were responding to the trauma from the past, reverberating. I saw that her brain felt like a fuzzball. Her mind was always going on panic and the fritz. I looked at her chest, and it felt like she had pressure in her chest, it was hard to take a deep breath, and in times she felt numbness in her hands and her toes. And in fact, Tina told me that she had post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks, obsessive compulsive disorder, and she wanted to know if she had ADD as well. I said, “Tina, so many of your brain circuits are focused elsewhere due to the trauma that you had growing up (she told me that she was an orphan at age 12, both her mother and father were killed in an accident), that so much of her panic circuits were in the past, that not much attention could be focused on today, and so that medicating her for attention deficit disorder would be missing the boat completely, that she has to deal with the appropriate mode of treatment for her trauma, and then she would be able to pay attention to the present.
Whether your problem is with your horomones and immune system, emotions or you have satellite dish intuition where your intuition is going to loved ones or those around you who are in need, so you can’t pay attention to the present, because you’re paying attention to their lives as well, it is important to get in touch with how your distractibility is part of your intuitive guidance system. It is necessary to learn the earliest signs when your intuition and your attention is going somewhere else so that you can focus on the present. You will want to explore ways to prime and treat your immune system if that’s what’s causing you to be distractible, to prime your attention if your emotions are out of balance, and most importantly, to learn to recognize and use your intuitive guidance if that is causing you to be distractible so you can return your focus to the present.