Remarks on...
The movement of your attention (or attention as a vehicle), the agent instead of observer, and the location you're doing the moving from
Read the Extended: A Guide to Physical Materialization (Part 1) on Reality and Perception
Brought Forth...
Attention is deeper than being alert to hold focus. It does take focus, but just to trigger-start it. Once it's on, there is relaxation instead of tension. Expansion instead of contraction. And spaciousness all around you.
It's easy to picture it if we see it as a hovering flying vehicle we get to drive or direct the routes and trajectories of, while we get to enjoy the ride. It's even easier to see it, although not so obvious, if this vehicle is going about its ways inside the body, zooming in and out into scale, from smaller, almost imperceptible to the body, to larger, closer to the size and location of cells and entire organs; like the brain, as you might’ve guessed.
But it doesn't stop there, you're free to roam and play with the size of it. You could zoom in so far small in scale and, at the same time, make the space inside your vehicle so big, that you could fit an entire city in it, and still have a lot of alone-space for yourself in it.
That is to illustrate how malleable the vehicle of your attention is. And how powerful too.
Show-How…
Going deeper and deeper into smaller sizes in scale you encounter yourself within pure stillness. And within this stillness lies your power of movement.
All propulsion impulse that supports any kind of strong foundation you would like to build for you to walk upon and live and thrive through comes from this kind of attention.
And notice how it differs from the attention we’re used to thinking attention is, what we take it to be. We easily mistake it by the engaging of the “intellect functions” of the body (topic for an Extended for sure) dealing with input/output sensory-motor interaction. Basically, how we get to “observe” (instead of impart action upon) the activity that happens from the body (e.g., the impulsing of electromagnetic signals) into the brain and back into the body (e.g., as motor directives and/or biochemical releases) so we can interact through body awareness (instead of ours) by engaging of the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and proprioception).
Good to Know...
Next time "you're lost in translation," stop the train of thought and "move." Literally move locations inside your body. And do the "thinking" from within the center of the body instead of the brain. Change the size in scale too, play with it. Until you don’t have to put your “attention” on doing it, you simply do it.
And when you call yourself out to make this movement, when you "call your attention" to it, you’ll find that you find "you," seated inside that vehicle we call attention. It is literally you, the what [of what] you are, inside the body, instead of the who.