While meditation is an essential practice for developing focused attention, exploring energy awareness is a complementary path in which we learn to evoke a felt-sense of energy through the manner in which we direct our attention.
"The greatest gift we give ourselves or anyone else is the quality of our attention."
In practice, energy awareness work teaches us how to shift our attention from our usual narrow time-space “me” focus to an intuition of the Infinite or “more-than-me” state of being which we often think of by many names such as God, or Source. But regardless of how we think about it, this shift of attention is actually bringing the mind more fully into the Now. By doing so, we become filled with presence which can be felt in oneself and transmitted to others. This energetic presence has the power to accelerate healing, alleviate pain and conveys a deep sense of peace and oneness. We learn that the greatest gift we can give ourselves or anyone else is the quality of our attention.
"The greatest gift we give ourselves or anyone else is the quality of our attention."
In his work, Richard teaches an energy awareness practice he calls “sacred attention.” We learn that the sense of the sacred is something we experience moment by moment depending on how we focus and where we rest our attention. By feeling ourselves uplifted through sacred attention, we gain a direct experience that attention is our most precious resource. Opening ourselves to this presence is a universal capacity of our minds and need not be limited to any specific religious belief system, though we are free to invoke this energy through any symbol or imagery we feel comfortable with.
