Attention is the Currency of God

This blog was born from reflections that came up during a trip to Japan, when I went to visit Shoichiro—one of my students—and his family. Being away from my daily routine allowed me to clearly see how much attention we lose on trivial things and how much power we gain when we direct it with purpose. That trip stayed with me all the way back to Seoul, and this phrase became a constant companion: Attention is the currency of God.

Traveling with Shoichiro on the train, just minutes before our farewell.

So simple, so powerful. It’s not about spending it on fleeting distractions, but investing it in what we truly want to materialize. If we don’t learn to invest our attention, we won’t be able to receive the reality we wish to inhabit.

Attention is a divine tool available to everyone, but today it is being systematically attacked.

Our attention is destroyed day by day. Everything seems designed to fragment it: social media, multitasking, multi-screen life, a constant bombardment of stimuli and noise. How is it possible that we devote more attention to a screen than to ourselves? This paradox is obvious —even now, you’re reading this through a screen— but it reveals a much bigger problem: reduced attention equals less meaning in life.

Attention = meaning = self-knowledge.

A life without meaning lacks direction. Without it, it’s easy to be carried “wherever the wind blows.” And those who create those winds, who rule through division and chaos, know this very well:

Where your attention goes, your energy flows.

Attention = energy.

If you are not aware, you may be putting your life force in a place you didn’t even choose, “feeding someone or something else.”

What doesn’t exist in your world is simply because you’re not looking at it. Your sustained attention is what sustains the particular reality you live in; without that attention, there is no materialization.

When it comes to materializing our attention, our ideas, our desires, it becomes vitally important to understand the following:

If we don’t speak the language of the universe, the universe doesn’t understand us.

Pay attention to this sequence in the creative process that explains what I’m saying in a very simple and concise way:

Attention → vibration → frequency → intuition → commitment → action → materialization.

Notice that many times when we want to change something we understand that we must act differently. However, this is only half true, because action is a consequence of primary causes in the creative process. We can change our actions, but if our attention and vibrational frequency remain the same, we won’t be able to achieve the desired results.

Or more directly:

Attention → desired reality → vibration → frequency → desired reality.

The opposite works the same:

Attention on the undesired → undesired reality → vibration → frequency → undesired reality.

Although it sometimes seems not to be true, we always have the opportunity to choose: what I want or what I don’t want.

We have received the “menu” of life. To order what we desire, we must use our attention, not just our intention.

Attention is more powerful than intention.

The universe registers your attention, not your verbal desire.

Imagine going to a restaurant in a foreign country and pointing to the dish you don’t want, saying “I don’t want this.” What do you think the chef will bring you?

Imagine you want more clients but you constantly think it’s difficult—what will you get?

A person has an average of 60,000 thoughts per day. If most of them are negative or focused on what they don’t want, what reality do you think they are creating?

Through this logical process we can arrive at the following conclusion:

The problem is not that we can’t concentrate; it’s that many times we are not conscious of where we are putting our concentration.

Image illustrating a fragmented mind with scattered attention. This image has been taken from the public and free space "Science to the People" by Mr. Ernesto Prieto Gratacós. I, Fernando Martín Berthet Garayoa, am not affiliated with or endorsed by Ernesto Prieto Gratacós.

You create the rules of your own reality. You are creating them right now, whether you are aware of it or not.

Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

And just to make it clear: you are the thinker and you are the prover.

“I can’t do it” materializes.

“I can do it” materializes.

Now we must include in the equation something I call “the old frequency or the old you.”

This entity does not want to die and therefore pushes you back with obvious reactions to adversity, with responses that have been deeply rooted in you through years and years of automatism. These immediate reactions are what is known as “traps of the old vibration.”

That is why an initiatory school with Sufi roots speaks of a strange but very powerful practice: do not manifest negative emotions.

Keep in mind that not manifesting negative emotions is different from repressing them. It is about observing those emotions-reactions and containing them within yourself, not letting that energy be wasted.

In the process one can become conscious of how one really is, what “makes one react,” and thereby begin to modify the old frequency through conscious efforts and “voluntary sacrifices.” Keep in mind that the more deeply rooted this reactive program is in you, the greater your conscious efforts must be, because you may discover that you have been reacting this way, let’s say, for the last 20 years and now you must begin the reverse engineering or “deinstallation” of that vibrational programming.

Attention is alignment.

Focusing on the aspect that will create your desired reality is simple: you are the most important person in your own reality. And although it may sound selfish, don’t be deceived by the illusion—if you do not vibrate in your highest frequency, helping others will always have the limitations of the vibrational state you are in. To help others one must start by helping oneself. The process is from the inside out, never the other way around.

If upon reading this you realize that you are not living the reality you truly desire, let me give you good news:

“In every undesired reality is hidden the seed of the desired reality.”

We return to what was explained earlier. The obvious reaction to adversity is the trap that returns you to the previous vibrational state.

To foster our attention we need our concentration:

Concentration = centralization of energy = concentrated energy.

Photo taken by my wife in the park while I was concentrating my attention and at the same time receiving the light of the giver of life, the sun.

I hope it is now easier to understand what I mean when I say that attention is the currency of God.

Where are you investing the currency of God?

Where are you spending your attention?

Let me clarify something very important, because when I speak of God I do not intend to allude to any type of religion and/or intermediary between you and the original source.

God is an impersonal energy, the substance of reality, the highest level of consciousness.

Attention is the primary cause in the chain of materialization.

Choose consciously. Your attention is your power.

“You are gods but you have forgotten.”

It is not about religions. It is not about intermediaries.

We are a fractal of unity, for we are all one.

Within you also resides the living God and with it, the divine capacity of creation.

Reflections written on paper during my trip to Japan, which gave birth to this blog.

I’m Coach Kimnamdo and I’m at your service…

¡VAMOS!