I've been thinking about attention. Shining the light of my awareness strongly helps me discern the "what's going on here?" in my practice. But somewhere recently I heard someone use the word diffused in describing the attention in a yoga posture. I was intrigued. The image in my head was of light diffused through green leaves...dappled, cool, soft. I've been using this diffused attention more often. I like the feeling of shifting between the two. I travel the body bit by bit, making little adjustments here and there. I feel my way into my body as it wants to respond to this shape today. And then I allow my attention to diffuse through the whole body all at once. It brings ease to the shape but also to my mind.
