Exodus 14:10 · World English Bible
When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
The state a person meets a threat in is built by where they aim their eyes a second before. Attention feeds whatever it lands on, and the thing it feeds swells until it sets the state, the state sets the emotion, and the emotion decides whether a person advances or freezes.
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The state a person meets a threat in is built by where they aim their eyes a second before.
Attention feeds whatever it lands on, and the thing it feeds swells until it sets the state, the state sets the emotion, and the emotion decides whether a person advances or freezes. An army is a fixed quantity of horses and men; the terror is manufactured by handing that quantity the whole frame and deleting the water ahead, the cloud overhead, and every plague already survived.
Crying out to Yahweh is the first turn of the head, and it counts even when dread drives it rather than trust, because aim moves before feeling does. Keep the pursuit in frame and the old bondage starts to look like safety, until a person bargains to return to what they were carried out of.
Self-Help lens
Where are your eyes resting right now, and what is it feeding?
Your life takes the shape of what you keep turning over in your mind. Give the whole frame to the pursuing army and fear is simply what the math produces.
What you dwell on, you become. Attention is not a window on the world, it is a hand that feeds whatever it lands on.
Water has no shape of its own and nothing solid stands against it. Keep the stone in view and you forget the water was ever there.
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