The final principle of Transpersonal Dynamics, and a very important one, is that whatever you focus on, there will your energy go.

If you focus on your fears, then you will use up a lot of energy sustaining those fears. The more you are in the now, the more you focus on the present, the more energy you will give to your intent. And you can develop your attention through meditation and concentration exercises.

One of the challenges we face is that our unconscious mind makes no distinction between a fantasised experience and a genuine memory – try this experiment. Close your eyes and imagine your self on a beach. Feel the warm sun on your body, hear the sound of the waves on the shore, of the children laughing as they play. See the people around you; look out over the water and you can see a large pleasure boat, anchored off shore. As you watch, somebody climbs down from the boat into a little speed boat, which then races into the marina at the far end of the beach. As the little boat goes out of sight, you hear an ice cream seller and you realise that it would be a nice way to cool down. So you get some money, get up off and wander over to the vendor. You select your ice cream, pay him and wander back. Feel the cold ice cream in your mouth, enjoy the contrast with the hot sun, and just enjoy the moment.

Now, let go of that thought and think of a memory of something that happened to you. Relive that memory.

Compare the two; assuming that you experienced them with equal intensity, (some people find fantasising difficult), there will be no difference in the way that your unconscious mind presented the two events. The unconscious only understands now, the present, and cannot distinguish between fact and fantasy!

So, focus on the negative, and that is where your energy will go. That is why people that have a negative mind set always feel drained; their energy is flowing to those negative things and they have nothing left for the positive.