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🎯 The Science of Your Own Attention
Center. Field. Focus. You, and Our World.
Welcome to Self Science; a living practice rooted in one simple but profound truth:
You are both a center and a field, participating in a greater field.
Not metaphorically... Structurally. This is how reality works.
At the center of your being is awareness: focused, specific, present.
Around that center is a field: your body, your breath, your emotions, your story.
You are not just observing this field. You are participating in its shape.
Your attention is not passive.
It is creative, coherent, and directional; a real force that organizes what converges within you.
🔬 Metacognition Meets Embodied Pattern
Self Science begins where your center of focus meets your field of experience.
Right now, you can zoom in and read this sentence (center), while still sensing your breath, your posture, the space around you (field).
This dual capacity is not a trick of attention, it is the living pattern of reality.
Every system shares it:
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Atoms: nucleus (center), electron cloud (field)
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Solar systems: sun (center), orbiting planets (field)
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Your self: conscious awareness (center), body-mind-soul (field)
Focus is not just narrowing. It’s organizing.
You’re not tuning out the field. You’re tuning it through your center.
This is how convergence works, and it’s how you shape what emerges next.
🔁 When Parts Become Whole
You are made of parts: breath, heartbeat, sensations, memories, desires.
When they’re scattered, you feel disoriented.
But when they begin to converge through focus, something else appears:
A deeper coherence. A moment of wholeness. A center that feels alive.
This is emergence. It’s not something you force, it’s something you allow.
And it starts by aligning the parts, not ignoring them.
Just like tuning a guitar: each string is distinct, but together they form harmony.
Your attention is the tuning fork. Your body is the instrument.
And your soul? That’s the coherence that makes music possible.
🧭 A Practice to Begin: The Center–Field Check-In
Try this now:
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Pause.
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Focus on your breath. This is where you will hold the center of your attention.
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In your periphery, gently sense your body, your posture, the space around you. This is your field.
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Ask yourself:
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What am I attending to right now?
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What is emerging from that focus?
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Shift focus to something coherent: your whole breath, a value you care about, or the presence of your body as a whole.
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Let convergence do its work, observe the outcomes (emergence) of your shifted attention.
This isn’t escape. This is alignment.
This is not detachment. It is anchored awareness; focus that includes the field, not excludes it.
🌀 Why This Matters Now
The world teaches us to fragment: hustle harder, think faster, do more.
But true power comes from alignment, not acceleration.
Focus is not escape. It is participation.
Your center is not isolation. It is the point through which emergence becomes possible.
And your field is not distraction, it’s the raw material of your wholeness.
Self Science is how you re-learn this ancient structure...
Center. Field. Focus. Convergence. Emergence.
It might be a new idea, but the idea represents the way reality already works.
The question is: will you participate with this dual attention? Do it for the ethical reasons: Keep others and the environment in your peripheral awareness, to guide your central attention into a channel (convergence) of compassion and kindness.
🌐 Explore the Pattern, Live the Practice
You are a living fractal of a greater pattern.
The Ultimate Singularity is not elsewhere, God is the infinite emergence of reality itself.
Your attention is a fractal spark of that process; of center and field.
So what will you offer into convergence, into the center and periphery of your attention?
This is your invitation.
This is Self Science.
Explore www.selfscience.ca for more, and www.ashmanroonz.ca for deeper essays, visual guides, upcoming resources and a new book!
