22/08/2025
🌿 Energy Flows Where Attention Goes - A Grounded Perspective 🌿
In Hawaiian shamanism, the word Makia carries a simple but powerful teaching:
“Energy flows where attention goes.”
Another way to say this, in plain everyday language, is:
👉 What we focus on becomes bigger in our awareness.
It isn’t magic... it’s how our minds work. If you keep staring at a problem, the problem will seem larger and heavier. If you keep returning your attention to a goal, that goal gathers momentum.
Your life force (your energy, vitality, motivation) follows your focus. Like sunlight through a magnifying glass, your attention amplifies whatever you shine it on.
This is both empowering and cautionary:
🌙 Focus on fear, and fear grows.
🌞 Focus on possibilities, and your energy lifts toward them.
You don’t need to believe in anything mystical for this to be true. It’s simply the reality of consciousness: whatever we attend to looms large in our awareness, for better or worse.
The practice, then, is to notice where your attention is going. And if it’s dwelling in places that drain or diminish you, gently choose to redirect it toward something nourishing, healing, or hopeful.
Gaian Healing blends spiritual wisdom from ancient cultures with a therapeutic approach inspired my love for neuroscience, nature-therapy, psychology, mindfulness and guided imagery.
"Earth Hara" is a collection of self-care methods we teach in Level One Gaian Healing that help clients and students develop attentional self-awareness and self-mastery ie consciously being aware of what you are focusing your attention on, the lens you are looking through, being able to assess whether it's helpful or not and being able to shift attentional focus as needed.
If you would love to learn more, ask me about Gaian Healing, the apprenticeship program and our online course MindLight next time you're in the clinic or a Zoom call with me.
Omanisa ###