Attention is Healing

Attention is Healing

Hakann trough A. S.

Posted on May 5, 2025

 

My dearest brothers and sisters,

This is Hakann speaking. I greet you in peace and love.

In last week’s message, it was discussed that a person’s attention can empower a god. That’s how powerful you are. And that’s the reason why gods like having people pray to them or do rituals for them: your attention empowers them.

In spiritual circles the idea of manifestation is also common: that if you focus on something, you manifest it into reality. Admittedly, there are some caveats to this, including: if your soul or if your subconscious doesn’t want that thing to get manifested, then it may not be manifested. But still, there’s truth in this idea.

Today I want to share another area where your attention can have a noticeable impact. Namely: to an extent your attention can be healing.

If you listen with full attention and a loving heart to someone else, and don’t give an excessive amount of unsolicited advice or personal opinions, then that is subtly healing to the other person. Indeed, practically everyone likes being listened to in this way. This can be a beautiful exchange and interplay of energies, although it can also be imbalanced if one person always wants to be listened to and is never the person listening.

If you’re an action and solutions oriented person, it can be good to realize that listening to someone actually IS an action you’re taking that is helping that other person out. And if a person vents first, and then later does their own inner observation or takes practical steps, then that can honestly be quite appropriate and helpful.

Now granted, it’s dysfunctional if a person keeps venting, and never observes what’s going on inside them, and never takes practical action. However, that doesn’t mean that venting is always bad. And listening to someone vent can be a helpful action you can take, if you feel up for it.

Your attention is also beneficial to your own body. For example, your science has realized that there are a whole lot of benefits to be had by doing stretches. Well, part of that is that when you’re stretching, you’re implicitly paying attention to parts of your body that otherwise you might not pay attention to, such as your legs.

Conversely, if a person spends every waking hour playing video games or watching television, then they pay very little attention to their body, and their body often deteriorates as a result.

Now, this doesn’t mean that you can never play video games or watch television. It just means that it’s good to have something in your day where you’re paying attention to your body, whether that’s walking, sports, yoga, stretching, a body-scan meditation or something else.

Your focus can even heal unwellness in your body to a degree. I’m not saying that for the average person this is a universal miracle cure. Yet, sometimes when a person is unwell they will be tempted to withdraw attention from their body, because it hurts. When actually, paying more attention would be beneficial, even though it might be painful in the short term.

You can remember this via: PAIN means Pay Attention Inwards Now.

Similarly, your attention can be healing psychologically. If you just observe whatever comes up, without immediately trying to change or suppress or judge it, then that will create psychological wellness in you over time. Granted, you may have to observe the same thing several times before it’s healed, but this basic practice is still very beneficial.

You may experience the fear that if you actually observe what’s going on inside you, that it’ll hurt more than you can bear, or that it’ll psychologically destroy you. Almost always that’s just not true — it’s just an unfounded fear. Just because you experience a fear, just because you think a thought, doesn’t mean that fear or that thought is actually true. Still, if that’s stopping you from looking inside, then it would probably be a good idea to visit a psychologist or spiritual healer.

So: your very attention is healing. You can think of it as: your attention supplies energy that then helps something return to its natural state — which is beneficial. Harmful or painful things are often distortions and aren’t the natural state.

It can be good to do something every day which involves you paying attention to your body, whether that’s walking or stretching or yoga or a body-scan meditation or something else.

I hope this was helpful.

With all my love,

Your star brother,

Hakann

A. S.

These channelings are exclusively submitted to EraofLight.com by the channeler. If you wish to share them elsewhere, please include a link back to this original post.

If you are interested in local meetings with other people also seeking first contact with benevolent ETs, then please see https://eraoflight.com/2024/06/19/hakann-local-meetings-for-those-seeking-first-contact-with-benevolent-ets/ . If you search with control-F for @, then you can quickly find email addresses of those who are organizing local groups. It's also not too late to post a new (secondary) email address yourself to start a new local group, because we plan to keep linking to that post for the foreseeable future. 

 

Understand Before You Argue

Understand Before You Argue

Hakann trough A. S.

Posted on April 19, 2025

 

My dearest brothers and sisters,

This is Hakann speaking. I greet you in peace and love.

You probably already know the principle that before you start arguing against someone, or before giving someone unsolicited advice, it’s good to first fully understand their perspective.

So if someone is doing or advocating for something that just seems completely illogical to you, then it’s good to try and understand their perspective better. After all, while obviously some perspectives aren’t very useful or accurate, usually there’s at least some kind of logic or some valid desire or some kernel of truth behind a perspective that other people hold.

And if you can’t find a way to take that other person’s kernel of truth or that desire on board, then it won’t be helpful to just think of their perspective as evil or stupid, and to try to steamroll them in a debate. Even if you win the debate, you will have probably hardened the position of the other person and increased division.

What’s not helpful to do, yet what happens unfortunately often, is to stereotype the other person’s position into an easy to attack strawman and then to attack that. Or to label the person themselves negatively, as for example a fascist or communist, attacking the person rather than the argument.

Okay, so what’s better is to first understand their perspective, and to have a nuanced view of the advantages and disadvantages of their perspective and of your perspective. After all, it’s rarely the case that your perspective is 100% perfect and the other person’s perspective is completely wrong.

I think you probably knew all of this already, at least on some level.

Now I would like to add something that may be new information:

Ideally, before you argue with someone or give them unsolicited advice, you don’t just try to understand their perspective in a nuanced and fair way. You also try to understand what life has been like for them, and how that could perhaps have shaped their views.

And you try to understand how your own views have been shaped by the life and experiences you have had.

If you don’t know the other person, you could share briefly how your life has been and how that has contributed to you having the views you currently hold. And you can ask them how their life has been and how that could perhaps have contributed to the views they currently hold, in their view.

After all, many people like to think that they simply hold the objectively correct view and others are wrong. And certainly, people are different, people have different souls and missions here on Earth, et cetera. Yet, it’s certainly also true that the life you have had has significantly impacted the views you currently hold.

In fact, if you think a certain person is wrong, well it’s possible that if you had led their life, then you would now have their worldview. That’s not always the case, but it certainly can be the case.

Because of that, it’s useful to understand the broad outlines of how a person’s life has been, before you start arguing against their position or giving them unsolicited advice.

If you understand their life, you might also learn if there have been any events that have been so impactful in their life that just arguing directly against their viewpoint will never convince them. But once you understand them, perhaps you can offer them alternative ways of meeting their needs, or perhaps you can suggest alternative ways to construct a society in which people do get their needs met.

For example, suppose someone grew up in crippling poverty, and has certain very specific, very strong political opinions as a result. Then if you learn this, you may realize that this person will never agree to any way of structuring society in which the poor aren’t helped — and indeed, wanting to help the poor is a noble desire. But in this case, perhaps you can have a productive discussion about what the most effective ways are of building a society in which everyone can have a good life — because there are several options here.

And if for example you grew up in a well-off family and don’t have “everyone should be able to have a good life” as a priority in your own mental construct of what an ideal society would be like, well, maybe you can reflect that if you had grown up in crippling poverty yourself, perhaps you would have different or at least slightly different opinions today.

The previous example discussed a situation where someone’s suffering was real, but perhaps their proposed societal solution wasn’t optimal. (Or perhaps it was.)

What can also be the case is that someone’s suffering is real, but they misidentified the cause of their suffering. In the best case, you might be able to change someone’s mind here, or at least plant seeds that will someday change someone’s mind — but you can’t make that argument without acknowledging that yes, they did have a very tough time. Because that is real.

Obviously these are just examples to illustrate how useful it can be to understand another person’s life in broad strokes, before you try to argue against them or give them unsolicited advice.

Sharing the broad outlines of your lives can also help create empathy and dismantle stereotypes.

Now, it’s possible that the other person will say that yes indeed, your views were shaped by the life you have had so far — but that they hold their own views because they’re smart and good people, and have decided to adopt the one ideology that is true and virtuous. In this case, it may be best to just not have an argument with them.

it’s also possible that the other person will demand understanding and empathy, but will not be willing to give you understanding or empathy. In this case, it may be best to just not have an argument with them. Even if you “win” the argument, the world probably will not be a better place afterwards, because you will only have hardened them in their position.

Unfortunately, productive arguments are rare, and sometimes the only winning move is to not have an argument at all.

As R’Kok said recently: Earth people are love-starved. So instead of arguing with them, you could also just listen to them and express love to them. If someone is unreasonable, showing them love can be very effective, if you have it in you.

Or you can of course just take a walk in nature, with the other person or by yourself, or you can meditate, et cetera.

I hope this helps.

I love and deeply respect you, and I hope to physically meet some of you later this year — it’s not guaranteed, it depends on the free-will choices that Earth humans make, but it is likely.

Your star brother,

Hakann

A. S.

These channelings are exclusively submitted to EraofLight.com by the channeler. If you wish to share them elsewhere, please include a link back to this original post.

If you are interested in local meetings with other people also seeking first contact with benevolent ETs, then please see https://eraoflight.com/2024/06/19/hakann-local-meetings-for-those-seeking-first-contact-with-benevolent-ets/ . If you search with control-F for @, then you can quickly find email addresses of those who are organizing local groups. It's also not too late to post a new (secondary) email address yourself to start a new local group, because we plan to keep linking to that post for the foreseeable future.