Don’t Focus on the Problem… or the Solution! 

Over the years, an old Unity adage has helped me overcome a tendency to endlessly replay gory details of complaints stuck in my craw, Whenever I catch myself repeating a litany of gripes, I replace it with the thought, "Don't focus on the problem; focus on God." It halts the griping and allows me to focus on solutions instead.
 
But today I learned that focusing on solutions may be just as unproductive as focusing on problems. In a book of daily devotionals first published in 1931, New Thought pioneer Emmet Fox writes: "Do not try to think out in advance what the solution of your difficulty will probably turn out to be. This will only delay the demonstration. Leave the question of ways and means to God."
 
It makes a lot of sense. Solutions concocted when just emerging from "problem" energy are likely constrained by the human perceptions that created struggle in the first place. Better to first rest in the stillness of presence, (focus on God) and become fully attuned to the divine. Ideas and actions inspired by the energy of that consciousness are unfailingly supported by "miraculous," serendipitous opportunities and encounters.