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The Noble Focus
Our Noble Focus gives us our 'highest' motivations, to respect and honour all life, to experience unconditional love, to accept and forgive even when our sense of self appears to be under threat, to be prepared to suffer and sacrifice for others, and to be able to consider every life as having value.
Our Noble Focus provides our larger-life purposes, our most significant aspirations, our altruism, our morality, and a focus on life beyond our self. It also provides emotions such as awe, wonder, deep gratitude, and connection to life.
Thought Beyond Self
The Noble Focus provides, I suggest, a deep sense of connectedness with others and life in general, a source of unconditional love and awe, deeper purposes, and a sense of size beyond our normal body.
Speed Interest Characteristics
Unknown, possibly very slow unless representing learned wisdoms Interested in benefits for all life, and probably not at all for individual self.

Cooperative focus = altruistic/non-Ego.

Provides extended creative potential, perhaps based on thoughts, concepts, themes that extend knowledge.

Enigmatic.

Acts through intuition.

Ethereal: easily swamped by other 'Focuses'.

Provides ideas/concepts and information that can seem to have significance that is undeniable, sometimes defying easy description, or hard to relate to our other motivations.

Typical emotions that may be present or triggered can include wonder, awe, confusion, connection/belonging beyond direct relationships including unconditional love, being deeply touched, and appreciation of beauty.

What is the Noble Focus?
The Noble Focus is not, so far as any of us are aware, an easily measured or verified thing. I have heard some descriptions of non-ego states of mind that might imply the Aspirational Focus and the Noble Focus to be associated with activity in the right brain hemisphere.
The reason that I include the Noble Focus in addition to the Aspirational Focus in this model is because it seems to me to represent a logical evolutionary development by adding motivations that focus beyond self-interest.
The Noble Focus could, I suggest, work in two main ways: to influence our motivations to work for the better survival of life in general and perhaps to provide shared non-conscious cultural/social knowledge in support of our individual progress.
Our Noble Focus can also give us a sense of expansiveness: a feeling of connection to life beyond our physical self. A feeling of spirituality/continuum/etc that is a necessary alternative to our logical thinking and our seemingly body-based feelings provided by our more mundane Focuses. Our Noble Focus has big ideas to communicate that contribute to our life-long growth of personal wisdom.
Our Noble Focus influences the development of our character (that part of our personality that grows beyond our genetic predispositions) and is a vital element of personal growth.
Where the Aspirational Focus gives us motivations to identify more complex things to 'do', the Noble Focus gives us ways to 'be' that protect and support life in general and contribute to human life beyond our own more-selfish interests.
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