Problems and Boomerangs

 Why is it so easy to focus on what we don't want? 

The question itself is a misunderstanding, based on a lazy premature observation, that falling into patterned habituated negative behavior is easy. Is it easy to have an addiction to an unhealthy substance? No. It's also not easy to focus on what we don't want, we seem to have an ingrained pattern to focus on what we don't want. 

Attention to problems is inherent to change, action, motivation and desire. But the change can only be made when what is is left behind in the vision of what could be. 

Pure love is pure unconditional awareness itself, and so we cannot ignore our problems. We already don't. An attempt is cutting ourselves off and will not get the results we want, as the only way to ignore them is to obscure out vision. 

problem (n.)

late 14c., probleme, "a difficult question proposed for discussion or solution; a riddle; a scientific topic for investigation," from Old French problème (14c.) and directly from Latin problema, from Greek problēma "a task, that which is proposed, a question;" also "anything projecting, headland, promontory; fence, barrier;" also "a problem in geometry," literally "thing put forward," from proballein "propose," from pro "forward" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward") + ballein "to throw" (from PIE root *gwele- "to throw, reach").

 https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=problem

Problems are like boomerangs you throw away. If you're unconscious, and ignorant of the nature of a boomerang and believe them to be apart from you, you don't expect them to come back.  They come back and smack you in the head. If you are conscious you are expecting to be reunited with what's already you, then you are ready and waiting to receive it.