PROCESS #5 of 5 for quick & easy FOCUS & ALIGNMENT Photo of old-fashioned water pump in green garden from Michael Fortsch on Unsplash. RESISTANCE ANYONE? Well, the answer is forcibly YES, because we all have resistance about something, sometimes more, sometimes less. When a lot feels hard or complicated, resistance grows. We resist
And as we all know, resistance feels bad and can make us feel bad about ourselves. We scold ourselves for being lazy, procrastinating, not getting behind our goals with action, not putting ourselves out there. … None of that gets to the actual root of anything and just makes us feel worse. Remember, these processes (this is the fifth of five I’m passing down from the wisdom of Abraham-Hicks) have the intention of helping us feel better—which bring us into alignment, into trusting life and its processes, into connection to inspiration and guidance. PRIME THE PUMP (from metaphor to process) Priming the pump is so simple and so very helpful. When you need a little support to rev up the energy to do something you don’t wanna do but you actually do want to get done … this is the tool for you. Have you ever seen one of those cool old-timey outdoor water pumps for bringing water up out of a well? There was one in the backyard of my paternal grandparents’ old black-and-white farmhouse amidst the cotton fields in Arkansas. It thrilled me to actually draw water after a bit of pumping with my own small, capable arms and hands, my very own strength. But you had to prime the pump before the water started trickling, then flowing out smoothly in no time at all. You just had to be willing to find the patience and exert the energy for a number of dry, seemingly fruitless pumps, while hoping and believing things would get going and the flow was on the way! So how do you quickly & easily prime the pump for those things you have resistance to—but actually do want to show up for in the name of well-being, cleanliness, following laws, moving toward goals and dreams, and more? It’s actually kind of STUPID-EASY. PRIME THE PUMP ON PAPER Abraham-Hicks offers this process of simply making a list of anything that makes you feel better about doing it. The list can include why it’s easy, what you appreciate about taking care of this, resources you have (working machines and tools, people you can ask for help or delegate to, online tutorials, etc.), and whatever else you think of. An example follows.  Photo of old-fashioned water pump in garden with purple flowers from Fikri Rasyid on Unsplash. A SIMPLE EXAMPLE I recently sat with my bizarre resistance to getting some audio meditations to my amazing helper standing by and ready to turn them into YouTube videos. I decided there was no big thing to figure out. There often isn’t! Or if there is good reason (or wacky reasons!) for your resistance, you probably don’t need to locate and label the why of it to move things along. I decided that what I really needed was to prime the pump. I quickly thought of a few things that I jotted down. I watched the stuff of support, readiness, and readiness accrue on the page. (I’ve emphasized in prior processes offered that what we’re focusing on comes into sharper, clearer focus when we WRITE THINGS DOWN.) Here’s what I came up with:
All of that was obvious and came right out. I’ve had instances of priming the pump that took a bit longer, but in general, it’s not that complicated. Just write self-evident things that are actually TRUE, and let it be enough to remind you that YOU’RE FULLY EQUIPPED TO DO THIS THING and you have good reason to do it, along with plenty of support right at hand. For those who feel unsupported in general or in the particular area you’re focused on (a common-enough basis for resistance), get super basic in your ideas of what supports you. It’s empowering and reassuring to do this. Think of how easy it is to get clean water or breathe clean air while you work; how you have a working phone, laptop, or whatever you need that’s already right here; you have a functioning body, or one functioning well enough to do the task at hand or some part of it. THE OUTCOMES RELATED TO PRIMING THE PUMP You know this already: it’s helpful, with any tool you use, to let go of outcome. Don’t do a process to make everything go just how you want it to go and get you exactly what you want in the exact way and time you want it. Do the process only to reach for feeling better. Use priming the pump to bring focus to what could help move you in the direction you want to move in (or simply help you feel how you’d like to feel) with no expectation of brilliant success or swift completion. Just get things moving. Prime the pump and you just may find yourself marveling at the flow that follows.  Photo of satisfied fluffy ginger cat sleeping from Ludemeula Fernandes on Unsplash. After I primed the pump in the example above, I was able to create a whole document that very day with instructions, links, music correlated to potential playlists … It felt amazing—so satisfying, such a sense of completion. The cat luxuriating in a sun puddle in the photo above is how I felt in the wake of all that. And the first playlist of soothing 3-centers meditations now exists (because my helper seems to be resistance-free)! I wish you the same with whatever you’ve been resisting or tend to resist. You’re equipped. You’re as ready as you need to be. Love & blessings, Jaya You can find Abraham-Hicks process #1, Easy Existing Matches, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #2, Segment intending, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #3, Zoom in, zoom out, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #4, Step outside, right here.
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PROCESS #4 of 5 for quick & easy FOCUS & ALIGNMENT Photo of cloudy sky with dark clouds in color variations. From Osarugue Igbinoba on Unsplash. (Have you ever noticed you can follow the bold print in each post to get the gist of it for a quick read and to find where you may want to go in more deeply? Yup.) Today’s piece-of-cake process requires no paper or pen, just the capacity to move through a threshold from indoors to outdoors. If that’s difficult or you can’t leave the premises in the moment you have the impulse to reach for this process (and do follow those impulses!), do you have access to a window? Just look out. Better still if you can open the window for even a moment, in any weather, and breathe a bit of fresh air. STEP OUTSIDE I step outside early in the day, sometimes just for a minute or two, sometimes to hang out for a few. I do this in the midst of my other focusing processes because, seriously, going outside (or your variation of that) fully counts as an alignment process. I’ve met some birds, squirrels, cottontails, and raccoons that way. The bird song is remarkably present in all weathers (even if scant), and the crescendo of music in the springtime is downright life-giving. It’s nice to learn the temperature by encountering it, experiencing it, not reading about it. If you don’t like how it feels, see if you can appreciate the contrast between inside and out; enjoy both the variety and your preference. Gauging the movement in the air as it plays all around you allows a specific kind of connection to consciousness. Air can feel still (almost silent!), flowy, breezy, windy. Watching current air movements register in the rippling branches of trees is a presence practice in itself, calling forth your own ongoing dance with consciousness. And, oh, the sky. The great, ever-present sky, I have learned, provides constant solace.MAKE A GAME OF FINDING COLORS IN THE SKY Spending time in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, right by the ocean, I was struck by the insane number of beautiful colors in the sky. I developed a habit of being on the beach, usually practicing Qigong, for the hour leading up to and lingering just past sunset. As the sun sets or rises, the shifts are so quick you can almost decipher them (even see them quite clearly) with the naked eye. Watch for this anywhere on the planet. (I once wrote about a little life lesson or reminder from the swiftly changing Caribbean sky.) I’m in Kansas now, landlocked, living in a townhouse in a little cul-de-sac. When I step outside, I see other houses that look almost exactly like my mom’s. My old self would have made this cause for ongoing disdain and possibly depression. Now, I look up. Instead of telling myself that this is not the sky of the tropics (I used to focus relentlessly on what was missing, what I didn’t have), I search for colors in the Midwestern sky. At some point, I started playing a game of finding five colors in any sky. I almost always can. I very often find more. I told this to a color-blind person recently, who was instantly sparked by the idea and declared they would look for textures. (Brilliant! Now I’m noticing textures a lot more.) Even a simple blue sky isn’t monochromatic. There’s a lighter blue near the horizon line, and you may find a deeper shade as the eyes scan upward, and the deepest blue looking right up. White clouds aren’t just white. They’ve got edgy bits of shadow, with notes of violet, mauve, gray. (Get subtle and snobby, as if describing a fine wine.) Closer to the sun, a yellow-gold may gleam through. Even in a gray sky, shades of gray abound, and some of that gray turns out to be mauve or almost dark blue. I could go on. I cannot tell you how fun and fulfilling I find this absurd little game. I can barely express the benefits of looking into the sky. I know them viscerally, not semantically. Russ Hudson, my favorite Enneagram teacher (who gives huge emphasis to presence), sometimes uses the phrase Let it make its impressions on you. I love this phrase. And I love letting the sky make its impressions on me.  Photo of a blue sky with dramatic clouds. Some are dark,and others appear to glow with light. From Jake Weirick on Unsplash. WANT A BRIEF, RELATED AUDIO FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH? Remember that these five quick & easy alignment and focus processes come from Abraham-Hicks. Here is a lovely 10.5-minute video/audio to give you more ideas directly from Abraham about what it does for you to step outside and what you might do, experience, remember, feel, and allow out there. (If you bump into some of their jargon you don’t know, just ignore it and focus on what you instantly get and what appeals to you. There’s something in this for you if you’re drawn in. I find this to be a little gem of a talk.) WANT A LITTLE EXPERIMENT WITH LAW OF ATTRACTION? Of course, it’s nice to be out for the best skies at sunrise and sunset. Here’s a fun experiment to run: if you make a point of stepping outside or gazing out the window more than once in the day, and you’re cultivating a mindset of finding colors, you may notice you start receive tugs or impulses (and follow the impulses!) to look or head out when there’s more going on, when prime-time skies hit. That’s an easy to show yourself that what you give your attention to really does start echoing back to you. This way, you can play with LOA for free and at the risk of catching more amazing skies.  Photo of a pale sky with clouds lit yellow and purple from sunrise or sunset. From Jei Lee on Unsplash. NURTURE & REVEL IN YOUR LOVE FOR THE EARTH For those concerned about the environment, whether as a matter of course or more acutely in the current era, go love it up. Don’t just hate things happening that seem wrong and counterintuitive to you. Do spend time in nature. Remind yourself that beautiful places exist and that birds are flying around and animals are playing, grazing, gathering. The Earth, like your own amazing physical body, is constantly and actively self-repairing and bringing anything that’s off-kilter back into balance. Concern yourself less with what’s wrong (even if you’re right that it’s wrong) and more with healing and thriving mechanisms in progress. And take in and love and experience the beauty, the magic, the ongoing perfection. As Rachel Carson taught, cultivate a sense of wonder and teach and model that to younger human beings (who are almost always predisposed to meet you in the awe). People learn to give a damn better from a sense of what they love and cherish than what they fear and feel as spinning out of control. The Earth is still spinning properly in the perfect orbit. Give her your love. QUICK NOTE ABOUT THE SEDENTARY LIFE As with all of these processes for focus & alignment, stepping outside is great to do several times a day, as needed. You know your body wants to move. Your blood wants some support to circulate. Your screen-weary eyes want to stretch their gaze and take in something that isn’t digital. At the risk of repeating myself, follow every impulse to take even a super-quick pause to look out and up. Your whole body, nervous system, and breathing flow will recalibrate in a lovely way every time you do this. (Drink water while you’re at it!) You can find Abraham-Hicks process #1, Easy Existing Matches, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #2, Segment intending, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #3, Zoom in, zoom out, right here. Process #5 coming soon! And yes, I still love feedback. Love & blessings, Jaya for quick & easy FOCUS & ALIGNMENT  Photo of someone fine-tuning their work on a bicycle wheel. From Natalia Blauth on Unsplash. (Have you ever noticed you can follow the bold print in each post to get the gist of it for a quick read and to find where you may want to go in more deeply? Yup.) I’ve now offered 3 of 5 quick & easy processes (all now on my blog, all linked at the bottom of this writing) to help you choose your focus and come back to alignment (or to a better feeling state) when you find that you’re OFF. Here, I’m hitting the pause button in order to fine-tune what we’re already working with. I’ll come back around with processes 4 & 5 soon. Reminder of where this stuff originates: All of these user-friendly & effective processes come from Abraham-Hicks. If you want it from the horse’s mouth, you can search that name on YouTube and find a ton of free stuff. You can also pay for Abraham Now broadcasts to hear the latest conversations in these virtual international gatherings that happen most months anywhere from one to four times. Past broadcasts are available for purchase, too. I want to flag that for political support in the current reality in the US, both the November 9 and January 29 Abraham Now programs were especially rich with helpful content. Fine-tuning Zoom In, Zoom Out: In brief, this process involves checking out, when you feel bad, how zoomed in you are to a specific topic, or what level of detail you’re in. Noticing that you’re in the thorns, ZOOM OUT! Get away from snaggly details and pull back. Go general. Remind yourself of very general things you can tell yourself or know to be true that soften the whole topic (This too shall pass, I’ve felt this way before and it worked out okay, I don’t need to figure this all out—just need to take one step at a time). Whatever you’re creating or tending or having thoughts & feelings about, approach it or come back to it--ZOOM IN—when you feel good & aligned (capable, supported, calm, trusting, etc). Then the details don’t feel daunting! Great question someone sent: HOW? How do I zoom out when the zoom-in feels like quicksand? My response: By caring more about how you feel. (That, too, is a classic Abraham-Hicks phrase. CARE MORE ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL.) Then you'll catch a whiff of quicksandy stuff before it has so much momentum that it can only suck you in deeper deeper deeper. Everything gains momentum, so please catch things early. Care so much about how you feel that you tune in to the first whiff of feeling bad. Stop and check out what the mind is up to in that moment. You’ll probably find that it’s zoomed in on upsetting details that overwhelm you (stress you out, feel disturbing, …). From there, you have the possibility of choosing your mental focus, and these processes are designed for just that. You can consciously walk yourself to a focus that brings some relief and feels better. Zooming out will almost certainly do that for you. Another way to zoom out before the quicksand takes you is by being willing to interrupt lines of thinking that ego-mind wants to carry on with. The mind will grasp. It will insist on holding to these thought trains for various reasons. Any of these familiar?
Be willing to experiment with letting go fast of habitual thinking that feels bad (whether or not you identify why you typically cling to those thoughts). If you’d like to experiment with a new radical habit of interrupting habitual lines of thinking that feel bad, then you’ll also want new things to reach for to give the mind somewhere else to go. These tools are good ones. They provide very doable ways to focus the mind. I don’t think it’s actually hard to zoom out or to reach for any process in the moment you need one. A lot of the time, what feels hard is simply UNPRACTICED. Are piano scales hard or do they just require practice? I invite you to keep practicing zooming out, no matter when you catch yourself, no matter how deep in the quicksand you end up. Practice any of these tools you feel drawn to play with. Practice because you care about how you feel, you want to feel better, and you see the potential in these tools for helping you feel better more of the time. For some people (certainly for Enneagram heart types!), it helps to keep this in view: Be okay with the fact that your feeling body won’t catch up right away. The heart tends to lag behind the mind—no problem. Work with the mind without demanding that the heart come along swiftly. Your feeling state is always (always, always) affected by what you’re paying attention to. Change your mental focus, and your feelings will eventually follow. IT WON’T WORK IN THE OPPOSITE ORDER, so don’t wait to feel better to focus mentally on something else!  Close cropped view of a person in a shiny suit playing a Schimmel piano. From Dominik Scythe on Unsplash. Fine-tuning Segment Intending: Listening again to a recent broadcast from Abraham, I was reminded of two important things they stress about segment intending (process #2). For that one, you set very simple intentions for just the next thing you’re doing, the next little segment of your day. You’re not writing goals focused on what you want to accomplish (though those are fine too), but instead determining how you’d like to feel during that one bit. If I’m about to work on taxes, I’ll segment-intend all over that to set myself up for being relaxed, at ease, pleased with myself for taking care of business, and so on. (I’ll let your imagination fill in how many laptops may have flown though closed windows before I learned about this tool.) One major point of segment intending: I didn’t mention before that segment intending allows you to choose how you’re presenting yourself to the field of attraction. I love that phrasing. You attract more of what you bring in. Going in to do tax work with anxiety and frustration—hating the task already—means building momentum from there. The risk of flying laptops and shattered window panes increases. Presenting yourself already poised for a relaxed process to be moved through slowly and at ease probably means getting more done, feeling better about the whole thing, and maybe knowing when to quit. Use segment intending to refuel as you go: Segment intending also provides a means of refueling, says A-H. Another super-helpful metaphor. You’ve used a certain amount of energy up to now, and you’re about to rev up for the next activity (task, event, whatever). Are you fueled? The pause to tune in to how you’re feeling and choose consciously how you’d like to feel for the next thing refills your tank. You come back to presence, back to what you’re about & what you’re after. You line back up with Source energy.  Photo of two cats following a robotic vacuum cleaner. From YoonJae Baik on Unsplash. Plug in: Most important, segment intending, and all of these processes, plug you in to Source energy. Abraham has also been using the metaphor of plugging in the vacuum cleaner. If vacuuming stands for the things to get done in life, then you do need to make sure the machine is plugged in, or any amount of pushing the thing around isn’t going to accomplish any of it. (Okay, I did pick a bogus illustration of a robovac that doesn’t plug in, but … cats. To be fair, the robot cleaner does have to charge up first in a plugged-in charging station, so …) Please please please, don’t just propel yourself through the day in any feeling state, going from one thing to the next to get shit done. Live your life consciously. Be in a dance with consciousness. Choose your focus. Connect to what nourishes you all day every day. These process are fantastic ways to do that. Current climate affecting you? Let me throw in that many people in or connected to the US are very distressed these days about political doings and their impact on sentient beings & the Earth herself. If you let the media and the feeling states & preoccupations of those around you choose your focus for you, you know it’s not going to be pretty. I invite you to consciously align with Source. Find larger perspectives. Hold the vision of what you do want and give energy to that. Focus less on what’s horrible and leads you to predict future horrors. How will that get us where we want to be? (Answer: it will not.) Are you planning to feel bad for the next four years? Please don’t. I don’t wish that on anyone. You’re here now, and this is your life. Simply put, when you feel heavy, disturbed & distressed, fearful, angry, outraged—you’re out of alignment with Source energy (and you’re not having fun). Consider how different love feels from fear & dread. Live in love, take excellent care of yourself and your feeling states, and you’ll find where and how to do some good. (Focus on what’s wrong and what’s not as you want it, and your clouds will get darker and darker. You’ll be no good to anyone.) A very different process to help with political pain: Here’s a a tapping or EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) session on the topic of minding your state in the midst of the current political climate. NEW ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ll be doing EFT on Saturday mornings in February with anyone who shows up. These will all end up on my YouTube channel. Note that I have a specific playlist to support you with any stress based on political stuff. You can find Abraham-Hicks process #1, Easy Existing Matches, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #2, Segment intending, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #3, Zoom in, zoom out, right here. Process #4 coming soon! If you’re drawn to the first 3, please play with them! And keep the feedback coming. It’s part of what fuels me. Love & blessings, Jaya Process #3 of 5 for quick & easy focus & alignment Up-close photo of part of an owl’s face from Sandra Seitamaa on Unsplash. Feeling bad? Stop. What are you thinking about? You’re probably zoomed in on details that, simply put, stir up suffering. Unnecessary suffering. Seriously, just let any kind of feeling bad be cause to stop and check out what you’re thinking. Pause if you’re
If anything feels bad, INTERRUPT YOUR THOUGHTS AT ONCE AND CHECK THEM OUT. Let feeling good matter enough to you that you’re jolted to a halt when you notice you feel bad! Abraham-Hicks (whose processes I’m sharing with you here in this series of 5) often reminds us: CARE MORE ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL. So when you notice you feel bad, pause. And ask yourself … What are you focused on? Are you in the thorny details? In other words, are you ZOOMED IN to what feels bad? You’re getting lost in specific concerns you can’t fix or questions you can’t possibly have the answers to right now:
In all such lines of thought, you’re zoomed in on all manner of detail that can only make you feel some kind of bad. (Mostly because they’re not in your realm of control. Not your business, to use Byron Katie’s 3 kinds of business. They all belong to others or to the Universe—any timing, outcome, how-what-when-who.) And isn’t it easy to get entranced by the details? There’s nothing to judge when you catch yourself there, so catch yourself sweetly. And GET OUT. It will never serve you to hang out there. Please take in how simple this is:
And what do you do when you find yourself feeling bad & zoomed in on details?  Photo of owl in tree taken from afar from Shirish Suwal on Unsplash. Easy: ZOOM OUT. IS IT EVER USEFUL TO ZOOM IN? Yes! Zoom in to anything that feels good. If you notice you’re delighted by a child or a flower or a sky or a hilarious comment, zoom in! Stay with it. Do hang out in these details! Bask in the particulars of that joy-producing, awe-inspiring, heart-melting thing! Stay with it for a while if you’re feeling expansive, loving & trusting life, getting soothing or relief. Stay with what reminds you all is well and life is about love. HOW THIS APPLIES TO GETTING SHIT DONE Things we’re up to and fully choose to do may have thorny, problematic components and problems or how-to’s not yet solved. That applies to most every dream or vision we have, every work or home task we wish to complete & do well, every relationship event or issue that we want to show up for. So yes, show up to do the work. But when you’re feeling bad, zoom out! Later come back and zoom back in. Do that once you’ve moved away from thorny details that had your brow all furrowed. You properly responded to the signals of feeling bad, zoomed out, and now you feel good & relaxed again. Maybe you’ve even zoomed in on something totally different that got you back to where you like to be. You’re in love again (with life, with yourself, with other sentient beings). You’re back to can-do. NOW go back. Now, you’re ready to move the thing forward again, to face that challenging task, to consider what step you might actually be ready to take.  Photo of trees in woods from Lukasz Szmigiel on Unsplash.
EASY AS 1-2-3
You’ve got this. ZOOM IN OR ZOOM OUT This is a very recent thing Abraham’s been talking about. They used to simply emphasize the idea to GO GENERAL. This is a tweak to that. It emphasizes instead that sometimes it feels good to zoom in. So that. And sometimes, in order to feel good, you need to zoom out. Just let feeling good be your guide! THAT’S ALL FOLKS. Zoom in or zoom out. Notice that this process doesn’t even require writing anything down. (Though you can always use writing to focus.) What follows are some afterthoughts you may not even want. Skim or skip as drawn. WHAT MIGHT GET LOST when you permit yourself to stay zoomed in on details that make you feel bad. You may lose track of
In short, you lose track of your own belief system, whatever it is, and choosing to follow fearful thinking that’s falsely predicated on the wrong idea you need to keep thinking it through, figuring it out, redundantly reviewing details. It’s based on the false premise that you’re the doer and the one who needs to keep a vigilant watch on everything for things to be okay. Um, how bout not? You can find Abraham-Hicks process #1, Easy Existing Matches, right here. Find Abraham-Hicks process #2, Segment intending, right here. Love & blessings, Jaya Process #2 of 5 for quick & easy focus & alignment Photo of a person sitting on a wood floor string a long thread of beads. From Natalia Blauth on Unsplash. You are aligned when you feel connected, serene, optimistic, excited, clear. In short, you’re aligned when you feel good. When you don’t feel good, you may want to reach for a tool that could make you feel better. This is how you mind your alignment. When you get up in the morning, you might reach for a tool that allows you to choose your own focus. How do you want to feel? These quick & easy processes I’m offering in a series of 5 come from Abraham-Hicks, where I’m getting most of my dynamic learning & input for feeling great about my evolving life these days! SEGMENT INTENDING This process has two steps, and the first is optional.
Multitasking version: If you can’t write your intentions down—maybe you’re driving or putting lunch together—speak your intentions out loud. Pen on paper is ideal, but segment intending is super helpful whether written or spoken. LET’S DEFINE SEGMENT Think of your day as a beaded necklace that you’re constructing or creating bead by bead as you move through the hours. Each bead represents the next activity. So a string of segments could look like this:
You can even treat sleep as a segment. Read the next paragraph if you could use a reminder about good ways to put yourself to bed. Segment-intend to declare how you want to drop in for sleep and how you’d like to feel waking up. Consider how this could change the tone of how you rest compared with what else you might carry into sleep. As you go to bed, do you evaluate yourself, your day, your success, your relationship? Or do you go over what’s not yet done and look anxiously ahead? How about clear, kind, restful intentions instead? Intend feeling satisfied, letting go, feeling held & supported (by the bed, by all of life, by what feels complete & lovely & good enough for this day)?  Photo of notebook, pen, and lit candle. From Mushaboom Studio on Unsplash. WHY INTEND FOR JUST ONE SEGMENT? This tool brings intentional living down to brass tacks (um, or necklace beads). All you’re doing is isolating one manageable next bit and defining how you want to feel in it. Then you can consciously aim for that. Intentions for just the next segment are powerful because they’re simple, their focus is narrow, they feel entirely doable. You’re gazing at and polishing the one next beautiful bead you’re about to string onto the necklace that is this wonderful day in progress. It’s unlikely you’ll want or need to set intentions for every single segment of a day. Use segment intending especially if you’re already noticing a wobble. Examples of wobbles you may feel acutely or get even a whiff of:
Note that you don’t have to feel even a little bit bad about what’s coming up to segment-intend. I zoom-met with a friend I adore the other day, and I used segment intending to imbibe up front how much I love being in their presence. That’s what I carried in with me, heart full and eyes already reflecting their brightness. Have you ever entered a meeting flustered or scattered or just barely catching up to yourself and this moment? I have. And when I segment-intend, I don’t do that. I come in clear, conscious, grounded. Ready or not, I am ready, and I’m willing. I’m present. Don’t you love getting more conscious in your dance with consciousness? More to the point—in this one next dance? Want to show up with sass, ease, attitude? You decide.  Photo of young person with dark skin, locs, and torn jeans dancing in the street pointing at the viewer. From Blake Cheek on Unsplash.
MAKE YOUR INTENTIONS ABOUT YOU AND, PRECISELY, HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL. It doesn’t really work to intend that things will happen a certain way, or that you’ll get a certain outcome. (Universe’s business.) It’s pointless to intend how others will show up, because you have no agency there. (Their business.) Just make intentions about how you want to feel. You can’t even control what you’ll do or how you’ll do it. So focus on calling in feeling states. Side note: when you’re minding your own alignment, you may find—may have already found!—that you call forth more of the good stuff that others have to bring. But just let that happen. Your work (your business) is to tend to your own clear focus and the feeling state that focus brings. You can leave the rest to life, to others, to Source, to Law of Attraction (to whatever you want to call it). EXAMPLES OF INTENTIONS FOR A SEGMENT Let’s say you’re about to write something up for work that you’ve been thinking about. So your list of intentions could look like this:
That’s it, folks. Then go on through the door into your next segment, and what’s there to meet you will be colored by all that you just set up, all that you’re consciously bringing with you. And as you string each segment of the day onto the whole, you end up with a thing of beauty and a sense of satisfaction. You can find process #1, Easy Existing Matches, right here. Process #3, on the Abraham-Hicks concept of zoom in, zoom out, is the next post on this blog. Reminder that no process you know about does any good unless you use it. I dare you to use one or more of these daily. (But really I want you to follow your curiosity about what’s possible to keep you aligned and feeling good as much as possible for your total well-being and fulfillment.) Love & blessings, Jaya |
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