FINE-TUNING the PROCESSES

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?

• I’m RIGHT
• I have a right to feel how I feel
• Anyone (sane or good-hearted or ...) would agree with me
• The thing I'm describing to myself (zooming in on) is real—it's really happening
• I can't stand not to be understood & I'm going to keep explaining-defending-justifying even inside my own mind to try (hopelessly) to make them understand
• I’ll be ignoring something that really matters if I look away (zoom out) right now
• ... [whatever you know about what gets you]

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