[Ati]

Happy New Year, everybody!

On 11/5, I wrote this:

In an easy and relaxed manner,
In a healthy and positive way,
For the highest good of all,
In its own perfect time, with its own perfect timing,
In good faith and in good humor,

I intend focused and effective study throughout this week, and the board examination easily accomplished this Thursday.

And then ...... a couple days ago..... in the mail.....

Yah, I passed !

I was taking this exam in an official sort of computer lab set up for big exams, licensure, national board exams for docs, bar exams for attorneys etc. I haven't taken a multiple choice examination in lots of years. When I started, by about the 20th question, I realized that these questions were really pretty much throwing me off, they seemed different from what I'd been studying....standardized national exams are like that. I don't tend to get real nervous abt things, but it occurred to me rather solidly that this could go badly after all my work and expense.

So, I stopped. They give everyone a wax board to write notes on, whatever you want to do. I looked down and slowly, carefully wrote down my intention just like you see up there, but after I intend, just "a full pass of this exam". I focused on that and made myself think of nothing else for maybe a long minute or two.

Then, with the next question, it all seemed to light up and I just flew through the rest of it. The exam is in two 4 hour blocks. After that first block, I went back to re-read the questions, just because it seemed so amazing that after my focusing session, things would look so differently. The first questions did look a little off but then it all looked better after that.

In any case I passed the thing!

happy new year to all!

Ati