techniques for shifting attention

[Love]

Hi. I am trying to achieve my intentions, just like everyone else here. What I know I need work on is shifting my attention. Often times my attention will fall anyway to what I don't want. I can often recognize when I am focusing on what I don't want. What I have trouble with is moving that attention to something I do want. Sometimes it is oddly satisfying to focus on what I don't want. Other times I feel that what I don't want just conjures up more powerful images and sensations that what I do want. So, my question is: what methods do you have for switching your attention from a negative state to a positive state? And which method works best, for you?
Thanks!

[Ati]

Hey have a look at Phrasing your intentions....we have just been talking about that. ....great question and a challenge all around!

ati

[mej023]

Maybe this quote from Abraham will help.

"You can't tell someone else the direction of their journey, because you don't know the details of the pre-paving that is calling them forth.

You can't understand the vibrational mix of anyone but you. And when you try to guide someone from your vantage point, you are disallowing them their vantage point.

You do not have to control conditions, nor can you-but you can feel better. And when you do feel better, you've shifted your vibrational point of attraction. And when you've shifted your vibrational point of attraction-you've shifted your life.

So, are there problems in your future? Undoubtedly. But there are solutions right on the heels of them. You could close the gap between the problem and the solution so tightly that you would never even know there was a problem; your problems can be solved before they manifest-when you clean up your vibration. When you make it an Emotional Journey, you're solving problems today that could be in your future experience, and as you feel good now, you never have to walk through the problem-you just go from solution to solution, to solution.

It doesn't matter if you're looking past, present or future-you're doing it now. There are people on the other side of the planet that are sleeping maybe, but it's still now. There are Non-physical Beings like us who have no time, but it's still now. In other words, now is now, is now, is now. And all of the Energy of all of the Planets, of all of the Universes, of all of the decades, of all of the centuries, of all of the years, of all of the beingness, of all of the consciousness, it is culminated into this now. It is a huge source and stream of knowledge and Energy and Well-Being, and it is all available to you now, now, now.

So, the question that we want to put to you, is, what are you doing in your now? And you can tell by the way you feel: If you're angry, if you're frustrated, if you're petty, if you're jealous; if you're pushing against, if you're blameful, if you're critical-you are not in alignment with the resources of the Universe now.

So, as you make a decision: Nothing is more important than that I feel good, what begins to happen to you is, you begin to guide your thought, your every word, and your action. You guide your memory, you don't say, "This is how I grew up and therefore I have to deal with it and dig it up every day and suffer over it." You say, There were things in my past that were unpleasant, but there were things in my past that were pleasant-I will choose those that feel pleasant. Or, There are things in my now that I have imagined into the future that are awful, or there are things that I imagine in the future that are wonderful-I will focus upon those that are wonderful. But you can't jump vibrations all at once. So, stop beating up on yourself.

We want you to be willing and happy to make the jumps incrementally; we want your journey to be about the improvement about the way you feel.

There's relief everywhere you go, and there's reward for you everywhere you go. Do not equate how you feel about something with how anybody else feels, because they're not in on your equation. You're not being compared to anyone. But there is an absolute comparison between the vibration of who-you-really-are, and the vibration of your moment. And it's your job, and only your job, to bring harmony to that.

You have to take the Emotional Journey, first. And when you decide to take the Emotional Journey on every subject that's important to you, you're going to discover-by tomorrow-how much better you can feel about things that you haven't been feeling good about, and in the moment that you change the way you feel, even the slightest bit, everything related to you, related to that subject, will begin to shift-and there will be evidence on your doorstep by the weekend. "