Generally your consciousness works to create more of what you pay attention to. Be careful what you pay attention to because you are going to get more of it.
Integration Exercises - What's Good?
Exercises To Do On Your Own
Be careful what you pay attention to because you are going to get more of it. You can help people focus on what they do want by asking them the simple question, "What's good?"
Time for Exercise: one minute
Properties Required: none
Steps:
1. The next time you greet someone, instead of usual greetings such as "How are you?" "How's it going?" "What's new?" ask "What's good?"
2. Suggest to everyone you know that they start asking others this simple question.
Comments:
If you pay attention to how people use language, you will notice that they often phrase responses in negative terms. For example, if you ask someone, "How are you today?" the most frequent response seems to be "Not bad." If you ask, "How is everything?" they might say, "It could be worse." When people talk about what they want, they often mention what they don't want. For example, "I sure hope I don't get that flu going around," or "I don't want to be sick," or "I don't want to be poor," or "I hope my husband is not fooling around on me."
Generally your consciousness works to create more of what you pay attention to. When you pay attention to what you don't want, there is a good chance you are going to get not less but more of it. So pay attention to what you do want. For example, "I want to be healthy," or "I want to have lots of money," or "I want a relationship based on trust and commitment."
Excerpted from our new book Sensual Love Secrets for Couples: The Four Freedoms of Body, Mind, Heart and Soul, by Al Link and Pala Copeland, Llewellyn, 2007
4 Freedoms Integration Exercise - Under the Sky
Know that you are part of this wondrous vastness. The universe or cosmos contains everything that exists. The universe is believed to "vibrate" out of "strings." According to Dan Falk, "Each string is as small compared to an atom as an atom is compared to the solar system."
4 Freedoms Integration Exercise - Seeing in the Dark
This exercise forces you to rely on senses other than sight. You might be amazed at how much you rely on sight for so many things. You might also be amazed at how many things you can do for yourself without being able to see.
4 Freedoms Integration Exercise - Out of Body
If your consciousness can leave the body, what does that mean about death? If the body dies, can consciousness just leave the body and not return? Each evening as you prepare to sleep, give your deeper consciousness instructions for going out of your body.
