It is what it is….

So much of what we think is packaged.  Free running thought is sometimes enjoyable, sometimes frustrating; all in all, it is what it is: “unbridled”. 

While the rippling enthusiasm of a young colt bounding and kicking, sprinting and zig zagging in a summer-lush field is sport to watch, it is only what it is… unbridled.  The colt’s purpose, though it has no knowledge of this, is to develop muscle and reactions that will serve in a contest for a mate or in a flight for survival.  The colt’s joyful actions are taken in service of an — though unconscious — anticipated need for reaction.

We are like that.  We have body, mind, and spirit too.  All of which from time to time have enthusiastic flexing, movement, and joy.  No real reason at the time, but reason enough in design.  The mind needs to be quick, as well the body in times of need.  In times of reaction.  The spirit is sometimes assuaged as well.  It has to have depth and stolid consistency to deal with times of hardship, and to have the resiliancy to withstand the tests then flourish once again in times of joy. 

Packaged thought is disconnected yet necessary.  I have to do this NOW. Whatever that is — groceries, pick up the kids, go skating… whatever it is, that is what it is at the time.  The art of living comes in drawing connections, or is it in managing connections, between one time an the next.  The art of living is in connecting, relating, pulling the experience of the past into the fore when needed, laterally drawing like experiences together when needed…. connecting the packages.  Bridling the unbridled for the purpose of being free.

The discipline of living free.  A paradox.  An oxymoron.  Discipline — free.  Juxtaposed… or not.  Freedom does have a ‘price’ we might have heard.  It does have a cost in action, for sure.  But energy is abounding, so where to put our energy except into actions that free us?  There’s no other reasonable answer.  Put energy into bondage?! Not a good answer.  The packages of thought, the boundaries of the moment are put to service in the well led life.  They are moments to be consumed, as they are because they are what they are.  There is not another moment to supplant the one you are in, so live it and be it and do what it is that moment demands, or wants, or requests, or needs.  That package is the present.  The one you open only now, and now, and now again.  The precious ‘present’ that we are given to live and connect and to find freedom within.

Unbridled, bridled.  It is what it is.

When GOOD turns to Dissapointment

“How We Too Often Make Our Good Feelings Turn Into Dissapointment”

It is really easy to do and we so often do it without even noticing.  Follow this and see if you are one of these people, even some of the time.

So, you get a good feeling, maybe a gut instinct and you feel like something good is around you or going to happen to you.  That’s a nice feeling! 

What do you — we — often do?!  We LOOK for confirmation.  We buy a lottery ticket, start dreaming of what would happen if….  We imagine that NOW is the time our ship will come in etc. etc.  Guess what?  When those things don’t happen, we get dissapointed, we even get depressd: “how come other people have this or that and I don’t…?”  “How come I didn’t win this or gain that?” 

Of course, the next thing that happens is… well, the good feelings are gone and we have served only to prove the good feelings false.  Not a great reinforcing cycle.

WHAT TO DO?!

As the Beatles said, “let it be”.  If you feel good or feel the presence of good, let it be!  If you do that, and DON’T look for anything the feeling lasts a long long time. 

My oldest daughter said to me at dinner tonight, after I was informing her about some writing I have been doing lately, “Dad, sometimes we weren’t meant to look too hard for things; sometimes we just have to let go and let things happen.”  She is right.  We then had a good talk about what I have just written for you to read.  We had a laugh and then agreed: “Let it be, and good things last so much longer… maybe your whole life long…”

Namaste

A daily task and a simple list

A Daily Task

In the paradigm of Inner Management, after beliefs are formed thought and feeling are the dynamic duo.  This is why the action of building images with deeply associated feelings is so important.  Using this knowledge you have a small task to complete daily: from now on, if you feel bad, notice.  Check your thoughts.  Let negative go, detach from it, and let good flourish.  If you feel good, notice.  Check your thoughts or your deep state of awareness.  Let feeling good prosper as your natural expression, as the good states of being provide nourishment to the body, the minds and to life-force.  Feel the power of the minds, as every thought has a response in the body, and every feeling has an associated thought.  Align and reinforce good thought with good feeling.  Remember this too: the higher the vibrating frequency of any given thing in our universe, the closer it is to the vibration of light.  Light vanquishes all darkness, as you know.  The thoughts and feelings you want, the one’s that feel best, are of the best quality and are also closer in vibration to light.  Love and gratitude are the strongest and most positive of feelings and thought.  Feel them often as they never wear or fade – except through lack of use.

A Simple List

It is time now to make a short list of the positive emotions and feelings you enjoy most as well as the simplest, most natural and direct routes you have of achieving them through choice and action.  This is a simple list, not an elaborate one.  Using Action Tool #4, list and develop ways of tuning in to positive emotions and feeling – as much as possible without the use of ego.  List simple activities you have done in the past and can do now that bring you towards the expression of light and towards harmony.  Make this list uncomplicated, short and sweet.  Ask, what are the simplest activities you can enjoy that bring forth positive emotions?  How about talking to a positive friend, enjoying a sit in the sun, gardening, writing, a silent cup of tea, running, cooking a healthy meal…; do any of these resonate with you? Write out a short list of simple and wholesome activities that bring forth in you the natural positive emotions and feelings you enjoy most.  Undertake one or more of these activities every day, if only for a few moments.  Bring this quality of being to your life, as you deserve and were intended for the full and natural expression of life – and a quality life has an authentic simplicity at the core.  There is so much joy around us when we are able to find it.  Find yours in the simple things on your simple list; then share your joy with others.

What we teach

When we teach, we teach three things:

content

processes

skills

That’s all.  Everything fits into those three categories.

We use four major methods of communicating / teaching:

relate

question

state

actuate

That’s in round figures.

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Fearing to be different … is just the same as most

If you fear being different, then you are the same as most people….

If you fear that someone will realize that you believe in something that is not accepted in the social norm, then you are just like most people.

Change.

Embrace being different.

Steve Martin poked fun at all of us many years ago in one of his stadium filled comedy shows: “Now, let’s all complete the non-conformists oath — repeat after me!”

“Why Use Systems Thinking In the Classroom?”

“Why Use Systems Thinking In the Classroom?”

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My name is D. Ross Leadbetter M.Ed.  I’ve been studying systems thinking in education for 17 years.  I am still at it.  Enough about me, let’s answer the question.

World renowned systems thinker, Peter Senge, said in his book Schools That Learn that through the use of systems thinking we can actively develop an awareness of complexity, interdependence, change, and leverage.  Those are good things for all of us to develop!

Consider this quote from Einstein:

“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it.

You must learn to see the world anew.”

Enough said? Of course we all know that we have to think differently in our emerging world; thereby, as educators, we must teach children to think differently – to see the world anew.

But HOW does systems thinking do this?

Consider this quote from Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D. in his book The Element: “If you have never learned to think creatively and to explore your true capacity, what will you do then?  More specifically, what will our children do if we continue to prepare them for life using the old models of education?”

We HAVE to change how we teach, and systems thinking ADDS to what you already do; it unleashes the interactive and creative power of you and your students.

Systems thinking IS creative and visual, and interactive, and contemporary…. definitely, creative and contemporary.

Again, from Sir Ken, same book:  “The human brain is intensely interactive.  You use multiple parts of it in every task you perform.  It is in fact in the dynamic use of the brain – finding new connections between things – that true breakthroughs occur.”

I LOVE THAT QUOTE.  The Human Brain IS Intensely Interactive, and connections DO create breakthroughs!

Systems thinking is a language; it’s a pattern language; a visual language.  It is broadly concerned with exploring interactions, interdependencies, and connections, especially over time.

Systems thinking is intensely interactive because you CREATE and REFINE your thought on paper or on a board, alone or with others!  It engages, involves, and draws in every type of thinker.  It the ultimate tool in your teaching toolbox. REALLY.

Imagine a group of people milling around an emerging diagram – a diagram that everyone helps create, and that doesn’t have to be pretty to be good.  Imagine the powerful conversation and debate as patterns and connections emerge.

Ask, “why does building more roads cause greater road congestion?”  And then get out of the way.

Or, ask “how does spraying to kill one pest quite often cause EVEN GREATER damage to a crop?”  Again, back away from the board….

That’s of course once you have taught the tools.

Now, systems thinking is a circular language and it is diagram-based.  It helps us look for and find causes and effects, relationships, and interdependence… it’s about as real as reality really is! (whew) “We must learn to see anew.”

We finally have a method for teaching concepts

JUST LIKE THINGS HAPPEN IN THE REAL WORLD.

Do YOU want to create GREAT THINKERS? You’ll be surprised at WHICH students are the BEST and most natural systems thinkers.  I WAS.  And I loved it!  Talk about a leveling tool!

Systems thinking as an approach, can create great thinkers for you… for all of us.

Consider Marzano’s discovery: …superior findings (are) reported for visual and dramatic instruction over verbal instruction in terms of percentage of information recalled by students one year after the completion of the unit.

Or, another great quote by Mr. Marzano:  “What is needed…is a comprehensive approach that allows for student construction of meaning while interacting with content, the teacher, and other students.”  (*****YES!*****)

Systems thinking:

• Helps us explore, understand, and share our mental models;
• Examines the patterns and structures that govern our world;
• Is creative, engaging, interesting, graphic, discussion oriented… because,

“People Gather Around Diagrams”

• An approach based on a visual language, thus allowing us to easily present and clarify complex issues by summing up the key elements involved.
• Is focused upon concision, clarity, presentation, and dialogue.
• Translates communication – stories, relationships, key aspects, causes, interdependence and more – into black and white diagrams that are easily understood
• Adds precision to communication.
• Decreases ambiguity.
• Allows us to poke and prod, inquire and examine WITHOUT ruffling feathers.
• Creates a collective view, so then a collective understanding.
• Discussions are not confrontational; they are about building the best representation of the problem or initiative and being able to consider it from differing angles: focusing on diagrams diffuses defensiveness.
• Looks at the whole, not a reduction of parts.

In seconds you can slam a Behavior Over Time Graph up on the board and have groups map out the “POWER” of (1) the Romans, (2) Christianity, (3) the Vikings, (4) the Frankish Kingdoms over a period of 1000 years.  I’ve done it!  It is absolutely engaging! Kids LOVE it.

How about having students use Causal Loop Diagrams to show how drug use affects drug dependency in a circular and reinforcing – vicious cycle.  Again, you step out of the picture as ‘giver’ of information and simply facilitate, illuminate and expand upon the very creative and engaging thoughts of your students!

LET their Minds Free!  Students are amazingly creative and thoughtful, and finally you have a tool that you can use in ALL your classes:

• Relate climate change and dinosaur mortality over time.
• Track a hypothetical virus as it becomes an epidemic.
• Predict the outcomes of ‘sustainable fishing or harvesting’ practices.
• Look BEHIND events to see the patterns and the structures that are creating behavior.
• Lock ideas into diagrams.
• Keep conversations focused.
• See the relationships between problems and solutions.
• Understand complexity.
• Create a visual record.

And, there’s so much more at EVERY level of education, K to Adult

Daily, we use the power of metaphor, story, diagrams, graphic organizers, and models.  Kick it up a level!  With a few systems thinking tools and a comprehensive, tried and true approach, you can ACTIVELY ENGAGE EVERY STUDENT!

See student become completely absorbed whey they solve riddles or search for answers using systems thinking tools.

Inference, cause and effect, circular thinking, prediction, relationships, unintended consequences… THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT YOUR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO DO.  Moreover, you want them to WANT to do this!  This is it…

It is here.

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Ross Leadbetter M.Ed

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“BEING Through The Negative”

“There’s always stuff that happens in our lives that we do not want”

Its how you approach it and how you weather it that makes All the difference in the world.  Read on and find out how to BE through the negative and return to the positive. Read the rest of this entry »

Natural Being

Natural Being

Consciously directed thought is important to this system, because what you put forward into the universe in thought and action will develop and find resonance.  Consciously directed thought is a tool that you are learning to harness and benefit from, but it is not all there is to our state.  There is a deeper state that is not part of conscious thought, and it is most certainly not part of ego.  It is your state of Natural Being that has been alluded to throughout this system.   This state is our natural and most restful and regenerative state and it is in natural resonance with affluence as it is of the generative life-force of the universe.  It is powerful and enjoyable, and you are ready to find this state in your life more often.

If you have ever worked out too hard, you know the debilitating feeling of having sore muscles.  If you have ever watched a marathon race, you have likely seen those terribly fatigued souls who have pushed so very hard for so very long that they are near exhaustion, their legs wobbling beneath them as they cross the finish line.  Everyone knows that they are going to be so sore the next day!  Muscles are made to be flexed and built, but they need rest to do so healthily.  There is a cycle of stressing work then appropriate rest and nutrition before doing it again when building muscle.  This is the cycle athletes use to train and build their bodies.  The amazing thing is that it is no different for our brains, yet in most people the consciousness and particularly the ego part of consciousness is turned up full blast, rallying at full tilt, all the time.  There really is little quality rest for the brain in the lives of many.  Without quality rest in our muscles, there is breakdown.  Is it any different for our brains?  Why do so many not know the simplest ways to rest?  How has the great collective of humanity seemed to lose these important skills?  I honestly don’t know, but I do know that there are simple ways to take appropriate rest that will allow the brain to gain a nourishing respite and thereby grow in a healthy and balanced manner. 

The healthy and balanced way to establish a rested brain is found in the state of Natural Being.  In this state the conscious mind is stilled, and the brain and the Whole Self are able to get true and vitalizing rest.  It takes only moments spent in this precious state to gain potent benefits.

Natural Being is that state where there is no thought.  No thought at all.  It is the presence of simply being and it peaks ever so slightly and ever so gently over the edge of consciousness but goes no further.  This is what is represented by the circle and small ellipse rising from the top of the circle in the Whole Self diagram at the end of chapter four.  The state of simply ‘being’ can happen for a brief moment or for an enjoyable length of time, and the conditions of health and happiness are most affected by this state, as at our source in our natural state of being we are healthy and we are abundantly happy.  The wonderful thing is that everyone can achieve this state enough daily to improve the condition of life; obviously, it is worth learning how. 

Here are a few exercises to help you find this state, and when you get to know how it feels you will find it more often, through your own means.  You will discover that it is amazingly liberating to engage these simple tasks with some frequency; they will help you to immediately and naturally increase health and happiness in your life.  This collection of activities constitutes Action Tool #3: (i) now and then focus on your breath.  Breathe deeply and focus on inhalation and exhalation for only a moment or two when you are waiting for something or someone, or have a spare minute.  That is all.  Focus on breath and let all thought go away.  You will gain precious moments of being; (ii) watch thoughts as an observer.  Let them go.  Find them interesting but do not attach to them.  Remove your ‘attach to’ side of the Velcro equation and let thoughts float in and out of your consciousness; (iii) lean back and look up.  Don’t do this when driving. J  When you have an appropriate moment and you are sitting down, lean slightly back in your chair, pull your shoulders back, breath easily, close your eyes, and look up into your forehead.  You won’t see anything, but you will momentarily stop conscious thought and achieve a positive state.  Do so for a moment or two.  These techniques take only moments, but they are precious moments; (iv) still yourself and feel the energy in your body.  This is an extremely invigorating exercise.   Slow everything down and focus thought first on your hands, then your legs, then your arms, and the core of your body.  Each time you focus, feel the vibration of energy in your being.  When you get this right, you will be amazed by the resonant power flowing through your body; (v) react to and peacefully engage anything at all that you find positive in your present moment.  If someone looks pleasant, pleasantly say hello with a positive intention – if they do not say hello back or notice your efforts it is of no matter as your intention is purely resonant and purely directed.  If you see a beautiful scene before you, notice it and bring it fully into your minds and your state of being.  Take the time to notice, engage, and foster positive in your life; (vi) when negativity comes your way, say “really?” or “is that so?” inside your head.  Do not attach, simply observe.  Be the contented bubble of you in a sea of bubbles. You can act and do what you need to do in all moments, but you do not need to attach to the thoughts and conditions and experiences of those moments. They just are what they are and nothing else.  Learn to see that all experience is only what it is and nothing else – there is nothing additional to anything except what you add to it in reactive thought.  So, don’t react in any way except those ways that benefit your survival and ultimately your affluent state of being; (vii) do not play shave and a haircut with anyone.  Do you know this?  Tum tum ta tum tum… tum tum.  The old shave and a hair cut rhythm is one where the “tum tum ta tum tum” stimulus is put forth by one person, a space of time is achieved, and the other person answers with “tum tum.”  People do this all day with actions and reactions, guarding and maintaining ego.  Have you ever been baited or had your buttons pushed?  Don’t play anymore.  When you are simply being, you won’t want to play and you will be so contented that you will become able to notice the stimulus and then just be.  Very liberating; (viii) notice your thoughts, and if it they are not directed to positive and generative purposes, cease them.  Allow only constructive, positive and generative thought.  Allow the kind of thinking you use to plan and build and realize your desires, and when these thoughts have served their purpose, again cease thinking. 

Lean back in your chair, concentrate on breath….  Enjoy.

Anchor Your Own Abundance

Recall the tuning forks we looked at earlier.  We know that if one is struck and placed near another that has the same frequency, the second will begin to resonate with the first.  Stop the first, and the second will go on resonating.  Through the application of energy, the first tuning fork puts forth a vibration at a particular frequency.  The second fork, in its creation, was built to put forth or receive the same frequency as the first.  We see that the net effect the application of energy has is resonation, and as it is for the tuning forks it is for us.   We resonate with, give energy to, and get energy from the thoughts, conditions, and experiences that share the frequency of our own vibration.  

You get what you focus upon; you get what you are.  You have likely heard the great truth from Proverbs 23:7: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”   It is of primary importance that we think deliberately in our hearts in order to deliberately achieve that which we desire. The work of deliberately seeking material for and creating specific and detailed thoughts and images that will become central to your state of resonance is step six of this system.  This step is concerned with action and will be accomplished through the second action tool as explained below.

You get what you focus upon; you get what you are.  It is now time to refine and strengthen your resonation with affluence.  Think of affluence as a set of goal posts in a great game of life.  Though the game of life and goal posts as goals, are overused metaphors, they have a brief purpose in this system because the metaphor demonstrates that you have to know where the goal posts are in order to play the game properly and to score the winning goal.  Though life is not a game and affluence is not a shot at the net, the metaphor has merit in the image it creates: you have to determine what affluence is to you and what it looks like in order to reach your goals and realize your desires.  You have put effort into this area already, and it is now time to refine and strengthen the work you have done. 

Ready?  Look at this series of questions and feel the quality answers that resonate with you; find the answers that make practical sense and bring a quality feeling to you.   The questions follow.  What is your vision of health?  What does your vision of wealth look like?  What makes you deeply happy?  These are broad, guiding questions you will use to form your focused resonance images.  The point here is that you are looking for images that resonate within you.  When I see my image of health for instance, I am just finishing a tough hike in the coastal forest and I am smiling, full of energy, and ready to vibrantly take on some quality work later in my day.  It’s a nice image and it feels good to go to that image when I think of health; there is a lot of meaning and feeling associated with a quality image, so let’s get you working on your special images that you will carry with you always.

You understand and believe in the power of resonant energy, and you know why it is important to become resonant and you have chosen to do so.  You have an understanding of consciousness and of the connection between the parts and of the Whole Self.  You are now ready for Action Tool #2: create definite and detailed, consciously directed and intensely focused images of your desired state of affluence and commit them to deep and feeling memory.  The images you are about to create have to be of the deepest and most feeling sort because saying you want affluence and providing a general idea is not enough; it’s too vague and you can only obtain a vague realization from a vague image.  The work is upon you now.  It is time to take up some paper and a pen and write at the top of three blank pages a heading on each: on the first, health; on the second, wealth; and on the third, happiness.  You are about to fill those pages.  Please don’t concentrate on being neat and tidy during this exercise; you are meant to gracefully enjoy the flow of creativity.  You can always do a good copy later if you need to!  J

When you begin, it will be important to create your images in the positive.  That is to say that if you want an image that is concerned with eradicating fear in your life, don’t focus on ‘no fear’ focus upon confidence and well-being or strength.  If you want to eradicate lack, don’t focus on ‘no lack,’ focus instead upon abundance.  The reason for this is that you must focus upon and resonate with what you want, not what you don’t want.  When you begin in a moment, you will be committing three types of information to the page: (i) drawings or doodling, or cuttings of pictures; (ii) writing in the form of image phrases and sentences; and, (iii) splashing and smatterings of single words related to the heading.  Each of these three categories is of course related to your presently desired, optimal state of health, then wealth, then happiness.  Again, the reason for doing this is to create focused, believable mental images with strongly associated feelings that you will carry about and focus upon in your daily internal environment.  These images will help you to create your state of resonance in every moment, and quickly right your state when you stray.  They will help you to liberate and generate energy from the alignment of the Whole Self. They will become the quality images you immediately associate with health and wealth and happiness each time you hear or utter these words.  So, this is pretty important.

Before you begin filling those pages, let us take a moment to look one more time at belief.  This is so critical.  You have to believe your images or you will create false and weak resonance, and your ensuing actions will not be of the necessary quality to attain your desires.  You must believe your images, but what does that mean to this exercise?  Well, in a practical sense it will not do to create an image of your health wherein you are the fastest person on earth as well as a professional power-lifter and champion jockey all in one; it will not do to imagine that next week you will be the richest person on earth; and it will not do to imagine that you will laugh and giggle and live in a constant state of hysterical delirium.  No, your images must be first and foremost believable.  Stretch to the outer edge of your current state of belief, but go no further.  As you begin to feel the power of this system, as likely you have already, you will be able to grow your images as it feels appropriate; you will be able to expand your definitions of health, wealth, and happiness as you develop greater belief in your abilities and your growth.  Take on that growth when you feel it authentically coming from within you, but for now ask yourself and answer: “What does my really wonderful state of increasing affluence look, sound, feel, taste, and smell like in the next six months?”  You will absolutely be able to come back to this exercise, and you will do so fluidly and frequently well before six months is over.  You can see, though, that a solid start with believable material is vital.  Success begets success, so start with a believable stretch.  You need not wonder how you will accomplish and obtain the conditions and experiences you image, but the answers are in the fact that (i) you will deeply resonate with your images thus creating the immediate benefits associated with powerful resonation, as outlined previously; (ii) in the next chapters you will establish important direction and learn to take effective action daily thus choreographing events that will open doors and smooth paths for you to realize these images; (iii) you will learn and engage further action tools to complement and develop what you have already learned; and, (iv) you will come upon serendipitous happenings, excellent intuition, energy to make change, positive states of motion, and much more that is excellent and well.  This is just the way it is!

There is no time like the present… in fact there is no other time than the present… so, please begin.  Find a quiet place, put on some soothing music, pour a cup of tea, calm down and cool out into those powerful Alpha waves… enjoy doodling, phrasing, and splashing words upon your pages.  When you are done in an hour or in a few days, use the pictures, images, and words you have laid down to create a solid, grounded image or series of images in your mind.  You will know that you have completed this action well when you are able to hear or say each of the words health, wealth, and happiness and have an immediately associated image or image set occur strongly in your mind – one that simultaneously initiates deeply resonant feelings of satisfaction, and rightness.   Spend the time you need to fully complete this action step.  Focus on affluence, as you get what you focus upon; you get what you are.  Your belief in and work with these understandings is directly related to the success you will have positively influencing affluence in your life….

Images and being

V

Images, Being, and a Simple List

Powerful Thought; Powerful Actions

Introduction

Let’s take a moment to recap some of the highlights of the journey so far.  So far, the idea of consciously developing a positive resonation signature has been presented; the choice to do the work to develop a resonant state, with all its implications, was put forward.   Several excellent and logical reasons to develop a resonant state at the frequency of affluence have been given; these provide a foundation for the belief needed to first make an intellectual choice then take action.  Questions were designed and presented that have you take note of what you resonate with presently, what you think about most, and to urge you to generally gauge your state.  Attention has been given to the understanding and belief that the desire to be and being affluent is both right and natural; further, attention was given to noticing and giving grateful appreciation to any condition of affluence presently in your life.  You have been provided with a detailed look at the construction of consciousness with the purpose of diffusing and letting go of ego while simultaneously and purposefully directing conscious thought.  This attention to ego and focused thought was provided to establish the best pre-conditions possible as you prepare to make change and take action.  The Whole Self was presented with an emphasis on the many benefits of positive inner alignment.  In Step Five, you were asked to control conscious thought more and more each day, with greater and greater clarity and focus; continuously directing and redirecting it towards thoughts, states of being, feelings, situations, and internal and external environments that are healthy, of wealth, and create happiness.  The first of the Action Tools has been given wherein you were challenged to notice affluence in the world around you, to see how it comes about and for whom; to ask and attempt to answer questions within yourself as to why it comes about, to notice conditions and states of affluence and gratefully appreciate them.  Who has health?  Where is health; what is its resonant frequency? How is it being brought about? Who has wealth? Where is wealth; what is its resonant frequency? How is it being brought about? Who has happiness? Where is happiness; what is its resonant frequency? How is it being brought about? 

To this point, a lot of work has gone into fostering understanding, creating the belief, and designing the thoughts and patterns of thought that will cause you to feel and then become increasingly affluent.  In the following section you will take the action of deliberately seeking out and creating specific, detailed, and intensely focused resonant thought that will become central to your consciously directed state of being from now on.  You will learn specific techniques to create and experience states of affluence.  These states and the images, thoughts, and cues that you develop will become central to your daily life and will become the internal homing device you carry with you everywhere.  You will use this internal state as the center from which you will emanate thought and action as you go about daily life.  You have been making excellent preparations to this point; it is time to get quite specific.  Enjoy.