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Manifesting Experiment 2 : The 'Focus Blocks' Method

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IS THIS METHOD FOR ME?

To check if this is the appropriate manif esting approach to use in your particular lif e situation, f irst read the Manif esting Experiment Guide

INTRODUCTION
T he Focus Blocks Method, also known as Manifesting Experiment 2, is the sequel to Manif esting Experiment 1. If you don't know what that f irst experiment is, then go and read through it just so you get some idea where this new method f its in and also so that you understand some of the phrases being used below. When I started writing this method, I put a f ull explanation of why each step works in these instructions, but the amount of text started growing rapidly. And it seemed to me that it would be of f -putting and conf using to newcomers to be presented with a large amount of manif esting theory when all they really wanted was a way of physically manif esting their desires. So, instead, I've decided to strip out as much explanation as possible and just give you the method as brief ly as possible. Once you try the approach and experience the power of it, just ask any questions you have about the method as separate (normal) Inward Quest questions, tagged as Manifesting-Experiment-2 and I'll answer them as normal answers. Doing this will also provide the opportunity f or other people to answer as well based on their own personal experiences as they gain more manif esting experience. If you want to see a list of questions that people have already asked about this method, just click on the tag in the gray box in the top right-hand corner of this page marked manifesting-experiment-2. (T he gray box is titled tagged) I will use any f eedback f rom those questions and answers to improve (or rewrite) these instructions as the experiment continues. Because I've been doing this f or a while, things that might seem obvious to me might not be so obvious to you. So please ask questions if anything is not clear. If you want to see the amendments I have made to this written method in response to f eedback, just go to the bottom of this posting where it says edited (next to where it says community wiki). Next to that word will be the last time this posting was edited. If you click on that time, you will see all the revisions that have been made.

WHY DO WE NEED ANOTHER METHOD?

Manif esting Experiment 1 works well when you are not too attached to the things you want, or you can f orget about them f or a while.

But of ten that is not the case. Sometimes you just can't let go enough of what you want to allow it to come to you. In those cases, you are really lef t with no choice but to deal with your f eelings about what you want directly. Once you f eel better about what you want, you will not be standing in the way of it coming even if you do think about it. T he other major reason that a process like this is needed is much less obvious... T he vast majority of your personal vibrational offering (which the Law of Attraction responds to) comes from the little things in your life Huh? Did I say little things? Yes, I surely did. :) It is actually mostly those little things that keep you unhappy and miserable and leave you wondering why your lif e is not the way you would like it. T hey are things like the annoyance of getting stuck in traf f ic, or perhaps your partner keeps leaving the top of f the toothpaste tube, or perhaps you are annoyed that your boss never says thank you when you do something f or them and so on...you probably have hundreds of those little things in your lif e right now that are pulling you down on a daily basis without you even realizing it. Each one of these things taken by itself doesn't really af f ect you that much so you may not pay much attention to them. But taken together, they are creating an enormous drag on your health, wealth and happiness. It's not that they are somehow combining together into something bigger and badder, it's just that all those little things keep holding you consistently in bad-f eeling places on a regular basis which, in turn, stop other things you want f rom coming. Sometimes those little things have so much collective power that you may not even see any more what is bothering you...you just have a general gnawing sense of anxiety about your lif e and you have no idea at all what to do about it. T his process will deal with all of those little things (and the big things too) and it will clean up many of them at the same time!

STEPS IN THE PROCESS

T his diagram shows the f ive steps in this overall approach. Notice that we are only actually using The Focus Blocks Method in Step 3. T he reason f or the other steps is to make sure you integrate this method into your daily lif e. T he things that are troubling you in your lif e did not come out of nowhere overnight. T hey actually came about a little bit everyday with more and more signs of manif estational force until, one day, you ended up with a clear (and perhaps painf ul) manif estation of something that you really didn't want. Wouldn't it have been better if you had cleaned up those little signs of discomf ort early on bef ore any signif icant bad-f eeling manif estations ever got started? Well that is what this method is going to do f or you...f or the rest of your lif e :)

Now let's look in more detail at each step.

STEP 1

T his step should be f airly obvious. Just carry something around with you f rom now on in which you can note down anything that is bothering you, even if it doesn't seem that bad right now. Remember that we are cleaning up all these things bef ore they even really get started. So whenever anything happens in your lif e that bothers you a bit, write it down to deal with later in a Focus Blocks session.

STEP 2

When you have some time, create some ready-to-use Focus Blocks f or the things that are bothering you f rom Step 1. (You can also do this step together with the next one if you want) Here is what a completely empty Focus Block looks like...

Click here to see this diagram at full-size

And here is what a Focus Block that is targeted to a particular Focus Block Topic, and is now ready f or use, looks like...

You can create your own layout for Focus Blocks (either on paper or on a computer) or you can download a pdf version here of the one above. You can also download an editable Microsoft Excel spreadsheet version of this Focus Block Notice, f irstly, (f rom the top diagram) that you can have many Focus Blocks on one page. If you are implementing this idea electronically, you can actually have all your Focus Blocks for a single topic one af ter the other on just one page or in one document. If you are using paper, you can use as many sheets as you like but try and keep them grouped together because you will discover later that Focus Blocks are linked to each other. For a paper-based approach then, it might be a good idea to use a loose-leaf f ile or f older into which you can insert more pages as necessary.

Secondly, notice that the only dif f erence between the f irst diagram and the second diagram are the two lines that have been completed in the second diagram. You can see the top line is f illed in against the question What is bothering me?, while the second line is f illed in against the question So how do I want to feel instead?. A Focus Block that has these two lines completed is now considered ready for use f or the Focus Blocks Method in Step 3.

So how do you complet e t he t wo lines?

T he f irst line f or What is bothering me? is easy enough to complete. It's just an expanded version of what you wrote in your notebook in Step 1. You may have written in your notebook originally "don't seem to have enough time to do stuff". You now just expand this out and write something like I don't have enough time to do everything I want. T he second line So how I do want to feel instead? is really just the opposite of the the f irst line. T his should be easy enough to f igure out. When you clearly know what you don't want, it should then be equally clear what you do want instead. But there is something to watch f or here...all we are doing with this process is changing the way you f eel. We are not actually manif esting anything. Yes, it is true that once you change your f eeling about something, it will manif est dif f erently, but the only thing we are f ocusing on right now is changing that f eeling. So, in the example above, the opposite of I don't have enough time to do everything I want is something like I want to feel like I have the time to do the things that are important to me. T here is no right or wrong with how you write your description of what you want. Just write it in your own words using language you are comf ortable with, and make it as brief as possible...just a sentence is ideal. You are going to use this sentence to guide yourself while you use the Focus Block Method in the next step.

STEP 3

Focus Blocks vs Focus Wheels

Bef ore you can use The Focus Blocks Method, you need to understand the concept that Focus Blocks are based upon...Focus Wheels. T he Focus Wheel process is a method devised by Abraham to deliberately shif t your f eeling about any subject into a better place.

If you have no idea what a Focus Wheel is, go and look through these resources f or learning how to create Focus Wheels.

Click here to see this diagram at full-size T he yellow circle at the top is a Focus Wheel and the block of sentences below it is a Focus Block. Regarding the diagram...note that the Focus Wheel shown is on a dif f erent subject to the Focus Block shown so that's why the sentences within them don't match up. Apart f rom that, they are the same thing, just in a dif f erent layout. Having this dif f erent layout allows us to use them in more practical ways, as you will see shortly. However, because the Focus Block is still also a Focus Wheel, then all the knowledge you have learned to create Focus Wheels in the past (if you have f ollowed Abraham previously) still applies.

The Focus Block Met hod

You now have enough knowledge to understand the Focus Block Method.

I am assuming you now have a stack of ready-to-go Focus Block Topics in f ront of you either in paper or electronic f orm. You will also need some way of randomly-choosing the next Focus Block Topic to deal with. You can probably achieve this ef f ect by rolling a single die. If the number comes up 1, then choose the next topic in your stack to work on, if it comes up 2 choose the topic that is two down, and so on. It doesn't matter how you randomly choose your next topic as long as your chosen method will eventually get you to look at all the topics. If you just rely on yourself to do the choosing, you will eventually f ind that there are some topics you will keep avoiding...the random number approach makes sure you deal with even those uncomf ortable topics. So, now, here is the Focus Blocks Method... Make a commitment to yourself that whatever the next topic that is randomly chosen, you are going to write at least ONE statement of belief onto the Focus Block. If you can't make this commitment bef orehand, don't play the game right now. You want to build up an unbreakable habit within yourself that if you choose a topic, you are always going to write at least one statement.

Go to the Focus Block Topic chosen and write at least ONE statement of belief that gives you relief f rom the starting statement of the Focus Block. To come up with these statements of belief , just use the same process as you would f or coming up with the next statements f or a Focus Wheel.

Click here to see this diagram at full-size You can carry on playing with that Focus Block (writing those statements) f or as long as you f eel you want to. Some topics you'll be happy to play with, others you may f ind that you want to get away f rom as quickly as possible! Don't worry about these uncomf ortable topics. T he method will keep bringing you back to push them a little f urther time and again until eventually you make a breakthrough and suddenly f ind yourself f eeling so much better about them Once you've had enough of playing with the topic, you can now randomly choose another Focus Block Topic or you can stop playing this Focus Blocks game. T his means that even if you have only a single minute to spare in your day, you can still be shif ting your f eelings about things into betterf eeling places. Your current f eelings about this subject probably came about in tiny, incremental steps with you hardly noticing the change...we are now using that same tiny-step-by-step idea to put these changes back under our own conscious control Whenever you reach the 12th statement on any Focus Block Topic, you'll notice that the next line says Best-Feeling Thought From This Block. At this point, you need to make a decision about whether this Focus Block Topic needs any more vibrational work or not. You do this by reading over all the previous 12 statements in the current Focus Block. Choose the one that f eels the best to you right now and write it in that box. You can consider that statement to be the most powerf ul declaration of belief within that block. Here is what a completed Focus Block looks like...

Click here to see this diagram at full-size If the Best-Feeling T hought leaves you f eeling good then you can, if you want, just f ile the block away somewhere saf e and not use it any f urther in the Focus Blocks Method...you've done enough now to clean up that vibration (though you can still take it f urther if you want, see Step 4 below which looks at the Emotional Guidance Scale). If you want to continue with the method f or this Focus Block Topic, just consider your Best-Feeling T hought to be the starting point f or the next Focus Block on this subject. Each Focus Block is a little reusable vibrational tool that, if you ever f all back to f eeling as though the starting statement is true again, then by reading the statements in this block, you will always be able to quickly lif t your vibration back up to the Best-Feeling T hought again.

STEP 4

If the Best-Feeling T hought you have just written leaves you f eeling good, what you want is on its way to manif esting. T he better you f eel, the quicker it will come. You don't need to do any more work on the Focus Block Topic than this.

You can just go ahead and clean up other f eelings on other topics instead. However, if you want your manif estation to come even f aster, you can push your f eeling about any particular subject even higher. Look at the diagram below.

On the Emotional Guidance Scale diagram above, if you can move your f eeling regarding what you want into the Green Z one (Feeling Good area), you are no longer standing in the way of what you want even if you think about it alot. If you can move your vibration up to Hopef ulness, you will now start to see vibrational matches regarding what you want.

Once you move your vibration up to Positive Expectation/Belief and above, it is on the verge of physically manif esting if it hasn't already. T he way you judge where you are on the Emotional Guidance Scale is to look at the best-f eeling thought on the last Focus Block you did and think about what emotion it stirs up within you. T hen try and see which emotion is closest to it on the Emotional Guidance Scale. If you are still not sure, write out a f ew sentences about what you want without thinking too long. T hen look over the sentences and consider what overall emotion they are conveying to you. I call it taking an emotional temperature reading :) Another method is to just talk to a f riend f or a f ew minutes about what you want. It should be very clear where your emotional setpoint (f eeling about the subject) is.

STEP 5

You will never run out of new desires. T he Universe is geared up to keep generating them within you. Unf ulf illed desire is good f or you...it makes lif e energy f low through you. It makes you f eel energized and alive and passionate. Desire is what lif e is all about so you might as well get used to the f act that you will always have more and more Focus Blocks to play with. :) And you now have at your disposal one of the most powerf ul methods f or manif esting that exists...even if you don't realize it yet. If you want to share any success stories you have had with this method, you can do so by posting an answer below. T here are some more advanced techniques that you can use with Focus Blocks and I will publish these in the near f uture once you've had a chance to play with this method. Happy manif esting!

UPDATE
One of the advanced techniques I mentioned above is to intersperse Positive Aspects lists in between your Focus Blocks. T his extension to the Focus Blocks Method is described here.

UPDATE 2
One of the things I've noticed people doing (which I don't do) is only having a few Focus Blocks around a f ew subjects. I would think this makes the method more dif f icult to apply.

I don't keep track of exact numbers but I seem to have about 100 available Focus Blocks to play with at any one time so I never quite know what is going to come up and of ten the same subject doesn't come up f or days (perhaps even weeks) depending on the luck of the random selection and how much time I spend with the method. So, f or me, the method is always f resh, f un and surprising. I suspect that if you only had a f ew Focus Blocks and they kept re-appearing too of ten, it may get f rustrating and annoying to keep dealing with the same f ew subjects. If you are having problems with the method try increasing the number of Focus Blocks you have. Unless you are deliberately shutting yourself of f f rom experiencing everyday lif e (which I don't recommend), you should have no problem accumulating data f or your Blocks.

UPDATE 3
T here is now another experiment in this series available f or you to try. Manif esting Experiment 3 - T he 'Vibrational Goal-Getting' method is all about taking aligned physical action to get what you want.

UPDATE 4
T here is now a f ree computer sof tware version of the Focus Blocks Method available. You can f ind out more about the Focus Blocks Spreadsheet here

UPDATE 5
T his Focus Blocks method is actually part of a larger vibrational approach that I've been using f or several years that systematically gets you into the Vortex. I call it the Advanced Focus Blocks Method.