The Power of Witnessing and Segment Intending
I love it when I come across something in reading that makes an
immediate and significant contribution to my life. And I
particularly love it when I run across two such things that
appear to work synergistically.
That's what happened this week, a particularly challenging week
for me, in large part because my daughter, Amber, came down with
the chicken pox. Amber is rarely sick and hasn't been this sick
since she was 3 or 4. (She's now almost 13), so I found myself
'off purpose' a fair amount of time.
Then, as I was browsing through my library in the 'spirituality
section' for something that would give me a little guidance
through this, I came across Eckhart Tolle's, The Power of Now.
Having just written an article about what I gleaned from this
book, I won't belabor the point here, only to say that beginning
to witness my own mind-made pain regarding Amber was very
valuable in moving through it.
My next nugget of gold came from another source, this time in
listening form, that I'd been acquainted with in the past but
had forgotten about. This was an Abraham-Hicks tape on Segment
Intending.
As with many effective processes, this one is simple and direct.
It involves breaking your day up into segments and setting at
the start by creating a particular intention for that segment.
For example, when I came up to my office this morning to write
this ezine, I started by first setting the intention to be
creative, to enjoy the experience of writing and to provide
value to life for the pure joy of it.
When I finish this 'segment' of my day, I'll set a new intention
for whatever is next, and on and on throughout the day. What I
find interesting is that both of these nuggets -- witnessing and
segment intending -- bring me more present to what is happening
NOW, and allows me to be less in my head, caught up with worry
of what might happen or regret about what has already happened.
So, thanks Eckhart and Abraham-Hicks for giving me some
additional tools for staying on purpose.