II - Threshold
Each Wave and each exercise of Gateway Experience builds directly on preceding techniques and information. Use of Threshold exercises before having completed Discovery is not recommended. As you work with this Wave, you may find it desirable to review the frequently asked questions in the Discovery Manual.
Focus 12 - Overview - The high energy state and expanded awareness of this Focus level enable you to become more conscious of inner resources and guidance. As you continue to use what you learned in Focus 10, you may well find entirely new experiences.
Rarely is nonphysical energy perceived in the same way we perceive in our physical, waking state. Be receptive to subtle nuances of kinesthetic, auditory, or visual experiences. You may sense a "knowing,"
a telepathic comprehension that can be later translated into words. With trust, patience, and practice, you will learn to perceive more clearly. Sometimes this happens slowly, step by step; sometimes dramatically and suddenly, like water breaking through a dam. Let go of preconceived notions about how these exercises "should" unfold for you. Place them in your Box at the beginning of an exercise or at any time they intrude. This opens you to a fuller and richer range of possibilities in your exploration.
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In Threshold you will be introduced to, and work with, Focus 12, the state of expanded awareness. You will also reinforce and expand your Focus 10 (mind awake/body asleep) skills. Each Wave of the Gateway Experience is based on the Wave(s) before it. Threshold builds directly on Discovery tools and techniques, as well as on information in the Discovery instructions. Therefore, the exercises in Threshold are effective only if you have completed Discovery. Any use of these exercises without such prior experience is not recommended.
Focus 12: Overview
Focus 12 is a state of expanded awareness: a high energy state where you can become more conscious of inner resources and guidance. Many techniques discussed as part of Discovery may also be applied with specific Focus 12 tapes. Using these techniques at higher energy levels often produces entirely new experiences. As with Focus 10, in Focus 12 you will find that you do not need to know the way to guidance. Choose only to be guided. Not everyone clearly hears voices, sees visions, or feels kinesthetic responses like we hear, see, and feel in ordinary consciousness. Rarely do we perceive nonphysical energy in exactly the same way we perceive in our physical, waking state. Often, there is a knowing, a gestalt, or telepathic comprehension that we normally translate into verbal language. Through trust and patience, and continuing to invest energy in the process of self-exploration, you will learn to perceive more clearly. Sometimes this happens slowly, step by step, and sometimes this happens dramatically and suddenly, like water breaking though a dam.
Free Flow 10
Free Flow 10 is an opportunity to create your own experience and pursue your own purpose with all the tools learned thus far. Seek only what you really want to know, and be responsible for the knowing. Whatever you receive becomes a part of you. Your beliefs, energy, and attitude influence the intensity and the extent of your free flow exploration. A sense of gratitude enhances communication and union with sources outside your conscious boundaries. If you have a particular purpose, write it down beforehand in a succinct, straightforward manner, hold it in mind as you begin, but remain open to whatever you experience. Expectations of when and how guidance should come may block the very knowledge you seek. You need not know the way to guidance. Choose only to be guided. You may or may not "see" or "hear." Tingles or twitches and intuitive cues can be equally enlightening. One Gateway experiencer felt nothing but a cramp in the leg. The valuable insight that the object of attention was "cramping her style" came only later.
Introduction to Focus 12
Simply relax as you are guided from familiar Focus 10 to Focus 12, and calmly observe any differences. Effort and analysis are counterproductive. With repeated experience, the distinctions become more pronounced and you come to appreciate Focus 12 as a powerful and empowering state which readily lends itself to a wide diversity of purposes.