Problem Solving

Problem Solving begins your use of Focus 12 energy for its many practical applications. Place your question or problem in the center of your consciousness, however you perceive this. Then direct it outwards to your total awareness, release it, and wait for the response.

Answers sometimes come during the exercise, and may come in many forms. Among other possibilities you may perceive symbols, abstract images, or colors; "hear" thoughts in your mind; sense subtle changes in energy; experience chills, heat, or tingling; notice shifts in your feelings or level of emotional arousal; or suddenly have a clear "knowing."

If answers do not come as you listen to the exercise, take it as an invitation to heighten your sensitivities as you move through your daily activities. Open your perception, for instance, to the conversations of others, passages in books,synch ronicities, and the multitude of wondrous ways in which guidance may reveal itself.

Problem solving in Focus 12 is facilitated by the sincerity of your desire to receive a response, the intensity of your emotion, and the clarity of your question. Expressing gratitude as you release your question is also important. This acknowledges your trust in the process and amplifies the entire exercise

Manual Old

Take a problem or question into Focus 12, place it at the center of your consciousness (which, for example, may be in your heart, abdomen, or head), and push it out, or let it flow out into your total awareness. Then release it. The best answer or solution will come back to you in its own way and in its own time. Frequently, this will happen during your tape experience. Equally valid, however, is an answer or solution that may come at some later time, in another place. To seek solutions in this high energy state is the essence of this exercise: receiving will come to those who have asked. Your desire to know, the clarity of your question, and the intensity of your asking are keys to what you receive and the way you receive it. Gratitude amplifies the process. Conventional relationships between questions and answers, problems and solutions, tend to dissolve as new Focus 12 perspectives change the very nature of the original question or problem. For instance, remember the man who couldn’t open his Energy Conversion Box? (Please see Energy Conversion Box instructions on page 20.) The recognition of his tendency to use force in most situations allowed his box to open easily. Thus, the assumed problem (a locked box) is often not the actual problem (tendency to use force). Solutions are seldom restricted to ordinary alternatives, and a different question frequently provides the answer. On the other hand, some answers and solutions appear so obvious or simple that you may tend to discount them. Don’t. There is often great power in the simple and the obvious. If, at first, you feel as if you’re creating your own answers, gently acknowledge that if guidance is in any way connected to a more complete or higher aspect of your total self, then guidance would naturally seem to be coming from yourself, and therefore would seem deeply familiar. As you learned in Discovery, your biggest problem may well be, „What is my problem?” and your biggest question, „What question should I be asking?” If you remain puzzled about what to ask, approach this exercise from another point of view and ask, „What is the most important information I need to know at this moment?” And please remember, if guidance enters your awareness from energy systems or realities more comprehensive than ordinary consciousness, you severely limit the parameters of your resources by framing all of your questions and problems from your waking perspective. And remember the value of receiving guidance in the form of humor and puns. (For review, please see Free Flow Methods of Exploration on page 33.) Experiment with creative techniques. If something isn’t working, change what you are doing. Use Focus 12 problem-solving techniques to be innovative, to be creative, and to find solutions that best suit you. Encoding Problem Solving

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