[...] Perhaps any improvements she can achieve can come about better if we simply leave the whole business alone and quit focusing on it. [...]

[...] Without check, it begins to gain its own momentum, so that you become less and less aware of what is right, and more and more begin to focus looking for proof of your conviction.

[...] Now in your particular case the information can be perceived at such instances through focusing upon the physical object closest to you and then nonfocusing. [...]

[...] Instead, you then promptly worry about your body, concentrate upon its malfunctions, focus upon its problems. [...]

You must understand, as certainly you do, the focus of your lives. [...]

[...] It is time when all of your efforts suddenly bear fruit, when inner techniques have been practiced, and suddenly click into focus and actuality. [...]

Now in one context those ideas are valid, but they are also deceiving—because your present focus will determine which reincarnational episodes you become aware of (intently). [...]

[...] This is simply because there are less psychic distractions, and it is easier to focus into one clear channel.

[...] Yet in the course of their discussion this afternoon about business affairs, the script came into focus. [...]

[...] In your case, it enables you to focus your artistic ability along lines necessary to make it effective on your plane. [...]

[...] It is in a state of drowsiness on the one hand; and on the other, it focuses the usable portion of its energy into being a tree.

The awareness is focused along certain lines. [...]

If he first of all focuses his abilities in his creative pursuits, then everything else will follow. [...] But he must primarily focus his energies in his creative pursuits, for these give him the exuberance that makes other pursuits possible.

[...] The energies and focus must be directed away from the physical symptoms. [...]

I also hope that you both realize how your abilities have begun to ripen, and how our sessions have led you into an increased awareness in all avenues of focus and activity. We are as I have told you going slowly, and yet the progression will be a steady one that rests upon disciplined sensitivities, without those possible dangers that can result when there is an overly intensive or fanatical attention to one line of focus, and a lack of disciplined understanding.

[...] Seth stated that he did not realize Jane would achieve this focusing of inner energy so early in her studies with psychological time, and furthermore said that it could have unpleasant effects if it was unwittingly directed toward someone else. [...]

[...] The concentration upon the problem brings about a kind of mechanical repetition, a repeated type of hypnotic focus.

You change your focus point. [...]

[...] Coupled with this is the idea that magic, as we call it, reflects a basic part of our natural mental equipment and abilities, but that our present course of action, our focusing upon the material and the intellectual — the ‘reasonable’ portions of our psyche — has created artificial divisions, in which magic seems quite ‘unreasonable’ or unreal. [...]

[...] He can begin to change the focus from which he usually views his reality, in whatever way possible, and in the point of power as I suggested. [...]

[...] Your wish-focus disappears into Frameworks 2, 3, and 4,¹ and then reappears later. [...]

History, as you know it, represents but one single light upon which you focus. [...]

[...] Add to that list the belief that the great artist or writer concentrates upon his or her art so intensely and single-mindedly, and single-heartedly, that the focus itself forces the artist or poet to use those abilities to their utmost, or that great genius demands one-sided vision and a denial of the world. [...]

(9:59.) Think of yourself as a creative consciousness, capable of both a detailed and an extended, both a visual and a thoughtful, merged focus. [...]

ALTERNATE PRESENTS AND MULTIPLE FOCUS

Now: We will resume dictation, and begin our next chapter to be called: “Alternate Presents and Multiple Focus.”

[...] She is focusing less and less in this plane of reality, and again, gradually, she will begin to focus in another. [...]

[...] The new personality is not entirely focused, and it must make immediate critical adjustments of the strongest nature. [...]

A fine tuning of focus takes place here, where Ruburt’s abilities are focused in new directions, directions that are unfamiliar to the ego. A focusing is involved on my part also, and a kind of synthesis formed that allows us to bridge the gap that separates our fields of action.

[...] The material in the 210th session was focused strongly on Helen however.

[...] I was in no condition to offer or indeed to make any critical judgement at the time, and Seth was fully focused in delivering the statement to the students, however. [...]

[...] Your joint love and consideration, focused upon, again is highly vital. [...]

My own frame of reference, however, is no longer focused on my reincarnational existences. [...]