Focus on What You Want

When you look at a picture, what is the foreground? What is the background?

The foreground is usually considered to be the principal focus of the picture. The main subject of the picture is in the foreground and it usually tells the viewer what the picture or painting is about.

The background may give some context to the subject of the picture but it is not what you focus on unless you decide to look at it. It may be blurry, small, faded or distant.

Focus in a picture tells you what’s important and what is not. If the important stuff is in the background, it will probably be missed. If it is in the foreground, it is likely that the viewers of the picture will get it.

Pictures work this way because our minds work this way. What we focus on stands out. When the focus is clear, the subject is in the “Foreground of the Mind” and we get it. That is, our focus tends to be what shows up in our lives. Put another way, “What we focus on is what we get.”

So what is it that you focus on? What is in the Foreground? Well the best way to see what’s in the foreground of your mind is to observe your life. What you have in your life, including your friends, relationship, job, surroundings and possessions, are things you have focused on in a particular way with your mind. Because of this focus, they have shown up in your life.

You may say to yourself, “But that is not what I want in my life!” And the fact of the matter is that some or all of it may not be. But it has to be what you focus on because it is there. It can only be there if your thoughts support its existence in some way.

So take an inventory of what you see in your life right now because it is telling you what you focus on in your mind’s foreground. If you don’t like what see, you may want to shift some things from your foreground to your background. And if there are a few things that are important to you that are missing in your life, it’s because they are not in the foreground of your mind.

If you do feel that you focus on what you want and you are not seeing it in your life, it may be because of the way you focus on it. You may have a story about what you want that is not productive in manifesting it in your life. For example, you may want to be wealthy, but you learned at an early age that all rich people are dishonest. While this story is not true, it may be so powerfully anchored in your physiology that it is constantly thwarting your efforts to generate wealth. No matter how hard you focus on the things you need to do to accumulate money, the part of you that must be honest makes sure that you don’t get rich and you sabotage your efforts.

One good way to start focusing on what you want is to keep all your thoughts positive. A good exercise for this, which I am personally doing right now is “The NO Complaining for a Week” exercise. When you complain, you are focusing on what is not good or working rather than what is. At the end of each day, think of one thing that was good and one thing that was bad during the day. Contemplate what your involvement in each incident was and how you supported its existence.

In order to support a false story, your body must contain the parts of you that would alert you to the fact that it is wrong. To do so, you lock your spine, tense muscles and prevent breath from entering parts of your body that would alert you to the fact that it is crap. It is the only way that you can go on believing something false and unsupportive.

Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) is designed to help you discover these areas of your body through connection. When you get entrained, the brain finds these protected anchors to your unsupported stories and makes you conscious of them. You learn to breath and move through them so that you can remove the unsupportive story and replace it with one that brings what you want into your life.

With NSA, you can be sure that you are focusing on what you want!