Pivoting Facilitation Process and Consciousness Measurement Tool

Begin by explaining the following:

This process comes from the writings of Esther and Jerry Hicks called the Abraham teachings and is called pivoting. They invite us to use our emotions as a kind of biofeedback to assess where our attention is. In other words, anytime we are feeling discomfort of any kind, it means we are focusing on what we don’t want. What we have added to this practice is a measurement system. Each night before you go to bed, review your day and come up with a percentage of time that you are focused on what you want compared to what you don’t want for specific areas that are challenging you. What we find is that when people are focused on what they want more than 50% of the time, what they want tends to show up easily and effortlessly. And if it doesn’t right away, it doesn’t even matter because they are feeling good about the situation. And the higher the percentage goes, the faster the desired result tends to come. So, let’s try this out.

1. What is the most challenging situation in your life right now? (Usually, you won’t have to ask this question because you’ve already been talking about the challenge.)
2. Close your eyes and take a deep healing breath. From your heart, as simply and succinctly as possible, 7 words or less, ideally 1 word, what do you really want for this situation? (With this question we want to help the client get into the feeling of the resolution. Be aware of the change in body language (if present), energy, vocal tone, etc. Occasionally, you may notice the client start to talk about what they want and then digress into talking about the “problem” again going much longer than 7 words in some cases. This is a good indication that the client spends a lot of time focusing on what they don’t want. In this case, bring the client back to focusing on the resolution he or she wants. You can also point out that your question was aimed at what is wanted, and notice how the answer pointed back to the problem.)
3. How does it feel when you are describing what you want? (If the feeling is very positive, and you can sense the feeling of resolution, skip to #5. If you sense it can be more positive, repeat the process as described in #4. Occasionally, someone may say something less than positive like “frustrated,” or “sad.” What I find most often in this case is that they actually were feeling good, better, positive when they were describing the resolution, then they stop and think about it, realize they don’t already have it, and feel less than positive because they are back to focusing on what they don’t want. Look for the subtle energy shift in this. Then repeat the process once more. If their answer is still not positive, which is rare, you can repeat it as described in #4. You can repeat it as described in #4 even if it is already positive, but you sense it could be even more positive.)
4. Let’s try it once more and see if we can take it deeper. Close your eyes and take a deep healing breath. Tell me what you really want in just one word this time. (What we find is when people parse what they want down to one word, it ends up being a spiritual quality most often. Usually that will get your client to a positive feeling. If not, you can repeat this process as many times as needed to arrive at a positive feeling.)
5. On an average day over the last month, what percentage of the time have you been focused on what you want, what you just described or something that makes you feel as good, compared to what you don’t want? What percentage of the time are you feeling hopeful, enthusiastic, positive, compared to pessimistic, hopeless, aggravated about the situation or any form of discomfort? It’s okay if the number is very low. Most people are below 10% when the subject is something very challenging. (Sometimes a client may say, “I don’t know how to estimate that. You can then ask, if you had to pick a number, and you didn’t have to be right, what would the number be? Almost everyone can come up with something. Do not be surprised if it is very low, 5%, 2%, even 0%, especially for those who have a hard time focusing on what they want in question 2.)
6. Intuitively, what will it be like when you are focused on what you want in this area, let’s say 60% of the time? Even if nothing has changed in the world of form, but what has changed is your consciousness 60% of the time; what will it be like? (Wait for answer.) How about when it’s 80% of the time focused on what you want? (Wait for answer.) What will it be like intuitively when 95 to 100% of the time, you’re focused on what you want? (This is the most important question and demonstrates to the client how powerful their own consciousness is. You can follow up with this by asking what other areas of their life are challenging them and do the same process with each, writing down their estimated percentages, so that in your follow up, you can demonstrate their progress.)
7. Would you be willing to commit to reviewing your day and writing down your percentages on a regular basis? We find that people who practice this and don’t write down the numbers on a daily basis do get some results, but those who do, have faster, more dramatic, and lasting results. In fact, we’ve seen miracles happen in a matter of weeks.
8. For the printable Consciousness Raising Tool that can be used to track one’s percentages on a daily basis, use this link: Consciousness Raising Tool.

ADDITIONAL TIPS:

1. You may find it helpful to explain that in some systems of the law of attraction, including The Science of Mind, the emphasis is that to manifest what we want, we must believe it is already done in mind, “perfect whole, and complete” right here and now. The challenge with this strategy is that it is sometimes too large a jump for people to get from where they are emotionally about a situation to “perfect, whole, and complete.” While I agree that perfect whole and complete is a more powerful consciousness than merely focusing on the what we want, I have found in my life and the lives of my clients, that focusing on what we want more than 50% of the time is enough for manifestation in almost all cases, and is easy enough for most clients to accomplish. This is really where the rubber meets the road in the area of law of attraction and positive thinking. We can spend two hours a day, meditating, visualizing, affirming, doing spiritual mind treatment, but if the rest of the time we are walking around focused on what we don’t want, what do you think we are going to create more of. All of these practices are helpful, and this practice is a method for making positive consciousness consistent on a moment-to-moment basis.
2. I also explain that one doesn’t even have to believe it is possible to manifest what one wants. We can simply be playing in the fantasy of what we want, and that is enough to shift the consciousness into a place of power or create a “vibrational match” as the Hicks call it.
3. Sometimes clients will say that they aren’t focusing on what they want or don’t want much at all after doing the practice for a while. This can be an indication that the process is working and they are no longer worrying or feeling discomfort about the particular challenging area. I like to emphasize sometimes in the first session of this type and even more often in the follow ups that if you think about this area only 10 minutes of each day, what percentage of that 10 minutes is focused on you want. This can bring some clarity to the practice.