Wave II · 6 exercises
From resting to widening
Threshold uses Discovery’s steady resting point as a base. Focus 12 is the program’s label for expanded awareness: attention is invited to feel less confined to the immediate body and surroundings. Introduction to Focus 12 asks you to compare this with Focus 10, rather than assume that a numbered state must feel a certain way.
A question versus a pattern
Problem Solving holds a question in mind and leaves space for impressions. One Month Patterning instead pictures a near-term intention as a possible lived situation. Patterning means forming and attending to that imagined pattern, not guaranteeing that circumstances will follow it. For example, picturing a calmer conversation is different from receiving an answer to a question.
Images as anchors
Color Breathing, Energy Bar Tool and Living Body Map give attention concrete visual or bodily subjects. Color, shape and sensed body areas become ways to notice experience without requiring vivid pictures or a particular result.
Gateway Wave II: Threshold exercises
Introduction to Focus 12
Compare the familiar resting attention of Focus 10 with the broader field of awareness proposed in Focus 12.
Problem Solving
Bring a question to the session, then consider any impressions that arise before deciding whether they offer a useful response.
One Month Patterning
Picture a personal intention over the coming month and consider how you would recognize and revisit that intention in everyday life.
Color Breathing
Use imagined color with breathing, noticing whether the association appears as a picture, a feeling or another kind of sensation.
Energy Bar Tool
Form an imagined energy-bar tool and explore its shape or felt qualities as a subject for sustained attention.
Living Body Map
Turn attention toward an imagined map of the body and notice which areas or patterns of sensation stand out.