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[cazzer]

Can you please tell me why it takes so long to get a reply from Frank

[pwalker281]

I would assume he's pretty busy, cazzer, gearing up for the Miami workshops.  Perhaps you can restate your question here and others will help you.  There's a pretty experienced bunch of QE-ers here!

Aloha,
Patrice

[Alfred]

Hello Cazzer,
Even from the beginning, Frank deliberately did not position himself as the primary host the forum because he is so busy with publishers, writing, workshop and certification planning that he only occasionally visits the forum.  He asks that forum members look to the website in general and FAQ page on his website first, then his published work, and then the discussion forums, and only ask of him questions.  Several of us can answer based on reading his books and taking multipe workshops with him (I've attended four), and one or more forum contributors may be certified QE practitioners. 

I hope if you haven't been able to find the answer to your question or concern from any of these other sources, that you'll hang in there for an eventual answer from Frank.

Blessings,

Alfred

[cazzer]

O.k this was my question:
I have read your book twice and listened to the cd's but i am still confused can you please tell me, is Pure Awareness focussing your attention on a specific thing for example your finger tips or is it having no[/b] thoughts in your head and focusing your attentin on the 'nothing' thats there instead? 

hope you can help.

[Alfred]

Pure awareness on its own has no object: it is the medium through which you are able to focus on anything, and it is the fundamental nature of any object that could be focused upon and anyone who could do the focusing. We get glimpses of PA through becoming acutely aware, and the more aware we are of the awareness itself (and/or the Eufeeling that emerges when we are), the closer we come to awareness of PA.  It's the awareness of part that we are distilling toward PA, but we start out with very close observation of something.

Quantum entrainment is the set of techniques through which you learn to focus your awareness on awareness itself. ONE of those ways is by focusing awareness on finger contact points in acertain progression (triangulation, described in The Secret of Instant Healing), and ANOTHER way is to observe thought activity in such a way that you become aware of the PA in the gaps between one thought and another (the refined technique described in The Secret of Quantum Living).  These both are reliable methods, and there are undoubtedly others, but in QE we stick with the tried and true.

I hope this clarifies things a bit more for you.

Blessings,


Alfred

[cazzer]

Thank you Alfred for your explanation still not sure i get it though i will keep listening to the cds and read the book again.  When i meditate i clear my mind and focus on "nothing" which i understand is the gap between thoughts, is this a similar thing?

Can you give me some examples of how this has changed your life or the life of anyone around you?

[Alfred]

Dear Cazzer,
Okay, so let's examine your question closer, break it down, and then see whether step-by-step answers help:

(1) is Pure Awareness focussing your attention on a specific thing for example your finger tips (2) or is it having no thoughts in your head (3) and focusing your attentin on the 'nothing' thats there instead?

1.

is Pure Awareness focussing your attention on a specific thing for example your finger tips?

Pure awareness is not an action or activity: it seems to be empty space, but it is also all potentials.  You are confusing pa with the techniques Frank has developed which help us become aware of it.  PA is not something you do. You are always in a state of awareness, but you are usually only consciously aware of a fleeting series of physical objects interspersed with thoughts in your mind; your mind focuses on the objects or thoughts themselves and not the awareness allowing you to observe them or the spaces between them.  

2.

or is it having no thoughts in your head and focusing your attentin on the 'nothing' thats there instead?

This is actually closer.  If you get what I'm saying in 1., then let's rephrase the question: "Am I aware of pure awareness when I have no thoughts in my head?"

Well, it is possible to have no thoughts in your conscious mind without being aware of pa.  An example would be when you are sleeping.

But when you are consciously aware and observing the space or "gap" between one thought and the next, you are aware of pa; or when you are juggling and expanding your conscious awareness to encompass multiple objects in acute detail, you are overloading your capacity to the point where you are increasingly more aware of your awareness than you are these multiple focal points or objects of awareness, and this so points to pa.   It is that moment between one thought and the next in which you are paying such close attention that you notice the gap.

3.

and focusing your attentin on the 'nothing' thats there instead?

This is more like it, but it won't feel like you are "focusing on anything, and you won't be, because there is nothing (i.e. "no thing" / no object / no focal point) "there" to focus on.  The Eufeeling emerges in response to this gap, because you become aware of awareness.

Keep at it: this will all make sense in time!  

Blessings,

Alfred