The Circle of Focus

A Group Tool for Supporting Change

Here is a tool that the Storyteller gave us, which is a group mediation designed to bring about change in ourselves and our world. It’s similar to a mastermind where a small group of people who share the same values come together to achieve a similar goal. 

The exercise below was distilled from the teachings and shared by a long-term student.

If you enjoy this exercise you download the PDF version below.

About States of Reality

1. What we consider to be reality is just a loose accumulation of belief systems gathered together.
2. What holds it together is how commonly focused we are as human beings and as a group. As group focus shifts, so does the reality we live in. Both in large groups and small groups.
3. All possible realities already exist. We don’t create a reality; we just recognize that the possibility is already there. Then our passion takes us into it, and we begin to live in that alternate reality.
4. We can choose the reality we prefer. Our focus realigns ourselves and our world. When we change our focus, we go into a subtly different alternate reality. What we focus on comes into existence for us, and what we don’t focus on disappears. 

What is a Circle of Focus

1. A Circle of Focus is a group tool for effecting and supporting change and creating into realities we want to experience.
2. A Circle of Focus is a place where all participants hold a common focus, aimed at the same purpose with similar intentions. (Similar allegiance.) It is a place where all persons are focusing in the same direction for different reasons.
3. A Circle of Focus is a place where similar what-might-be’s are included in the same purpose. We are creating into a reality where similar possibilities are inclusive in that particular reality. A place where all can see it as so.

How to Focus

1. Don’t focus on a picture of how it should be or look. Rather, focus on your passion point in a thing, your sense of it. The place where you can participate with it.
2. Focus into what you consider to be helpful. Do not be distracted into what you consider to be harmful. Example: If world peace is your focus, world power becomes a distraction
3. Have a focus of appropriate perspective, meaning:
   • Accepting “what is” for what it is, rather than pretending or imagining it to be larger or smaller than it is.
   • What we can’t or won’t change is part of the solution, not part of the problem.
   • The ignoring or denying of “what is” is a distraction and harmful. Participate with what truly is.
4. Focus large enough to include everyone’s passion and general idea of the thing. This takes us to an inclusive reality where everyone can see it.
5. Trying to bend others to your picture is harmful. It’s crossing free will. Don’t try to take their choices away. Take into consideration their participation. Open up a space where you see that thing is possible. They get to walk into the reality or not. It’s their choice.
6. Always allow for the free will and the good of all.

The Power of Numbers

1. 1 person + 1 person = 7 persons’ energy. Each added person adds the power of 7 persons’ energy.
   Thus, 3 persons = the power of 21 persons.
   This is why small, focused groups can make such a difference, and why the passion of a mob is so strong.
2. Link your group energy with other outside group energies and other free energies to enhance your group’s total power.

Three Steps of Focusing

1. Do not assign your pictures to what is being focused upon; rather, eliminate yourself and your ideas of how it should be and how it should look. Instead, focus on your passion within it.
   (Yours is a part of the whole participation – similar intentions towards the same purpose.)
2. Allow yourself and your energies to flow toward the focused reality, with free will and for the good of all.
   Allow that your energies may be used for this.
3. Allow that those energies have been used, and an opening has occurred. We are now in an alternate reality. See it done. It is so.
4. How long to focus: A minute or so is long enough, as long as you can stay with the passion of your focus. If your mind wanders, it’s time to stop.
   Effectiveness is not so much how you do it, but rather, how you stay with the passion of the focus. 

Practicing the Circle of Focus

1. Set a time limit. For example, 30 minutes or one request per minute. 
2. Go into silence. One person picks out a folded request and reads it silently, passing it along to the person clockwise next to him. It is read silently by each person as it completes the circle. Alternatively, if done remotely, the request can be written in an email. 
3. Each participant closes their eyes and internally goes through the Three Steps of Focusing for each request. (See steps above.)
4. At the end of the rounds of reading and focusing upon requests, the remaining unread requests are put into the middle of the circle, and all these requests are then focused upon at once as one unit. (These requests will remain “cooking” until the next time. More new ones will also be added at that time.) 
5. At the end, as the group comes out of their meditation, all participants say together:
   “This has been with Free Will and for the Good of All!”

If you enjoyed this online version, you can download the PDF and print copies for your group.