Attention Bubble: A Powerful Method of Self-Observation

Understanding how to use your attention is one of the most powerful tools for transformational change that you can develop. Because our attention is our area of focus, it reveals our dominant thoughts, our operating beliefs and what we really think is important.

In order to change that area of focus we need to learn how to contain it, shift it and create new scenarios which are more empowering and are in alignment with the life we know we were meant to live. In this article I’m going to outline a method that I use frequently; the Attention Bubble.

The Attention Bubble can be used to contain fearful images, thoughts or scenarios when you encounter them, it can be used to launch your dreams into the world or it can be used like a movie screen in which you simply observe your thought patterns, emotional responses and other internal processes. Its versatility has made it a favorite with me and of course, whatever works for me I’m happy to share.

You are the Camera

When I first started using this technique it all happened very intuitively, a deeply profound perspective shift like looking through the lens of a camera occurred. I found myself observing my own attention and what it was beginning to notice, watching it shift more and more toward that direction. I was looking at this process from the outside of it instead of the inside. So the first step in using the bubble is to take the perspective of the camera and be the observer of your own attention.

Using the Bubble to Contain Your Attention and/or Thoughts

One of the best uses I have found for the bubble is as a container. An example of this can be found in my Experiments in Manifesting post in which I used the bubble to contain my focus when I noticed an imbalance in my foot while I was running on the treadmill. If I had not used the bubble my attention would have been pulled into the pain, allowing a temporary imbalance to become a full-fledged problem.

The bubble can be used to hold your attention while you find a more suitable direction. In the case of my foot situation, I used the bubble to hold my attention until I figured out a course of action…which was to flood the area with healing light, to see healing hands massaging it until it glowed, until I could see my spiritual body, perfect and whole shine through the surface.

To hold your attention in the bubble pick a nondescript focal point such as a shiny spot on a wall. You are looking for something that won’t stimulate thought yet is interesting enough to hold your attention. Once you have it, imagine looking through a camera lens. In the circle of the lens you see your focal point. Slowly that circle turns into a large bright soap bubble. Hold it until you no longer need it…then imagine it pop.

To use the bubble to contain a thought simply see your thought clearly, now imagine a shiny, iridescent soap bubble forming around your thought. Your thought is now trapped inside the bubble. Take a several deep breathes and with your exhales watch as you blow the bubble higher and higher. It floats away from you until it either pops or disappears.

Using the Bubble to Manifest Your Desires

You can also use the Attention Bubble to manifest things you want to bring into your physical reality. I love doing this! There are a couple of methods you can use to manifest a desire using the bubble, which you choose will depend on the visualization technique you are most comfortable with. Start by visualizing an image or scene of your desired outcome (see yourself living with it as a real possibility).

As this scene or image develops imagine a soap bubble forming around it almost like a crystal ball or if you have seen the movie Labyrinth(this dates me a tad, and yes, I am very fond of this movie), you will know exactly what I am talking about.

It is like watching a movie contained in a beautiful transparent sphere. Imagine the sphere moving up and over your head. See white light coming down from above you. Flood the sphere with all the energy and light you can channel while watching the scene. See it move higher and higher, becoming one with the light as it travels up to heaven…release it to the universe with joy, knowing that it has traveled into the world of energy…the world in which all things first appear…a mirror to our own reality.

Using the Bubble as an Observation Screen

The bubble can also be used for observing thought forms. For example, I am about to embark on a 23-day trip away from my family for intensive NLP & Life Coach training. I have never been away from my children for this long, so one day I noticed my attention wondering toward fearful thought forms of being alone, trusting others to care for them, allowing them to have experiences of which I am not a part and allowing myself to experience apart from them.

Rather than let my attention be absorbed completely by these fears I decided to use the bubble as an observation screen. In this way I could still experience and accept what I was feeling, without becoming the feelings. I could then develop an awareness about what was going on that would allow me to separate fears from facts and come to a balanced place of trust and peace.

To use the bubble in this way you imagine yourself looking at your mind through a video camera. Use the camera to follow your attention to the thoughts and emotions that are playing out before you. In the circle of the lens, see the brightly colored soap bubble develop…the bubble is now your camera view.

Allow the thought forms to play out and then hit the pause button. Ask yourself about the facts of the situation and list them out. Doing this will make the opinions or beliefs you hold around the situation easier to notice. See these opinions…as you focus on them they dissolve in the light of your attention.

Hit the play button again and let the scenario unfold with just the facts, hold the expectation of all things good and pay special attention toward developing a perspective that can find it. With one great exhale of truth, peace, balance and acceptance, turn off the camera and watch the lens close…leaving the outcome with trust…to the universe.