You enter a new segment anytime your intentions change: If you are washing dishes and the telephone rings, you enter a new segment. When you get into your vehicle, you enter a new segment. When another person walks into the room, you enter a new segment.
If you take the time to get your thought of expectation started even before you are inside your new segment, you will be able to set the tone of the segment more specifically than if you walk into the segment and begin to observe it as it already is.
Esther and Jerry Hicks, Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
Last year I gave an e-course called Breaking into Blossom. It was about moving into an improvisational life, becoming more playful and intuitive in our daily lives, our work (play) and relationships. I loved the Abrahamic strategy called “segment intending” and wove it into the course.
Today I was riding and used it to focus myself during each phase of the ride. The ride felt like it made more sense, and as if each part of the work was clearer between us. I also could feel that I was not dragging anything that didn’t go so well with me into the next segment. At the same time, there was a cumulative sense of harmony and attunement.
Why think about this? Looking at your day this way is a way to create a conscious shift from one state to another. Think about it as an opportunity to re-boot, to create a mindful shift at many points during the day. It is also a way to feel yourself entering and exiting, beginning and ending. Even if you just get up from your desk or your practice to make a cup of tea, you are leaving one segment and entering another. An interruption of a work cycle by a telephone call is another segment. Another opportunity. What I like is nourishing mindfulness about each of those changing states.
You can buy the eBook, Breaking into Blossom, here