IAAP Newsletter:The Unified Field
Volume 6, Number 2
Mike Phillips
Airport Screening and Attunement
I can truly say that my experience with most of the passengers that I have encountered as an airport screener in the last twenty-three months have been delightful. However, occasionally there are diffi cult attitudes that present themselves and must be addressed by both passengers and screeners. I have found that these attitudes generally fall under the themes of confrontation and the need to be right.
During the fi rst few weeks following training I found myself becoming disoriented and sometimes agitated if a passenger became irritated with the screening process or with me. Even if the passenger said nothing, but showed signs of frustration it would bother me. Sometimes it would take an hour or so following an incident for me to let go and get beyond the energy of the confrontational situation. It became obvious that something needed to change in me.
I took steps to modify the approach I used with each passenger. I set my intent on increasing my appreciation and respect for each person whom I encountered. I started setting an atmosphere of peace and thanksgiving in my own body, mind, and heart before beginning work each day. I also found it helpful to silently share an Attunement with each person I screened.
My modifi ed approach has created changes in my work situation. Now when I greet a passenger I offer an atmosphere of peace, balance, and respect. I intentionally express a focused acknowledgment of "Being", often using eye contact as a point of radiation. Regardless of the passenger's attitude, I keep my demeanor and voice tone relaxed, peaceful and uplifting. I consciously acknowledge their attitudes, be it happiness, anger, indifference, etc. I accommodate as best I can their specifi c needs while continuing to identify with the presence of Being in both of us. I have seen some rather irate individuals move into calmer space while being enfolded in this conscious manner. I have discovered that when I offer my highest and best and silently call on the passenger to do the same, I usually receive their highest and best in return.
In my new approach to the passengers, their attitudes of confrontation and the need to be right lessen and are often released. I am humbled by how simply and easily this can be done. This being said, I am also amazed by how easily one can forget this approach at times. I see this happening in other areas of living, for example in one's need to control a child or parent, or feelings that arise about the person who pulled in front of me while driving, about the county assessor who raised my property taxes, or about the person holding up the check-out line at the grocery store. These can all become charged emotional examples of the need to be right and to be confrontational. So, let us practice the Attunement approach in all our living.
The Attunement process is a simple, radiant, loving way to live life. Yield to the presence and direction of "Being". As one does this, the entanglements of unbalanced emotions dissolve, the problems are clarifi ed and life is good.
—MP
Joseph C. Antell
Attunement and Field Dynamics
This article was originally written in 1988 for a children's newsletter, with the intent of setting the stage for childhood Attunement education. — Editor
Most of you have probably shared an Attunement and have some idea of what they are about. I asked my little girl who attends one of our classes why you would share Attunement, and she said, "Because you love somebody". And that is very true.
Attunement, though, is much more than when you sit or lie down and somebody holds their hands around you. Attunement relates to a special place inside you from which the beauty of your own light shines. As this light comes from you, you are actually giving an Attunement. This happens when you feed and care for your pets around the house, or water your plants or maybe even talk to them. Even going for a walk, you can give an Attunement to the earth because you are happy inside. If you sing a song as you walk, this is all part of showing the love that you have to give.
One of the most important parts of giving an Attunement is to make sure that you are very still inside, like just before you go to bed at night and you listen to your mother or father read to you or tell you a story and you feel very calm. Or when you fi rst wake up in the morning after a good night's rest, you have a sweet feeling of being alive and you carry that feeling with you all day long. You must always remember that you can't give to somebody what you don't have.
Sometimes you have feelings that aren't so great, or what you are thinking isn't quite right and maybe your body has a cold, but even if all these things are going on you know thatlife is very strong. I heard a story once of a little mushroom that was growing under a cement sidewalk, but the mushroom was so strong that it split open the hard cement and grew right through. So if you know that life can do these things, you can tell your feelings or your wrong thoughts or your sick body that it's okay, and in a little while it will all change.
Did you know that you can share an Attunement with someone who is very far away? You can do this by thinking of them. It's as if you were to call them on the telephone and talk with them. We all have these invisible telephone lines between our special family and friends and they are always there. In our home we have the whole front of our refrigerator covered with pictures of some of the people that we love very much, and sometimes we look at them and think about these people. Other times we send our friends a card or draw them a picture and tell them how much we appreciate them. These are all ways in which we help one another.
It is always good to be able to help your friends around you and in school. Can you tell sometimes when one of your best buds is having a hard time? Do you go over and give him or her a hug or go ask him to do something fun, or if he would just like to talk? In whatever you do, you let your friend know that everything is okay.
Wouldn't it be neat if we could see the Attunement light coming from our hands or maybe our eyes? Well, it is there through a smile or through just being close to someone. Through every picture you draw, every helping hand you offer, every time you look at someone and appreciate them for who they are, in all these things you have given an Attunement, and it is because you are love.
—JA
