Environment
Choose Your Field
Steep in what lifts you and starve what pulls you down — your inputs shape your state.
Why this helps
Low-calibrating inputs — violent or cynical media, negativity — test you weak and fill the tank.
In the moment
Swapping one input lifts the state now.
Over time
The current you swim in carries you upward.
The practice
Your state is contagious from your surroundings: music, people, and media each carry an energy that lifts you or pulls you down — measurably so. Choosing your field means deliberately steeping in what calibrates high and starving what calibrates low, so the current you swim in carries you upward.
The energy of music itself — even without lyrics — strengthens or weakens the body's energy system. — Hawkins, after Dr. John Diamond.
When to use it
- Feeling dragged down by your environment
- After too much negative media or company
- Designing daily life to support your state
Instructions
- Notice what reliably leaves you drained vs. lifted.
- Add more of the high: uplifting music, steady people, beauty, nature.
- Reduce the low: violent or cynical media, negativity, heavy noise.
- Treat your inputs as a daily choice, not background.
Related focus areas
Guilt, forgiveness, and interpersonal triggers - guided toolkits that use this technique.