There is, of course, the long term solution to that which entails a focusing state and the continual strengthening of the protection around your vibration. The short term response to that ~ and you will each on occasion need a short term response ~ is very simple and can be done without those around you knowing that you have done this. It can be done as soon as you are feeling you have absorbed negativity or verbal attacks toward you. And they do not need to be verbal attacks ~ they could thoughtforms from the other entity who would be sending them toward you.

You would quiet yourself very easily by simply taking a long deep breath that is from very deep within your solar plexus. Bring the breath up and carry it up through the tunnel of the Energy Centers into the nose and mouth and the entire lung area. Hold onto that breath and count to five. Slow five. Slow. Bring it in. And, then release it through the mouth.

When you have done that, envision a shield of very soft, soft white fabric. You have this soft, soft fabric that drapes around your shoulders, and the fabric comes down the front of you and covers the solar plexus.

Take your arms and fold them crisscross, so that you are feeling the white fabric. You can do this very easily. It does not need to be a big deal where you would be focusing with all this sort of appearance. Rather, draw in your breath. Then, as you let out your breath, you are then envisioning, very quickly, this white fabric around you, and it is soft, and you feel comforted and safe.

It is a very common lesson that entities take on ~ to learn how to focus in the midst of chaos. And when that chaos occurs in your work environment, you must attempt to bring the energy around you ~ as well as your own energy ~ into a quietness. We would tell you at a theoretical perspective that you would simply try to take control of this scatteredness by saying to an individual who is attempting to scatter you, “Excuse me, you’re scattering me and I must not allow that.” You would very quickly find yourself in a position you would perhaps not want, for it would antagonize that entity.

Rather, what you would do is first to, again, draw in the breath. When you are starting to feel any confusion or if it is when negativity is coming toward you, you must quickly, first, bring yourself into a focus, and that means to draw in the breath. Quickly draw in the breath as we have described.

Then, to bring your own sense of scatteredness into focus ~ which you must do first ~ you would then feel yourself being in the middle of a wheel that is moving around and around. You are feeling the motion of the wheel moving around and around, and you are in the middle of this wheel. And then you begin to slowly have it stop, and you begin to feel that you are standing straight and without motion. You have now centered yourself.

It then becomes your part to bring in the pieces that are being scattered. If someone is saying to you, “Do this” and “Do that,” take all of those pieces and bring them into your own center. Say to the entity who is doing this, “Please help me to put this into the right priority,” so that you are taking part of the control yourself. Yet, you are also asking the other, who is also scattered, to take some of the responsibility and the control and work together.

When you are in a balancing situation, you must work together. A technique will work only if it is in harmony with another who is also working with you. This will take working on, of course, for you are in the situation to begin with to learn lessons and to learn also to help others focus.

Learning to focus and bring order out of chaos is a very difficult lesson. There are many on the plane currently who understand this and do this very effectively. And when they find themselves in environments where there is great scatteredness, they are able to very quickly bring it into focus.

As we emphasize to you over and over again, you must do this to learn so that, as you have said, my love, the ratio of doing this changes, until you reach the point where there is not even the thoughtform. You have developed your levels of understanding and patience and unconditional love so that the thoughtform does not present itself. All who are on the earth plane are seeking those levels of understanding. You must not chastise yourself when you have said something or done something. Rather, take that within your focusing state and determine what that meant in terms of your path.

A useful way of short circuiting ~ when the words you feel you are about to say to another are forming in your throat and you know that you should not be saying it, before it has a chance to get up onto the tongue, while it is still in the throat, cough. A nice hearty cough. That gets it out of the throat and off of the tongue and out into the vibration, and it also allows you to momentarily stop yourself. Now, it may not work. And sometimes it will not stop you, and you simply have coughed and it is still congealed in your throat and now it is moving its way up and ready to be presented to the situation.

Once it has reached that point and you are not able to stop it, then it is going to come out, and that is part of the lesson to learn, for then you will feel it coming out. And if you visualize that your mouth is very hot as you are saying this, and you are feeling the emotion of it all, yes, this time it may come out ~ however, the next time, when it looks like it is going to come out, you will remember the burning sensation.

This is not an issue that is easily and quickly overcome. You will gradually learn, if you stop yourself consciously. That, in itself, is a lesson ~ to stop yourself consciously from saying something, even if you are feeling it. There are times, however, when venting is just as critical to the releasing of energy as holding it in would be detrimental. And only you, as an entity, will know that fine line of venting and not saying anything, for sometimes the venting is what is needed. Other times, as you all have found, venting was not what you thought you needed.

Remember that each behavior that is exhibited by any entity is appropriate behavior even though it may appear to be, in someone else’s eyes, negative, or even in your own eyes, negative. The lessons to be learned are what are discussed here. And if you do something you feel, after the fact, was not appropriate, well then you learn from that. You take it and say, “I will not do this again.”

Some behaviors have much more of an impact on others than other behaviors. Remember that each behavior that you exhibit you must take responsibility for, and you must, therefore, say within Self, “I take responsibility for my own behavior and its impact upon those around me.” Each of you does not operate in isolation, who can merrily go on your way and say, “I will do what I want to do for it is my path.” That is not taking responsibility for the impact that your behavior has on another. That is what you must take into account. And that is what you do as you feel you want to say something or you want to respond in a particular way. It will have an impact, and you say to Self, “I bear the responsibility of that impact on another.”

Thus, if you say something that you know you should not be saying, and you know you cannot stop it, and you say it anyway, you must be ready to take the consequence of that action upon another. And that is fine, for it is part of the balancing. It may bring about a response, then, from the entity to whom you directed the remark, for if there was not an issue between you and the other entity, the situation would not be presenting itself. It is as simple as that.