TL;DR: The author explores why reconnecting with our Broader Perspective can feel difficult at first—and how the Positively Focused practice gently guides us back to our natural state of ease, alignment, and worthiness. They do so by examining the story of Adam and Eve’s “fall from Eden” and interpreting the story in a new way.
The Positively Focused practice is, at its core, stunningly simple. It asks nothing more than that we cultivate alignment with our Broader Perspective—our eternal, nonphysical self—and allow manifestations to unfold from that vibration. And yet, for some, this proves to be the most difficult thing they’ve ever attempted.
Over the years, I’ve worked with dozens of brilliant, deeply sincere clients who came to me wanting lives full of ease, clarity, love, wealth, and purpose. Some of them get it—quickly. Others struggle, flounder, or resist the very practice they sought out. But it’s not because they’re not ready. It’s because the very mindset they’re bringing to the work is the mindset that’s keeping them from Eden.
Let me explain.
The Fall from Alignment: A New Interpretation of Eden
The story of Eden is not just a biblical allegory. It’s a vibrational map of humanity’s shift from spiritual knowing to intellectual survival.
Before “the fall,” Adam and Eve walked with God in the garden. They lived in ease, joy, and a natural connection with their Source. This is the Charmed Life I speak of in the Positively Focused practice. It’s the state of full receptivity—where desires are fulfilled even before we act, often before we know we have a desire, where the Universe anticipates and delivers joy before we can articulate it.
Then came the Tree of Knowledge. Not the tree of wisdom. The tree of knowledge—of facts, reasoning, and dualities. “Good and evil.” “Right and wrong.” “Cause and effect.”
In biting the fruit, humanity shifted from intuitive alignment with Source to a state of mind-based knowing. From vibrational attunement to cognitive calculation. That shift—that was the fall. Not sin. Not punishment. Just an orientation that pulled us out of the Now and into the intellect.
Ever since, most humans have been trying to “think their way” back to Eden. But you can’t get to the garden through the mind. You have to feel your way there. As the legendary rap group Outkast puts it: you must “free your(self from your) mind and the ass will follow”.
The Intellect as a Distraction From Source
I’ve had two recent clients—let’s call them Kelly and Carl—who are textbook examples of this Eden exile. Both are deeply thoughtful, educated, and introspective people. They devour information, stay up on current affairs, and explore the world around them with an intellectual passion. They “understand” the Positively Focused framework. I would say they even resonate with it. And yet, they resist doing the actual practice.
Why?
Because doing the practice would mean letting go of the very faculty they’ve learned to rely on for everything. That aspect of themselves they’re so proud of: their minds.
Instead of meditating daily to establish connection with their Broader Perspective, they over-analyze their contrast. Instead of practicing soothing thought to generate high vibrational states, they try to outsmart their negative beliefs. They treat their transformation like a riddle they’re trying to solve, not a frequency they’re tuning to.
This is incredibly common. We’ve been trained to believe that the mind is the highest authority. That if we can just intellectually “figure it out,” we’ll finally get what we want.
But the Universe doesn’t respond to logic. It doesn’t reward intellectual analysis. It responds to vibration. And that’s the kicker: when you’re trying to make sense of your reality with the same beliefs that created it, you can only ever rearrange the furniture in your prison cell.
You Can’t Fake Belief—But You Can Realign
Here’s the paradox: people don’t come to me when things are going great. They come when they’re in deep contrast—financially, relationally, emotionally. That contrast makes them ready. But they often try to resolve the contrast using the same tools that generated it: effort, willpower, discipline, mental inquiry.
The Positively Focused practice requires none of those things. It asks you to:
- Meditate to quiet the mind
- Practice soothing thought to align with better-feeling probable realities
- Celebrate manifestations that prove your alignment
- And gradually become a match to the life you want by calibrating to how you want to feel
But for the intellect-bound, these actions feel too passive. Too “woo.” Too easy. So they try to improve their lives through deeper analysis, self-criticism, or by “fixing” themselves.
That never works.
You don’t get to the Charmed Life by becoming “better.” Instead, you get there by remembering who you already are: a sovereign extension of Source, endlessly worthy, fully supported, and already living the life you want—just on a frequency you haven’t yet matched.
You Are the Garden You Never Left.
Here’s what I tell clients like Carl and Kelly when I see them spinning in mental overdrive: You’re not “becoming” worthy, you’re not “earning” ease. You’re not “healing” your way to success. You’re remembering.
The garden was never destroyed. We never actually leave it. Instead, we simply turn our gaze away from it. We believed someone else’s story—our parents’, our school’s, our church’s, our culture’s—that said, “Life is hard. You have to earn your worth. Nothing comes without struggle.”
So now, when we try to meditate, we get fidgety. When we try to feel appreciation, it feels fake. When we try to do the practice, it feels silly.
That’s not failure. It’s just resistance meeting its match. It’s our old momentum pushing back as our true orientation starts to return. Stick with it. The garden is still here.
The Charmed Life Begins With One Realization
The Positively Focused blog is full of stories—mine and my clients’—that prove this. I’ve shared how money has literally appeared on the street after I soothed a scarcity belief. How dream sequences showed me future relationships. How clients began loving their spouses in ways they hadn’t in years, or saw evidence of their artistic expression becoming possible, or found themselves believing they could have the love they once bitterly forsook — after they did the practice as prescribed.
Not because they became more intelligent. But because they became more attuned.
The Charmed Life doesn’t come from mental effort. It comes from vibrational alignment. That’s not a metaphor. It’s physics, reality. That’s Eden.
And here’s the best part: once we start to feel the garden again—through a well-timed manifestation, a deep meditation in which we have an out of body experience, a random compliment from a stranger—we want more. We want to do the practice because we’re seeing the results. That’s when worthiness kicks in. Not as a thought. But as a state of being.
Final Words for the Intellectually Inclined
If you’re reading this and feeling defensive—or intrigued—or deeply called into something you can’t quite name—that’s your Broader Perspective stirring. You don’t have to throw away your mind. The intellect has its place. But it’s not the pilot. It’s the co-pilot.
Your intuition, your alignment, your joy—that’s what’s flying the plane. So if the Positively Focused practice feels “too simple,” or “too emotional,” or “not intellectual enough,” consider this: That’s probably your sign to lean in.
Because the garden didn’t go anywhere. You’re standing in it right now. All you have to do… is look. Book a free session. Let’s get you into Eden.