Scripting · “You Assign the Meaning”
Segment Intending
Set a deliberate vibrational intention at the start of each new segment of the day, pre-paving how you want it to feel and go.
Segment Intending in brief: At each transition in your day (waking, driving, starting work, entering a room), pause, breathe into a good feeling, and briefly declare how you intend that segment to go and feel. Pre-pave segments you know are coming. If a specific intention triggers doubt, back off to a believable general one. Reset at every new segment.
What it is
Segment Intending is an Abraham-Hicks process for taking conscious charge of the transitions in your day. The day is not one continuous stream; it breaks into “segments” — leaving the house, getting in the car, arriving at work, starting a meeting, sitting down to dinner.
At each transition you usually drift in on autopilot, carrying whatever mood the last segment left you in. Segment intending interrupts that: as you enter a new segment, you pause and declare how you intend it to go and how you intend to feel — “pre-paving” the segment so your attention and emotional state are set deliberately rather than reactively.
Abraham frames it as defining the vibrational characteristics of the time segment you are moving into, laying an easier energetic track ahead of you.
The Method
From the Abraham-Hicks teachings (notably Ask and It Is Given):
- Notice the transition. Recognise that you are leaving one segment and entering another (waking up, starting a drive, beginning work, walking into a room). The transition is the trigger to intend.
- Pause and get general first. Take a breath and reach for a settled, positive feeling before specifying — the feeling-tone is the operative element (The Inner Creates the Outer), not the wording.
- State your intentions for the segment. Briefly declare how you want it to go and feel: e.g., on getting in the car — “I intend this drive to be safe, smooth, and easy, and I intend to arrive relaxed and on time.” Keep it positive and present.
- Pre-pave upcoming segments. For a segment you know is coming (a difficult meeting, a phone call), pre-pave it in advance: visualise and feel it going the way you want before you arrive in it.
- Stay general where you have resistance. If a specific intention triggers doubt (“this will be a great sales call” when you feel anxious), back off to a believable general statement (“I intend to feel calm and clear”) — you cannot pre-pave from a feeling of struggle.
- Repeat throughout the day. Treat each new segment as a fresh chance to reset. There is no count or schedule; the discipline is simply intending before you enter, rather than reacting after. (Sourcing note: paraphrased description of the Abraham-Hicks process; examples are illustrative, not quoted text.)
Source & Lineage
Segment Intending and Pre-Paving are processes taught through the Abraham-Hicks material — Esther Hicks’s purported channelled teachings of a non-physical collective called “Abraham,” developed with her late husband Jerry Hicks from the late 1980s onward, and a central engine of the modern Law of Attraction movement (amplified hugely after the 2006 film/book The Secret).
The processes are detailed in Ask and It Is Given (2004). Conceptually it descends from New Thought “mental imaging” and intention-setting.
The Traditions' versions
The same move — set a deliberate intention/expectation before a period or task — recurs widely: - Intention setting (general) — declaring a purpose before an activity or ritual.
- Scripting — writing the day/event as you want it, the written cousin of pre-paving.
- Implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, psychology) — “when situation X, I will do Y” cues that reliably improve follow-through.
- Mental rehearsal / pre-performance routine — athletes priming the upcoming segment of play.
- Morning intention in contemplative traditions — dedicating the day at its outset.
- Letter/script from the future — pre-living a future segment.
Common refinements
Specifying from resistance. Stating a confident outcome you don’t believe creates inner conflict; stay general until it feels reachable.
- Wording over feeling. Reciting intentions flatly does little; the felt tone (The Inner Creates the Outer) is what carries.
- Intending after the fact. The value is in setting it before entering the segment, not narrating it once you’re already reacting.
- Over-engineering. Long elaborate scripts for every micro-segment become a chore; keep it brief and frequent.
- Using it to skip preparation. Pre-paving a meeting doesn’t replace preparing for it; intend and act.