Vineeto: I’m not sure what you mean by “intentions” – are they certain plans for the future?
Also I don’t know what you mean by being “focused on … vibes” – are you focused on your vibes (which are essentially your feelings), or are you trying to figure out other people’s vibes in order to respond accordingly?
Adam: Just for a little more clarity on what I meant by intentions and vibes – I did mean my own intentions and vibes. Effectively the ruthless honesty with myself is honesty about my own self-centeredness and harmfulness (which I was loosely referring to as intentions/ vibes), which segues into seeing that I’m the problem etc.
Hi Adam,
Thank you for the clarification.
The way you describe yourself may be ruthless but not very friendly towards yourself. It’s a good idea to treat yourself as a friend and not someone you need to take down. There are already enough others who do that.
Richard: ‘It is important not to view ‘I’ and/or ‘me’ as an enemy – blind nature is the culprit – and to be friends with yourself … only you live with yourself twenty four hours a day. Coopt any aspect of yourself as an ally in this investigation into the human psyche … eventually ‘I’ come to realise that the very best thing that ‘I’ can do is altruistically ‘self’-immolate for the benefit of this body and all bodies’. [endquote]. (Richard, AF List, No. 7, 18 Feb 1999)
Richard: Put succinctly: be kind to yourself … you are the only friend you have, so to speak’. (Richard, AF List, No. 41, 4 Feb 2003).
The actualism method is to enjoy and appreciate being alive – only when something happens, which diminishes this enjoyment and appreciation, then you get back to feeling good and from there look at what triggered the diminishment. There is no need to go out of your way to look for trouble. 
Adam: I was trying to express how, overall, my practice of actualism is focused on the core feelings and attitudes that I have that are opposed to happiness and harmless, less so on the beliefs I have that are opposed to happiness and harmlessness. I’m thinking a bit more focus on beliefs will be beneficial since I haven’t really been thinking about things in terms of beliefs, worldviews, psittacisms lately. (link)
It’s not about which aspect of ‘me’ to focus on but on whatever is happening at this moment – if it’s a belief which causes diminishment in feeling good right now, then this is what you figure out; if it’s a habit, such as resentment or castigating yourself, then you acknowledge and decline this habit by replacing it with something better; if it is a certain attitude, then you look at that and work out in what way you can exchange it for a more beneficial attitude.
As Geoffrey said, “It’s essentially that “good” investigation is just seeing what’s preventing me from feeling good right now. There’s no need to get any more complex.”
Cheers Vineeto