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Achievement Begins With Intention
The key to all manifestation is Intention. What we intend to get we always get! You have heard of the law of attraction, you know about visualization, affirmations and the power of your thoughts. Now let me show you how to put them all together and finally get them to work!
You are about to learn the power of Intention and what you can make it do for you in your life!
In all areas of your life, whether it be personal development, career, relationships or finances the experiences you have are a direct result of what you have intended for yourself!
HAve you ever expected something to go terribly wrong and it did? “Oh I just knew that was going to happen!” This simple statememnt is probably one you have used countless times throughout your life and I am going to show you just how and why you were right everytime you used it!
Now expectation and intention are very similar in nature and you cannot have one without the other. Let me explain.
Conscious intention is when you not only desire something to occur but you also expect it to occur. Let us say you want to go to the shop for a new pair of shoes for a social occasion that is imminent. You set your intention that on Saturday you will head to your favourite shopping mall, browse a few shops and purchase a pair of shoes that are suitable. You therefore give the matter little more thought as you have set your intention and fully expect to have that intention fulfilled - you know that on Saturday you will go to the shop and find a pair of shoes to purchase! There are little or no opposing thoughts.
So how does this relate to manifestation and intention in other areas of your life?
Well I am sure you have heard a lot recently about the Law of Attraction and how it works in your life. The basic premise of this great law states that you get more of what you focus on in life. Your very thoughts are attracting to you their physical equivalent and the amount of emotional energy you generate from these thoughts determines the speed at which they manifest in your life.
Many people find this concept very easy to accept. Yet, the great majority of people cannot effectively utilize it in their lives to create and attract those things, situations and people that they feel would make them happy. Are you one of them? Why is this?
Well the reason behind your lack of ability to manifest consciously lies in your intentions, both conscious and unconscious. Your subconscious mind and the Universe do not know the difference between a wanted thought and an unwanted thought. If they pick up on a thought that is backed by belief and emotion, whether it is positive emotion or negative emotion, it is taken as an intention! Some of your thoughts are stronger than others. Many of your thoughts attract similar thoughts to them depending on their strength. Other thoughts are loners and die quickly. Every thought that you think is sending out a request to the universe for its manifestation. However, many of your thoughts are opposing in nature and will therefore cancel each other out.
Therefore when you intend to attract something into your life it is natural and normal for it to come to you. You only run into trouble when your intentions become confused, cancelled or reversed because of your other thoughts. For example, you may set an intention to attract the ideal life partner. You create your internal vision of what that means to you. You generate the necessary positive emotions that such a relationship will evoke in you and you send out your request by focusing on those feelings and vision everyday in the belief that you are attracting it to you. This becomes your clear intention! You intend to have such a relationship in your life.
However, the problems then arise when you go through your day thinking thoughts that are in direct opposition to your intention. You think thoughts like “how will this manifest”, “this will never work”, “I’m too ugly to find a person like that”, “No-one like that would ever be interested in me”, etc. These are taken by your subconscious mind and the Universe as intentions and are treated in the same way as your consciously directed intention. Therefore you will neutralize the effect that focusing on your vision had and stop its manifestation. In fact, if you remain in this negative frame of mind and allow these destructive thoughts to wander through your mind for the greater part of your day you will probably find that the exact opposite of what you consciously intended appears in your life!
These type of thoughts are easy to spot because they are in direct opposition to your intention. They are reality easy to subjugate through an internal concentration on your vision and a reaffirming of your intention. At times when you catch yourself thinking negatively in this manner you can counteract the negative effect these thoughts will have by thinking their opposite. Merely recall your vision and generate all the positive emotions you previously evoked. Dwell on this menatl image for a few moments and remind yourself that you expect and intend it to manifest. Within, anywhere from, a few days to a few weeks you will eliminate most if not all of these negative thought patterns and beliefs. However, there are other subtle unconscious thoughts which cause the greatest amount of trouble and these must be removed!
Identifying thoughts that are in direct opposition to your intention is relatively easy - they stick out like a sore thumb. However, developing the skill to identify the more subtle, yet just as damaging, opposing thoughts is essential. Let us return to our example of intending to create a new loving relationship. You focus on your vision and dwell in the positive feelings for several minutes each day. All is good, you have set your intention and clearly signalled the Universe what you want and expect to get it. Now you go through your day as normal and every now and then you identify the thoughts that are in opposition to your intention, you quickly reverse those thoughts and feelings by re-focusing on your vision - all is well.
However, what are you doing when you cook and eat your diner? Do you give a sigh that you are eating alone again? Do you get despondent when you come home to an empty house or sleep alone in bed? Do you think thoughts like “I wish I had this relationship now”? Do you begin to wander how this relationship will manifest? Do you worry that you are getting too old to have children? When you think about your holiday for next year are you mentally structuring your journey as a single person? Basically you need to identify if your everyday thoughts are reinforcing or opposing your intention. We have on average 50,000 thoughts everyday. Are your thoughts reflecting that of a single person?
Always keep in your mind that every thought you think is an intention! Every thought backed by expectation becomes a Universal request for its manifestation and every thought backed by strong emotion manifests quickly!
If you are diligent and look at, what until now were, your unconscious thoughts and begin to re-align them with your intentions you will be surprised and probably shocked at the effect it has on your life and your ability to consciously manifest.
The truth is this, when all your conscious and unconcious thoughts are in alignment on any one subject your intention will manifest instantly! The reason why it seems that time is needed to create and attract what you want is because you still harbour some opposing thoughts, beliefs and feelings. But this is fantastic news! You do not need to be 100% positive, clear and free from negativity to attract your intention. You just need to ensure that the majority of your thoughts are aligned with it! How fantastic is that?
Begin today to build one clear intention for yourself and your life. Create a clear precise vision of how your life will be when that vision is reality. Mentally step into your vision and evoke strong positive emotions around it. Expect to have it!
Then throughout your day ensure your thoughts are in alignment with your intention. Lastly be prepared to live that life, it is on its way to you and you will be surprised at the speed of its delivery.