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Annie, you said lots of good stuff here!

Originally Posted by annie

I, for one, am not crazy about generic affirmations. In The Secret, Jack Canfield was VERY specific about the amount of money he wanted to make.

I COMPLETELY agree with you here. He mentions he didn't get exactly a mill, it was a little less. And he went on to mention that in no way did he feel that this meant that the LoA wasn't working.

Originally Posted by annie

I have mixed feelings about the HOW of getting it. Colm says that focusing on Jane Smith is "the How"....but what if she's the Love Partner that you want.....???

Here's what I'm thinking, and notice I said thinking. Is it that you really need Jane Smith, or is it the feelings that you get when you think about her and your "idea" of how a relationship would be with her? I'm thinking that scarcity would say that Jane Smith is the only way I can get these feelings, and there isn't enough Jane Smith to go around. If I can't have Jane Smith, then I'll never have what I want.

My thought is that if I were to realize exactly what it is I wanted, my true desires, which would be the feelings I would get from such a relationship, the idea of having someone with these certain characteristics in my life that I could care for, that this is where I'd want to be.

I may be wrong on this, at this point is just some thoughts, so someone feel free to correct me.

Now the tricky part is, and I'd posted a thread on this, how is it that we learn to distinguish our true desires from our wants? How do we learn to intend specifically without it being an intention from scarcity?

Originally Posted by annie

Back to Jack Canfield again....the HOW popped into his head while showering one day (the 400,000 books and the idea about the National Enquirer). He did have to act on the HOW. It is essential that we don't skip this step. Like Andrew mentioned...it's not going to be dropped into our lap. You actually have to do something a lot of the time. (I will agree there are exceptions to do....like unexpected $ in the mail etc.)

Good stuff! He was wanting his million dollar idea, and he got it. When the doors opened, he realized it and took the necessary steps to walk through.

Originally Posted by annie

But for me....being vague about what I want have never served me. I just get really vague results...(or nothing). I ask for abundance in my manifestations....and then I follow it up with what abundnace means to me. hmmmmmm...today it means debt free and $1.5 million in assets....next year, I'm sure it will be different.

So my point is....abundance is relative!

Absolutely! For you it may be 1.5 mill, for someone else it may be 1 mill, and for yet someone else it may be 4 mill.

Originally Posted by annie

I will concede that when I'm not sure what I want, I start my affirmations and intentions out more vaguely...and my mind/brain pretty soon, lets me know that my wheels are spinning. Within a short time, I force myself to get really clear on what I mean by "abundance" and so it evolves.

It works pretty much the same way for me too.

The only other point I want to make is that two different ideas of "specific" have been brought up; one as a matter of defining a goal or ideal with as much detail as you can (which I agree with), and the other of the goal or ideal being a specific one-and-only (which I'm unsure of).