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RT Wolf · 12-08-2007, 01:49 AM

Analogy!

Imagine you've got a secretary who's awesome. You just need to explain things to him once and he just gets it. In fact, he responds to your every littlest whim pretty much instantly. You totally trust this secretary.

Contrast that with another secretary, he's an idiot. You have to repeat things, or at least put a lot of emphasis and put what you want in BOLD and even then you just sorta hope. You don't really trust this secretary.

I think its pretty obvious: the universe becomes the effective secretary if you really trust it and it becomes ineffective if you don't trust it, much like people. People have a strange way of doing better when they feel trusted than not, too. A potential solution might be to personify the universe. If you believe in God, that helps, I suppose cause you have one thing ot sorta focus your trust and belief on. If you don't believe in a diety, its tougher to focus on something like that, you just have to trust and believe. I also figured out why I didn't believe strongly. I was holding myself back because I was afraid of ridicule if I potentially said that this stuff was working for me, partially cause I considered myself a rational, logical person, but those are just tools I use, I am not the embodiment of an idealogy (which it really is). It also realyl didn't help to think of every intention as a test of IM, and if it didn't work I'd be wrong.

Here was my solution: I meditate for at elast 15 minutes a day now, and i'll often put out intentions when I get to a deep state. If you're interested, i start by setting an intention for the meditation (Ie, I want to meditate for fifteen minutes). I do a little mindful breathing and follow my breath for a little bit as a warmup, then do a countdown a la paul, sometimes from 50, sometimes from less. Once i get to a deep state, i set my intentions and detach from them. The feeling of detachment is like, "It'd be cool if this stuff happened, but its ok if it doesn't". The meditation, when done early in the day alost puts me in a peaceful allowing state, so it relaxes me, too, so I can see the manifestations of my intentions. If you haven't been doing meditation at all yet, I highly recommend a 15 minute meditation (the time flies, and it feels great, too, blissful) a day 30-day trial. It's really improved the accuracy of my IMing. I've been getting at least one or two synchronisities a day lately, and have a pretty good hit rate of my intentions for the same day, mostly cause I intend smaller stuff I have less resistance to, usually between one and four intentions. I'm going to start keeping stricter track of the intentions I put out and comparing them to results more once exams are over.

Yar.

12-08-2007, 01:49 AM	#9 (permalink)
RT Wolf Family Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toronto, Canuckland Posts: 1,737	Analogy! Imagine you've got a secretary who's awesome. You just need to explain things to him once and he just gets it. In fact, he responds to your every littlest whim pretty much instantly. You totally trust this secretary. Contrast that with another secretary, he's an idiot. You have to repeat things, or at least put a lot of emphasis and put what you want in BOLD and even then you just sorta hope. You don't really trust this secretary. I think its pretty obvious: the universe becomes the effective secretary if you really trust it and it becomes ineffective if you don't trust it, much like people. People have a strange way of doing better when they feel trusted than not, too. A potential solution might be to personify the universe. If you believe in God, that helps, I suppose cause you have one thing ot sorta focus your trust and belief on. If you don't believe in a diety, its tougher to focus on something like that, you just have to trust and believe. I also figured out why I didn't believe strongly. I was holding myself back because I was afraid of ridicule if I potentially said that this stuff was working for me, partially cause I considered myself a rational, logical person, but those are just tools I use, I am not the embodiment of an idealogy (which it really is). It also realyl didn't help to think of every intention as a test of IM, and if it didn't work I'd be wrong. Here was my solution: I meditate for at elast 15 minutes a day now, and i'll often put out intentions when I get to a deep state. If you're interested, i start by setting an intention for the meditation (Ie, I want to meditate for fifteen minutes). I do a little mindful breathing and follow my breath for a little bit as a warmup, then do a countdown a la paul, sometimes from 50, sometimes from less. Once i get to a deep state, i set my intentions and detach from them. The feeling of detachment is like, "It'd be cool if this stuff happened, but its ok if it doesn't". The meditation, when done early in the day alost puts me in a peaceful allowing state, so it relaxes me, too, so I can see the manifestations of my intentions. If you haven't been doing meditation at all yet, I highly recommend a 15 minute meditation (the time flies, and it feels great, too, blissful) a day 30-day trial. It's really improved the accuracy of my IMing. I've been getting at least one or two synchronisities a day lately, and have a pretty good hit rate of my intentions for the same day, mostly cause I intend smaller stuff I have less resistance to, usually between one and four intentions. I'm going to start keeping stricter track of the intentions I put out and comparing them to results more once exams are over. Yar.