[helgi]

I had some realizations after reading the article, about the benefits of considering the 'whole package' of intentions, basically what Steve was saying but in slightly different terms.

A million dollars (or anything else we might want to manifest) as an abstract mental image is usually so distorted by social conditioning, that when thinking about it you automatically get with it all the baggage of the socially conditioned entity, the ego, which is fear and resistance.

So considering the whole package, all sorts of day-to-day details and implications, fills in the otherwise fear-filled blanks of the mental image and brings it into present moment awareness, as opposed to having it reside entirely in the realm of future projection and fantasy. A future projected idea of monetary wealth is such a conceptually burdened image in our society, that just by contemplating the mundane aspects of it like taxes and so on seems to bring it up a notch on levels of consciousness.

There's always this trap of future projection when planning something, and I think this must also be the function of 'feeling as if you already have it.' That is, to break the habitual and distorted mental images and bring the 'thing' into the context of the present moment.


edit: wow, I didn't realize this was already up to three pages long. Never made it through the first one because of all the negativity! Negative posts should be made one text size smaller than positive ones with some sort of kinesiology javascript.