Yes, absolutely. And at whatever time in the process of manifesting whatever intention we might have, the ego will keep attempting to stir up fear.
But when you say that investigating what fears you may have in relation to say, having a million dollars, and really taking a look at the contents of the mental image you have of this concept of a million dollars, would have negative effects, are you not affirming then that there is something to be afraid of, and that you don't want to face it?
For example, I've been dealing with a heavy future-projected mental image of my graduation from university next year, and this has been haunting me for the entire three years I've been at that school. Just recently I started really investigating what it was that I was afraid of, by shifting the 'situation' into the present moment and walking through the imagined day-to-day reality of it. And sure enough, no monsters in the shadows, and a clear head with which to focus on what I want to manifest.
The ego manages to create these wildly distorted mental images of something in the future, and because they are so abstracted and far removed from reality; because they are entirely in the ego and of the ego, trying to think of them as a possible reality is going to bring lots and lots of fear. Especially the vague kind of background fear, the type that sabotages your thoughts without you noticing.
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