If I change the word "intention" to "attention", I can see how the Power of Now and Law of Attraction work together.
We are always here and now, whether we are aware of it or not. The contents of here and now are determined by the location/object of one's attention. The longer one's attention spends in one location/object, the more the present reality conforms to it. The more often the attention 'visits' a certain location, the more clear a pathway to that place.
Most people (me included) suffer from a short attention span that goes all over the place, giving reality a random nature to it. And what attention they do have goes to the same places based on social conditioning, genetics and acquired habit. There are moments where they focus on a particular object or place, but it is hard to get there on a regular basis (at first). So their attention returns to it's normal hang-outs.
[For some reason I have this image of people's attention spans hanging out at a bar after work]
The practice of being in the present moment brings the attention back to the seat of power. It expands the length/breadth of the attention span. Intention is the conscious choice of what will be in one's reality once the power of attention has been strengthened.
Most forms of meditation I have come across have these two basic components. There is some method of coming back into the present moment followed by focus on a particular object. And the more a person practices the meditation, the more they resemble whatever they focus upon and the more their reality conforms to that resemblance.
There is a third component to meditation, which is transcendence of the focused object. By putting the attention "through" or "beyond" the chosen object, escalating stages of samadhi are produced along with various siddhis. That's beyond the scope of this topic, but I thought I'd mention it.
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