[Apollia]

Neat story, Nigel.

Originally Posted by Nigel

But why is it I can manifest this item with no problems at all but other items I ask for never come about?
Was it the forgetting part? But how do you forget that you need a quick cash influx into your bank account when everything around you reminds you that you are almost broke?

I wish I knew the answers. I haven't really experimented much with intention/manifestation yet.

Originally Posted by Anagogy

A wonderful thing happens when you focus your intent on something you want and then completely forget about it. In your forgetting, you offer no resistance. That intent goes out like a clear straight arrow and effortlessly accomplishes your goal. I've noticed this many times.

The most notable times something like this has happened to me were when I wasn't even trying, when I was just listening to music.

On my computer, I have a large music collection with thousands of songs, and sometimes I get the desire to hear a particular song, but I just don't feel like going to the trouble of searching my music collection for it.

So, I just forget about it - but then, sometimes, exactly the song I wanted to hear randomly comes up in my music software as the very next song. All without me even trying to will it to come up. I simply felt for a moment like listening to it, without even mustering up a strong-enough desire for me to actually take the action of searching for it - then completely forgot about my desire, and poof, there it was.

Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it always seems weird when it happens, since it's sometimes like a 1 in 4000 chance or something like that (depending on how large the music playlist I'm listening to is).

I'm not sure exactly how often it has happened - nor do I know how often I have had a faint desire to hear a song and this _hasn't_ happened - but, it has happened many times over the years. I listen to so much music, though, it's probably very likely to happen every once in a while, so maybe there's really nothing significant about this story, nothing that really defies the laws of probability.

Someday, though, I want to do some experiments where I'll decide on a certain song I want to hear, note it down, try to get distracted with something else and forget about it, and then see how often the song I chose randomly comes up as the very next song using a music playlist with thousands of songs on it.

Originally Posted by peroquantosnombres

The question is though, how much do you need to go through the goal and intent and ponder on it BEFORE you release it and forget about it?

With the above example, I think I've generally only felt the desire to hear a particular song probably only for a few seconds, rather faintly, before forgetting about it.

My problem is that I love going over my intent over and over, I get a kick out of thinking about it.It gets me into a better mood.

I don't know if that's a problem or not, a good mood is often a very good thing to have.

Anyhow, though - maybe one good trick to encourage forgetting would be to come up with so many different intentions that you can't possibly remember them all.