Found: Lesson in Universe's response to my intention

[dharris]

Hi Everyone,
I'm new here and would like to share a lovely experience with you relating to intention-manifestation. If you get something from this, or it sounds somehow similar to your own experience, I would love to have a response from you.

The day before I found this site I was with a friend who is sort-of my personal development mentor. In helping me to come to terms with my current life situation, she explained to me that just as our lungs expand and contract with each breath, so does our life-flow expand and contract. For example, when I was working hard in my international job, traveling, scuba diving, running a marathon, making money, earning my MBA, my life-flow (me, my actions, my consciousness, my energy) was expanding.

Then, as I was laid-off from my job and was faced with many unhappy changes in my life, my life-flow was contracting. And just as with the breath, at the end of each expansion and contraction there is a pause (if you have ever done diaframatic breathing or meditation then you will be familiar with this "pause"). She suggested that right now I am in one of those pauses. I have contracted, am about to expand, but have not yet done so and I must learn to, as my mentor phrased it, "flow on the waters of life - and BE IN THE MOMENT" in order to find the creative resources and energy to expand again.

There was certainly truth to her statement; it made sense to me on all levels. I have been absolutely miserable for the last few months and feeling a huge sense of a lack of control over my life. I have indeed felt STUCK. I can't seem to manifest what I think I want and I am also aware that I have no idea what I want so how can I manifest anything tangible or meaningful?

My mentor pointed out that I am normally very much in control, know my goals, set my intentions and achieve many things effortlessly (in other words I've always been a natural at the Intention-Manifestation method - without realizing it). She then pointed out that I do not like being in a STUCK state, because in that "pause" state before expansion, growth, and creation, one is simply not in control. Living in the moment, not planning the next ten minutes, week, or month is not natural for me and I just hate it. And yet that is the very state in which one can awaken their creativity and resourcefulness thus enabling expansion - so I better learn how to be in the moment if I want to grow as a human being and enter that expansion state again.

That night I came upon this very website containing the wisdom of Steve Pavlina and I read about the intention-manifestation process and all of the other goodies here. Nice little synchronicity, considering that my mentor was trying to tell me to take notice of that particular process and to accept where I currently was in that process. Now I had a resource through which to learn how to live in the moment and to flow on the waters of life. I also had the sudden exciting opportunity to manifest a million dollars!!

So the next day, with my body, mind, and spirit grounded and aligned (using techniques taught to me by my mentor) and my purest intentions set (for the highest good of all), I set about my daily tasks. With this clarity of mind, intention, and focus surely it would be easy for me to move through my task list for the day without any obstructions, right? But at, or on the way to, one destination after another my efforts were consistently and repeatedly thwarted. My normally five minute drive to the post-office turned into an hour due to a traffic diversion and to a rude man who would not let me park in his lot next to the post-office. My trip to the bank was fruitless as they needed some piece of information that I did not have with me, and my journey from the bank suddenly met with unexplained traffic jams. And on and on. Really, there were so many obstructions that it was not something I could ignore - it was uncanny. Halfway through the day I had accomplished absolutely nothing!

I sat again in traffic on my way to my next destination wondering what went wrong with my intention-manifestation process. I was on the verge of tears actually, feeling like somehow the universe was purposely refusing my "let it be so" command. At that moment a voice boomed out from an arbitrarily selected radio station saying, "flow on the waters of life" (in a lovely Scottish accent).

Another synchronicity. What was that message my mentor had just given me the day before? "Flow on the water of life". And what else, oh yes, "BE IN THE MOMENT"!!!!!

The universe was not ignoring me, it cared enough about little 'ol me that it had conspired to create all sorts of obstacles (really, more than I can even describe) to tell me precisely what my mentor had tried to teach me the day before: BE IN THE MOMENT! The universe was, in fact, demanding that I learn this very important lesson in order to grow as a human being and thus, perhaps, to generate the creative energy and resourcefulness to once again expand.

I literally had no choice, no control, but to sit in that traffic and either continue to be frustrated that I was not yet at my goal destination (the bank, for the second time) - or I could enjoy that moment in time. I laughed (how could I not!) and sang the rest of the way to the bank.

After leaving the bank, I sat down to enjoy a cup of coffee and to enjoy the moment. I decided to keep enjoying each moment as I continued my day and no longer to worry about my to-do list. Who cares if I have to wait until tomorrow to get it done? I wandered where my heart took me and endulged in small activities on little whims. Along the way I made some social phone calls from my mobile, enjoyed myself, felt the sun on my face, and sang in the car. I felt pure joy that the universe cared about me enough to have forced me to learn this lesson, which in turn would help me to grow.

A woman, also stuck in traffic going the other way and directly opposite me, shook her head in frustration while looking at her watch and I felt like shouting to her, "live in the moment! Look at the gorgeous flowers just to your left and the green trees above your windshield!!!" I was still laughing at myself for having missed all of this myself earlier in my day. I wanted to share my joy - my realization. In true British tradition, however, I didn't say anything of course.

Finally reaching my house, I decided to take the dog for a long walk in some nearby fields. Reaching for my keys, I came upon my task list and realized that I had actually completed the whole thing - and it had only been a total of one hour from when I left the bank. How did that happen?! By enjoying myself and being in each moment along my way, I completed my goal (my to-do list) without even realizing it.

It didn't end there. As I entered, with my dog, the huge farmland fields near our house - next to which is a wooded area, at the back of which is a very small patch of grass which at this time of year is covered in purple flowers, and I go there whenever I need to feel joy - the whole entire farmland field (not just the patch at the back of the wooded area) stretching out as far as the eye could see in front of me, beside me and behind me, was covered in those purple flowers. Joy was there for me to have in every direction.

Call me sentimental but I really felt that the universe was - in that moment - rewarding me for having learned a beautiful lesson. I stood there and meditated for a few minutes before taking Deno on his walk. I also learned that sometimes when it seems that the universe is not manifesting your intention, it IS giving you a path to help you get there - in my case through a necessary step in my own personal development.

Now, I do realize that the author of this website said exactly that (that sometimes the universe responds to your intention by telling you that you have some personal growth to accomplish before you can manifest your intention) in one of his blogs, but sometimes you just have to learn for yourself in order to "get it".

I do wonder, if I had not read his blog, would I have noticed the lesson to be learned? I am beginning to believe that if you are indeed "centered" and your intentions clear and "for the good of all", then everything that comes across your path feeds your development and movement toward your ultimate goal.

If you have a unique experience related to the intention-manifestation approach, please share it on this string. We are all hear to learn from each other.

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Welcome.

Thank you very much for sharing that story. It's a good reminder about being in the moment. I needed to be reminded of that today. So thanks.