My very easy intention didn't manifest

[Angela]

Originally Posted by 001

But that totally doesn't count because she knew what I was trying to manifest.

Yes, I knew you were "trying" to manifest.

And if you ever express a desire to see something again, I'll know you don't really want any help from the universe (aka me), so I won't pitch in. You have trained me (aka the universe) that you don't really want what you say you want. Or if you do, it has to be exactly, specifically, precisely the way you want it and when you want it in your secret heart, or you will spurn what is provided to you, screw the highest good of all! The universe and I scoff at such requests, though.

Good luck!

[001]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

Dharma and RTWolf are right about the way your intention was worded.



This is a disingenuously phrased intention. It's a test, implicitly worded with doubt. As such, the intention only brought you more doubt.

An example of a pure intention would be, "I want to see a red hat." Then you would take action to make sure you did see a red hat. LOA isn't a means to change reality through inaction. Erin has a good post on this as well if you want more info.

The way I actually worded it was, "I will see someone wearing a red hat." So pretty close to what you said.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

Something we happily daydream about every day may never happen. But one random thought about how we could re-hydrate with an IV can send us into the hospital for days with a serious illness.

I'm curious... Why did you say this...?

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

I'm curious... Why did you say this...?

For the obvious reason, not the psychic one.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

For the obvious reason, not the psychic one.

Oh, OK...
I apologize If you didn't like my experience... It's what happened though.

[RT Wolf]

Originally Posted by 001

Maybe I just wanted it to be true... it all seems so wonderful. Just by thinking about positive things, I can attract them to me. Who wouldn't want to believe in such a thing?

Heh. I wish it was nearly that easy. Or maybe i'm creating the dificulty and humps so I can learn and grow through them. In any case, I'd suggest going back and reading what Dharma and I posted.

Note one part of what I said: that intentions manifest through the path of least resistance, and that if you have doubt, they're less likely to manifest.

You sound like me at the beginning of this journey. Do you have active goals that you are currently taking consistent action towards?

I've come to see things the way ALG has suggested: It all begins iwth an intention. Intentions manifest in various ways, including direct action, RAS and/or magical action. We're simply trying to see if the magical aspects of IM work, the rest is a given. The only thing blocking that and other paths if our own limiting beliefs and thus the path of least resistance right now is direct action. You're blocking the direct solution, but you haven't opened to the indirect one.

Focus on your goals about what you want. Focus less on testing IM, and focus more on your desire for what you want (I dunno abuot you, but a red hat doesn't get me excited). Take action. See if things start to work better or faster since you started to apply IM.

The Most Direct Solution to Any Problem

Here's something to think about: I allow but I don't wait.

I Dunno about you, but I don't give a damn about the IM or LoA. Only thing I'm interested in with this stuff if whether it can help me achieve my goals better and help me to create the life that I want. All else is details. Focus on what you want. Focus on your desire for what you want.

You can try going through my old posts and/or checking out the posts labeled Intention-Manifestation on my blog (in sig) cause I've gone through a lot of the sort of resistance you are facing.

[Dharma]

Originally Posted by 001

Eh, you must be the resident troll. Every forum's got one.

Sure, I'm a troll alright.
Welcome to my ignore list.

[Trezker]

I've successfully used the ultimatum strategy against games sometimes when I'm on a hard level. I'll say I will be playing this for half an hour no matter how boring it gets or until I clear the level.

Since the brain or ego or whatever hates boredom, it manifests my wish to clear the level as soon as it realises I'm serious. It has worked wonders on Guitar Hero for example.

[marinik]

I keep visualizing and repeating my current mantra for at least 30 days and then it somehow becomes independent, I don’t hold it so close any more, I let it go and then it starts to happen. It just all falls into place in unbelievable ways. I love the sense of humor of the Universe.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by 001

The way I actually worded it was, "I will see someone wearing a red hat." So pretty close to what you said.

Since you are very interested in manifesting red hats, I will show you more effective ways to manifest red hats. Do not just say: "I will see someone wearing a red hat." Instead:

1. Go to a quiet, private place where you won't be disturbed. Sit up with your spine straight and close your eyes.

2. Go to alpha. If you don't know how, try something like this:

(a) Keep your body very still

(b) Take very slow, very deep breaths, pausing for two seconds at the end of each exhalation.

(c) Keep focusing on your breath (for example, keep your attention on the sensation of air moving around your nostril area as you breathe)

(d) As soon as you realise your thoughts have strayed, bring your attention to your nostril area

After five minutes or so, your mind will be clear and free of distracting, irrelevant thoughts. Now you are ready to manifest your red hats.

3. With your eyes still closed, visualise a red hat, as if it were floating 30 com in front of your face. Make it very detailed. You can see the design, the fabric, the colour, the brand tag, observe the little crease here, the small strap there.

4. Physically, literally reach out with two hands and imagine that you are touching the red hat. Hold the red hat, feel its texture, turn the hat around, look at it from different angles.

5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 with 2 or 3 other red hats, each of a different design.

6. Now clear away all the images and affirm to yourself: "There are many red hats. I will see many red hats. I do see many red hats. I like to see red hats. I expect many red hats to enter my reality. Red hats are very common."

7. End your exercise with some words like, "I expect this to be so. I believe this to be so. Yes, it is so. I will see many red hats."

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Comments:

(a) Key here is accessing alpha.

(b) Visualising is important.

(c) Visualising is not just images. It's also other physical senses, like touch.

(d) Actual movement of your hands to hold the red hat may sound silly. However, this is a pretty important point. Faith healers also move their hands a lot, as if energy was a physical thing and they can actually physically feel it.

[GranCanaria]

Originally Posted by hkalchemy

I don't really think you can test the LOA in this way. It's not the sort of thing you can experiment with. It's part of the fabric of things, and you can play around with it but not exactly 'test' it. It works, somehow, but in a very odd and hard to rationalize sort of way. Just relax and you'll see the red hat.

WOW!!!!

hkalchemy, I think you just helped me manifest my blue feather! I was browsing through the replies in this thread after 7 days of blue-feather-intending, and thought I'd click on that link to your blog. I thought I could apply whatever you'd say about red hats to my blue feather experiment.

So I clicked...

BAAAANG!!! An unmistakably blue feather on my screen! Now, what I wonder is...do images count as synchronicities or as manifestations? It did give me a great feeling seeing it! I will keep intending until I hold it in my hands so I can frame it and hang it on the wall as a reminder!

Hehehe...I feel like Jake Blues in the movie The Blues Brothers (1980), when reverend James Brown asks him: 'Can you SEE the light? Can you SEE the light?!'

[Cantando]

Originally Posted by infinitethoughts

The main problem most people have is that they are putting Source, (god, life, all that is, Higher self, etc.) outside and separate from themselves.

Good point, IFT. It reminds me of the verse about the kingdom of God being within you.

If I can manifest a million dollars within the next 3 years, I will become the world’s greatest apostle for LoA! That's a promise.
In fact, I am already gearing up for it.

Tried the rest? Now try the best.
Fed up not getting what you want?
Sick of that fat, lazy slob hanging around your apartment?
Then try new, super-advanced LoA.
Guaranteed to manifest any desire you want.
Guaranteed to remove those stubborn, unmentionable blockages ordinary PD tools leave behind.
Toothpaste smile. Ding!

But, seriously, I do think there is some truth in it. What you focus on tends to materialize, sooner or later.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

Oh, OK...
I apologize If you didn't like my experience... It's what happened though.

I apologize for being snarky. However . . . sometimes there is just so much around here that doesn't sound like actual IM.

I think I've come to see I don't really believe in the "Law of Attraction," which is an entirely different thing than "Intentional Manifestation," and the jury's still out on that one for me, although some people here apparently are very, very good at this, and it gives me hope.

The way ALG, for instance, approaches all this is so very different from a lot of the comments I hear which don't seem to have any solid foundation in the subject. Such as:

"I wanted something and then a few days later I forgot about it and then it happened."

"I was afraid of something and then it happened and so I caused it."

"I wanted something and I guess I wanted it too much because it still hasn't happened."

"I intended to see something and it took two weeks but then I saw it."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is go down to the hat store and that counts as LoA."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is come to this forum and say so, and somebody will put up a picture of one, and that counts as LoA."

"I had a random thought and then it occurred in reality."

It's like, how many billions of random thoughts do we have that don't occur? (Thank goodness.) Why one out of a billion? And then why say we created that one thing to happen, but none of the others?

I should stop debating this subject, about whether LoA exists in an all-encompassing way or not, because I don't think my debating it is doing me or anyone else any good (other than when somebody thanked me for joining in the frustration, lol).

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I apologize for being snarky. However . . . sometimes there is just so much around here that doesn't sound like actual IM.

Hey it's cool no hard feelings... Sometimes it may sound like that especially if it is a small manifestation (although, everything in ones life is a manifestation if we think about it, in my opinion)

I think I've come to see I don't really believe in the "Law of Attraction," which is an entirely different thing than "Intentional Manifestation," and the jury's still out on that one for me, although some people here apparently are very, very good at this, and it gives me hope.

The way ALG, for instance, approaches all this is so very different from a lot of the comments I hear which don't seem to have any solid foundation in the subject. Such as:

"I wanted something and then a few days later I forgot about it and then it happened."

"I was afraid of something and then it happened and so I caused it."

"I wanted something and I guess I wanted it too much because it still hasn't happened."

"I intended to see something and it took two weeks but then I saw it."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is go down to the hat store and that counts as LoA."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is come to this forum and say so, and somebody will put up a picture of one, and that counts as LoA."

I agree with some of what you say here... In defence of this though, due to the varying degree of beliefs in individuals it is kind of hard to nail down. But, if you could change the way you think to match the way ALG thinks then you'll probably experience things the way ALG does or very similar. ALG is truly an asset in this forum and very well with articulating his words and explaining things (this may come from him being a lawyer, at least I think he was or is a lawyer).

"I had a random thought and then it occurred in reality."

This does happen to me quite a bit, I'm not sure why exactly, but it doesn't change the fact it does happen. I obviously can't prove it to anyone, it's just what I experience and I like to share those experiences of what happened regardless of how weird, different, or simply just nutty they may seem to others...

It's like, how many billions of random thoughts do we have that don't occur? (Thank goodness.) Why one out of a billion? And then why say we created that one thing to happen, but none of the others?

I don't really know, kind of wish I did though... Perhaps it's just my perception of what's going on and because of that perception that is what happens or what my mind is creating... (I'm speculating here)

I should stop debating this subject, about whether LoA exists in an all-encompassing way or not, because I don't think my debating it is doing me or anyone else any good (other than when somebody thanked me for joining in the frustration, lol).

Skepticism is good, but in my mind I wonder if it impedes believing that something is possible. I'm not mad at you and I do share in your frustration as well (it's getting less though, the frustration that is). I'm still learning this stuff and about how my mind works and how I tend to think and for me and my reality that's kind of what matters in my opinion, don't you think?

[moonrambler]

See, where I'm getting a conflict is when something is intentionally manifested, or perhaps unintentionally manifested because it's focused on too strongly, vs. the idea of things just occurring because of a random thought.

Now, I'm always seeing skeptics saying that coincidences are just coincidences because of the billion times they don't happen, that the odds are that now and then one will happen. Nevertheless, sometimes they are so weird and there are so many of them, I dismiss the skepticism. But I understand why the skeptics think this way.

I do believe we should be careful about what we say and think. Like, I think we should be careful not to really wish that we could find some other way to hydrate ourselves besides drinking water. Were you wishing that? Or was it just a random thought? I'm more inclined to believe you could bring about the illness if it solved a problem you were wishing a solution for, than just a random thought out of a billion random thoughts.

I remember one day many years ago when I was bored and wishing something interesting would happen. And later that same day I was driving down a highway and the water pump went out on my car. And now when I wish something interesting would happen, I make sure to add a clarifier like "and fun."

Sometimes I think difficulties come as an answer to another wish, such as lately my roof started leaking even though it's only five years old but this has resulted in my getting to be better friends with a couple of my neighbors who are helping out with this situation, and I probably have been wishing for some closer friendships amongst my neighbors, and since I don't go do it in some pro-active way, the situation gets created some other way.

This past weekend I was leaving to meet up with some friends who were making a two-hour trek up here, and I had a giant pile of work to get done and the only way I could see clear to finish was to put in about 30 hours in two days, and then I thought, why don't I just manifest that I'll have plenty of time without any stress to get it done? So I put forth that intention. Then I left to meet up with my friends. An hour after they were supposed to arrive, they still weren't there, and I started to get very worried about them. Then it struck me that I had intended for plenty of time to get my work done, which could happen if they didn't show up because they had car trouble or something. Immediately I re-intended that this wasn't what I meant -- that I really did want to spend the day with my friends, and I wanted 'plenty of time' to do this work even though I would be taking an entire day off in the midst of it.

Within about 10 minutes, they arrived, and all that had happened was they had gotten completely lost. It was weird. And of course if IM is true, then they had to be co-creators of the situation for some reason. Perhaps because my friend's husband, who was driving, didn't really want to spend an entire day at a cat show

[001]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Since you are very interested in manifesting red hats, I will show you more effective ways to manifest red hats. Do not just say: "I will see someone wearing a red hat." Instead:

1. Go to a quiet, private place where you won't be disturbed. Sit up with your spine straight and close your eyes.

2. Go to alpha. If you don't know how, try something like this:

(a) Keep your body very still

(b) Take very slow, very deep breaths, pausing for two seconds at the end of each exhalation.

(c) Keep focusing on your breath (for example, keep your attention on the sensation of air moving around your nostril area as you breathe)

(d) As soon as you realise your thoughts have strayed, bring your attention to your nostril area

After five minutes or so, your mind will be clear and free of distracting, irrelevant thoughts. Now you are ready to manifest your red hats.

3. With your eyes still closed, visualise a red hat, as if it were floating 30 com in front of your face. Make it very detailed. You can see the design, the fabric, the colour, the brand tag, observe the little crease here, the small strap there.

4. Physically, literally reach out with two hands and imagine that you are touching the red hat. Hold the red hat, feel its texture, turn the hat around, look at it from different angles.

5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 with 2 or 3 other red hats, each of a different design.

6. Now clear away all the images and affirm to yourself: "There are many red hats. I will see many red hats. I do see many red hats. I like to see red hats. I expect many red hats to enter my reality. Red hats are very common."

7. End your exercise with some words like, "I expect this to be so. I believe this to be so. Yes, it is so. I will see many red hats."

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Comments:

(a) Key here is accessing alpha.

(b) Visualising is important.

(c) Visualising is not just images. It's also other physical senses, like touch.

(d) Actual movement of your hands to hold the red hat may sound silly. However, this is a pretty important point. Faith healers also move their hands a lot, as if energy was a physical thing and they can actually physically feel it.

Thank YOU! I will try this. Finally, someone gives a clear description of exactly how to attract something.

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I apologize for being snarky. However . . . sometimes there is just so much around here that doesn't sound like actual IM.

I think I've come to see I don't really believe in the "Law of Attraction," which is an entirely different thing than "Intentional Manifestation," and the jury's still out on that one for me, although some people here apparently are very, very good at this, and it gives me hope.

The way ALG, for instance, approaches all this is so very different from a lot of the comments I hear which don't seem to have any solid foundation in the subject. Such as:

"I wanted something and then a few days later I forgot about it and then it happened."

"I was afraid of something and then it happened and so I caused it."

"I wanted something and I guess I wanted it too much because it still hasn't happened."

"I intended to see something and it took two weeks but then I saw it."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is go down to the hat store and that counts as LoA."

"If you want to manifest a red hat all you have to do is come to this forum and say so, and somebody will put up a picture of one, and that counts as LoA."

"I had a random thought and then it occurred in reality."

It's like, how many billions of random thoughts do we have that don't occur? (Thank goodness.) Why one out of a billion? And then why say we created that one thing to happen, but none of the others?

I should stop debating this subject, about whether LoA exists in an all-encompassing way or not, because I don't think my debating it is doing me or anyone else any good (other than when somebody thanked me for joining in the frustration, lol).

I thought Intention-Manifestation and the Law of Attraction were the same thing. What's the difference?

[infinitethoughts]

Originally Posted by Cantando

If I can manifest a million dollars within the next 3 years,

Be careful, Cantando.

If I can manifest....the next 3 years?

Words are the Programming code for your reality.
(In the beginning was the Word, and all that jazz.)

Try and see....it's your reality, no one else's. Whats wrong with A million Now?

There's nothing stopping you, but yourself.

[sbdiane]

You say that it's cheating to find what I'm looking for on recycling day. However, if you wanted to find a blue feather, wouldn't you go outside instead of to the bathroom? If you wanted to see someone in a red hat, wouldn't you go where there are other people?

I believe that the universe helps those who help themselves. If you want to manifest something you also have to go where what you want is likely to be found. It's another way of being resourceful. In other groups I've attended it's called not trying to buy bread in the hardware store.

If you truly want to see someone in a red hat today, you should go somewhere where you're pretty darn sure you'll see someone in a red hat today. If your time frame is a little more open, then you can relax about that and let the red hat find you.