Can you dictate HOW you get your manifestation?

[SmartAlx]

There's a thread going on now about someone wanting to change the physical color of his eyes using the LoA and he is wondering perhaps if it would require him to lose his eyes first. The overwhelming reply seems to be that his fear of losing his eyes will prevent him from getting his manifestation. It's almost as if he has to accept the possibility of him losing his eyes first. How do you know the path to getting your intention is going to be positive?

It seems to me that if you can manifest something, it should only take one more step to manifest HOW it gets manifested.

[Bradshaw]

Originally Posted by SmartAlx

How do you know the path to getting your intention is going to be positive?

A good awareness of your feelings tells you if what you are manifesting is positive or negative.

Originally Posted by SmartAlx

It seems to me that if you can manifest something, it should only take one more step to manifest HOW it gets manifested.

Of course you can manifest how you want it to manifest. But the school of thought is that basically you have an infinitely intelligent universe that can organize things perfectly and knows the "how" much, much better than you.

And personally, I like to be surprised.

[Anagogy]

Originally Posted by Bradshaw

A good awareness of your feelings tells you if what you are manifesting is positive or negative.

Of course you can manifest how you want it to manifest. But the school of thought is that basically you have an infinitely intelligent universe that can organize things perfectly and knows the "how" much, much better than you.

And personally, I like to be surprised.

Excellent points. =D

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by SmartAlx

How do you know the path to getting your intention is going to be positive?

There are different ways. For example, Steve Pavlina tacks the following words:

"In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all ..."


.... as an add-on to his manifestation sessions.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

There are different ways. For example, Steve Pavlina tacks the following words:

"In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all ..."


.... as an add-on to his manifestation sessions.

I find this very helpful myself. I start all my manifestation sessions with "In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way," and write it at the top of my affirmations list also.

[annie]

I tried this for years and didn't love it!!!

So I would like to hear some absolute CONCRETE examples of how your manifestation showed up for you! When you left it completely in the Universe's hands (so to speak) because you like to be "surprised", I want to know the results.

And here's why. I tried that for a number of years...without the results i'm seeing now. And the reason I'm unsatisfied with it is because the results weren't fast enough or at all.

Example: I have in my LifeVision the WAY I think I'm going to manifest making $XX,XXX a month. I have some marketing methods, some affiliate relationships, some speaking gigs, etc. Then I have what I charge and how many people need to attend my workshop for that to work out. As I describe the details in my LifeVision, it motivates me to action. By the time I'm done listening to my LifeVision, I have a list of 3-4 things that I need to do: Call Betty about the blurp in the newsletter, email Joe about sending a description out to his mailing list, have assistant book me on 3 blogtalk shows etc.

So...I see results: immediately and then coincidentally, other very cool things that I didn't write down also happen. (I have the details of speaking, but not the details of Who I'm speaking to....I work on a couple and a couple additional ones happen out of the blue)

"In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all ..."

So the above statement sounds really nice and pretty...but what concrete results have you seen from it. And WHY is it better than taking the second step in Manifesting the HOW?

Love to hear some concrete examples of achieving something without programing anything into your subconscious about creating momentum! I don't spell out in detail HOW I'm going to manifest it, but I sure spell out a few things to create the momentum.

Your thoughts?

[rei]

annie, i have found it is easier to manifest something we aren't attached to, something that doesn't seem, perhaps, big or especially important to us (btw, a five-figure ideal for a month of work is very ambitious, props to you there).

i will give you an example of how i manifested something concrete with minimal effort. i was about to walk my dogs, was wearing chunky sandals. i used to do ballet and have had my ankles give out on me in the past, sometimes just standing there. so i was wondering about the potential of twisting my ankle, but i decided to wear those shoes anyway. within minutes of letting that thought be replaced by others, i was walking my dogs and boom, twisted that ankle i'd been concerned about.

that is concrete and personal. i think it happened so effortlessly because i did not put much effort into it, did not think oh, this is important to me. i basically stayed out of my own way. it wasn't considered important enough to me to create any momentum, but the LoA was definitely at work here. i don't think i need to explain how i can know that.

there was another experience that showed me about responsible work with the law of attraction, but i won't go into that here. i think this may be an issue of putting a lot of pressure on yourself or the universe by thinking of how much it means to you. if you just send it out and then move on to other things, the whole process is much more effortless and quick. revisiting an intention can put a kink in the whole thing. just my understanding of it, i leave space for other ways to look at it.

also keep in mind sometimes we have lessons to learn. those lessons might outweigh our intention if they are considered necessary by our core self. you sound pretty frustrated, i hope you can find some peace with this.

and now... i am about to take my dog for a pleasantly uneventful walk! and so it is

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by annie

Your thoughts?

Well, for any given intention, if the "how" is obvious, practical and easily implementable, I probably would not use the LOA in my usual "meditate-on-it-&-the-universe-shall-make-it-happen" sort of way.

Instead I would just go ahead and implement the "how".

In general, I use the LOA for those aspects of my intentions which are beyond my control and influence (in the conventional sense of the words "control" and "influence") or for which I find it a challenge to find the time/energy to handle directly.

[annie]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

Well, for any given intention, if the "how" is obvious, practical and easily implementable, I probably would not use the LOA in my usual "meditate-on-it-&-the-universe-shall-make-it-happen" sort of way.

Instead I would just go ahead and implement the "how".

In general, I use the LOA for those aspects of my intentions which are beyond my control and influence (in the conventional sense of the words "control" and "influence") or for which I find it a challenge to find the time/energy to handle directly.

Perfect....that totally makes sense. And ditto here as well. I was just thinking that there is a fine line between "goal setting" & using LOA and I have the same method as you do for the most part.

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by annie

"In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all ..."

So the above statement sounds really nice and pretty...but what concrete results have you seen from it. And WHY is it better than taking the second step in Manifesting the HOW?

I've been thinking about this and I guess I don't see why they have to be mutually exclusive.

[annie]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I've been thinking about this and I guess I don't see why they have to be mutually exclusive.

I guess they don't. How do you feel about the concept of adding this script ""In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all ..." to a scripted action plan (only if it was appropriate).

Obviously (as I've said a thousand times), I feel that an action plan SOMETIMES is appropriate and sometimes it isn't.

So I'm just throwing it out there now that you can combine the affirmation with the scripted action plan.

Is everyone getting hung up on the idea that an action plan is set in stone and if you script it, you are 100% determining the outcome! WRONG!

I set an action plan with a script and maybe just over 50% of the time it manifests the way that I scripted it and the rest of the time is shows up through another avenue. And I'm perfectly fine with that.

I guess the BIG and MAIN reason I choose to create an action plan is to show the Universe (or God) that I'm focused...I'm ready to take whatever action I need to to realize it. "here is my best guess on HOW to make it come to fruition...but God, if you have a better idea, bring it on".

Bottomline. The action plan sets me in MOTION.