Intentions: How to

[tomcha]

Ok, I have a pretty vague ideas of how to do intentions and what I need to do before, during and after to make it happen. So, once and for all, I'm asking people on this forum to help me identify the right steps in setting an intention the 'right' way.

What do I need to do before? Clearing my limiting beliefs?

What do I need to do during? Or how (wording, keep in mind pointers, etc...)
Visualize or repeat my intention over and over?
Visualize how long?
How to inject emtion?
etc...
etc...
etc...

What do I need to do after setting my initial intention?

I hope that this will help some other people on this forum as well in settling down some fuzzy ideas that they might have regarding intentions.

[starlet]

First, you need to lighten up and remember that this is fun! That is what makes your desires come faster, when you realize that you are creating your life and you can have do or be anything. Its like that Pointer Sisters song: "I'm so excited/and I jsut can't hide it!"

Personally, I use no wording at all, I am a very visual person. What I do is fast-forward to the end result. My desire is to be an actress. I visualize myself as a successful actress and that it is happening NOW, that right at this very second my manifesation has become corporeal and I am now an actress.

I visualize until it starts getting fuzzy and I lose my focus. I can keep my focus for about 15 minutes, give or take. I usually visualize right before I go to bed and right when I get up.

Emotion goes with the fast-forwarding to the happy ending. If you can get into the belief of having it now, the happiness, the joy will come naturally. Just think to yourself - if I really had this now, how would I feel? Me, I get all giggly, smiling so hard my mouth hurts, blushing red with embarrasment that I am so giddy and feeling so full of life I swear that I am going to explode.

Your initial intention is most likely already set. If you already have thought of what you want, you have already told the Universe. Your intention has been set. Locked and loaded!

The one thing to remember is to keep your mind off its absense. If its love you want, don't think about being lonely, think about how happy you are with your new love. What you focus on is what you get, so when you focus on the lack of something, you get more of the lack of something.

I think Abraham says it best - focus on what you want and why you want it. When you focus on when it will happen, who will bring it about, where it will maifest and how it will come to you, and you do not have answers, it will make you feel helpless and lost.

And do not forget about inspired action. When you get the urge to do something or go somewhere or talk to that person, listen to that mental kick in the butt. Everything you need to get what you want will be provided to you, as long as you listen to your inner guidence when it tells you its time.

[shant121]

Originally Posted by tomcha

What do I need to do before? Clearing my limiting beliefs?

What do I need to do during? Or how (wording, keep in mind pointers, etc...)
Visualize or repeat my intention over and over?
Visualize how long?
How to inject emtion?
etc...
etc...
etc...

What do I need to do after setting my initial intention?

I hope that this will help some other people on this forum as well in settling down some fuzzy ideas that they might have regarding intentions.

Tomcha, there is no one line answer. you'll have to do some reading:
1) Steve's blog - search for posts that you 'feel' will help you. Steve always has connecting posts grouped together at the end of a post
2) Napolean Hill's THink and Grow Rich - its a PD bible
3) Watch the Secret movie
4) Listen to Abraham-Hicks

Start with watching the Secret and move on the Napolean Hill, it explains the exact procedure. Steve's blog goes in-depth, covers a lot of topics and he explains beautifully too.

[tomcha]

I haven't gotten around to Abraham, but I've watched the Secret, read Steve's posts multiple times and read Think and Grow Rich. I'm also in the process of reading The Master Key.

I think it's perhaps just my personality. I believe that this would really work and I could use it to become more happy in many ways. The obstacle for me is that my mind keeps coming up with possible objections to this idea.

It's not that I don't want to believe it. On the contrary, I sincerely do. But from what I can see (based on how I deal with things both now and in the past), it's just the way my mind works. I need to logically sound "evidence" that explains all if not almost all of the situations and circumstances. My mind "needs" that information to accept it as a workable model.

I find that without supplying the theories and model that it needs, my mind keeps brewing the idea in the back of my head that if this cannot explain A, B, C, and D, then there's too many reasons to doubt the model, hence I cannot trust it even though it may work for some in some instances.

I don't know if I'm making sense to anyone here. I'm very frustrated at myself for making things so difficult, but at the same time, I know that once I satisfy my mind and it accepts something, the floodgates open and my belief in it can become very solid.

Having said this, I don't know if this is completely true...sorry for the babbling, but I'm feeling a personal discovery coming on here.

I was raised as a Catholic and had never been given a logical and concrete proof that God exists. Yet, deep down in my in my core, that is my belief. So how do I explain this? The way I reason it is that repetition played a large part. And the idea was just vague enough that anything that I wanted to make a supporting evidence would be so, for the existence of God.

I could look at a leaf and see the wonders of God because who could create such miraculous things?

Ok, my brain is starting to shut down now. I don't know where I'm going with this anymore. Perhaps, it will pick up later, I hope.

For the time being, I feel that what I can and must do for myself is to give myself enough "evidence" that this is real and can work and will work for me and that there isn't just one way to work it. That's part of my problem; I tend to look for the "one best way" and feel that I can't act until I've found it because I'd be inefficient and waste a lot of resources and energy.....-sigh- I know, I know.

I got to accept the FACT that there are multiple ways to get things done and that all things lead closer to my goal, even as a learning process and that doing something is better than not doing anything at all.

That's it for now. I think I got off the topic here a bit, and my apologies for the long post. But I think I made a couple of small discoveries here. Thanks for your patience and input.

[starlet]

I know about LOA for months before finally getting my mind around it, questions are how we learn!

I do suggest starting small - manifest that front parking space at your local grocery store. Manifest a penny on the ground. Manifest a phone call. Once you do something like this, you begin to believe. I manifested dimes at the beginning and now have found over 400 dimes. I keep them in a jar, which continually reminds me that this works

[Neblasian]

tomcha

Try this. Start thinking about a blue feather for the next couple of days. Find every time during the day to think about this blue feather. You will eventually see one in some form or the other. This will freak you out and you will need no other proof. The reason why this works is because you have no past beliefs about blue feathers therefore manifesting one will be easy. This experiment worked for me and got me fully focused on LOA. You can listen to this podcast to find out the details.
HunaTrainer.com - Rediscover Ancient Wisdom » JediTrainer.com Show #1: Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

[judge45]

Little things are easy with LoA because there are no or very weak limiting beliefs governing the manifesting of those things.

So a feather, a small amount of money, something small that doesn't burst your belief bubble will be relatively easy. You're actually intending and manifesting everything in your life anyway, what you want is conscious control over it.

Before you start intending, write down want your truly want. Don't write too many things, remember you're rewriting reality, so keep it important and concise (I'd leave world peace out for now) focus on what is important to you now and have a range of easy, medium and seemingly hard goals.

Now LoA is all about connection between your true self and reality, so if a fundamental belief is strong, you have to relax or uproot it to get LoA to flow better. If you want a million dollars it's more than doable, but if you have strong beliefs about it being hard to do or will take forever, then all the intending and happy thoughts won't break it.

So, write your list and look at everything on that list in detail and see what kind of existing beliefs are attached to the goals, what's it going to take, to reshape the beliefs and establish new beliefs for each goal. It may mean changing nothing belief wise or a major upheaval. If it's important to you, it's more than achievable.

Beliefs are stronger than thoughts, so you need to address them first, that's the real challenge.

As for exact methods of LoA, that's a real personal thing, it's very different for everyone, but once established beliefs are right, then it doesn't take too much work I've found.

HTH

Jeff

[tomcha]

Thanks for your inputs. Not to be a pain in the neck, couldn't the blue feather experience be that I "see" them throughout my normal day, but just don't notice them because I am not paying attention to them? Then once I intend to see it, I start paying attention to it, so I start noticing them everywhere.

Perhaps the car example is better fit. You know how when you start to think of buying a Honda civic, you start noticing them almost everywhere that you never noticed before? Everyone has experienced this and I don't think this is a case of manifestation. I think it's just the brain doing what it does best. Selective deletion and selective awareness.

The brain is constantly bombarded with stimuli and cannot process all of it through the conscious mind, so it only takes what it deems to be important for what it needs to get done and then leaves the rest for the subconscious mind to deal with. But once you start paying attention to it, your brain lists it higher in the priorities and you start noticing it through your conscious mind.

Nevertheless, I will give the exercise a try.

As for the beliefs, I agree that they're stronger than thoughts. And I got my work cut out for me in having to identify the limiting beliefs first and then eliminating them or at least neutralizing them.

As they say, the size or difficulties (as we perceive them) matters little to the universe. To it, there is really no difference. It's our beliefs and thoughts that limit its manifestation more than anything else.

So it should be relatively easy for a person to manifest a million dollars as it is to manifest a thousand dollars, assuming that there are no limiting beliefs about the difficulties to manifest a million (e.g., "a million is so much bigger than a thousand", "a million is something that most people will never be able to have in their life time", "I don't deserve a million", etc...)

Interesting thoughts. I will keep pondering it in my own way and try to set my mind free of the limiting beliefs so that I can more easily manifest my desires (including money, but not limited to it).

Thanks again.

Thomas

[dor]

Tomcha:
I asked the same thing some weeks ago and got some good responses:

Simple outline/steps to Intention Manifestation...

[judge45]

Luke " But master yoda, moving rocks with my mind is one thing, moving the starship from the swamp is completely different"

Yoda " No different! Size matters not"

Luke huffs and walks away, Yoda raises the starship from the swamp and places it gently on the land

Luke astonished " I don't beleive it"

Yoda "That is why you fail"

It's not the thoughts, it's the beliefs that determine the outcome. Most of the time thoughts get in the way.

$1000 or $1M there is no difference except the belief you hold in your mind.

HTH

Jeff

[tomcha]

Thanks dor for the link to the posting.