Intentions and OCD ?

[Chet]

A person suffering from OCD can and does have intrusive thoughts, often things they recognize as being beyond logic but still they persist.
If you think a 100 times that you might have left the stove on and go back to check it, will it eventually be on?
Or is there some karmic protection so you don't damage things with mental illness?

[Sean.M.Connelly]

Beats me.

You know you're doing intention manifestation right when you get results.

Results are results.

Is this theoretical OCD person sending out the intention that they want the stove to be on? Obsessively worrying about whether the stove is on, and sending out an intention stating you intend to have the stove on, are completely different.

~Sean

[Believer]

I still haven't figured out IM, but I guess it doesn't work as quickly as that :P

[Angela]

Having had OCD as a kid, I recognize an OCD impulse as pretty distinct from a "thought." A person can change her thoughts, but attempting to change an OCD impulse like you would a thought just creates frustration and more compulsion. In the case of those thoughts, LoA works, because you're concentrating on getting rid of the compulsion, which focuses on the compulsion, which causes it to persist.

[Believer]

So if you focus on not having OCD, that would help stop it?

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by Believer

So if you focus on not having OCD, that would help stop it?

No, denial is not the way, acceptance is. I've had OCD all my life and it's a product of human awareness, being very aware of your physical being. When you accept OCD and realise it's a very sharp part of observation, then you can deal with it. As long as it's not physically harmful to the peson or other people, it should accepted.

Enjoy
Max Power
"There's no denying who you are"

[Angela]

Originally Posted by Max Power

...it's a product of human awareness, being very aware of your physical being. When you accept OCD and realise it's a very sharp part of observation, then you can deal with it.]

Max, how so? in what way is OCD a very sharp part of observation for you?

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by Angela

Max, how so? in what way is OCD a very sharp part of observation for you?

Angela,

For me I see OCD as observation, but on a very intense physical level. I say sharp, I should have said clear and strong and/or intense. OCD is about noticing things in the physical world and then turning that observation into obsession. Often OCD seems to place focus on small seemingly unimportant things, but I don't think it's about the things that OCD is focusing on, it's about the physical observation intensity.

I think people who experience OCD are very aware of being physical and existance in their physical world, which is a good thing viewed from the right observation It's hard to see that, I know, because of the intensity of observation, but I really think it's about clarity, although it comes over as confusion.

Just my opinion

Enjoy!
Max Power
"Inspect, accept or reject"

[Believer]

Then I don't get it. According to IM, if you focus on OCD, you will always have it, but if you focus on not having it, your intention will manifest.

You are right though, you can't deny having something like OCD.

Max Power, Do you have an opinion on OCD and IM?

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by Believer

Then I don't get it. According to IM, if you focus on OCD, you will always have it, but if you focus on not having it, your intention will manifest.

In truth, you would never focus on not having it as the focus still contains the having it part.

You are right though, you can't deny having something like OCD.

Exactly, you can't deny what you already getting, the answer lies in accepting it in a postive way and moving forward. See it as part of your physical being, even a good thing, that way, it has no power over you, you retain the power.

Max Power, Do you have an opinion on OCD and IM?

[/QUOTE]

See above for my experience with OCD and as for IM, it's a very personal thing, but I'll say that it's not something that ever leaves you or something you can just turn off and on, with that in mind, it makes you wonder where the limits are

Enjoy!
Max Power
"Inspect, accept or reject"