Where and When do you do your Daily Intentions?

[seeker5]

For those who set out a daily time to purposely do your intentions, Where do you do them?

Where is your favorite place to do them? Do you do them while exercising with your eyes close? Do you sit and meditate in a quiet place? Do you do them while driving?

Also, as a related question, when do you do your daily intentions? Is it in the morning, midday or at the end of the day?

I'm very curious because I used to visualize with my eyes close while doing aerobic exercising in the morning. I stopped doing that a few months ago, and now I'm about to do it again, except this time instead of visualizing, I'll be intending. The only problem is that in the meantime, I've started listening to audio books daily while exersizing, and I don’t' want to give up that habit either (of listening to audiobooks). I'm trying to figure out how to add intending and listening to audio books each day without doing 60 minutes of aerobic exersize each day.

ps. If another thread answers this question, please let me know. I searched and didn't find one.

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by seeker5

For those who set out a daily time to purposely do your intentions, Where do you do them?

Where is your favorite place to do them? Do you do them while exercising with your eyes close? Do you sit and meditate in a quiet place? Do you do them while driving?

Also, as a related question, when do you do your daily intentions? Is it in the morning, midday or at the end of the day?

I'm very curious because I used to visualize with my eyes close while doing aerobic exercising in the morning. I stopped doing that a few months ago, and now I'm about to do it again, except this time instead of visualizing, I'll be intending. The only problem is that in the meantime, I've started listening to audio books daily while exersizing, and I don’t' want to give up that habit either (of listening to audiobooks). I'm trying to figure out how to add intending and listening to audio books each day without doing 60 minutes of aerobic exersize each day.

ps. If another thread answers this question, please let me know. I searched and didn't find one.

When I use to read the well known gurus, they said different times and different amounts of time, 30 minutes a day, twice a day, quietly in meditative mode etc.

Then I realised that if every thought was an instruction (as Steve says) then every thought better be productive. I couldn't do 2 x 30 min meditates and then spend the rest of the time wondering what the *bleep* was going on.

So I find the best place and the best time to build your life is right now.

Of course we can't be happy and focused 24/7, we have to be productive also, so I find that every spare moment is a moment to insert a thought about reality, about your life, how you want it to be.

If reality, your life is the sum total of your thoughts, then all your thoughts should be in aligment and more importantly, your thoughts right now should be aligned to your goal(s)

Don't set aside a time or a place, make that time and place right now.

Max

[unwiser]

Every night before I sleep. It is usually about a half hour but I dont really have a set duration or anything. Also every sunday I have a certain special place I go to. its a beach actually. Im usually there for about 2 hours - 3hours. this 2 hours comprise of intentions, going over short term and long term goals, looking at how the past week went, and so forth. Usually if I dont get to do my sunday thing my whole week is thrown off.
Personally, I cant chew bumblegum and walk at the same time. When Im exercising that is where my mind is. When Im at work Im devoted to work.

[torilink]

I prefer in bed before sleep. I do use visualizations and intention throughout the day too, but I think before bed is best. When you spend 30 minutes before sleep visualizing, then you peacefully drift off to sleep, your conscious mind (ego) doesn't get a chance to add any negative comments before the intentions/visualization is passed on to the subconscious where it has all night to hold it just as you imagined it. This I think is very beneficial.

[Ree]

Throughout the day. My intentions are like a constant humming that is just under the surface of my consciousness all day every day. When I have a quiet moment, they bubble up to the surface and I give them my full attention.

[pc99]

I do mine in bed in the morning right after i've woken up. It basically sets the tone for what my day is to be like.

[unwiser]

This may sound weird but I m I the only one who gets a case of cold feet sometimes when the manifestation actually starts to manifest? It happened to me recently with a move to a different department.

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by unwiser

This may sound weird but I m I the only one who gets a case of cold feet sometimes when the manifestation actually starts to manifest? It happened to me recently with a move to a different department.

UN,

Yeah, that's the scary part To see what your thinking/observing mainfesting into reality and when you see it happen really fast you wonder why you need to put effort in at all

When it comes to mainfesting stuff, size really doesn't matter, size is a perception in our heads, the creative source doesn't understand or discriminate. All the barriers are inside, not outside

Max

[unwiser]

I think the conflict arises becasue I want change to better my self but on some levels I fear change and find comfort in the way things already are even if its not that great.

Originally Posted by Max Power

UN,

Yeah, that's the scary part To see what your thinking/observing mainfesting into reality and when you see it happen really fast you wonder why you need to put effort in at all

When it comes to mainfesting stuff, size really doesn't matter, size is a perception in our heads, the creative source doesn't understand or discriminate. All the barriers are inside, not outside

Max

[seeker5]

Max Powers, unwiser, torilink, ree, and pc99 - I appreciate the response.

I'm going to start soon a 30 day trial where I'll think of my intentions for at least 20 minutes. I'll also think about them at odds times such as when I'm walking down the elevator or walking, but I want to set a definite time for uninterrupted intention feeling/thinking.

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by seeker5

Max Powers, unwiser, torilink, ree, and pc99 - I appreciate the response.

I'm going to start soon a 30 day trial where I'll think of my intentions for at least 20 minutes. I'll also think about them at odds times such as when I'm walking down the elevator or walking, but I want to set a definite time for uninterrupted intention feeling/thinking.

S5,

Don't set aside a time to focus/observe/create your new life. It's here right now. Don't think it's somewhere else at some other time when it's convenient, make it real right now.

Everyone else is dreaming, wishing, hoping, but not you..........you know it's real right now....don't cheat yourself, you're better than that.

Don't think it, know it..........if you're not in control of your life, then someone else is.

Max

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Max Power

S5,
Don't set aside a time to focus/observe/create your new life. It's here right now. Don't think it's somewhere else at some other time when it's convenient, make it real right now.

Hmmm...well, Steve wrote that he specifically sets aside a specific time to sit down and create intentions.

Everyone else is dreaming, wishing, hoping, but not you..........you know it's real right now....don't cheat yourself, you're better than that.

You seem concerned that I'm just delaying and won't get to it. Don't worry, I'm not like that. I've successfully completed several 30 day trial (the latest involved getting up at 5am every day), so I'm very secure in my ability to sit down and plan this out and then actually doing it.

[ExploringTheMatrix]

In my mind, Steve complicates things more than Max. Max has stripped it down to the bare metal and uses only the tools that are necessary.

If you want a more involved, more interactive process, you can have it. But it's unnecessary. I like a little voodoo and ritual because it makes life interesting, but at the same time I realize it's only there because I want it to be.

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by seeker5

Hmmm...well, Steve wrote that he specifically sets aside a specific time to sit down and create intentions.

You seem concerned that I'm just delaying and won't get to it. Don't worry, I'm not like that. I've successfully completed several 30 day trial (the latest involved getting up at 5am every day), so I'm very secure in my ability to sit down and plan this out and then actually doing it.

When I write I usually say 'we' to imply the person reading this, if I say you I don't intend to direct it at you personally, so it's actually a directional flaw on my part.

Max

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by ExploringTheMatrix

In my mind, Steve complicates things more than Max. Max has stripped it down to the bare metal and uses only the tools that are necessary.

EMT,

I agree Steve has a good solid body of work, but all I want is to simplify as much as possible, I find Steve's stuff just too heavy (for me) and too indepth, I'm just smart enough to grasp most of it

Max

[PMcDonald]

An excerpt from the The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles- which basically reiterates what Max was saying...

"That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind. As
the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship,
you must keep your face toward it all the time. You must no more
lose sight of it than the helmsman loses sight of the compass.
It is not necessary to take exercises in concentration, nor to set
apart special times for prayer and affirmation, nor to go into the
silence, nor to do occult stunts of any kind. Some of these things
are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want and to
want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
“You must know what you want and be specific and definite.
You can never get rich or start the creative power into action by sending
out unformed longings and vague desires.”
Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating
your picture. But no one needs to take exercises to concentrate
his mind on a thing which he really wants. It is the things
you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention
upon them.
And unless you really want to get rich, so that the desire is strong
enough to hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic
pole holds the needle of the compass, it will hardly be worthwhile
for you to try to carry out the instructions given in this book.
The methods set forth here are for people whose desire for
riches is strong enough to overcome mental laziness and the love
of ease, and to make them work.
The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and
the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details,
the stronger your desire will be. And the stronger your
desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the
picture of what you want."

I don't have anything to add. Mr. Wattles states it brilliantly and even though it applies to money specifically, the process holds true for anything you truly want.

[seeker5]

Originally Posted by Max Power

I agree Steve has a good solid body of work, but all I want is to simplify as much as possible, I find Steve's stuff just too heavy (for me) and too indepth, I'm just smart enough to grasp most of it

I'm curious Max, what kind of results have you generated in your life since you've started to simplify/implement Steve's stuff?

[Bene]

Originally Posted by seeker5

I'm curious Max, what kind of results have you generated in your life since you've started to simplify/implement Steve's stuff?

yeah i am interested too. You should post here you know... it can inspire some of us.