Fear of manifestation failure?

[Andrew Russell]

This is kind of related to the Manifesting Intentions Without Resistance article, I've decide to start a new thread rather than taking the official one off-topic.

Anyway - my question is this:

What does one do when the primary (possibly only) fear associated with some particular outcome is the fear of failing to achieve that outcome?

This was the conclusion I reached when I tried the visualisation exercises suggested in the article.

The article's recommendation - to accept it (the fact it might not happen) as a possibility - seems counter-intuitive to the idea of intending it to happen. Any advice?

[Dharma]

Give me an example to work with. Your description is a bit too wide open for me.

[dorothy hanna]

Fear seems like you may be focusing on not being able to see how it will manifest. Don't worry/think on the HOW. That is the domain of the universe. Just focus on the intent.

[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by Andrew Russell

What does one do when the primary (possibly only) fear associated with some particular outcome is the fear of failing to achieve that outcome?

Is there more to the fear of the outcome failing?

If you ask why do I fear it will fail, is the answer a different fear other than of just failure? Or how it could fail? Will people be angry if you fail and that's the fear - fear of other's reactions - or embarased that it fell through - or afraid that failure means you aren't good enough. What does it mean to you to fail at this? Are those projected meanings feared? Is fearing it won't work a form of doubt or insecurity that has other roots other than pursueing this particular outcome?

[Andrew Russell]

Dharma: Sorry - I'm afraid my vagueness is intentional

I think dorthy hanna's idea is indeed a possibility.

Also wolfgang's "fear of not being good enough" is the only one that really stood out (although not much) - but that's not really a fear associated with the outcome. Like the fear of not achieving the outcome at all - it seems it is not really a fear to be "accepted".

In the last few months, on this intention, I've had two very convincing alpha reflections with essentially identical circumstances. But after each of those, things seem to have fizzled out.

After some thought, I don't really think Steve's article applies here. There's nothing scary about the outcome (certainly anything that could remotely conceived of as scary I'd already accepted). My guess is that something else is probably killing it.


I've done thinking along a tangent, while writing this, leading from Dorthy's point:

I don't really think too much about the "how" - it's not really part of the intention. Perhaps I'm being too specific. But on the idea of being specific - taking an "Erin's Diner" perspective - it seems it might be better to say "I want this exact sandwich" rather than "something delicious".

I think I might be going "maybe you can't get me this specific sandwich, but - you know - any delicious sandwich will do". But that comes back to my original fear of "what if it never manifests". What does one do about such a fear?

I'm off to listen to Erin's podcast again

[wolfgang]

I bet once your goal is acheived you won't fear it failing. So, it's sort of like this fear isn't associated to owning the outcome, really, since once it's manifested and the fear of it not becoming are mutually exclusive. Putting this fear on the path to the outcome identifies it as part of the "how" and maybe that's why the IM material says not to have worries about "how". But how to not worry about the "how" is what it's coming to as I write.