Million Dollar Experiment Manifests $4 Million (Blog)

[Steve Pavlina]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

Million Dollar Experiment Manifests $4 Million

[SlashChick]

I'd like to participate, but is it really fair if my company is already worth over $1 million? When I sell my business, I will get over $1M for it. I already know that...it's just a question of when to sell it. I guess I don't want to sign up and skew your results by saying I've manifested $1M when, in reality, that $1M is already there for me. Guidance on this situation would be appreciated.

[Steve Pavlina]

You wouldn't count that sale as part of the experiment, since it's wealth you've already acquired before joining. The point of the MDE is to manifest something new.

For example, I don't count any of my Adsense income as part of my MDE results, even though it has increased a lot since the experiment began. I was generating income from Adsense before the MDE, and I was already expecting it to continue increasing, so I can't credit that result to my participation in the MDE.

I tell people that if there's any doubt or if you were already expecting the income, don't count it in your MDE results.

[Adrienne]

From Steve's blog:

With respect to the recent articles on polarity and polarization, technically you can use either polarity to manifest money. However, the original intent behind this experiment has always been:
In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all, I intend $1,000,000 to come into my life and into the lives of everyone who holds this intention.
So this is actually a love-polarized intention. The idea is that we’re manifesting money to serve “the highest good of all.” As a group experiment we’re doing this cooperatively, so this isn’t a competitive race to see who gets there first. The goal is to help create more abundance for everyone who wants to experience it.

So that does this mean that one can turn any intention into a love polarized intention by adding “for the highest good of all”?

When I look at this, I see different polarities (unless I am splitting hairs because I don’t yet fully understand this and am looking forward to the examples Steve has promised to provide.) For example:
For the highest good of all = love
Come into MY life = inflow / fear
And the lives of those who hold this intention. = outflow / love

And is the wording what is important or the idea behind it? I can understand why the intention above works if wording is not as important as my feelings/goals behind it since the feeling is the everyone.

Adrienne

[helgi]

*cough*

I just signed up, and then found out I had made a mistake by entering an amount in the 'dollars manifested' field.

It was an unexpected amount of money that came to me the other day, and I do believe the LoA had something to do with it. But still I suppose it wasn't a legitimate part of the experiment as I hadn't signed up already.

[Jaben]

The intention to make money in order to achieve some worthy goal that will bring joy in the making of it and create joy and love upon the completion of it makes sense to me. Steve said part of his motivation to become a millionaire is to start up a non-profit personal development organization with local chapters around the world similar to Toastmaster's International. Why not set that as the goal then?

What specifically is magical about accumulating 1 million dollars of US currency? It seems to me like it is fear that he may not be worthy of starting an organization of such magnitude successfully with out this title of Millionaire. He also said he wants to teach others how to become millionaires. That begs the same question, what do they want the money for and why don't they set the goal to achieve what they want as the primary goal? Sure I can see if your goal is to have people meet in person, travel is required and money is a logical means to achieve this goal. But in the MDE, the money is the goal.

If you look at the true meaning of money, why it even exists - it was born out of fear and continues to exist out of fear. Imagine if you were to setup an exchange system between your closest friends or family members, say love dollars. What is money? It's a means of measuring exchange. So lets say your wife does the dishes and you cook. You decide that 1 well cooked meal is worth 1 love dollar. And one set of nicely cleaned dishes is 1 love dollar. Now why would you seriously want to implement this? You would do this to ensure equal exchange. But in a loving relationship is this necessary? Isn't the need for measuring exchange born of fear that the others won't do their part or the desire to get others to do more for you?

[rman666]

While an intention and a goal are not exactly the same things, they are very similar. Goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Accountable/Actionable, Realistic, and Time-based). Or, as my friend Phil Grebyshak likes to say, SMARTER (which adds Exciting and Recorded). Since intentions and goals are similar, it makes since that an intention should be measurable.

Basing the intention experiment ("Million Dollar Experiment") on money isn't necessary, but it makes sense. How else could you conduct a global experiment on intentions?

You can't really say, "In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all, I intend _success_ to come into my life and into the lives of everyone who holds this intention."

How would you measure that? And, isn't that the point of money? It gives us a way to measure value. We are using money as the metric of the energy of the Universe flowing through us.

-- Clint

[Jaben]

Basing the intention experiment ("Million Dollar Experiment") on money isn't necessary, but it makes sense. How else could you conduct a global experiment on intentions?

Weight loss for those who are overweight would be quite measurable. So would reversing cancer symptoms, lowering cholesterol levels and lowering blood sugar levels for diabetics. How about improving race times for runners or cyclists. Breaking addictions such as smoking or drinking coffee is another very measurable goal that could be conducted globally. Or here's a good one: energy consumption reduction, this is measurable and anyone could participate.

I believe the content of a goal or an intention is better suited for certain polarities; content has a polar bias if you will. For example, try to imagine polarizing an intention for increased national murder rate with love. Although I would expect an MDE polarized with the dark side of the force would probably make more money than the MDE polarized with love, that is certainly debatable. And it is testable too

[humppadoll]

Well, what can I say. I even lost money since I joined MDE. A computer went broke and I had to buy a new one for 2k. Last month another one for another 1,5k. So am I fear driven? I admit, it is very hard for me to accept, that things (money) will come to you just like that. Coming from a family that repeated every day, that only hard work will make you rich.

But I like the idea, that everyone should benefit from this experiment and that we would not take money from say the rich people to give it to the poor. But somehow it does not really work.
Any ideas for me for another perspective?

[Anne4Joy]

When something negative happens to me, I endeavour to see the "blessing in disguise". Because I like the idea that everything happens for a good purpose and has value for me.

It seems to me that the MDE may have shone a light on the limiting belief that was held by your family, and you naturally assumed as being the truth. It may not be true for you, forever

Steve's article about Manifesting Intentions Without Resistance I found very helpful. I am looking forward to surfacing the limitations I have in the way of experiencing greater success, accepting the fears relating to them and opening myself to greater possibility and opportunity.

Another resource I have found very hellpful (no fluff) is Dr Audrey Reed's Money Tool Box for Women. She offers easy to use, simple tools to work towards financial success. http://www.moneytoolboxforwomen.com/

At the moment I am loving working with affirmations to transform the limiting beliefs that I surface for me. I repeat them all first thing in the morning and last thing at night. I know from previous experience that the more I repeat them, the results will show up in due course.

I have a deep conviction that each person who really wants it can achieve their intention, including financial. No matter what their beginnings in life, family beliefs etc. Each one of us is innately more wealthy than we can ever really imagine.

I hope this helps a little.

[humppadoll]

Thanks Anne4joy,
it was good to read Steve's article again. Thanks for the support in this forum.

[siamesesilk]

On the other hand, I’ve noticed that those who appear to be succeeding with the MDE almost universally embrace the love-polarized aspect of it. These people are happily manifesting instead of manifesting to be happy. Even as they sign up, they comment about how inspired they are to contribute to this unusual experiment and to create abundance for everyone. They radiate energy into the experiment rather than try to pull energy from it. These people either already have an abundance mindset, or they’re gradually adopting one. They see themselves as creating money so they can do something positive with it (some form of giving or service) instead of feeling they need the money just to feel more secure or to solve their own problems.

This sums it up for how it's been for me so far. I have provided mostly service for the money I have earned. Extra design work that fell into my lap, helping my husband with his busniess from time to time, some just out of the blue, a five in the coat pocket, a check for my birthday, It was only with this intention in mind that I actually came in contact with the extra money because I have been conscious of it. My last extra money came from my husband, thanking me for all of the things I've done. He had just got paid a cash job and handed me a fifty with a big smile...well, thank you very much!

[liedele]

I got this from an google alert that came to me. the results page from the million dollar experiment has been swiped.


How To Get One Million People To Send You $1.00 Dollar

this person is trying to get people to buy stuff based on Steve's work.
Not very nice , and there is no attribution to Steve at all.

[Steve Pavlina]

Originally Posted by liedele

I got this from an google alert that came to me. the results page from the million dollar experiment has been swiped.


How To Get One Million People To Send You $1.00 Dollar

this person is trying to get people to buy stuff based on Steve's work.
Not very nice , and there is no attribution to Steve at all.

Wow... that's a pretty bold scammer. I just notified PayPal to let them know about this site, suggesting they close the PayPal account and confiscate the funds.

I also found an email address for the site here: info@ieimodel.com

The scammer's page is on a site owned by Steel Structure Development Company, LLC. Perhaps the steel business isn't doing so well this year.