Suppose you set a positive intention, focus your energy on its manifestation for the highest good of all, and see the promising alpha reflection which usually happens within twenty four to seventy two hours of putting out a new intention. The alpha reflection is validation that the intention has taken hold. Normally this takes the form of a very noticeable synchronicity. Sometimes the synchronicity is part of manifesting the results; other times it just seems to be an acknowledgement that the intention was received.
Then watch your results completely stagnate. Why did your intention fail to manifest as quickly as you desired?
When this happens the root cause is that you failed to become a vibrational match for your intentions. Probably without even realizing it, you remained stuck in a pattern of intending for your desires NOT to manifest, thereby sabotaging yourself from making progress.
What creates this drag? The answer is your fears. Most of the time, your fears are subconscious. You are not even aware of them, so they sabotage you from the shadows. Your fears act as intentions which keep your desires from manifesting. The more you resonate with fear, the worse your results will be when consciously trying to manifest. The manifestation is still working fine, but you’ll be inclined to think it does not work because your fears will cause you to keep manifesting more of the same. And the harder you push, the more your fears push back.
The following process will help bring your fears to the surface and get them out of your way, so you can stop them from interfering with your positive intentions. This will allow you to manifest your desires faster and more easily.
Intentions are a package deal
When you set a goal or an intention and begin moving towards it much more slowly than you’d like, the drag you experience comes from your fears, not the external world, however much you may think. If you put all your energy into changing your external circumstances without addressing your fears, your progress will be extremely slow, if you even move at all.
How can you identify the fears that interfere with your positive intentions? Here’s a very straightforward way to do it:
First, imagine you have already manifested your intention in its entirety. Sit quietly and just imagine it as being real right now. Don’t imagine it happening in the future, imagine it has already happened right now. You are already there. Feel it, see it in colour and three dimensions. It is a done deal. Take a few minutes to make it as real as possible.
Now do some role-playing in your imagination. Mentally act out a few different scenarios to get a feel for what your life will really be like once this intention has become your present reality. Consider the major side effects. How will the achievement of this goal affect your health, finances, relationships, career, spiritual practice, etc? In what other ways will it change you? No change occurs in isolation, so how will this change ripple outward and create other changes? Try to get a clear sense of the whole package of changes, and see if you can figure out where your life might re-stabilize after the initial change.
For example, if your intention is to manifest a million dollars, imagine how that extra money will affect the other parts of your life. How will it affect your family, your friendships, your living situation, your career, your taxes, your eating habits, your spending habits, and your spirituality? How will this one change create a tidal wave of other changes? Where will you actually end up when the dust finally settles?
Don’t idealize or demonise these side effects. Do your best to imagine the most realistic results you can.
Manifesting a million dollars, losing fity pounds, getting married, moving to a new city, or switching careers are significant changes. A common mistake we make when putting out new intentions is that we consider those intentions in isolation, failing to account for the complete package of side effects.
If you spend even ten minutes or longer doing this exercise, you’ll notice there is a lot more to your intentions than you initially realized. But if you don’t consider these side effects when focusing on your intentions, then your intentions will have little power to manifest because deep down, you’ll know they don’t represent a realistic, stable situation.
If you want your intentions to manifest, then you need to understand that they are a package deal. You have to accept and intend the whole package, not just the convenient parts.
Uncovering hidden fears that sabotage your intentions
When you consider the whole package of your intentions, you’ll notice some internal resistance. Some parts of your visualization will be wonderful, while other parts will seem undesirable. For example, if your intention is to manifest a million dollars, and you know deep down that one of your close friends simply won’t be able to handle it because they respond negatively to anyone with that kind of money, then you may feel some resistance about manifesting the money. You want the intention, but you are unhappy with the side effects.
Any undesirable elements that come up during this exercise will be pointers to your fears.
What holds you back from being totally congruent with your intentions isn’t the total package itself, since that package is (so far) only in your imagination. What holds you back is the fear that arises when you consider the total package. Going back to the example of your friend who responds negatively to financial wealth, your friend isn’t holding you back at all. It’s the fear of your friend’s reaction that’s the real culprit. Even if you never told your friend about your intention to manifest a million dollars, you’d still suffer the intention-blocking effects of your fear. Both your fears and your desires exist only within your consciousness at this point, not in the physical world, so the entire conflict is an internal one. But a lack of internal congruency is all it takes to kill your best intentions.
As you explore your visualization of the total package, take note of which parts you resist, and try to express them in words. For example, here are some fears you might list when you think about manifesting a million dollars:
- Fear that you’ll lose the money foolishly after putting so much energy into manifesting it
- Fear that your life will become too complicated trying to manage the money
- Fear that you’ll be stingy with the money, thereby having to admit you are a stingy person
- Fear that your accounting and tax situation will become more complicated
- Fear that the money will strain your relationships
- Fear that the money will distract you from what’s most important to you
- Fear that managing the money will be stressful
- Fear that having more money will create more responsibility
- Fear that the money will isolate you, distancing you from your peers
- And so on…
Make a list like the one above for your own intentions. What fears arise when you imagine the total package? Where do you experience resistance?
One good fear is all it takes to keep your positive intentions from manifesting. Fear keeps you from becoming a vibrational match for your desires.
From fear to acceptance
If you want your intentions to manifest, you must eliminate the fears that conflict with your intentions. Once all the fear is gone, your intentions will manifest quite easily. But as long as you fail to address your fears, no amount of force will permit your intentions to manifest.
One of the simplest ways to eliminate your fears is to accept them. Stop feeding your fears with intentional energy, and just allow them to be. For example, if you simply accept that if you manifested one million dollars, that yes, your tax situation will become more complicated, then you are no longer turning that drawback into a fear. You have downgraded the fear into a consequence.
The difference between a fear and a consequence is acceptance. A fear is an outcome you resist. A consequence is an outcome you accept. When you fear part of the package that surrounds your desire, you effectively resist your desire, meaning that you intend it NOT to manifest. But when you accept the total package, you allow your desire to manifest without resistance. This is what it means to become a “vibrational match” for your intentions.
If you are not ready to accept the total package surrounding your desires, then you are not ready to manifest your desires.
This may be a particularly difficult lesson for you to learn. Once you understood that if you wanted to manifest a new desire, you have to accept the whole package of side effects without resistance, this way you will began to get noticeably better results with your manifesting.
When you began intending greater financial abundance, you may make some early progress, but wonder why the money did not manifest instantly, if manifesting truly works. Why should the process require the passage of time to manifest anything? Eventually when you try the above exercise of visualizing the whole package, it will become obvious that you are resisting (fearing) the side effects of the result. Even though your intentions were positive, the fear was still creating a lot of drag.
One by one you will need to work through the fears by acknowledging and accepting them as consequences. Once you release your resistance, you can create an empowering belief to replace the fear. This just means you take the same consequence and find a way to interpret it as a positive instead of a negative.
For example, if you have a fear of having a million dollars because it will complicate your tax situation, you first accept it as a consequence by letting go of your resistance. You admit to yourself, “OK, so more money will mean a more complicated tax situation. That is just a fact to be accepted, not something dreadful I need to fear. I can deal with it.” Then you shift it over to an empowering belief by saying, “If I have more money, I can afford to hire a good accountant to handle my taxes, and so even though my situation may be more complicated, I’ll be able to afford all the help I need.” When you have more money it will release you from having to do all the work yourself. This is probably one of the limiting factors causing negative thoughts in the first place. The same principle will apply to other aspects of your life. Having more money means you will not have to tackle all those DIY tasks around the house, just pull in an experienced tradesman who can probably finish it far quicker giving you more time to concentrate on more manifesting. It is amazing how people get hung up on doing everything themselves at the expense of just manifesting the result.
As another example, you may be worried that some people would react negatively to your attempts to attract greater financial abundance, misjudging your motives and assuming you are “just in it for the money,” especially as you reach beyond the survival income range and into the abundance range. But you must realize this is totally your issue, not anyone else’s. If your motives are honorable and genuinely focused on serving the highest good of all, then you need not worry about anyone’s opinion of you. The very fact that you are so concerned about this issue indicates that you care far more about service than you do about money anyway. Your external reputation is out of your control to a large extent because it exists purely in other people’s minds, so you can’t allow yourself to become attached to how people may view your good fortune. You can only do your best and accept the consequences. You could choose to focus on the good you can do with more money, including finding new ways to explore and express your purpose.
Financial abundance does not flow when you force it, however much you feel compelled; you simply need allowing it to arrive. The real work isn’t what you do with your physical world, it is what you do with your consciousness.
So in conclusion, you must work through your fears, accepting them as consequences, and replacing them with empowering beliefs. It is amazing how money can flow in such avalanches, it is almost ridiculous how easy it is. It may be easy in some respects, but still a challenge to work through your fears.
This process requires some deep self-assessment and introspection, so it is not an overnight fix by any means. It can be extremely eye-opening. You will be amazed at just how many deep rooted fears come up that you need to deal with. When you realize that in order to overcome a fear, you must first identify it. You will not see anything until you turn the light on. It then becomes abundantly clear that the more you work though your fears, the faster your results improve.
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