A common question you may ponder about intentions and manifestation is something along these lines: How come when I wholeheartedly intend X to happen, I still get the opposite of X?
How come when you intend to be wealthy and still remain poor in spite of devoting a good deal of effort? How come when you intend a new relationship, you are still alone? How come when you intend to launch a new career, you are still stuck in the old one?
These are very profound questions. The answer is that intention and manifestation always works. Yes that is correct, it always works, so what is going wrong? When it seems like it is not working, the reason is that while you are correctly putting out the intention for what you want, you are also putting out the intention to continue manifesting what you do not want! And guess what, the second one of the two is winning. And you are probably doing a lot more of the second than the first, by constantly lapsing into thinking about it, so if your situation changes at all, it will happen very slowly, if at all. But if you keep it up, it will still work. However, most people give up on their positive intentions long before they have a chance to manifest, and by default they go back to thinking about what they do not want, so all progress is erased. This way they prove to themselves that would not work, just as they had thought! A self fulfilling prophecy but for all the wrong reasons.
Imagine you are driving a car up a hill. What happens to the car if you stop halfway up the hill and put the car in neutral and leave the parking brake off? You slide back down the hill, erasing all your progress. No matter how many times you re-run this routine, you get the same result.
Observation is creative.
Now how is it that people keep thinking about what they do not want even when they’re hugely motivated to manifest something new? It is very simple. If you are in a situation you do not want to be in, and you observe it or notice it, you are thinking about it. That means you are intending its continuation. For example, if you are overweight and you are intending to be thin, and you go to the mirror and see your overweight body, you just intended the opposite of what you want, thereby negating your intention to be thin.
But this is why intentions can take a while to manifest.
Now how are you supposed to focus on what you want if your current situation is something you do not want, and merely observing your current situation is enough to negate your positive intention?
That, of course, is the million dollar question. Fortunately, there’s a million dollar answer: creative observation.
Let’s review the rules of intention and manifestation:
- All thought is creative. Every thought is an intention, including your perceptions. Observation is active creation, not passive witnessing. There is no such thing as observation without creation. The Laws of Quantum physics states that the act of observation changes a state from wave to actuality.
- 100% responsibility. You are 100% responsible for everything that exists in your reality. If you perceive it, you created it.
- Only the present is real. You only have power in this present moment; the past and future are merely projections you are creating right now. If you remember that something happened in the past, you are creating that past right now. To remember is to think, and to think is to intend.
- No denial. You cannot undo what you’ve already manifested. Once something has manifested in your reality, it is too late to undo it. The mere act of observing it will perpetuate it. It makes no sense to deny what you’ve already created. If you perceive it, you’ve made it real.
Number 4 is the tricky part. You can’t undo what you’ve already manifested. Once something appears in your reality, it is no longer just potential. You’ve made it real. Now it is stuck in your awareness, and you will continue creating it merely by observing it. For example, if you are broke and in debt, you can’t manifest wealth by denying your poverty. You’ve already created poverty; it is as real as solid rock. So the first part of adaptive creation is to accept the reality of everything you’ve created so far. Even if you do not see how you attracted it, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that it is real right now, so acknowledge and accept your current situation honestly, even if you do not particularly like it and downright hate it.
Now let us say you want to go from A to B, where A is the current situation you’ve already manifested, and B is a new situation you’d like to manifest. Maybe it is fat to thin, rags to riches, loneliness to romance, wage slave to business owner, etc. It is nearly impossible to focus all your attention on B without thinking about A, especially if you fail just by noticing A. How can you not think about being overweight if you are stuck in your overweight body every single moment? How can you not think about being broke if you do not have the money to pay your bills?
All observation is creatively biased.
The key is that when you observe your current reality, you always observe with a bias. Your bias is rooted in your beliefs, but let us simplify that model to just three general biases: positive, negative, or neutral. All observation can be assigned one of these three bias values.
Suppose you observe the current state of your situation, and it is not remotely what you want. That is fine it is perfectly OK to acknowledge that. But while you are observing your situation, you are also expecting one of three things to happen:
(1) The situation is improving.
(2) The situation is declining.
(3) The situation is stable.
Number three may be subconscious much of the time, but it is always there in some form.
Assuming you intend your situation to improve, which of these three observational biases makes the most sense? Clearly the positive one bias is the way to go. In order for intention and manifestation to work smoothly, whenever you observe your current situation (even as it continues to conflict with what you really want), you must observe with positive bias as much as possible. This will allow you to observe reality without simultaneously negating your positive intention.
Why a positive attitude is critical.
This is precisely why a positive mental attitude is effective. Attitude is absolutely critical. If you spend time focusing on your positive intentions, but you also observe your present situation in either a neutral or negative way, you are wasting your time. This is why you do not get thin by harboring thoughts like, “I hate being fat.” Instead you must acknowledge your present overweight body while latching onto the hope that your momentum is headed towards your goal weight.
Fortunately, no matter how overweight, broke, lonely, or unmotivated you are, there is always hope. There is always the possibility of turning things around. Even if pure luck is the only ray of hope you can accept right now, that is a step in the right direction. Hold that hope as a general positive expectation rather than becoming attached to just one way your positive intentions might manifest. For example, you might focus on the hope of attracting better financial luck, but do not assume that it will come in the form of a lottery win as there are possibly too many conflicting intentions going on there.
This is why goal setting sometimes works and sometimes does not. You will achieve your goals if you observe your present reality with a positive momentum in the direction of your goals. Think of your present situation as a spring board towards your intended situation and not in its own right. But if you set a goal and observe your present situation with a negative or neutral bias, then your goals have no power to induce change.
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