Intention and Desire

I’ve been thinking and working with manifestation and intention a lot lately. How to create and focus on what I want to achieve, when what passes for reality in my world is in a different place and my emotions are heavily fear centered. Like many of us, for me this manifests most acutely these days with money. And the absence of it.

Two books have been particularly helpful with this. Ask and It is Given by Esther Hicks talks about our emotional guidance system as the primary clue to determining why we have what we have in our life. Basically, our emotions tell us if we are focusing on what we want or what we don’t have. If our emotions are heavy, fear based, worry, blaming, etc. then we are asking the universe to give us more of what we actually don’t want. It doesn’t matter if we do meditation, affirmations, etc that focus on the desired outcome–if we then drop back into blame, worry, fear, we are not believeing in (they say ‘allowing’) what we want to manifest. “my father and I have a great relationship’ may be a perfectly fine affirmation, but if, when the affirmation part of your day is over, you are pissed, irritated and upset with him, that’s what you are creating more of. By paying attention to our actual feelings we can most accurately and helpfully shift ourselves into the results we truly want. The book gives lots of excercises to lift our emotions from these and into the ones that create/allow the desired experience to come through. Feel it before you get it seems to be the operating idea here.

The other book is The Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart. I love this book because she applies science to the law of intention and manifestation, citing numerous examples of scientific experimence showing the power of applied consciousness. She then lists what has been learned from these experiments, how we can best use focused intention in our lives. My favorite tip: meditate for 20 minutes before beginning any intention. This has been proven to dramatically increase the efficacy of any visualization/intention processes. Also, be as specific as possible.