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To set an intention
Clarity of
intent
Take ownership
Incorporate a devil’s advocate
Expanding to encompass all of Creation and integrating our intention
within our being
Prepare
ourselves
Inserting our intention into Creation
Some thoughts on
energizing and creating passion for our intention
It needs to be understood, to have
an intention is different than to set an intention. To set an
intention is to act to make it happen. If you wish, look at having
and intention as the blueprints to build a house. To set an
intention is to pour the concrete for the foundation that fixes the
size and form of the house and starts the building process for the
entire house rests on the foundation you set.
To set an intention, nothing really needs to be done other than
telling ourselves we will do something then act to do what we say
we will do. The most important aspects of setting any intention
is
clarity of the intent and acting to manifest the intention. What
becomes key to manifesting an intention is our ability to
hold focus on what we desire to create and the amount of energy
we can put into acting to manifest our intention.
If we make our decision and act and we have the determination and
passion of a drowning person has for air, a
blinding passion, nothing else is needed. A drowning person
grasping for air has no doubt whatsoever for what they seek. Without
air, they know they will die. So too what we face in our creative
efforts. With such a
passion, either we will get what we desire or a part of us dies. In
most cases, if we have a blinding passion for what we desire, we
will get what we seek or die in some way trying.
Having such a focus and
passion is easier said that done. Most of us do not set an
intention with the determination and a passion of a drowning person
unless we are desperate. If you do not have such a
blinding passion then there are five requirements which must be
met and we will need to address all five. The are: the passion to
pay the price; the right perspective; willingness to enter the
unknown; willing to act; and ability to
hold focus. Each of these are discussed in some detail in the
topic, “Five
requirements to manifest an intention or desire.” The following
recommendations are provided to help address these five things.
Clarity of intent (Top)
Clarity of intention goes beyond have clear and precise words
which enunciate what we desire It is about knowing why we want what
we do. It is to “pull the string”
on why this particular intention we have in the form we hold it as
oppose to something else. It is to pull the string until we really
understand why we want what we do. It is also about addressing other
competing conscious and
nonconscious intentions which may be causing us to scatter our
creative life energy rather than make our intention a
single point focus of our life. The topics “Clarity of
Intent” talks to this topic and some thoughts about competing
intentions are found in the topic “Conscious,
Subconscious and Unconscious focus.”
Take
ownership (Top)
The more
passion and emotional energy we can put into our desire, the
greater our ability to create and manifest our desire. In this
regard, we must be encouraged to use techniques we find personally
satisfying. That is, the techniques themselves help catalyze our
passion. We have to take ownership of all we do. Otherwise we are
giving away our creative power to another. Anything we use
including thoughts and ideas that we don’t make our own, causes us
to give away some of our
creative power and creative
ability. We have to take ownership of what we give away.
It is highly recommended we do our own experiments and develop our
own technique and not use those of another. That does not mean we do
not use what another gives us. It means we use it our way and in a
way that satisfies us. When we work with the physical world, some
things must be very precise and exactly follow the rules of the
physical plane.
We it comes to us creating something, we must
hold
our creativity sacred. If we don’t hold our creativity sacred in
the
creative process we will be
giving away some of our creative power that we need to create.
We must act in a way that we allow the free expression of our
creativity.
Free expression of our creativity does not mean we become antisocial
and an anarchist. Nor does it mean we have to hurt anyone or cause
unnecessary damage to anything. There will be things that must be
sacrificed in any creative endeavor for a
sacrifice in creation is inherent to the process. However it
does mean we may have to travel the
Left Hand Path in society. It will probably makes us look
different or at least be seen as different. Nevertheless, we must
take responsibility for where we are not
holding
our creativity sacred above all else in a creative endeavor.
A technique personally chosen by us, especially one taken from
another but modified with some unique personal preferences, allows
the emotional ownership of the technique. That emotional ownership
can be utilized in the process to assist in the manifestation of our
desire. It add greatly to the effort when we can do it our way.
The
emotional expression behind any creative endeavor is essential
in manifesting the desire. A creative endeavor without emotion
contains very little energy. The more emotional “charge” we can put
into our effort, the greater the probability it will work. We have
to take charge of the energy we allow to flow into our creative
endeavors.
Incorporate a devil’s
advocate (Top)
To set an intention we will
benefit from employing a devil’s advocate. The devils’ advocate is
an individual who holds the same intention as us. However, they
challenge what we desires to do and how we are going about doing it.
It is not that they want what is desired to fail. Rather it is the
opposite. They take the opposite position to see if there are ways
the current thinking and approach will lead to failure. The devil’s
advocate looks to see how we can fail to correct those deficiencies
in our approach before we make them. They appear to be “the devil”
for they seem to keep interfering with what we desire to do. Yet
they are only looking to keep us on a path that does not cause us to
go and do needless work.
We can be our own devil’s advocate if we wish and we should learn to
do so. Other’s do not share our
passion and desire to create what we do. They may support us but
they will not have the enthusiasm as we do for what we desire to
create. In many ways, being the devil’s advocate for ourselves will
teach us how to become a
detached witness. It will teach us to stand apart form our own
efforts and to see an bigger picture and will allow us to look at
what we do from a second view point.
Expanding to encompass all of
Creation and integrating our intention within our being
(Top)
Setting an intention is about
holding and acting on our intention. This included asking support
from any and all unseen powers which my have an interest in what we
desire to create. As applicable, we should address our intention to,
or allow our intention to address, all the beings or being/Being we
are expecting to respond. That is, if we expect God to respond, then
address our intention to God. If we expect our Higher Self to
respond, then address we need to our Higher Self. If we expect
angels, a greater teacher or other spirits to assist us in our
effort, we need address our intention to them. If we believe we are
the creator of our experiences and the reality of our experience, we
need only to call forth our
nonconscious aspects of our being which we see reflected before
as the world and reality we experience. We need to see ourselves
expanding our awareness to encompass all those who are
interconnected in some way with our intention.
We need to be careful not to
give our creative power and creative ability away and/or hold
another responsible for what we must do. We must fully align all
aspects of our being. Within the
creativity perspective
and
energy consciousness model,
this is about aligning three aspects of our
mind.
One is we must align our
nonconscious mind with our creative efforts. Our nonconscious
mind contains the beliefs that we hold and give rise to what we
experience, our body and the world we experience. It is responsible
for releasing the emotions and feelings we need to catalyze our
creative endeavors.
The conscious
mind is our reasoning and mental self. It is capable of both
making the petition to others and aligning or scatter all aspects of
our being.
The third aspect encompasses what many call our Higher Self, our
awareness of God, and the unseen aspects of Creation. Some call it
our soul, sprit and what we perceive as lying outside our physical
form. It is seen as working with God, the All That Is, the total
Consciousness, whatever we believe, to bring our request into
manifestation. However, the Higher Self is really only a part of our
nonconscious self. It is addressed no differently than our
nonconscious
mind and will have a
subconscious and unconscious component.
What needs to be understood is that what gives rise to our bodies
and the world we experience is determined by our
unconscious mind and what lies in our
transcendental mind. All that we believe about God, the unseen
aspects of Creation, the unseen realms and the like is more
determined by our
subconscious mind than our unconscious mind. But our deepest
knowing about the unseen world lies in our transcendental mind and
it is the structure created by our transcendental mind is what we
tend to experience when we access the unseen realms in our life.
Whatever we believe and think about the unseen realms doesn’t
matter. Rather, we need to work to align what we believe with our
intention. In particular, we need to become aware of where our
intention may or may not conform with what we believe about the
unseen.
It needs to be realized if what we think and believe about the
unseen world is in somehow against, or opposed, to what we desire to
create, we will be unable to fully align our
creative power and creative
ability with our intention. It is the decision of our conscious
mind based on what we think and believe to choose to align the
unseen aspects of Creation and align the these aspects of our being.
Sometimes we must give up what we desire to create or we will go
against or concept of God and the unseen realms. Or, we may need to
give up our concept of God and the unseen to create what we desire.
If we try to create without the alignment of our intention and how
we perceive the unseen aspects of Creation and the
intention for our life, we may be successful at what we desire
to create but we will have a feeling of separation and have
scattered and fragmented our creative power and energy.
To provide an final integration, we need to direct our
subconscious mind to integrate our intention with everything
else we believe and tell our
intuitive guidance to surface the issues we need to face to
provide for that integration. Or, if we prefer not to direct our
subconscious, we can create a
ritual, ceremony or
metatheater where we give ourselves an actual experience that
will allow the integration of our intention with all the beliefs we
hold. That is, we create some type or kind of action where we
symbolically show our subconscious integrating our intention with
our current life and world. For example, it could be moving the
furniture in the most important room in our home to make available
some space for our new creation. Then put something which
symbolically represents our new creation in that space. In doing so,
we make it a part of our current world. As we do the ritual, we will
probably have thoughts, images feelings and the like that are
indicators of what we will need to face to provide this integration.
We may even want to make notes as to what arises. Of course, it
needs to be realize, were will still have to face what arises in our
life to create our intention. The ritual by itself does not create
anything. If it only and outward sign of what we are doing within.
Prepare ourselves (Top)
Centering and/or
calming ourselves is often seen as focusing on our breathing as
in a
meditation or through some other type or kind of action. Often
we use a quite room, music which allows us to center, siting in a
relaxed position, or other similar techniques.
However, preparing ourselves actually need to go one step further.
Before seeking the cooperation of the Universe to give us
information, we should make peace with the Universe. Of particular
note is that we should forgive anyone who we need to forgive so that
our creative energy flow freely and it is not scattered or bound
because of feeling and memories that are bound to the past. This
includes ourselves. Any animosity we have against someone or
something, including ourselves, and any regrets we have binds and
scatters our
creative life energy that we need for our creative endeavors.
It needs to be understood that forgiveness as used here is not the
same as traditionally seen. It is not about asking someone to
forgive us if we have harmed them and saying “I am sorry.”
Forgiveness is not about saying, “I forgive you” to someone who hurt
is. It goes much deeper than this. It is to understand that whatever
we experience, no matter how painful it is, we have either created,
or in which we agreed to participate, at some level of our being. It
is to go into ourselves and understand why we have created the
experience we had and not to hold any judgement on why we created it
no matter how wrong or bad others may have judge it. It is to
realize we did the best we could with the understanding we had. It
is to understand why we did what we did and either accept those
beliefs and way of thinking as our own or change them to create
something that better serves us.
If there is no one in particular that we need to forgive and there
are no specific regrets we hold, we an use some type and kind of
generic statement. For example, “I forgive the Universe and all that
are in it, the Universe forgives me, and I forgive myself. I ask my
intuitive guidance to surface what I need to know and/or of
which to be aware to free my
creative life energy from being bound to issues of forgiveness.”
This may be adequate. Our intuitive guidance will respond and
provide what we need to know.
To use such a general intention when our energy is focused, that is,
we are aware of a particular individual that we need to forgive is a
disservice to ourselves. It does not, and will not, free our bound
energy that we are trying to access. In fact, it creates an even
more binding situation for we lie to ourselves. We need to be
specific if a specific issue or person exists. In some cases,
reparations or
ritual my be appropriate to convince our subconscious self of
our intention to let go. But, in any case, we need to go within and
understand what within our own being both gave rise to the situation
were forgiveness arose as an issue and we responded in a way that we
created the conditions that forgiveness of some type in some way is
needed. In any case, we can always ask our
intuitive guidance to surface and advise us of whatever we need
to address that will, or is, interfering with what we desire to
create and what we need to do to release our bound creative energy.
Inserting our
intention into Creation (Top)
What ever desire we hold and act
upon to manifest, should be visualized as an accomplished fact. We
should see success even when we attempt to create the impossible. To
see success even for the impossible will take us much father in our
creative endeavors than thinking we will not be successful for we
are attempting the impossible.
What we intend should not be perceived as something which will happen in
the future. But it needs to be visualized in our
creative imagination as happening and unfolding now. We
need to allow ourselves to feel what we desire to experience in the
present and know the universe is being orchestrated to manifest what
we desire in the present.. If the desire is visualized what we
desire as happening in the future in our creative imagination, it
will be kept there - in the future. We need to see what we desire as
already happen. It needs to be understood that on the level of the
Universe that orchestrates what manifests, our intention is
instantaneously integrated and in process for manifestation.
If we hold our intention the energy continues to flow into our
creation. If we hold that intention as happening in the future, the
energy will always be project beyond the present. We have to old our
intention in the awareness the energy if forming itself into the
manifestation of our intention now. We have to understand what is
appearing before us is only moving to create what we desire.
It is recommend that our request and intention be said aloud three
times in some type or kind of
ritual which provides an emotional experience. The ritual
creates the memory that we can recall to energize us through the
entire
creative process. The emotions which are allowed to arise
catalyze and energizes our intention into form.
Why three times. Simply because it works better that more or less.
But why three? It appears the first time is for us to really hear if
the words are correct. If so, the second time is to set the mental
switches in place that will channel the energy into our new
creation. To hear it twice is to really hear it. The third time is
to turn the switches on to allow the energy to flow.
In reciting our intention we may wish to visualize ourselves at a
large electrical control panel performing these three steps when we
recite our intention. We start by imagine ourselves sitting at our
desk. The first time we state the intention we are told by the
authorities in our life that we are going to turn a series of
switches. Here we become aware of what we are going to do and get
prepared to act. We look to ensure we know where all the switches
are and how they will be manipulated before we move them. The second
time we state our intention we see ourselves getting up and going to
the control board to find the switch. Here we check to see what
switch we need to select without turning the switch. We just ensure
we have the correct one. The third time we state the intention, we
turn the switch and cause the energy to flow into our intention.
Here we watch the energy flow into the designated flow path and we
see the indicator lights all aligned that the energy is flowing in
the proper direction required. In doing so we know the energy is
flowing to manifest what we desire. We just need to continue to hold
our intention as a
single point focus honoring and following our
intuitive guidance as it lead us.
Some
thoughts on energizing and creating passion for our intention
(Top)
There are several things that can
be done to secure both the focus and the energy needed to manifest
the desired intention. Some have already been alluded to in the
previous discussion and are provided as short checklist/summary.
Use a clearly written intention
Use a devil’s advocate - yourself or someone whom you trust.
Create a
ritual to create a memory that instills
passion
Create and establish a
daily practice or daily reminder to keep focused and to review
and reinforce what is desired
Work in a way that fits our uniqueness, become mindful and aware as
our path is presented to us as to what we need to face. If faced
with difficulties ask our
intuitive guidance as to how to address the issue in the
fastest, easiest and gentlest way.
Act on the insights and information provided. If the direction seems
to take us into something bizarre, create a
ritual or
metatheater to honor the information in a safe way.
Part of the focus of these action is to take the conscious intention
and turn it into a
subconscious intention. The
rituals and
meta-theatrics that we do will creating memories that become
subconsciously implanted. The daily practice creates habits and can
literally rewire the brain into particular thought patterns There is
a neuroplasticity to the brain. This is why changing habits is often
difficult because some of then are “hardwired” and there needs to be
a continual focus to dissolve the existing “hardwired” patterns into
the new patterns we desire for our stated intention.
After we perform these exercises, we can expect to experience one of
two things. One is that insights will surface on their own and we
will know how that insight is an answer to our question or leads us
to the next step to get our answer. That other thing we can expect
is that no insights occur. If none occur, we simply need to directly
ask our
intuitive guidance with questions such as, “what does this
answer/manifestation look like?” or “what is the next thing which I
need to do look like to obtain this answer or manifest this
intention?”
The recommendation provided here is to not ask our
intuitive guidance “why?” questions. They will only take is into
our analytical
mind. That in turn greater increases the probability of moving
us away from what we can obtain from our intuitive guidance. It is
recommended “Why?” questions are not used until we have learn to
discern our intuition for our normal thinking processes. Rather it
is recommended we build on asking “What?” and “How?” questions.
These types of questions build around looking for images or feelings
can better provide us what we seek
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