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MANIFESTING INTENTIONS WITHOUT RESISTANCE
March 18, 2007
Manifesting Intentions Without Resistance
November 20th, 2006 by Steve Pavlina
Edited by Larissa Gough
Suppose you set a positive intention, focus your energy on
its manifestation for the highest good of all, see the
promising alpha reflection, and then watch your results
completely stagnate. Why did your intention fail to
manifest as quickly as you desired?
Whenever 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 aren’t 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 apply the
Law of Attraction. The LoA is still working fine, but
you’ll be inclined to think it doesn’t 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.
In this article I’ll offer you a process for bringing your
fears to the surface and getting 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.
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 fairly straightforward way
to do it:
First, imagine you’ve 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 right now. You’re already there. It’s 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, 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 demonize these side effects. Do your
best to imagine the most realistic results you can.
Manifesting a million dollars, losing 50 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 10 minutes doing this exercise (longer is
good too), you’ll notice there’s 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’re 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 s/he responds negatively to anyone with that kind
of money, then you may feel some resistance about
manifesting the money. You want the intention, but you’re
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’re 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 $1 million, that yes,
your tax situation would become more complicated, then
you’re no longer turning that drawback into a fear. You’ve
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 aren’t ready to accept the total package surrounding
your desires, then you aren’t ready to manifest your
desires.
This was a particularly difficult lesson for me to learn.
Once I understood that if I wanted to manifest a new
desire, I had to accept the whole package of side effects
without resistance, I began getting noticeably better
results with the Law of Attraction.
Lately I’ve been testing the LoA in the financial area of
my life because it’s easy to measure the results to assess
how well it’s working. When I began intending greater
financial abundance with the Million Dollar Experiment
kickoff in November 2005, I made some early progress, but I
wondered why the money didn’t manifest instantly if the LoA
truly works. Why should the LoA require the passage of
time to manifest anything? Eventually when I tried the
above exercise of visualizing the whole package, it became
obvious that I was resisting (aka fearing) the side effects
of having a million dollars. Even though my intentions
were positive, my fear was still creating a lot of drag.
One by one I’ve been working on those fears by
acknowledging and accepting them as consequences. Once I
release my resistance, I create an empowering belief to
replace the fear. This just means I take the same
consequence and find a way to interpret it as a positive
instead of a negative (via Creative Observation). For
example, if I fear having a million dollars because it will
complicate my tax situation, I first accept it as a
consequence by letting go of my resistance. I admit to
myself, “OK, so more money will mean a more complicated tax
situation. That’s just a fact to be accepted, not
something dreadful I need to fear. I can deal with it.”
Then I shift it over to an empowering belief by saying, “If
I have more money, I can hire a good accountant to handle
my taxes, so even though my situation may be more
complicated, I’ll be able to afford all the help I need.”
As another example I worried that some people would react
negatively to my attempts to attract greater financial
abundance, misjudging my motives and assuming I’m “just in
it for the money,” especially as I reach beyond the
survival income range and into the abundance range. But I
realized this is totally my issue, not anyone else’s. If
my motives are honorable and genuinely focused on serving
the highest good of all, then I needn’t worry about
anyone’s opinion of me. The very fact that I’m so
concerned about this issue indicates that I care far more
about service than I do about money anyway. My external
reputation is out of my control because it exists purely in
other people’s minds, so I can’t allow myself to become
attached to it. I can only do my best and accept the
consequences. I choose to focus on the good I can do with
more money, including finding new ways to explore and
express my purpose.
Has this process of working through my fears been
effective? I have no doubt that it has. I can feel how
much my energy has shifted over the past year. Consider
that today this website generates more than 10x the income
it did a year ago, and my expectation is that it will
generate at least $500,000 in 2007 if I simply continue
doing what I’m already doing. Moreover, I can envision a
clear and unobstructed path to an income of $100,000 per
month. This money isn’t flowing because I’m forcing it —
I’m simply allowing it to arrive. The real work isn’t what
I do with my business — it’s what I do with my
consciousness.
I absolutely, positively must credit this financial
increase to working through my fears, accepting them as
consequences, and replacing them with empowering beliefs.
In the past several months, the money has been flowing in
such avalanches it’s almost ridiculous how easy it is… easy
from a business standpoint, but still a challenge to work
through those fears.
This process requires some deep self-assessment and
introspection, so it’s not an overnight fix by any means.
For me it’s been extremely eye-opening though. I’ve been
amazed at just how many fears came up that I needed to deal
with. I realized that in order to overcome a fear, I must
first identify it. It’s become abundantly clear that the
more I work though my fears, the faster my results improve.
I still have more internal resistance to deal with, so I’m
certainly not done yet. But I know that this process
works.
The really insidious part — the part that keeps me up at
night thinking about it — is whether the intention of the
Million Dollar Experiment itself is responsible for my
discovering that I needed to work through my fears to allow
the original intention to manifest. Will a powerful
intention actually manifest the very tools necessary to
help it manifest? Consider that this website is the
central hub of the Million Dollar Experiment. If I can
successfully manifest $1 million via the experiment’s
intention, then I’ll surely explain all the details here
and offer whatever insights I can into how to accelerate
the process, thereby potentially enabling thousands of
other participants to use the same process to generate
their $1 million as well. Could it be that the mere
intention is all it takes to get the ball rolling — and
keep it rolling — even in the presence of deep-seated
resistance?
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