Set Your Intention HIGH!
It is not unusual to feel a bit confused and equally disillusioned by what is being presented to the world as the answers to your “problems,” to your sense of lack and needing more. There is an art and a science of manifestation. You will find that certain individuals believe to have it down to a science. As a matter of fact, every spiritual teacher seems to have the “right steps,” or the perfect “formula”. Anyone who has ever read the book or seen the movie The Secret, is certain they have a handle on what is needed to fill your empty spaces and to get you what they want.
So, you buy the books, and the courses, and take the workshops, and work diligently to manifest. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. Sometimes you are lucky (not a word I use often) and sometimes you’re not and you are left sucking wind in trying to demonstrate your desires.
If you think I am about to SELL you another formula – you can relax, I am not.
We humans are wonderful, and beautiful, and oh so complicated. But there are so many facets that can work in our favor, or against us. We are truly complicated. There are factors in play that are subtle and often completely hidden from our purview because these factors are imbedded in our subconscious and in our neural pathways which we cannot see. The evidence of their existence shows up in form. At the point that something is already in form, reversing it becomes more taxing. It is by far better to be proactive in creating our reality before it is in form. This is one of the reasons that we, teachers, promote spiritual practices. Spiritual practices serve in the same way that self-care does. When you care for yourself generously and regularly, you reduce the need for critical support.
Of all the practices, rituals, prayers, and formulations recommended to get the life you want, there is only ONE consistent element that must be included in all forms and formulas – INTENTION. Yes, setting your intention, and setting it HIGH, can be a great complement to what all the experts offer you, or by setting your intention, and then giving gentle attention to your intention the seeming miraculous can happen. Now, even as I say this to you, my experience tells me that our intentions are at the mercy of a few things. If these things go unattended to, you are back to square one.
You are powerful being anything you know; you have within you both the elements required for beautiful co-creation or the things that can sabotage your dream. Only you know what is working for you or what needs to be changed to open the flow of creation. The mere desire to open the flow is an intention. When you set HIGH, strong, clear intentions the universe will comply as long as you don’t get in the way. Set a wimpy, wishing, kinda, hoping-attitude and the universe will shake its head and just wonder the heck you are trying to communicate.
