Manifesting Intentions Without Resistance by Steve Pavlina

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Manifesting Intentions WithoutResistance

November 20th, 2006 by Steve Pavlina Email this article to a friend

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 arent 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 youll be inclined to think it doesnt 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 Ill 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

youd 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.

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How can you identify the fears that interfere with your positive intentions? Heres a fairly

straightforward way to do it:

First, imagine youve already manifested your intention in its entirety. Sit quietly and just

imagine it as being real right now. Dont imagine it happening in the future imagine it

right now. Youre already there. Its 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?

Dont 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), youll notice theres

a lot more to your intentions than you initially realized. But if you dont consider these side




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effects when focusing on your intentions, then your intentions will have little power to

manifest because deep down, youll know they dont represent a realistic, stable situation.

If you want your intentions to manifest, then you need to understand that theyre 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, youll 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 wont 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 youre

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 isnt 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 isnt

holding you back at all. Its the fear of your friends reaction thats the real culprit. Even

if you never told your friend about your intention to manifest a million dollars, youd 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:




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fear that youll 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 youll be stingy with the money, thereby having to admit youre 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 whats 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 youre no longer turning that drawback into a fear. Youve

downgraded the fear into a consequence.

The difference between a fear and a consequence is acceptance. A fear is an outcome




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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 arent ready to accept the total package surrounding your desires, then you arent

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 Ive been testing the LoA in the financial area of my life because its easy to

measure the results to assess how well its 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 didnt 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 Ive 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. Thats 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, Ill be able to afford all the help I need.




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As another example I worried that some people would react negatively to my attempts to

attract greater financial abundance, misjudging my motives and assuming Im 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 elses. If my motives

are honorable and genuinely focused on serving the highest good of all, then I neednt

worry about anyones opinion of me. The very fact that Im 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 peoples minds, so I cant

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 Im already

doing. Moreover, I can envision a clear and unobstructed path to an income of $100,000

per month. This money isnt flowing because Im forcing it Im simply allowing it to

arrive. The real work isnt what I do with my business its 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 its 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 its not an

overnight fix by any means. For me its been extremely eye-opening though. Ive 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. Its become abundantly clear that the more I

work though my fears, the faster my results improve.




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I still have more internal resistance to deal with, so Im 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 experiments intention, then Ill 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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