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Fulfill Your Intentions
When you learn to quiet the mind and purify all of its long-held conflicts, the simple reality of how the universe works – the what is – will unfold.
Take a little time every day to notice the contents of your mind. This act of noticing, although very simple, is one of the most powerful steps to bringing about change. What you don’t see you cannot change.
Your ego may not like admitting that you are filled with denial, conflict, mixed intentions, shame, guilt, and all the other confusions that darken the mind and prevent it from seeing the reality of what is. In fact, the ego prides itself on its ability to hide these things from you, on the pretext that you will suffer pain if you look into your mistakes, faults, and sins.
To fulfill your intentions, the steps are completely natural, but they have to be learned. Get the ego, with all its expectations and anticipations, to step aside. Instead of feeling you have to control the outcome of your intention, be assured that the field will do the work for you. Release your intention into the field of the timeless; the more expanded your awareness, the clearer will be the signal you are sending.
Be easy and natural with the whole process. When all these steps come together, your intention will enter the field of awareness, which acts like a matrix to connect your individual thought with all that is. The effortless flow toward an outcome will not be impeded or obstructed by anxieties and attachments of the fearful ego.
In truth, none of the mind’s darkness is sin. God does not judge, only the mind does. Having all your heartfelt wishes come true is what God wants for each person; it is our natural state as creators of our own reality.
Adapted from Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 1995).
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add your comment »And today many things have changed totally around. What a strange world. How does all that change happen overnite? It's good but strange! I just sit here with my mouth open wondering.
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To Pankaj Raja,
I like your idea. Let me ask you, if you have attracted bad how do you get rid of it? I try, I need to transcend and move forward.
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I wanted somebody for myself that would be a friend and lover. I wanted to fall in love and get married. At the time, I was making the money. So, what I got was somebody who has an addictive personality, who never grew mature, doesn't get off the couch, doesn't sail, is argumentative, eats junk, I'm afraid of and don't trust, has secreted financial info, which I, as a marriage partner have attached to my name, disappears etc. We live in separate parts of the house. I have a monster. I lost my career cause we kept moving for his jobs and not mine while I took care of my son. I didn't ask for that. Now my son is older and it ticks me off that he is such a freaky role model for my son. I don't seem to be getting my "work" back and my dog has provided me with such love and affection that it is unbelievable. The dog turned out to be the love of my life, isn't that different?
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Think good , good will come , think bad , bad gets attracted.
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Yes! And rid yourself of people who are bad karma...
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Sweet Mars was a god of love before he turned to warfare. I love this article. Sometimes we fullfill our wishes in the blink of an eye. Does anyone else remember the story of Deepak's omlette? Now it may sound silly, but it is that simple.
We draw our desires towards us. Sometimes we get a surprise because we weren't clear, or denied ourself a perfect reward, but it happens. I'm ruled my Mercury myself and love many a Marsian. We after all are the most-relaxed by far, even if we don't shut up, LOL!
Just let him blow off steam and rant and rave. When he's done he will be a lot more reasonable. Remember most males act like three-year-olds anyhow, regardless of sign. Deepak excluded of course, I hope. :) They seem to think agression is the answer for everything.
I've gotten ideal jobs, items, and friends from this too. It is like winning the lottery every day. If you truly desire a beach-front house and pretty things you will get them, sooner or later.
Uma, don't tell me you're a ring fanatic too? I get so many rings that way! Plus I just four 4 fountains for the price of one. Ones I've always longed after, and enough to hear water everey room I desire it in. Now to replace the mini Zen garden....
Peace to all of you, and I hope you reap the rewards of getting ego out of the way.
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Janine it's about the purity of the thought, by that I mean whole without any baggage attached to it. The easiest intentions to manifest are the simple ones that are not very important. You see a ring in an old film "I WANT that ring" you say and forget, it's not that important, then, there it is, and affordable, a nice facsimile at the flea market. We have all experienced this. It's common, easy, and comes across perfectly because there are no complicating side issues. Another example. What was your intention when you decided you wanted a husband, a very complicated desire with all kinds of baggage to distort the perfectly made wish. The universe tries to sort these out for you but sometimes the conflict about what you want not to mention all the STUFF you must be carrying around with you about it, marriage is a biggie, there's plenty attached. No matter how nicely you cast your intention you have plenty of time to second guess yourself worrying about it,by time your wish returns to you it's distorted. The way to cleverly get around this, when fishing for the "biggies that may have wish distorting baggage is to cleverly ask for the husband, the car, the house, whatever ,THAT WILL MAKE YOUR HEART HAPPY IN EVERY WAY. Your perfect heart knows all the potentials and worries and will take care of them for you. Asking like this takes care of any details you might forget in the asking and covers it all. It's NOT outside intervention, only ineffective technique.
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Intentions work for some, agreed. Thank goodness, then there is happiness and along with that, peace (hopefully).Somehow, they do not work for others all the time. Is there conflict with Divinity and others' Magik? i.e. Say you intend to have peace and harmony. You marry somebody, get all tangled and their intent is different. Problem. You discover one is RULED by MARS! Mars! War! Conflict! Children! Ruled by Mercury! Aargh! No harmony.
I think intention works in SOME places, at certain periods in your life. I haven't figured out how to perfect life and intention. Could somebody tell me how to wrap it up all nice with a little bow--outside of a gathering of well intentioned individuals when they all go home?
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This process has worked for me many times. I have manifested housing, jobs, health and friendship by offering up pure intention to the Universe and letting go. Thank you.
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