Intention and Manifestation
Intentions are key to Conscious Creation, and so it would make sense to invest a sufficient amount of effort in exploring how they appear to work. This helps us to not only be clear on what we want, but also to then get it with greater efficiency. If you really want something, then you are just so much more likely to find the energy to achieve it. With that I don't just energy in the sense of taking constructive physical action, but also energy in the sense of the manifestation process.
It appears as though we tend to 'channel' energy for the achievement of something to our conscious, surface level to the exact extent to which we want whatever we're intending. This is the very energy which is helping us to complete the manifestation process, and so it would make sense to ask what makes us really want something.
I would suggest that we can want things from several levels, and this is where some of the confusion may appear. It's possible for us to want something just because social conditioning tells us to want it. In that case, we may have two contradictory intentions cancelling each other out: that of the thing which we've been conditioned to want, and the intention to go for what we actually really want. But it can get even more complex than that. Maybe we want one thing from our logical mind, while our intuition wants another, and the social conditioning says something even different. If that was the case, we'd be likely to attract a mix of these intentions.
If we want to attract clear results, we need to be clear on what we want, and the more precisely we have established that, the easier it tends to be for us to get it. I would suggest that you could sum up the amount of time it takes for manifestations to complete via the following formula:
Intention + Energetic alignment/ subconscious support + feelings = Result
Both the Intention and 'energetic alignment' include several points which need to be considered, and the in-depth version would probably need to be discussed in other articles, but as a summarized formula, it certainly correlates with my own experience. When you really, really want something; and live from the state of being of already having it, then you attract what you want. The physical action which may appear to make things happen is also just an effect of the energetic alignment.
You might imagine that the 'result' in the formula given above is equal to the number 100, while intention, energetic alignment, and our feelings can, in and of themselves, reach a maximum of something like 90. If they add up to more than a 100, the intention manifests more quickly. This is just an approximation, but it gets the point across.
-Thomas
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