Answering an Important Question

A question was posed yesterday in regards to having a clearer grasp on how to expand the understanding of setting an intention and allowing what was intended to come to you. This is in reference to the story about the horse blanket in a previous post.

What follows is under the premise that we have accepted the fact that we are responsible for all that happens in our lives without exception. This may be a hard pill to swallow but as you read further possibly it will make more sense.

If you can think of your attention as a spotlight that shines brightest on those things that you focus on for the longest with the most emotion. When you set an intention such as I want a new horse with ... qualities. You have set a clear intention. Now the more you focus on what you will feel like having this new friend and how you feel riding, what the world feels like to you knowing he is yours, the more 'magnetism' you have evoked and the faster you are drawing to you that particular horse. But if you focus on the lack of this horse you are repelling him from you. You want to focus only on what you want not what you don't want.

The difficulties that we run into are that our conditioning has been to focus on lack, 'get a grip on reality,' and both these things will only draw to us more of what we have. The saying 'seeing is believing' should have been 'believing is seeing' because that is how the universe really works. Our thoughts are what bring into our life the things and experiences we have.
Thus my saying 'I arrived today to the place my thoughts of yesterday paved...
I will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take me.'

Evoking the magic of emotion in an intention harnesses the power of the whole universe to help us draw to us faster what we want. Now that happens when you are angry as well as when you are happy. So even more reason to choose to find joy in your life each moment and each thought. Your emotions are a fine tuned guidance system that alerts you to when you are focusing on something that does not resonate with your core intentions or your essence. You will feel negative emotions when this mis-creating is happening and just the opposite, you will feel joy, happiness, love and peace when you are on target!

I have shared with groups of women an exercise that helps us to pay more attention to our intention. It's kind of fun and it works as a start to being more aware of how much positive or negative creating we are actually doing in a set amount of time. I offered each woman a soft hair rubber band of their favorite color to put on their wrists. I asked them to set an intention about how they wanted their horse experience for that day to go. Each time they diverted their thoughts from the intention they set, got in a hurry, got frustrated, even got angry, they were to stop what they were doing and gently snap the band. At the end of class when asked the most times they actually had to use that band was two or three times in a three hour class. Just the act of setting the intention and then giving them a tool which caused them to also be accountable for their thoughts and a way to stop them when they were doing something that was not in harmony with their intention was most empowering. The results of this kind of class
that I have seen are that people make the most strides forward in a direction they wish to go when they are given tools that empower them and hold themselves accountable for their own thoughts and actions.