Two Situations

The ideas of intention manifestation tie in closely with subjective reality, the claim that we, as humans create the world we live in, as a product of our will and intention. It's a little confusing, but a few examples can clear up these two ideas.

I have a small television in my bedroom that sits on my dresser directly across from my bed. It's great because I can watch the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as I go to sleep, or while I'm doing homework on my bed. The television is indeed an object that exists in this world. It is a 3-dimensional box that I see everyday and it is real to me. The history of how I acquired this television points to the concepts of intention manifestation and subjective reality.

I actually never had my own television, I wasn't allowed to have one in my room when I lived at home, so after having a few roommates in college, I discovered the joy of watching TV in bed (maybe not the the best thing to have, but still nice). I had spent 18-20 years creating the reality of not having a television in the room where I sleep, so only when I step into someone else's reality (a.k.a. sharing a room with someone else) does the idea of having a television in the room come in. So now that I can watch television in my bedroom, I find I like the noise as a background distraction sometimes, and I started thinking how nice it would be if I had my own television. If we apply all of this to the two new terms, what I am doing, simply, is setting an intention to own a television, whether knowingly or not. Intentions are best set when the person setting the intention lives as if what they intend is already accomplished, (i.e. if i wanted 1 billion dollars, I need to start living like a billionaire). Coincidentally, I started unconsciously setting the intention of owning my own television when I started living with people who owned televisions. At this point, I am living out my intention. Last Christmas, I return home to visit my father. Over the holiday break, he decided to get satellite television, and installed a cable box in the living room, his bedroom and *gasp* my bedrooom! Even though I had never mentioned the want of my own television! Hi-ho, that's all fine, I don't really live at home, there's a television and cable in my bedroom that I am not around to watch. I visit a good friend of mine, and his parents had a bag o' Christmas for me! I was very appreciative. They said that they wanted to get me *gasp* a television with a DVD player, but my friend told them that he had an extra one that I could just take with me....So now I own a TV with a DVD player, and if I go home to visit father, I have a TV with satellite cable in my bedroom. And I told noone that I wanted a television of my own.

The television situation here is a classic example of intention manifestation. Manifesting ties in directly to the concepts of subjective reality. Subjective reality states that I created the television I now have as the result of my intentions. This concept applies to the whole of life. According to the principles of subjective reality, we created this world as the result of individual and collective group intentions. The computer on which I type this blog exists because at one point I set the intention of owning this computer. Now, I own this computer.

I used to smoke cigarettes. I tried to quit many times. After I would finish the last cigarette in a pack, I would throw away the container and begin to live my life as "I don't smoke cigarettes." In my head I would repeat this to myself, but I also noticed all the times I would normally have one. If I was driving, or walking to class I would think "Man, this is right when I would light one up..." 5 minutes later, I'm on my way to the nearest store to pick up a pack o' Reds, and the next day, when it was gone, the cycle would renew itself. It wasn't until I realized that those aforementioned thoughts were intentions that I was creating into reality. I had to completely remove the thoughts of being a smoker from my life, and I would quit smoking. One day, I realized I hadn't thought about cigarettes, whether smoking one or not, for about 3 days! I then realized that I hadn't smoked one for about the same amount of time! I had completely removed the idea from my life and mind, and therefore, they ceased to exist in my world. I had "un-created" cigarettes!

This may sound simple, but learning to purposely set an intention and realizing the world as a product of self-creation is a very powerful thought with very powerful undertones. I've spent the last 22 years living and thinking of life as a human, that would probably be very difficult for me to "un-create." But if I lived my entire life as a person who could not walk, I surely would not be able to. My brain would have set thus intentions and my body would have to follow, since my brain creates my reality.

This is why it is important to be aware of thoughts and learn to control them; action follows thought. If all negative thought is removed, life suddenly sheds itself of all negativity. I am not an accountant because I never once thought of myself as being an accountant. If I started setting such intentions, I might start realizing I know a few accountants, start talking with them about their lives as accountants. Maybe get some training or start a hobby having to do with accounting, and so on. This is where action comes into play. The actions produced by intentions are the fibers of our (subjective) reality. If I intend to be an accountant, it is not likely that someone is going to pound down my front door begging me to be their accountant, because I have no skills as one! This is why the action from intention is most important!

If one becomes consciously aware of the thoughts that pass through the mind on surface level, and the subconscious level, one can suddenly become consciously aware of the latent powers to change the(ir) world.