“Manifesting” Misses the Point
“Essence, the feeling experience we desire from having what we want, has an indivisible relationship to intention. If we think of the spiritual principle of intention as a goal or a plan to have a certain thing manifest in a certain way, at a certain time, then we have missed the point entirely.”
— Spotted Eagle
Spotted Eagle tells us that the principle of intention is often misunderstood. In the popular version of this concept, simply imagining ourselves in a clear picture of the form we want the future to take is all that is required to get our thinking in order. Setting goals and making plans, in this way of thinking, is all that is required to give the Universe its marching orders. Most all of us who have tried to create in this way realize that this method does not work, and we are told that what is wrong is that we are either not clear enough about what we want, or that we do not believe in this future enough to make it happen. Spotted Eagle teaches us that both of these criticisms are based on a misunderstanding of what intention really is. Spotted Eagle says that if we want our reality to be different than the one we have now, we must employ new thinking in a life-altering way. We must adopt new truths that function more powerfully than our conditioning. He says we can start with an intention to transform the areas of our lives that are not working, beginning with whatever we have already created that we now resist. We must then act on our intention by fearlessly examining the fears and issues at work that are undermining our self-confidence, distorting our perceptions and limiting our choices. Most importantly, we must learn to distinguish between what we make up out of fear of the future from that which is simply uncertain. If we are to shift the thinking that is creating our reality, we must set a firm intention to allow our most treasured essences—the feelings we want our lives to give us—to guide our behavior and our choices. This and only this, he says, will open a path before us that will lead us precisely to where our hearts dream of being.
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