Let’s take a look at
how allowing is so often ignored in attempts to manifest feeling successful
and attracting abundance. The Art of Allowing
The universal mind of Creation is in a constant state of supplying. It
never shuts down, it takes no vacations, there are no days off, and it’s
perpetually giving forth. Everything and everyone, without exception,
emanates from this universal mind we’re calling intention. So if everythingcomes from this infinite field of invisible energy, why is it that some are
able to partake of it, while others seem so separated from it? If it’s always
giving forth in an endless stream of abundance, somehow there must be
resistance to allowing it to come into your life if you’re experiencing
shortages or scarcity in any way. Allowing this all-giving Source into your life means becoming aware of
the resistance that you may be placing in the way of the abundance that’s
always being supplied. If the universe is based on energy and attraction, this
means that everything is vibrating to particular frequencies. When the
frequency with which you’re vibrating is in contradiction with the
frequency of the universal supply, you create a resistance, thereby inhibiting
that flow of abundance into your life space. Your individual vibrations are
the key to understanding the art of allowing. The nonharmonious vibrations
are largely in the form of your thoughts and feelings. Thoughts that
emphasize what you don’t believe you deserve set up a contradiction in
energy. That contradiction puts a stop to a hooking up of identical energies,
and you’ve created a field of disallowing. Remember, it’s always about
being in harmony with your Source. Your thoughts can either emerge from
a beingness that’s in rapport with intention or in contradiction with it. Keep in mind that you’re a part of the universal mind, so if you see
yourself in a harmonious way with the seven faces of intention, the
universal mind can only work harmoniously with you. For example,
suppose that you want a better job with a higher salary. Imagine yourself as
already having it, knowing in your thoughts that you’re entitled to it, with
no doubts about the job showing up because you can see it within. The
universal mind now has no choice in the matter, since you’re a part of that
all-creating mind and there’s no vibrational contradiction. So what can go
wrong here? The art of allowing gets hampered by your habit of
disallowing. There’s a long history of countless thoughts that have formed a field of
resistance to allowing the free flow of abundance. This habit of disallowing
grew from the belief system that you’ve cultivated over the years and that
you rely on. Furthermore, you’ve allowed the resistance of others to enter
this picture, and you surround yourself with the need for their approval inthese matters. You solicit their resistant opinions, read newspaper accounts
of all those who’ve failed to manifest the jobs of their choice, examine
government reports about the poor job prospects and the declining
economy, watch the television reports belaboring the sorry state of affairs in
the world, and your resistance becomes even more convincingly
entrenched. You’ve aligned yourself with the proponents of disallowing. What you need to do is look at this belief system and all of the factors
that continue to support it and say, It’s too big of a job to change the entire
thing. Instead, I’m going to start changing the thoughts that activate
disallowing right here, right now. It doesn’t matter what you thought before,
or for how long, or how many pressures you’re under to maintain your
resistance. Instead, stop activating disallowing thoughts today, one thought
at a time. You can do so by stating, I feel successful, I intend to feel the
abundance that is here, now. Repeat these words, or create your
arrangement of words, which continually inundate your thoughts during
your waking hours, with a new belief of being successful and abundant. When you’ve activated these thoughts enough times, they’ll become your
habitual way of thinking, and you will have taken the steps to eliminating
your resistance to allowing. Those thoughts will then become what you say in silent, prayer-like
messages to yourself: I am success; I am abundance. When you’re success
itself, when you’re abundance itself, you’re in harmony with the all-creating
Source, and it will do the only thing it knows how to do. It will be endlessly
giving and forthcoming with that which has no resistance to it—namely,
you. You’re no longer vibrating to scarcity; your every individual
vibrational utterance is in concert with what you summon from your
Source. You and your Source are one in your thoughts. You’ve chosen to
identify thoughts of resistance and have simultaneously decided to stay out
of your own way. As you practice allowing and living the faith of least resistance, success
is no longer something you choose; it’s something that you are. Abundance
no longer eludes you. You are it, and it is you. It flows unimpeded beyond
your resistance. Herein lies another clue to the free flow of abundance: You
must avoid becoming attached to and hoarding what shows up in your life.Abundance, Detachment, and Your Feelings
While it’s crucial for you to have a firm vibrational match-up with the all-
creating abundance of intention, it’s just as crucial for you to know that you
can’t hang on to and own any of the abundance that will be coming your
way. This is because the you that would like to hang on to and become
attached to your success and your wealth is not really you, it’s that
troublesome ego of yours. You’re not what you have and what you do;
you’re an infinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has
accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. This is why you
must avoid being attached to it in any way. Detachment comes from knowing that your true essence is a piece of the
infinitely divine field of intention. It’s then that you become aware of the
importance of your feelings. Feeling good becomes much more valuable
then polishing your jewelry. Feeling abundant surpasses the money in your
bank account and transcends what others may think of you. Genuinely
feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from
the things you desire and allow them to flow to you, and just as important,
through you. Anything that inhibits the flow of energy stops the creating
process of intention right where the obstacle is erected. Attachment is one such roadblock. When you hang on to that which
arrives, rather than allowing it to move through you, you stop the flow. You
hoard it or decide to own it, and the flow is disrupted. You must keep it
circulating, always knowing that nothing can stop it from coming into your
life except any resistance you place in its way. Your feelings and emotions
are sensational barometers for detecting resistance and evaluating your
ability to experience success and abundance. Paying attention to your feelings. Your emotions are the inner
experiences that tell you how much of the divine energy you’re summoning
for the manifestation of your desires. Feelings can be measuring tools that
gauge how you’re doing in the manifestation process. An exceptionally
positive emotional response indicates that you’re summoning the divine
energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in a nonresistantmanner. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, unmitigated optimism,
unquestioned trust, and even illumination indicate that your desire to
manifest success and abundance, for example, have an extremely strong
pulling power from the universal Source to you. You must learn to pay
close attention to the presence of these feelings. These emotions aren’t just
facets of your life that are empty of energy—they’re agents that are in
charge of how you clean and purify the connecting link to intention. These
emotions tell you precisely how much of the life force you’re summoning,
and how much pulling power you have going for you at that moment. Abundance is the natural state of the nature of intention. Your desire for
abundance must flow free of resistance. Any discrepancy between your
individual intention or desire, and your belief concerning the possibility of
summoning it into your life, creates resistance. If you want it but believe it’s
impossible or that you’re unworthy, or that you don’t have the skills or
perseverance, then you’ve created resistance and you’re disallowing. Your
feelings indicate how well you’re attracting the energy necessary for the
fulfillment of your desire. Strong feelings of despair, anxiety, blame, hate,
fear, shame, and anger are sending you the message that you want success
and abundance but you don’t believe it’s possible for you. These negative
feelings are your clues to get busy and balance your desires with those of
the universal mind of intention, which is the only source of that which you
desire. Negative emotions tell you that your pulling power from intention is
weak or even nonexistent. Positive emotions tell you that you’re connecting
to and accessing the power of intention. Concerning abundance, one of the most effective ways to increase that
pulling power from intention to you is to take the focus off of dollars and
place it on creating abundant friendship, security, happiness, health, and
high energy. It’s here that you’ll begin to feel those higher emotions, which
let you know that you’re back in the match game with the all-creating
Source. As you focus on having abundant happiness, health, security, and
friendships, the means for acquiring all of this will be flowing toward you. Money is only one of those means, and the faster your vibrational energy
around abundance radiates, the more money will show up in significant
amounts. These positive feelings as indicators of your pulling power forsuccess and abundance will put you into an active mode for co-creating
your intentions. I’m not suggesting that you just wait for everything to fall into place. I’m
suggesting that by declaring, I intend to feel successful and attract
prosperity, your emotional energy will shift and you’ll act as if what you
desire were already true. Your actions will be in harmony with the faces of
intention, and you’ll be provided with what you are, rather than attempting
to be provided with what’s missing. At this point in my life, I refuse to participate in any desire unless I have
total, nonresistant knowing that it can and will manifest into my life from
the all-creating Source of intention. My desires for personal indicators of
abundance have all manifested by practicing what I write here, and in the
ten-step program that follows. I’ve been able to allow by removing
resistance and connecting to my originating, all-creating Source. I trust in it
completely. Over the years, I’ve learned that when I’ve desired something
seemingly impossible, I felt poorly as a result. I then figured that I should
desire less, but all that did was make me even further removed from the
unlimited power of intention. I was still in vibratory disharmony with the
abundance of the universe. I began to understand that my being in harmony with abundance didn’t
cause others to be poor or hungry. On the contrary, the abundance I created
gave me the chance to help eradicate poverty and hunger. But the
significant awareness was realizing that I had less of a chance to help others
when I was in the lower frequencies. I learned that I had to get myself into
vibratory harmony with my Source. One of my reasons for writing this
chapter in this fashion is to convince you that you don’t have to ask for less,
or feel guilty about wanting abundance—it’s there for you and everyone in
an unlimited supply. I live and breathe what I’m writing here about success and abundance. I
know beyond any doubt (resistance) that you can attract abundance and feel
successful by absorbing the messages of this chapter, which, like theabundance you seek, have flowed from that universal Source through me
and onto these pages. There’s no discrepancy between my desire to write it
all out here and my willingness to allow it to flow unimpeded to you. How
do I know this? My emotion in this moment is ineffable bliss, serenity, and
reverence. I trust this emotional state, which indicates to me that I’ve been
utilizing a very strong pulling power to create these messages from the all-
creating Spirit of intention. I’m in vibratory harmony and abundance, and
feelings of success are my intentions herewith manifested. Try it on
anything you’d like to see flowing abundantly into your life. Making Your Intention Your Reality
Below is a ten-step program for implementing the intention of this
chapter—that is, to feel successful and attract abundance into your life:
 
Step 1: See the world as an abundant, providing, friendly place. Again, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change. When you see the world as abundant and friendly, your intentions
are genuine possibilities. They will, in fact, become a certainty, because
your world will be experienced from the higher frequencies. In this first
step, you’re receptive to a world that provides rather than restricts. You’ll
see a world that wants you to be successful and abundant, rather than one
that conspires against you. Step 2: Affirm: I attract success and abundance into my life because
that is who I am. This puts you into vibratory harmony with your Source. You goal is to eliminate any distance between what you desire and that from
which you pull it into your life. Abundance and success aren’t out there
waiting to show up for you. You are already it, and the Source can only
provide you with what it is, and, consequently, what you are already. Step 3: Stay in an attitude of allowing. Resistance is disharmony
between your desire for abundance and your beliefs about your ability orunworthiness. Allowing means a perfect alignment. An attitude of allowing
means that you ignore efforts by others to dissuade you. It also means that
you don’t rely on your previous ego-oriented beliefs about abundance being
a part of or not a part of your life. In an attitude of allowing, all resistance in
the form of thoughts of negativity or doubt are replaced with simply
knowing that you and your Source are one and the same. Picture the
abundance you desire freely flowing directly to you. Refuse to do anything
or have any thought that compromises your alignment with Source. Step 4: Use your present moments to activate thoughts that are in
harmony with the seven faces of intention. The key phrase here is present
moments. Notice right now, in this moment, if you’re thinking that it’s
hopeless at this stage of your life to change the thoughts that comprise your
belief system. Do you defeat yourself with thoughts of having had such a
long life practicing affirmations of scarcity and creating resistance to your
success and abundance that you don’t have enough time left to
counterbalance the thoughts that comprise your past belief system? Make the choice to let go of that lifetime of beliefs, and begin activating
thoughts right now that allow you to feel good. Say I want to feel good
whenever anyone tries to convince you that your desires are futile. Say I
want to feel good when you’re tempted to return to low-energy thoughts of
disharmony with intention. Eventually your present moments will activate
thoughts that make you feel good, and this is an indicator that you’re
reconnecting to intention. Wanting to feel good is synonymous with
wanting to feel God. Remember, “God is good, and all that God created was
good.”
 
Step 5: Initiate actions that support your feelings of abundance and
success. Here, the key word is actions. I’ve been calling this acting as if or
thinking from the end and acting that way. Put your body into a gear that
pushes you toward abundance and feeling successful. Act on those
passionate emotions as if the abundance and success you seek is already
here. Speak to strangers with passion in your voice. Answer the telephonein an inspired way. Do a job interview from the place of confidence and joy. Read the books that mysteriously show up, and pay close attention to
conversations that seem to indicate you’re being called to something new. Step 6: Remember that your prosperity and success will benefit
others, and that no one lacks abundance because you’ve opted for it. Once again, the supply is unlimited. The more you partake of the universal
generosity, the more you’ll have to share with others. In writing this book,
wonderful abundance has flowed into my life in many ways. But even more
significantly, book editors and graphic designers, the truck drivers who
deliver the book, the auto workers who build the trucks, the farmers who
feed the auto workers, the bookstore clerks . . . all receive abundance
because I’ve followed my bliss and have written this book. Step 7: Monitor your emotions as a guidance system for your
connection to the universal mind of intention. Strong emotions such as
passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or inspired,
if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the
abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life. When
you’re experiencing low-energy emotions of rage, anger, hatred, anxiety,
despair, and the like, that’s a clue that while your desires may be strong,
they’re completely out of sync with the field of intention. Remind yourself
in these moments that you want to feel good, and see if you can activate a
thought that supports your feeling good. Step 8: Become as generous to the world with your abundance as the
field of intention is to you. Don’t stop the flow of abundant energy by
hoarding or owning what you receive. Keep it moving. Use your prosperity
in the service of others, and for causes greater than your ego. The more you
practice detachment, the more you’ll stay in vibratory harmony with the all-
giving Source of everything. Step 9: Devote the necessary time to meditate on the Spirit within as
the source of your success and abundance. There’s no substitute for the
practice of meditation. This is particularly relevant with abundance. You
must have an understanding that your consciousness of the presence is your
supply. By repeating the sound that is in the name of God as a mantra,
you’re using a technique for manifesting as ancient as recorded history. I
am particularly drawn to the form of meditation I’ve mentioned previously,
called Japa. I know it works. Step 10: Develop an attitude of gratitude for all that manifests into
your life. Be thankful and filled with awe and appreciation, even if what
you desire hasn’t arrived yet. Even the darkest days of your life are to be
looked on with gratitude. Everything coming from Source is on purpose. Be
thankful while empowering your reconnection to that from which you and
everything else originated. The energy that creates worlds and universes is within you. It works
through attraction and energy. Everything vibrates; everything has a
vibratory frequency. As St. Paul said, “God is able to provide you with
every blessing in abundance.” Tune in to God’s frequency, and you will
know it beyond any and all doubt! OceanofPDF.comIT IS MY INTENTION TO: 
LIVE A STRESS-FREE, 
TRANQUIL LIFE
“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
 
— Thomas Merton
“So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited
and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly
trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.”
 
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Fulfilling this intention to live a stress-free and tranquil life is a way of
manifesting your grandest destiny. It seems to me that what our Source had
in mind when we were intended here is for us to have happy and joyous
experiences of life on Earth. When you’re in a state of joy and happiness,
you’ve returned to the pure, creative, blissful, nonjudgmental joy that
intention truly is. Your natural state—the state from which you were created
—is that feeling of well-being. This chapter is concerned with having you
return to, and access, this natural state.You were created from a Source that is peaceful and joyful. When you’re
in that state of exuberant joy, you’re at peace with everything. This is what
intended you here and what you’re determined to match up with in your
thoughts, feelings, and actions. In a state of joy, you feel fulfilled and
inspired in all facets of your life. In short, gaining freedom from anxiety
and stress is a pathway to rejoicing with the field of intention. The moments
of your life, which you spend being happy and joyful and allowing yourself
to be fully alive and on purpose, are the times when you’re aligned with the
all-creating universal mind of intention. There’s nothing natural about living a life filled with stress and anxiety,
having feelings of despair and depression, and needing pills to tranquilize
yourself. Agitated thoughts that produce high blood pressure, a nervous
stomach, persistent feelings of discomfort, an inability to relax or sleep, and
frequent displays of displeasure and outrage are violating your natural state. Believe it or not, you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and
tranquil life you desire. You can utilize this power to attract frustration or
joy, anxiety or peace. When you’re in harmony with the seven faces of
intention, you can access and pull from the Source of all in order to fulfill
your intention of being stress free and tranquil. So if it’s natural to have feelings of well-being, why is it that we seem to
experience so much “unwellness” and tension? The answer to this question
provides you with the key that leads to the peaceful life you desire. Stress Is a Desire of the Ego
That pesky ego is at work when you’re experiencing stress or anxiety. Perhaps your ego-self feels more effective dealing and coping with stress
because you feel you’re actually doing something in the world. Perhaps it’s
habit, custom, or believing that this is the right way to be. Only you can
analyze the why. But the fact is that stress is familiar, and tranquility is
unfamiliar, so ego desires stress. But there’s no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that
create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There
are only people engaged in stressful thinking. When we think stressfully, we
create reactions in the body, valuable messages or signals requesting ourattention. These messages might reveal themselves as nausea, elevated
blood pressure, stomach tension, indigestion, ulcers, headaches, increased
heart rate, difficulty breathing, and a zillion other feelings—from minor
discomfort to serious, life-threatening illness. We speak of stress as if it were present in the world as something that
attacks us. We say things like I’m having an anxiety attack as if anxiety is a
combatant. But the stress in your body is rarely the result of external forces
or entities attacking you; it’s the result of the weakened connecting link to
intention caused by your belief that ego is who you are. You are peace and
joy, but you’ve allowed your ego to dominate your life. Here’s a short list of
stress-inducing thoughts that originate in your ego self:
• It’s more important to be right than to be happy. • Winning is the only thing. When you lose, you
should be stressed. • Your reputation is more important than your
relationship with your Source. • Success is measured in dollars and accumulations
rather than in feeling happy and content. • Being superior to others is more important than
being kind to others. The following lighthearted way to stop taking yourself so seriously is
from a book by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander (he’s the conductor of the
Boston Philharmonic) titled The Art of Possibility. It illustrates in a
delightful way how we allow ego to create many of the problems we
encounter that we label stress and anxiety. Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs
of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury,
shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The
resident prime minister admonishes him: “Peter,” he says,
“kindly remember Rule Number 6,” whereupon Peter is
instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws. The politicians return to their conversation, only to beinterrupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical
woman gesticulating wildly, her hair flying. Again the intruder
is greeted with the words: “Marie, please remember Rule
Number 6.” Complete calm descends once more, and she too
withdraws with a bow and an apology. When the scene is
repeated for a third time, the visiting prime minister addresses
his colleague: “My dear friend, I’ve seen many things in my
life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be
willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6?” “Very
simple,” replies the resident prime minister. “Rule Number 6 is
‘Don’t take yourself so goddamn seriously.’ ” “Ah,” says his
visitor, “that is a fine rule.” After a moment of pondering, he
inquires, “And what, may I ask, are the other rules?”
“There aren’t any.”
As you encounter stress, pressure, or anxiety in your life, remember
“Rule Number 6” at the moment you realize you’re thinking stressful
thoughts. By noticing and discontinuing the inner dialogue that’s causing
stress, you may be able to prevent its physical symptoms. What are the
inner thoughts that produce stress? I’m more important than those around
me. My expectations aren’t being met. I shouldn’t have to wait, I’m too
important. I’m the customer here, and I demand attention. No one else has
these pressures. All of the above, along with a potentially endless inventory
of “Rule Number 6” thoughts are from the ego’s bag of tricks. You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your
home, your family . . . your anything. You’re an aspect of the power of
intention, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and
enjoy life on Earth. This is the intention that you want to bring to the
presence of stress. Bringing intention to the presence of stress. In any given day, you have
hundreds of opportunities to implement “Rule Number 6” by bringing the
power of intention into the moment and eliminating the potential for stress. Here are a few examples of how I’ve employed this strategy. In each ofthese examples, I activated an inner thought that was in vibrational harmony
with the universal field of intention, and I fulfilled my personal intention to
be tranquil. These examples occurred in a three-hour period of a normal
day. I offer them to you to remind you that stress and anxiety are choices
that we make to process events, rather than entities that are out there
waiting to invade our lives. — I’m dropping off a prescription at the drugstore and the person ahead
of me is talking to the pharmacist, asking a series of seemingly inane
questions—all of which, my stress-producing ego tells me, are intended to
deliberately delay and annoy me. My inner dialogue might go like this: I’m
being victimized! There’s always someone just ahead of me in line who
fumbles with money, can’t find what’s needed to prove participation in some
kind of an insurance plan, and has to ask silly questions designed to keep
me from dropping off a prescription. I use those thoughts as a signal to change my inner dialogue to: Wayne,
stop taking yourself so goddamn seriously! I immediately make the shift
from pissed to blissed. I take the focus off of myself, and at the same time, I
remove resistance to my intention to live a stress-free and tranquil life. I
now see this person as an angel who’s ahead of me in line to assist me in
reconnecting to intention. I stop judging, and actually see beauty in the
slow, deliberate gestures. I’m kind in my mind toward this angel. I’ve
moved from hostility to love in my thoughts, and my emotions have shifted
from discomfort to ease. Stress is absolutely impossible in the moment. — My 17-year-old daughter tells me about her disagreement with a
school official who’s taken action against some of her friends, an act she
considers totally unfair. It’s Saturday morning and nothing can be done until
Monday. The choice? Spend two days in misery replaying the details of her
story, and have a weekend of inner stress, or remind her how to activate
thoughts that will make her feel good. I ask her to describe her feelings. She
responds that she’s “angry, upset, and hurt.” I ask her to think about “Rule
Number 6” and see if there’s any other thought she could activate.She laughs at me, telling me how crazy I am. “But,” she admits, “it really
doesn’t make any sense to be upset for the entire weekend, and I’m going to
stop thinking thoughts that make me feel bad.”
“On Monday we’ll do what we can to rectify the situation,” I tell her. “But for now—and now is all you have—put ‘Rule Number 6’ into play
and rejoin the field of intention where stress, anxiety, and pressure don’t
exist.”
 
To fulfill the intention of this chapter, to live a stress-free and tranquil
life, you must become conscious of the need to activate thought responses
that match your intention. These new responses will become habitual, and
replace your old habit of responding in stress-producing ways. When you
examine segments of stress-producing incidents, you always have a choice:
Do I stay with thoughts that produce stress within me, or do I work to
activate thoughts that make stress impossible? Here’s another easy tool that
will help you replace the habit of choosing anxiety and stress. Five magic words: I want to feel good! In an earlier chapter, I described
how your emotions are a guidance system informing you of whether or not
you’re creating resistance to your intentions. Feeling bad lets you know that
you’re not connected to the power of intention. Your intention here is to be
tranquil and stress free. When you feel good, you’re connected to your
intentions, regardless of what goes on around you or what others expect you
to feel. If there’s a war going on, you still have the option to feel good. If
the economy goes further into the toilet, you have the option to feel good. In
the event of any catastrophe, you can still feel good. Feeling good isn’t an
indication that you’re callous, indifferent, or cruel—it’s a choice you make. Say it out loud: I want to feel good! Then convert it to: I intend to feel good. Feel the stress, and then send it the love and respect of the seven faces of
intention. The seven faces smile and say hello to what you label as feeling
bad. It’s that feeling that wants to feel good. You must be to your feelings as
your Source is to you, in order to counteract the desires of your ego.Many events will transpire in which your conditioned response is to feel
bad. Be aware of these outer incidents, and say the five magic words: I want
to feel good. In that precise moment, ask yourself if feeling bad is going to
make the situation any better. You’ll discover that the only thing that feeling
bad accomplishes in response to outer situations is to plummet you into
anxiety, despair, depression, and of course, stress. Instead, ask yourself in
that moment what thought you can have that will make you feel good. When you discover that it’s responding with kindness and love to the bad
feeling (which is quite different from wallowing in it), you’ll begin
experiencing a shift in your emotional state. Now you’re in vibrational
harmony with your Source, since the power of intention knows only peace,
kindness, and love. This newly activated thought, which allows you to feel good, may only
last a few moments, and you might go back to your previous way of
processing unpleasant events. Also treat that old way of processing with
respect, love, and understanding, but remember that it’s your ego-self trying
to protect you from its perception of danger. Any stress signal is a way of
alerting you to say the five magic words I want to feel good. Stress wants
your attention! By saying the five magic words and extending love to your
bad feelings, you’ll have begun the process of fulfilling your stated
intention of being tranquil and stress free. Now you can practice activating
these thoughts in the toughest of moments, and before long, you’ll be living
the message offered to all of us in the book of Job: “You will decide on a
matter and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your
ways”[Job 22:28]. The word light in this biblical reference means that
you’ll have the assistance of the divine mind of intention once you decide
on a matter that is consistent with that light. I assure you that your decision to feel good is a way of connecting to
Spirit. It isn’t an indifferent response to events. By feeling good, you
become an instrument of peace, and it’s through this channel that you
eradicate problems. By feeling bad, you stay in the energy field that creates
resistance to positive change; and experience a stressful, anxious state as a
by-product. The things you call problems will perpetually present
themselves to you. They’ll never go away. Resolve one . . . and another will
surface! You’ll never get it done. In Chapter 6, I reminded you of your infinite
nature. Since you’re an infinite spiritual being disguised as a temporary
human being, it’s essential to understand that in infinity there’s no
beginning and no ending. Therefore, your desires, goals, hopes, and dreams
will never be finished—ever! As soon as you manifest one of your dreams,
another will most assuredly pop up. The nature of the universal force of
intention from which you emigrated into a temporary material being is
always creating and giving forth. Furthermore, it’s in a continuous state of
expansion. Your desires to manifest into your life are a part of this infinite
nature. Even if you desire to have no desires, that’s a desire! I urge you to simply accept the fact that you’ll never get it all done, and
begin to live more fully in the only moment that you have—now! The
secret to removing the harmful effects of feeling stressed and under pressure
is to be in the now. Announce out loud to yourself and all who are willing to
listen to you: I’m an incomplete being. I’ll always be incomplete because I
can never get it done. Therefore, I choose to feel good while I’m in the
moment, attracting into my life the manifestations of my desires. I am
complete in my incompleteness! I can assure you that a follow-up on this
statement will eradicate all anxiety and stress, which is precisely the
intention of this chapter. All resistance melts away when you can feel
complete in your incompleteness. The Path of Least Resistance
You live in a universe that has limitless potential for joy built into the
creation process. Your Source, which we call the universal mind of
intention, adores you beyond anything you can possibly imagine. When you
adore yourself in the same proportion, you’re matched up with the field of
intention, and you’ve opted for the path of no resistance. As long as you
have even a pinch of an ego, you’ll retain some resistance, so I urge you to
take the path in which resistance is minimized. The shape and quantity of your thoughts determine the amount of
resistance. Thoughts that generate bad feelings are resistant thoughts. Any
thought that puts a barrier between what you would like to have and yourability to attract it into your life is resistance. Your intention is to live a
tranquil life, free of stress and anxiety. You know that stress doesn’t exist in
the world, and that there are only people thinking stressful thoughts. Stressful thoughts all by themselves are a form of resistance. You don’t
want stressful, resistant thoughts to be your habitual way of reacting to your
world. By practicing thoughts of minimal resistance, you’ll train yourself to
make this your natural way of reacting, and eventually you’ll become the
tranquil person you desire to be, a stress-free person free of the “disease”
that stress brings to the body. Stressful thoughts all by themselves are the
resistance that you construct that impedes your connection to the power of
intention. We’re in a world that advertises and promotes reasons to be anxious. You’ve been taught that feeling good in a world where so much suffering
exists is an immoral stance to take. You’ve been convinced that choosing to
feel good in bad economic times, in times of war, in times of uncertainty or
death, or in the face of any catastrophe anywhere in the world is crass and
inappropriate. Since these conditions will always be in the world
someplace, you believe you can’t have joy and still be a good person. But it
may not have occurred to you that in a universe based on energy and
attraction, thoughts that evoke feeling bad originate in the same energy
Source that attracts more of the same into your life. These are resistant
thoughts. Here are some examples of sentences on the path of resistance, which
are then changed to sentences on the path of least resistance. I feel uneasy about the state of the economy; I’ve already lost so
much money. I live in an abundant universe; I choose to think about what I have and I
will be fine. The universe will provide. I have so many things to do that I can never get caught up.I’m at peace in this moment. I’ll only think about the one thing I’m doing. I will have peaceful thoughts. I can never get ahead in this job. I choose to appreciate what I’m doing right now, and I’ll attract an even
greater opportunity. My health is a huge concern. I worry about getting old and becoming
dependent and sick. I’m healthy, and I think healthy. I live in a universe that attracts healing,
and I refuse to anticipate sickness. My family members are causing me to feel anxious and fearful. I choose thoughts that make me feel good, and this will help me uplift
those family members in need. I don’t deserve to feel good when so many people are suffering. I didn’t come into a world where everyone is going to have the same
identical experiences. I’ll feel good, and by being uplifted, I’ll help
eradicate some of the suffering. I can’t be happy when the person I really care about loves another
and has abandoned me. Feeling bad won’t change this scenario. I trust that love will return to my
life if I’m in harmony with the loving Source. I choose to feel good right
now and focus on what I have, rather than what’s missing. All stressful thoughts represent a form of resistance you wish to
eradicate. Change those thoughts by monitoring your feelings and opting
for joy rather than anxiety, and you’ll access the power of intention. Making Your Intention Your Reality
Below is my ten-step program for creating a stress-free, tranquil life:
 
Step 1: Remember that your natural state is joy. You are a product of
joy and love; it’s natural for you to experience these feelings. You’ve come
to believe that feeling bad, anxious, or even depressed is natural,
particularly when people and events around you are in low-energy modes. Remind yourself as frequently as necessary: I come from peace and joy. I
must stay in harmony with that from which I came in order to fulfill my
dreams and desires. I choose to stay in my natural state. Anytime I’m
anxious, stressed out, depressed, or fearful, I’ve abandoned my natural
state. Step 2: Your thoughts, not the world, cause your stress. Your thoughts
activate stressful reactions in your body. Stressful thoughts create resistance
to the joy, happiness, and abundance that you desire to create in your life. These thoughts include: I can’t, I’m too overworked, I worry, I’m afraid,
I’m unworthy, It will never happen, I’m not smart enough, I‘m too old
(young), and so on. These thoughts are like a program to resist being
tranquil and stress free, and they keep you from manifesting your desires. Step 3: You can change your thoughts of stress in any given moment,
and eliminate the anxiety for the next few moments, or even hours and
days. By making a conscious decision to distract yourself from worry,
you’ve inaugurated the process of stress reduction, while simultaneously
reconnecting to the field of all-creating intention. It’s from this place ofpeace and tranquility that you become a co-creator with God. You can’t be
connected to your Source and be stressed at the same time—this is mutually
exclusive. Your Source doesn’t create from a position of anxiety, nor does it
need to swallow antidepressants. You’ve left behind your capacity to
manifest your desires when you don’t choose in the moment to eliminate a
stressful thought. Step 4: Monitor your stressful thoughts by checking on your
emotional state right in the moment. Ask yourself the key question: Do I
feel good right now? If the answer is no, then repeat those five magic
words: I want to feel good, then shift to: I intend to feel good.Monitor your
emotions, and detect how much stress- and anxiety-producing thinking
you’re engaging in. This monitoring process keeps you apprised of whether
you’re on the path of least resistance or going in the other direction. Step 5: Make a conscious choice to select a thought that will activate
good feelings. I urge you to choose your thought based exclusively on how
it makes you feel, rather than on how popular it is or how well advertised. Ask yourself: Does this new thought make me feel good? No? Well, how
about this thought? Not really? Here’s another. Ultimately you’ll come up
with one that you agree makes you feel good, if only temporarily. Your
choice might be the thought of a beautiful sunset, the expression on the face
of someone you love, or a thrilling experience. It’s only important that it
resonate within you emotionally and physically as a good feeling. In the moment of experiencing an anxious or stressful thought, change to
the thought you chose, which makes you feel good. Plug it in. Think it and
feel it in your body if you can. This new thought that makes you feel good
will be of appreciation rather than depreciation. It will be of love, beauty,
receptivity to happiness, or in other words, it will align perfectly with those
seven faces of intention I’ve been harping about since the opening pages of
this book. Step 6: Spend some time observing babies, and vow to emulate their
joy. You didn’t come forth into this world to suffer, to be anxious, fearful,
stressful, or depressed. You came from the God-consciousness of joy. Just
watch little babies. They’ve done nothing to be so happy about. They don’t
work; they poop in their pants; and they have no goals other than to expand,
grow, and explore this amazing world. They love everyone, they’re
completely entertained by a plastic bottle or goofy faces, and they’re in a
constant state of love—yet they have no teeth, no hair, and they’re pudgy
and flatulent. How could they possibly be so joyful and easily pleased? Because they’re still in harmony with the Source that intended them here;
they have no resistance to being joyful. Be like that baby you once were in
terms of being joyful. You don’t need a reason to be happy . . . your desire
to be so is sufficient. Step 7: Keep “Rule Number 6” in mind. This means to suspend the
demands of your ego, which keep you separated from intention. When you
have a choice to be right or to be kind, pick kind, and push the ego’s
demand out of the way. Kindness is what you emanated from, and by
practicing it, rather than being right, you eliminate the possibility of stress
in your moment of kindness. When you find yourself being impatient with
anyone, simply say to yourself: “Rule Number 6,” and you’ll immediately
laugh at the piddly little ego that wants you to be first, faster, number one,
and to be treated better than the other guy. Step 8: Accept the guidance of your Source of intention.You will only
come to know the Father by being as He is. You’ll only be able to access the
guidance of this field of intention by being as it is. Stress, anxiety, and
depression will be lifted from you with the assistance of that same force that
created you. If it can create worlds out of nothing, and you out of nothing,
surely the removal of some stress isn’t such a big task. I believe that God’s
desire for you is that you not only know joy, but that you become it. Step 9: Practice being in silence and meditation. Nothing relieves
stress, depression, anxiety, and all forms of low-energy emotions like
silence and meditation. Here, you make conscious contact with your Source
and cleanse your connecting link to intention. Take time every day for
moments of quiet contemplation, and make meditation a part of your stress-
reducing ritual. Step 10: Stay in a state of gratitude and awe. Go on a rampage of
appreciation for all that you have, all that you are, and all that you observe. Gratitude is the tenth step in every ten-step program for manifesting your
intentions, because it’s the surest way to stop the incessant inner dialogue
that leads you away from the joy and perfection of the Source. You can’t
feel stressed and appreciative at the same time. I conclude this chapter on your intention to lead a tranquil life with a
poem by the famous Bengali poet of Calcutta, Rabindranath Tagore, one of
my favorite spiritual teachers:
I slept and dreamt that life was joy
I awoke and saw that life was service
I acted and behold service was joy
It can all be joy in your inner world. Sleep and dream of joy, and
remember above all else: You feel good not because the world is right, but
your world is right because you feel good. OceanofPDF.comIT IS MY INTENTION TO: 
ATTRACT IDEAL PEOPLE 
AND DIVINE 
RELATIONSHIPS
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have
occurred . . . unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which
no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”
 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you saw the 1989 movie Field of Dreams, you probably came away
remembering the concept that if you pursue a dream, you will succeed (or,
“If you build it, they will come”). I thought of this as I began writing this
chapter because I’m suggesting that if you commit yourself to matching up
with the field of intention, everyone you desire or need to fulfill your
personal intention will appear. How can that be? In the quote above,
Goethe, one of the most brilliantly gifted scholars and achievers in the
history of humanity, gives you the answer. The moment you definitely
commit yourself to being a part of the power of intention, “then Providence
moves too,” and unforseen assistance comes your way.The right people will arrive to assist you in every aspect of your life: The
people who will support you in your career are there; the people who will
help you create your perfect home show up; the people who will arrange the
finances for whatever you desire are available; the driver you need to get
you to the airport is waiting for you; the designer you’ve admired wants to
work with you; the dentist you need in an emergency when you’re on
vacation just happens to be there; and your spiritual soul mate finds you. The list is endless, because we’re all in relationship to each other, we all
emanate from the same Source, and we all share the same divine energy of
intention. There’s no place that this universal mind is not; therefore, you
share it with everyone you attract into your life. You’ll have to let go of any resistance to your ability to attract the right
people, or you won’t recognize them when they show up in your everyday
life. Resistance may be difficult to recognize at first, because it’s such a
familiar form of your thoughts, your emotions, and your energy levels. If
you believe that you’re powerless to attract the right people, then you’ve
attracted powerlessness to your experience. If you’re attached to the idea of
being stuck with the wrong people or no people at all, then your energy isn’t
aligned with the power of intention, and resistance reigns. The field of
intention has no choice but to send you more of what you’re desiring. Once
again, make a somersault into the inconceivable, where you have faith and
trust in the universal mind of intention, and allow the right people to arrive
in your life space right on schedule. Removing Resistance by Allowing
Your intention is absolutely clear here. You want to attract the people
who are intended to be part of your life, and you want to have a happy,
fulfilling, spiritual relationship. The universal all-creating field is already
cooperating with your intention. These very people are obviously already
here, otherwise you’d want something that hasn’t been created. Not only are
the right people here, but you also share the same divine Source of all life
with them, since everyone emanates from that Source. In some invisible
way, you’re already connected spiritually to those perfect-for-you people. So why can’t you see them, touch them, or hold them, and why aren’t they
there when you need them?What you need in the way of the right people showing up will appear for
you only when you’re ready and willing to receive them. They’ve always
been there. They’re there right now. They’ll always be there. The questions
you need to ask yourself are: Am I ready? Am I willing? and How much am
I willing to have it? If your responses to these questions are a readiness and
willingness to experience your desires, then you’ll begin seeing people not
only as a body with a soul, but as a spiritual being clothed in a unique body. You’ll see the infinite souls that we all are: infinite, meaning always and
everywhere; and everywhere, meaning with you right now if that’s your
spiritual desire. Giving forth what you want to attract. Once you’ve formed a picture in
your mind of the person or people that you intend to show up in your
immediate life space, and you know how you want them to treat you and
what they’ll be like, you must be what it is that you’re seeking. This is a
universe of attraction and energy. You can’t have a desire to attract a mate
who’s confident, generous, nonjudgmental, and gentle, and expect that
desire to be manifested if you’re thinking and acting in nonconfident,
selfish, judgmental, or arrogant ways—which is why most people don’t
attract the right people at the right time. Almost 30 years ago, I wanted to attract a publisher into my life for my
book, Your Erroneous Zones. This publisher would have to be
understanding, since I was an unknown writer at the time, and would have
to be a risk taker, willing to let go of any doubts about me. My literary agent arranged a meeting with an executive editor, whom I’ll
refer to as George, at a large New York publishing house. As I sat down to
talk with him, it was obvious to me that he was personally distraught. I
asked him what was troubling him, and we proceeded to spend the next
three to four hours talking about a devastating personal matter that had just
transpired the night before. George’s wife had told him that she was going
to seek a divorce, and he felt as though he’d been blindsided by this news. I
let go of my own desires to talk about getting my book published and
became what it was that I was seeking: an understanding, confident, risk-taking person. By being that very thing and detaching from my ego-
dominated desires, I was able to help George out that afternoon, which I’ve
never forgotten. I left George’s office that day without even discussing my book proposal. When I told my literary agent this story, he was convinced that I’d blown
my one opportunity with a major publishing house by not making a strong
pitch for my book. The following day, George called my agent, telling him,
”I really don’t even know what Dyer’s book proposal entails, but I want that
man as one of our authors.”
At the time, I didn’t realize what was happening. Now, with a quarter
century of living in this world of spiritual inquiry, I see it quite clearly. The
right people will show up precisely when you need them and when you’re
able to match up. You must be that which you desire. When you are what
you desire, you attract it by radiating it outward. You have this ability to
match up with the power of intention and fulfill your intention to attract
ideal people and divine relationships. Attracting Spiritual Partnerships
There’s no point whatsoever in an unloving man or woman bemoaning
their inability to find a partner. They’re doomed to endless frustration
because they don’t recognize the perfect match when it appears. That loving
person could be right there, right now, and their resistance doesn’t allow
them to see it. The unloving person continues to blame bad luck or a series
of external factors for their not having a loving relationship. Love can only be attracted by and returned by love. The best advice I can
give for attracting and maintaining spiritual partnerships, as I’ve been
emphasizing in this chapter, is to be what it is that you’re seeking. Most
relationships that fail to sustain themselves are based on one or both of the
partners feeling as if their freedom has been compromised in some way. Spiritual partnerships, on the other hand, are never about making another
person feel inferior or ignored in any way. The term spiritual partnership
simply means that the energy that holds the two of you together is in close
harmony with the Source energy of intention.This means that an allowing philosophy flows through the partnership,
and you need never fear that your freedom to fulfill your own inner
knowing about your purpose is questioned. It’s as if each person has
whispered silently to the other, You are Source energy in a physical body,
and the better you feel, the more of this loving, kind, beautiful, receptive,
abundant, expanding, and creative energy is flowing through you. I respect
this Source energy, and I share it with you as well. When either of us feels
downhearted, there’s less of this energy of intention flowing. We must
always remember that nothing is disallowed by the universal mind. Whatever is not allowing us to be happy is being disallowed by us. I’m
committed to staying in this energy field of intention and watching myself
whenever I slip. It’s that very Source that brought us together, and I’ll work
to stay in harmony with it. This kind of inner commitment is what Goethe
was speaking about in that opening quotation. It allows providence to move
and helps things to occur, “which no man could have dreamed would come
his way.”
 
You’re already connected to those you want in your life—so act like
it. Mystically speaking, there’s no difference between you and another
person. A weird concept, perhaps, but nevertheless valid. This explains why
you can’t hurt another person without hurting yourself, nor can you help
another person without helping yourself. You share the same Source energy
with everyone, and consequently, you must begin to think and act in a way
that reflects your awareness of this principle. When you feel the need to
have the right person show up, begin to change your inner dialogue to
reflect this awareness. Rather than saying, I wish this person would show up
because I need to get out of this rut, activate a thought that reflects your
connection, such as: I know the right person will be arriving in divine order
at precisely the perfect time. Now you’ll act on this inner thought. You’ll be thinking from the end, and
anticipating this arrival. Your anticipation will make you alert. You’ve
revised your energy level to the same receptivity as the power of intention
that intends everything and everyone here. When you reach these higher
energy levels, you access higher information. Your intuition clicks in, andyou can feel the presence of the person or people you want in your life. Now you act on that intuition with a deep sense of knowing that you’re on
track. You’re acting in accordance with this new awareness. You become a
co-creator. New insight becomes activated within you as well. You’re
looking at the face of the Creator, and you see yourself co-creating. You
know whom to call, where to look, when to trust, and what to do. You’re
being guided to connect to that which you’re bringing forth. If a friendship or partnership requires the submission of your higher
original nature and dignity, it’s simply wrong. When you truly know what it
is to love, as you’re loved by your Source, you won’t experience the kind of
pain you did in the past when your love was unnoticed or rejected. It will,
instead, be similar to how a friend described her experience of choosing to
leave a relationship: “My heart was broken, but it felt like it was stuck in
the open position. I felt love flowing toward this person who couldn’t love
me the way I wanted to be loved, even as I left that relationship to seek the
love I felt inside of me. It was strange to feel the pain of my broken heart,
and at the same time feel its openness. I kept thinking, My heart’s broken,
but it’s broken open. I shifted to an entirely new level of loving and being
loved. The relationship I’d dreamed of having manifested 18 months later!”
You are love. You emanated from pure love. You’re connected to this
Source of love at all times. Think this way, feel this way, and you’ll soon
act this way. And all that you think, feel, and do will be reciprocated in
exactly the same fashion. Believe it or not, this principle of the right person
showing up has been in place forever. It’s only your ego that’s kept you
from seeing it clearly. It’s all unfolding in divine order. By now you should be affirming that
everyone you need for this journey of yours will show up, and that they’ll
be perfect in every way for whatever needs you have at this time. Furthermore, they’ll arrive at precisely the right moment. In this intelligent
system that you’re a part of, everything arrives from the field of intention
where the infinite, invisible life force flows through everyone and
everything. This includes you, and everyone else as well. Trust in thisinvisible life force and the all-creating mind that intends everything into
existence. I suggest that you do a quick review, and note all of the people who’ve
shown up as characters in this play called your life. It has all been perfect. Your ex-spouse showed up at just the right time—when you needed to
create those children you love so much. The father who walked out on you
so that you could learn self-reliance left right on time. The lover who
abandoned you was a part of this perfection. The lover who stayed with you
was also taking his or her cues from Source. The good times, the struggles,
the tears, the abuse—all of it involved people coming into your life and then
leaving. And all of your tears will not and cannot wash out one word of it. This is your past, and whatever your energy level at the time, whatever
your needs, whatever your station in life, you attracted the right people and
events to you. You may feel that they didn’t show up when you needed
them, that in fact, you were alone and no one showed up at all, but I urge
you to see it from the perspective of all of life being in divine order. If no
one showed up, it was because you needed to handle something on your
own and therefore attracted no one to fulfill your energy level at that time. Viewing the past as a play in which all characters and all entrances and exits
were scripted by your Source and was what you attracted at the time, frees
you from the very low energies of guilt, regret, and even revenge. As a result, you’ll go from being an actor who’s influenced by others
playing the roles of producer and director, to being the writer, producer,
director, and star of your glorious life. You’ll also be the casting director
who possesses the ability to audition anyone you choose. Base your choices
on taking the path of no resistance and staying harmonized with the ultimate
producer of this entire drama: the universal all-creating mind of intention. A few words about patience. There’s a wonderfully paradoxical line in
A Course in Miracles: “Infinite patience produces immediate results.” To be
infinitely patient means to have an absolute knowing within you that you’re
in vibrational harmony with the all-creating force that intended you here. You are, in fact, a co-creator of your life. You know that the right peoplewill show up on divinely ordained schedule. Attempting to rush the
schedule based on your own timetable is akin to getting down on your
knees and tugging at an emerging tulip shoot, insisting that you need the
flower now. Creation reveals its secrets by and by, not according to your
agenda. The immediate result that you’ll receive from your infinite patience
is a deep sense of peace. You’ll feel the love of the creation process, you’ll
stop making incessant demands, and you’ll start being on the lookout for
exactly the right person. I write this with the idea of infinite patience producing immediate results. I know that I’m not alone as I sit here writing. I know that the right people
will magically appear to provide me with whatever incentive or material I
might need. I have total faith in this process, and I stay harmoniously in
tune with my Source. The phone will ring, and someone has a tape they
think I’ll like. Two weeks ago, it wouldn’t have clicked with me, but on this
day, I listen to that tape while exercising, and it provides me with exactly
what I need. I pass someone on a walk, and they stop to talk. They tell me
about a book they’re sure I’d love. I jot down the title, look it up, and sure
enough, I have what I need. This goes on every day in some way or another as I surrender my ego-
mind to the universal mind of intention, and allow precisely the right people
to help me with my individual intention. The immediate result of infinite
patience is the inner peace that comes from knowing that I have a “senior
partner” who will either send me someone, or leave me alone to work it out
myself. This is called practical faith, and I urge you to trust in it, be
infinitely patient with it, and have an attitude of radical appreciation and
awe each time the right person mysteriously appears in your immediate life
space. Making Your Intention Your Reality
Below is my ten-step program for implementing the intention of this
chapter:
 
Step 1: Move away from hoping, wishing, praying, and begging for
the right person or people to show up in your life. Know that this is auniverse that works on energy and attraction. Remind yourself that you
have the power to attract the right people to assist you with any desire as
long as you’re able to shift from ego-driven energy to match up with the all-
providing Source of intention. This first step is crucial, because if you can’t
banish all doubt about your ability to attract helpful, creative, loving people,
then the remaining nine steps will be of little use to you. Intending ideal
people and divine partners begins with knowing in your heart that it’s not
only a possibility, but a certainty. Step 2: Conceptualize your invisible connection to the people you’d
like to attract to your life. Let go of your exclusive identification with the
appearance of your body and its possessions. Identify with the invisible
energy within you that sustains your life by directing the functions of your
body. Now recognize that same energy Source flowing through the people
you perceive to be missing from your life, and then realign yourself in
thought with that person or persons. Know within you that this power of
intention connects the two of you. Your thoughts of creating this merger
also emanate from that same field of universal intention. Step 3: Form a picture in your mind of meeting the person(s) you’d
like to have assist you or be in partnership with you. Manifesting is a
function of spiritual intention matching up in vibrational harmony with your
desires. Be as specific as you’d like, but don’t share this visualizing
technique with anyone because you’ll be asked to explain yourself, defend
yourself, and have to deal with the low energy of doubt that will inevitably
occur. This is a private exercise between you and God. Never, never allow
your picture to be blurred or corroded by negativity or doubt. Regardless of
any obstacles that may surface, hang on to this picture, and stay in loving,
kind, creative, peaceful harmony with your always-expanding and endlessly
receptive Source of intention. Step 4: Act upon the inner picture. Begin to act as if everyone you
meet is a part of your intention to attract ideal people into your life. Share
with others your needs and desires without going into detail about your
spiritual methodology. Make calls to experts who might be of assistance,
and state your desires. They’ll want to help you. Don’t expect anyone else
to do the work of attracting the right people for whatever you seek—be it a
job, admission to a college, a financial boost, or a person to repair your
automobile. Be proactive, and stay alert for signs of synchronicity, never
ignoring them. If a truck drives by with a phone number advertising what
you need, jot the number down and call. See all so-called bizarre
coincidences surrounding your desires as messages from Source, and act
upon them immediately. I assure you that they’ll occur repeatedly. Step 5: Take the path of least resistance.
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how allowing is so often ignored in attempts to manifest feeling successful
and attracting abundance. The Art of Allowing
The universal mind of Creation is in a constant state of supplying. It
never shuts down, it takes no vacations, there are no days off, and it’s
perpetually giving forth. Everything and everyone, without exception,
emanates from this universal mind we’re calling intention. So if everythingcomes from this infinite field of invisible energy, why is it that some are
able to partake of it, while others seem so separated from it. If it’s always
giving forth in an endless stream of abundance, somehow there must be
resistance to allowing it to come into your life if you’re experiencing
shortages or scarcity in any way. Allowing this all-giving Source into your life means becoming aware of
the resistance that you may be placing in the way of the abundance that’s
always being supplied. If the universe is based on energy and attraction, this
means that everything is vibrating to particular frequencies. When the
frequency with which you’re vibrating is in contradiction with the
frequency of the universal supply, you create a resistance, thereby inhibiting
that flow of abundance into your life space. Your individual vibrations are
the key to understanding the art of allowing. The nonharmonious vibrations
are largely in the form of your thoughts and feelings. Thoughts that
emphasize what you don’t believe you deserve set up a contradiction in
energy. That contradiction puts a stop to a hooking up of identical energies,
and you’ve created a field of disallowing. Remember, it’s always about
being in harmony with your Source. Your thoughts can either emerge from
a beingness that’s in rapport with intention or in contradiction with it. Keep in mind that you’re a part of the universal mind, so if you see
yourself in a harmonious way with the seven faces of intention, the
universal mind can only work harmoniously with you. For example,
suppose that you want a better job with a higher salary. Imagine yourself as
already having it, knowing in your thoughts that you’re entitled to it, with
no doubts about the job showing up because you can see it within. The
universal mind now has no choice in the matter, since you’re a part of that
all-creating mind and there’s no vibrational contradiction. So what can go
wrong here. The art of allowing gets hampered by your habit of
disallowing. There’s a long history of countless thoughts that have formed a field of
resistance to allowing the free flow of abundance. This habit of disallowing
grew from the belief system that you’ve cultivated over the years and that
you rely on. Furthermore, you’ve allowed the resistance of others to enter
this picture, and you surround yourself with the need for their approval inthese matters. You solicit their resistant opinions, read newspaper accounts
of all those who’ve failed to manifest the jobs of their choice, examine
government reports about the poor job prospects and the declining
economy, watch the television reports belaboring the sorry state of affairs in
the world, and your resistance becomes even more convincingly
entrenched. You’ve aligned yourself with the proponents of disallowing. What you need to do is look at this belief system and all of the factors
that continue to support it and say, It’s too big of a job to change the entire
thing. Instead, I’m going to start changing the thoughts that activate
disallowing right here, right now. It doesn’t matter what you thought before,
or for how long, or how many pressures you’re under to maintain your
resistance. Instead, stop activating disallowing thoughts today, one thought
at a time. You can do so by stating, I feel successful, I intend to feel the
abundance that is here, now. Repeat these words, or create your
arrangement of words, which continually inundate your thoughts during
your waking hours, with a new belief of being successful and abundant. When you’ve activated these thoughts enough times, they’ll become your
habitual way of thinking, and you will have taken the steps to eliminating
your resistance to allowing. Those thoughts will then become what you say in silent, prayer-like
messages to yourself: I am success; I am abundance. When you’re success
itself, when you’re abundance itself, you’re in harmony with the all-creating
Source, and it will do the only thing it knows how to do. It will be endlessly
giving and forthcoming with that which has no resistance to it—namely,
you. You’re no longer vibrating to scarcity; your every individual
vibrational utterance is in concert with what you summon from your
Source. You and your Source are one in your thoughts. You’ve chosen to
identify thoughts of resistance and have simultaneously decided to stay out
of your own way. As you practice allowing and living the faith of least resistance, success
is no longer something you choose; it’s something that you are. Abundance
no longer eludes you. You are it, and it is you. It flows unimpeded beyond
your resistance. Herein lies another clue to the free flow of abundance: You
must avoid becoming attached to and hoarding what shows up in your life. Abundance, Detachment, and Your Feelings
While it’s crucial for you to have a firm vibrational match-up with the all-
creating abundance of intention, it’s just as crucial for you to know that you
can’t hang on to and own any of the abundance that will be coming your
way. This is because the you that would like to hang on to and become
attached to your success and your wealth is not really you, it’s that
troublesome ego of yours. You’re not what you have and what you do;
you’re an infinite, divine being disguised as a successful person who has
accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you. This is why you
must avoid being attached to it in any way. Detachment comes from knowing that your true essence is a piece of the
infinitely divine field of intention. It’s then that you become aware of the
importance of your feelings. Feeling good becomes much more valuable
then polishing your jewelry. Feeling abundant surpasses the money in your
bank account and transcends what others may think of you. Genuinely
feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from
the things you desire and allow them to flow to you, and just as important,
through you. Anything that inhibits the flow of energy stops the creating
process of intention right where the obstacle is erected. Attachment is one such roadblock. When you hang on to that which
arrives, rather than allowing it to move through you, you stop the flow. You
hoard it or decide to own it, and the flow is disrupted. You must keep it
circulating, always knowing that nothing can stop it from coming into your
life except any resistance you place in its way. Your feelings and emotions
are sensational barometers for detecting resistance and evaluating your
ability to experience success and abundance. Paying attention to your feelings. Your emotions are the inner
experiences that tell you how much of the divine energy you’re summoning
for the manifestation of your desires. Feelings can be measuring tools that
gauge how you’re doing in the manifestation process. An exceptionally
positive emotional response indicates that you’re summoning the divine
energy of intention and allowing that energy to flow to you in a nonresistantmanner. Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, unmitigated optimism,
unquestioned trust, and even illumination indicate that your desire to
manifest success and abundance, for example, have an extremely strong
pulling power from the universal Source to you. You must learn to pay
close attention to the presence of these feelings. These emotions aren’t just
facets of your life that are empty of energy—they’re agents that are in
charge of how you clean and purify the connecting link to intention. These
emotions tell you precisely how much of the life force you’re summoning,
and how much pulling power you have going for you at that moment. Abundance is the natural state of the nature of intention. Your desire for
abundance must flow free of resistance. Any discrepancy between your
individual intention or desire, and your belief concerning the possibility of
summoning it into your life, creates resistance. If you want it but believe it’s
impossible or that you’re unworthy, or that you don’t have the skills or
perseverance, then you’ve created resistance and you’re disallowing. Your
feelings indicate how well you’re attracting the energy necessary for the
fulfillment of your desire. Strong feelings of despair, anxiety, blame, hate,
fear, shame, and anger are sending you the message that you want success
and abundance but you don’t believe it’s possible for you. These negative
feelings are your clues to get busy and balance your desires with those of
the universal mind of intention, which is the only source of that which you
desire. Negative emotions tell you that your pulling power from intention is
weak or even nonexistent. Positive emotions tell you that you’re connecting
to and accessing the power of intention. Concerning abundance, one of the most effective ways to increase that
pulling power from intention to you is to take the focus off of dollars and
place it on creating abundant friendship, security, happiness, health, and
high energy. It’s here that you’ll begin to feel those higher emotions, which
let you know that you’re back in the match game with the all-creating
Source. As you focus on having abundant happiness, health, security, and
friendships, the means for acquiring all of this will be flowing toward you. Money is only one of those means, and the faster your vibrational energy
around abundance radiates, the more money will show up in significant
amounts. These positive feelings as indicators of your pulling power forsuccess and abundance will put you into an active mode for co-creating
your intentions. I’m not suggesting that you just wait for everything to fall into place. I’m
suggesting that by declaring, I intend to feel successful and attract
prosperity, your emotional energy will shift and you’ll act as if what you
desire were already true. Your actions will be in harmony with the faces of
intention, and you’ll be provided with what you are, rather than attempting
to be provided with what’s missing. At this point in my life, I refuse to participate in any desire unless I have
total, nonresistant knowing that it can and will manifest into my life from
the all-creating Source of intention. My desires for personal indicators of
abundance have all manifested by practicing what I write here, and in the
ten-step program that follows. I’ve been able to allow by removing
resistance and connecting to my originating, all-creating Source. I trust in it
completely. Over the years, I’ve learned that when I’ve desired something
seemingly impossible, I felt poorly as a result. I then figured that I should
desire less, but all that did was make me even further removed from the
unlimited power of intention. I was still in vibratory disharmony with the
abundance of the universe. I began to understand that my being in harmony with abundance didn’t
cause others to be poor or hungry. On the contrary, the abundance I created
gave me the chance to help eradicate poverty and hunger. But the
significant awareness was realizing that I had less of a chance to help others
when I was in the lower frequencies. I learned that I had to get myself into
vibratory harmony with my Source. One of my reasons for writing this
chapter in this fashion is to convince you that you don’t have to ask for less,
or feel guilty about wanting abundance—it’s there for you and everyone in
an unlimited supply. I live and breathe what I’m writing here about success and abundance. I
know beyond any doubt (resistance) that you can attract abundance and feel
successful by absorbing the messages of this chapter, which, like theabundance you seek, have flowed from that universal Source through me
and onto these pages. There’s no discrepancy between my desire to write it
all out here and my willingness to allow it to flow unimpeded to you. How
do I know this. My emotion in this moment is ineffable bliss, serenity, and
reverence. I trust this emotional state, which indicates to me that I’ve been
utilizing a very strong pulling power to create these messages from the all-
creating Spirit of intention. I’m in vibratory harmony and abundance, and
feelings of success are my intentions herewith manifested. Try it on
anything you’d like to see flowing abundantly into your life. Making Your Intention Your Reality
Below is a ten-step program for implementing the intention of this
chapter—that is, to feel successful and attract abundance into your life:
 
Step 1: See the world as an abundant, providing, friendly place. Again, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at
change. When you see the world as abundant and friendly, your intentions
are genuine possibilities. They will, in fact, become a certainty, because
your world will be experienced from the higher frequencies. In this first
step, you’re receptive to a world that provides rather than restricts. You’ll
see a world that wants you to be successful and abundant, rather than one
that conspires against you. Step 2: Affirm: I attract success and abundance into my life because
that is who I am. This puts you into vibratory harmony with your Source. You goal is to eliminate any distance between what you desire and that from
which you pull it into your life. Abundance and success aren’t out there
waiting to show up for you. You are already it, and the Source can only
provide you with what it is, and, consequently, what you are already. Step 3: Stay in an attitude of allowing. Resistance is disharmony
between your desire for abundance and your beliefs about your ability orunworthiness. Allowing means a perfect alignment. An attitude of allowing
means that you ignore efforts by others to dissuade you. It also means that
you don’t rely on your previous ego-oriented beliefs about abundance being
a part of or not a part of your life. In an attitude of allowing, all resistance in
the form of thoughts of negativity or doubt are replaced with simply
knowing that you and your Source are one and the same. Picture the
abundance you desire freely flowing directly to you. Refuse to do anything
or have any thought that compromises your alignment with Source. Step 4: Use your present moments to activate thoughts that are in
harmony with the seven faces of intention. The key phrase here is present
moments. Notice right now, in this moment, if you’re thinking that it’s
hopeless at this stage of your life to change the thoughts that comprise your
belief system. Do you defeat yourself with thoughts of having had such a
long life practicing affirmations of scarcity and creating resistance to your
success and abundance that you don’t have enough time left to
counterbalance the thoughts that comprise your past belief system. Make the choice to let go of that lifetime of beliefs, and begin activating
thoughts right now that allow you to feel good. Say I want to feel good
whenever anyone tries to convince you that your desires are futile. Say I
want to feel good when you’re tempted to return to low-energy thoughts of
disharmony with intention. Eventually your present moments will activate
thoughts that make you feel good, and this is an indicator that you’re
reconnecting to intention. Wanting to feel good is synonymous with
wanting to feel God. Remember, “God is good, and all that God created was
good. ”
 
Step 5: Initiate actions that support your feelings of abundance and
success. Here, the key word is actions. I’ve been calling this acting as if or
thinking from the end and acting that way. Put your body into a gear that
pushes you toward abundance and feeling successful. Act on those
passionate emotions as if the abundance and success you seek is already
here. Speak to strangers with passion in your voice. Answer the telephonein an inspired way. Do a job interview from the place of confidence and joy. Read the books that mysteriously show up, and pay close attention to
conversations that seem to indicate you’re being called to something new. Step 6: Remember that your prosperity and success will benefit
others, and that no one lacks abundance because you’ve opted for it. Once again, the supply is unlimited. The more you partake of the universal
generosity, the more you’ll have to share with others. In writing this book,
wonderful abundance has flowed into my life in many ways. But even more
significantly, book editors and graphic designers, the truck drivers who
deliver the book, the auto workers who build the trucks, the farmers who
feed the auto workers, the bookstore clerks. all receive abundance
because I’ve followed my bliss and have written this book. Step 7: Monitor your emotions as a guidance system for your
connection to the universal mind of intention. Strong emotions such as
passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or inspired,
if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the
abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life. When
you’re experiencing low-energy emotions of rage, anger, hatred, anxiety,
despair, and the like, that’s a clue that while your desires may be strong,
they’re completely out of sync with the field of intention. Remind yourself
in these moments that you want to feel good, and see if you can activate a
thought that supports your feeling good. Step 8: Become as generous to the world with your abundance as the
field of intention is to you. Don’t stop the flow of abundant energy by
hoarding or owning what you receive. Keep it moving. Use your prosperity
in the service of others, and for causes greater than your ego. The more you
practice detachment, the more you’ll stay in vibratory harmony with the all-
giving Source of everything. Step 9: Devote the necessary time to meditate on the Spirit within as
the source of your success and abundance. There’s no substitute for the
practice of meditation. This is particularly relevant with abundance. You
must have an understanding that your consciousness of the presence is your
supply. By repeating the sound that is in the name of God as a mantra,
you’re using a technique for manifesting as ancient as recorded history. I
am particularly drawn to the form of meditation I’ve mentioned previously,
called Japa. I know it works. Step 10: Develop an attitude of gratitude for all that manifests into
your life. Be thankful and filled with awe and appreciation, even if what
you desire hasn’t arrived yet. Even the darkest days of your life are to be
looked on with gratitude. Everything coming from Source is on purpose. Be
thankful while empowering your reconnection to that from which you and
everything else originated. The energy that creates worlds and universes is within you. It works
through attraction and energy. Everything vibrates; everything has a
vibratory frequency. As St. Paul said, “God is able to provide you with
every blessing in abundance. ” Tune in to God’s frequency, and you will
know it beyond any and all doubt. OceanofPDF. comIT IS MY INTENTION TO: 
LIVE A STRESS-FREE, 
TRANQUIL LIFE
“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. ”
 
— Thomas Merton
“So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited
and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly
trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything. ”
 
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Fulfilling this intention to live a stress-free and tranquil life is a way of
manifesting your grandest destiny. It seems to me that what our Source had
in mind when we were intended here is for us to have happy and joyous
experiences of life on Earth. When you’re in a state of joy and happiness,
you’ve returned to the pure, creative, blissful, nonjudgmental joy that
intention truly is. Your natural state—the state from which you were created
—is that feeling of well-being. This chapter is concerned with having you
return to, and access, this natural state. You were created from a Source that is peaceful and joyful. When you’re
in that state of exuberant joy, you’re at peace with everything. This is what
intended you here and what you’re determined to match up with in your
thoughts, feelings, and actions. In a state of joy, you feel fulfilled and
inspired in all facets of your life. In short, gaining freedom from anxiety
and stress is a pathway to rejoicing with the field of intention. The moments
of your life, which you spend being happy and joyful and allowing yourself
to be fully alive and on purpose, are the times when you’re aligned with the
all-creating universal mind of intention. There’s nothing natural about living a life filled with stress and anxiety,
having feelings of despair and depression, and needing pills to tranquilize
yourself. Agitated thoughts that produce high blood pressure, a nervous
stomach, persistent feelings of discomfort, an inability to relax or sleep, and
frequent displays of displeasure and outrage are violating your natural state. Believe it or not, you have the power to create the naturally stress-free and
tranquil life you desire. You can utilize this power to attract frustration or
joy, anxiety or peace. When you’re in harmony with the seven faces of
intention, you can access and pull from the Source of all in order to fulfill
your intention of being stress free and tranquil. So if it’s natural to have feelings of well-being, why is it that we seem to
experience so much “unwellness” and tension. The answer to this question
provides you with the key that leads to the peaceful life you desire. Stress Is a Desire of the Ego
That pesky ego is at work when you’re experiencing stress or anxiety. Perhaps your ego-self feels more effective dealing and coping with stress
because you feel you’re actually doing something in the world. Perhaps it’s
habit, custom, or believing that this is the right way to be. Only you can
analyze the why. But the fact is that stress is familiar, and tranquility is
unfamiliar, so ego desires stress. But there’s no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that
create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There
are only people engaged in stressful thinking. When we think stressfully, we
create reactions in the body, valuable messages or signals requesting ourattention. These messages might reveal themselves as nausea, elevated
blood pressure, stomach tension, indigestion, ulcers, headaches, increased
heart rate, difficulty breathing, and a zillion other feelings—from minor
discomfort to serious, life-threatening illness. We speak of stress as if it were present in the world as something that
attacks us. We say things like I’m having an anxiety attack as if anxiety is a
combatant. But the stress in your body is rarely the result of external forces
or entities attacking you; it’s the result of the weakened connecting link to
intention caused by your belief that ego is who you are. You are peace and
joy, but you’ve allowed your ego to dominate your life. Here’s a short list of
stress-inducing thoughts that originate in your ego self:
• It’s more important to be right than to be happy. • Winning is the only thing. When you lose, you
should be stressed. • Your reputation is more important than your
relationship with your Source. • Success is measured in dollars and accumulations
rather than in feeling happy and content. • Being superior to others is more important than
being kind to others. The following lighthearted way to stop taking yourself so seriously is
from a book by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander (he’s the conductor of the
Boston Philharmonic) titled The Art of Possibility. It illustrates in a
delightful way how we allow ego to create many of the problems we
encounter that we label stress and anxiety. Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs
of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury,
shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The
resident prime minister admonishes him: “Peter,” he says,
“kindly remember Rule Number 6,” whereupon Peter is
instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws. The politicians return to their conversation, only to beinterrupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical
woman gesticulating wildly, her hair flying. Again the intruder
is greeted with the words: “Marie, please remember Rule
Number 6. ” Complete calm descends once more, and she too
withdraws with a bow and an apology. When the scene is
repeated for a third time, the visiting prime minister addresses
his colleague: “My dear friend, I’ve seen many things in my
life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be
willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6. ” “Very
simple,” replies the resident prime minister. “Rule Number 6 is
‘Don’t take yourself so goddamn seriously. ’ ” “Ah,” says his
visitor, “that is a fine rule. ” After a moment of pondering, he
inquires, “And what, may I ask, are the other rules. ”
“There aren’t any. ”
As you encounter stress, pressure, or anxiety in your life, remember
“Rule Number 6” at the moment you realize you’re thinking stressful
thoughts. By noticing and discontinuing the inner dialogue that’s causing
stress, you may be able to prevent its physical symptoms. What are the
inner thoughts that produce stress. I’m more important than those around
me. My expectations aren’t being met. I shouldn’t have to wait, I’m too
important. I’m the customer here, and I demand attention. No one else has
these pressures. All of the above, along with a potentially endless inventory
of “Rule Number 6” thoughts are from the ego’s bag of tricks. You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your
home, your family. your anything. You’re an aspect of the power of
intention, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and
enjoy life on Earth. This is the intention that you want to bring to the
presence of stress. Bringing intention to the presence of stress. In any given day, you have
hundreds of opportunities to implement “Rule Number 6” by bringing the
power of intention into the moment and eliminating the potential for stress. Here are a few examples of how I’ve employed this strategy. In each ofthese examples, I activated an inner thought that was in vibrational harmony
with the universal field of intention, and I fulfilled my personal intention to
be tranquil. These examples occurred in a three-hour period of a normal
day. I offer them to you to remind you that stress and anxiety are choices
that we make to process events, rather than entities that are out there
waiting to invade our lives. — I’m dropping off a prescription at the drugstore and the person ahead
of me is talking to the pharmacist, asking a series of seemingly inane
questions—all of which, my stress-producing ego tells me, are intended to
deliberately delay and annoy me. My inner dialogue might go like this: I’m
being victimized. There’s always someone just ahead of me in line who
fumbles with money, can’t find what’s needed to prove participation in some
kind of an insurance plan, and has to ask silly questions designed to keep
me from dropping off a prescription. I use those thoughts as a signal to change my inner dialogue to: Wayne,
stop taking yourself so goddamn seriously. I immediately make the shift
from pissed to blissed. I take the focus off of myself, and at the same time, I
remove resistance to my intention to live a stress-free and tranquil life. I
now see this person as an angel who’s ahead of me in line to assist me in
reconnecting to intention. I stop judging, and actually see beauty in the
slow, deliberate gestures. I’m kind in my mind toward this angel. I’ve
moved from hostility to love in my thoughts, and my emotions have shifted
from discomfort to ease. Stress is absolutely impossible in the moment. — My 17-year-old daughter tells me about her disagreement with a
school official who’s taken action against some of her friends, an act she
considers totally unfair. It’s Saturday morning and nothing can be done until
Monday. The choice. Spend two days in misery replaying the details of her
story, and have a weekend of inner stress, or remind her how to activate
thoughts that will make her feel good. I ask her to describe her feelings. She
responds that she’s “angry, upset, and hurt. ” I ask her to think about “Rule
Number 6” and see if there’s any other thought she could activate. She laughs at me, telling me how crazy I am. “But,” she admits, “it really
doesn’t make any sense to be upset for the entire weekend, and I’m going to
stop thinking thoughts that make me feel bad. ”
“On Monday we’ll do what we can to rectify the situation,” I tell her. “But for now—and now is all you have—put ‘Rule Number 6’ into play
and rejoin the field of intention where stress, anxiety, and pressure don’t
exist. ”
 
To fulfill the intention of this chapter, to live a stress-free and tranquil
life, you must become conscious of the need to activate thought responses
that match your intention. These new responses will become habitual, and
replace your old habit of responding in stress-producing ways. When you
examine segments of stress-producing incidents, you always have a choice:
Do I stay with thoughts that produce stress within me, or do I work to
activate thoughts that make stress impossible. Here’s another easy tool that
will help you replace the habit of choosing anxiety and stress. Five magic words: I want to feel good. In an earlier chapter, I described
how your emotions are a guidance system informing you of whether or not
you’re creating resistance to your intentions. Feeling bad lets you know that
you’re not connected to the power of intention. Your intention here is to be
tranquil and stress free. When you feel good, you’re connected to your
intentions, regardless of what goes on around you or what others expect you
to feel. If there’s a war going on, you still have the option to feel good. If
the economy goes further into the toilet, you have the option to feel good. In
the event of any catastrophe, you can still feel good. Feeling good isn’t an
indication that you’re callous, indifferent, or cruel—it’s a choice you make. Say it out loud: I want to feel good. Then convert it to: I intend to feel good. Feel the stress, and then send it the love and respect of the seven faces of
intention. The seven faces smile and say hello to what you label as feeling
bad. It’s that feeling that wants to feel good. You must be to your feelings as
your Source is to you, in order to counteract the desires of your ego. Many events will transpire in which your conditioned response is to feel
bad. Be aware of these outer incidents, and say the five magic words: I want
to feel good. In that precise moment, ask yourself if feeling bad is going to
make the situation any better. You’ll discover that the only thing that feeling
bad accomplishes in response to outer situations is to plummet you into
anxiety, despair, depression, and of course, stress. Instead, ask yourself in
that moment what thought you can have that will make you feel good. When you discover that it’s responding with kindness and love to the bad
feeling (which is quite different from wallowing in it), you’ll begin
experiencing a shift in your emotional state. Now you’re in vibrational
harmony with your Source, since the power of intention knows only peace,
kindness, and love. This newly activated thought, which allows you to feel good, may only
last a few moments, and you might go back to your previous way of
processing unpleasant events. Also treat that old way of processing with
respect, love, and understanding, but remember that it’s your ego-self trying
to protect you from its perception of danger. Any stress signal is a way of
alerting you to say the five magic words I want to feel good. Stress wants
your attention. By saying the five magic words and extending love to your
bad feelings, you’ll have begun the process of fulfilling your stated
intention of being tranquil and stress free. Now you can practice activating
these thoughts in the toughest of moments, and before long, you’ll be living
the message offered to all of us in the book of Job: “You will decide on a
matter and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your
ways”[Job 22:28]. The word light in this biblical reference means that
you’ll have the assistance of the divine mind of intention once you decide
on a matter that is consistent with that light. I assure you that your decision to feel good is a way of connecting to
Spirit. It isn’t an indifferent response to events. By feeling good, you
become an instrument of peace, and it’s through this channel that you
eradicate problems. By feeling bad, you stay in the energy field that creates
resistance to positive change; and experience a stressful, anxious state as a
by-product. The things you call problems will perpetually present
themselves to you. They’ll never go away. Resolve one. and another will
surface. You’ll never get it done. In Chapter 6, I reminded you of your infinite
nature. Since you’re an infinite spiritual being disguised as a temporary
human being, it’s essential to understand that in infinity there’s no
beginning and no ending. Therefore, your desires, goals, hopes, and dreams
will never be finished—ever. As soon as you manifest one of your dreams,
another will most assuredly pop up. The nature of the universal force of
intention from which you emigrated into a temporary material being is
always creating and giving forth. Furthermore, it’s in a continuous state of
expansion. Your desires to manifest into your life are a part of this infinite
nature. Even if you desire to have no desires, that’s a desire. I urge you to simply accept the fact that you’ll never get it all done, and
begin to live more fully in the only moment that you have—now. The
secret to removing the harmful effects of feeling stressed and under pressure
is to be in the now. Announce out loud to yourself and all who are willing to
listen to you: I’m an incomplete being. I’ll always be incomplete because I
can never get it done. Therefore, I choose to feel good while I’m in the
moment, attracting into my life the manifestations of my desires. I am
complete in my incompleteness. I can assure you that a follow-up on this
statement will eradicate all anxiety and stress, which is precisely the
intention of this chapter. All resistance melts away when you can feel
complete in your incompleteness. The Path of Least Resistance
You live in a universe that has limitless potential for joy built into the
creation process. Your Source, which we call the universal mind of
intention, adores you beyond anything you can possibly imagine. When you
adore yourself in the same proportion, you’re matched up with the field of
intention, and you’ve opted for the path of no resistance. As long as you
have even a pinch of an ego, you’ll retain some resistance, so I urge you to
take the path in which resistance is minimized. The shape and quantity of your thoughts determine the amount of
resistance. Thoughts that generate bad feelings are resistant thoughts. Any
thought that puts a barrier between what you would like to have and yourability to attract it into your life is resistance. Your intention is to live a
tranquil life, free of stress and anxiety. You know that stress doesn’t exist in
the world, and that there are only people thinking stressful thoughts. Stressful thoughts all by themselves are a form of resistance. You don’t
want stressful, resistant thoughts to be your habitual way of reacting to your
world. By practicing thoughts of minimal resistance, you’ll train yourself to
make this your natural way of reacting, and eventually you’ll become the
tranquil person you desire to be, a stress-free person free of the “disease”
that stress brings to the body. Stressful thoughts all by themselves are the
resistance that you construct that impedes your connection to the power of
intention. We’re in a world that advertises and promotes reasons to be anxious. You’ve been taught that feeling good in a world where so much suffering
exists is an immoral stance to take. You’ve been convinced that choosing to
feel good in bad economic times, in times of war, in times of uncertainty or
death, or in the face of any catastrophe anywhere in the world is crass and
inappropriate. Since these conditions will always be in the world
someplace, you believe you can’t have joy and still be a good person. But it
may not have occurred to you that in a universe based on energy and
attraction, thoughts that evoke feeling bad originate in the same energy
Source that attracts more of the same into your life. These are resistant
thoughts. Here are some examples of sentences on the path of resistance, which
are then changed to sentences on the path of least resistance. I feel uneasy about the state of the economy; I’ve already lost so
much money. I live in an abundant universe; I choose to think about what I have and I
will be fine. The universe will provide. I have so many things to do that I can never get caught up. I’m at peace in this moment. I’ll only think about the one thing I’m doing. I will have peaceful thoughts. I can never get ahead in this job. I choose to appreciate what I’m doing right now, and I’ll attract an even
greater opportunity. My health is a huge concern. I worry about getting old and becoming
dependent and sick. I’m healthy, and I think healthy. I live in a universe that attracts healing,
and I refuse to anticipate sickness. My family members are causing me to feel anxious and fearful. I choose thoughts that make me feel good, and this will help me uplift
those family members in need. I don’t deserve to feel good when so many people are suffering. I didn’t come into a world where everyone is going to have the same
identical experiences. I’ll feel good, and by being uplifted, I’ll help
eradicate some of the suffering. I can’t be happy when the person I really care about loves another
and has abandoned me. Feeling bad won’t change this scenario. I trust that love will return to my
life if I’m in harmony with the loving Source. I choose to feel good right
now and focus on what I have, rather than what’s missing. All stressful thoughts represent a form of resistance you wish to
eradicate. Change those thoughts by monitoring your feelings and opting
for joy rather than anxiety, and you’ll access the power of intention. Making Your Intention Your Reality
Below is my ten-step program for creating a stress-free, tranquil life:
 
Step 1: Remember that your natural state is joy. You are a product of
joy and love; it’s natural for you to experience these feelings. You’ve come
to believe that feeling bad, anxious, or even depressed is natural,
particularly when people and events around you are in low-energy modes. Remind yourself as frequently as necessary: I come from peace and joy. I
must stay in harmony with that from which I came in order to fulfill my
dreams and desires. I choose to stay in my natural state. Anytime I’m
anxious, stressed out, depressed, or fearful, I’ve abandoned my natural
state. Step 2: Your thoughts, not the world, cause your stress. Your thoughts
activate stressful reactions in your body. Stressful thoughts create resistance
to the joy, happiness, and abundance that you desire to create in your life. These thoughts include: I can’t, I’m too overworked, I worry, I’m afraid,
I’m unworthy, It will never happen, I’m not smart enough, I‘m too old
(young), and so on. These thoughts are like a program to resist being
tranquil and stress free, and they keep you from manifesting your desires. Step 3: You can change your thoughts of stress in any given moment,
and eliminate the anxiety for the next few moments, or even hours and
days. By making a conscious decision to distract yourself from worry,
you’ve inaugurated the process of stress reduction, while simultaneously
reconnecting to the field of all-creating intention. It’s from this place ofpeace and tranquility that you become a co-creator with God. You can’t be
connected to your Source and be stressed at the same time—this is mutually
exclusive. Your Source doesn’t create from a position of anxiety, nor does it
need to swallow antidepressants. You’ve left behind your capacity to
manifest your desires when you don’t choose in the moment to eliminate a
stressful thought. Step 4: Monitor your stressful thoughts by checking on your
emotional state right in the moment. Ask yourself the key question: Do I
feel good right now. If the answer is no, then repeat those five magic
words: I want to feel good, then shift to: I intend to feel good. Monitor your
emotions, and detect how much stress- and anxiety-producing thinking
you’re engaging in. This monitoring process keeps you apprised of whether
you’re on the path of least resistance or going in the other direction. Step 5: Make a conscious choice to select a thought that will activate
good feelings. I urge you to choose your thought based exclusively on how
it makes you feel, rather than on how popular it is or how well advertised. Ask yourself: Does this new thought make me feel good. No. Well, how
about this thought. Not really. Here’s another. Ultimately you’ll come up
with one that you agree makes you feel good, if only temporarily. Your
choice might be the thought of a beautiful sunset, the expression on the face
of someone you love, or a thrilling experience. It’s only important that it
resonate within you emotionally and physically as a good feeling. In the moment of experiencing an anxious or stressful thought, change to
the thought you chose, which makes you feel good. Plug it in. Think it and
feel it in your body if you can. This new thought that makes you feel good
will be of appreciation rather than depreciation. It will be of love, beauty,
receptivity to happiness, or in other words, it will align perfectly with those
seven faces of intention I’ve been harping about since the opening pages of
this book. Step 6: Spend some time observing babies, and vow to emulate their
joy. You didn’t come forth into this world to suffer, to be anxious, fearful,
stressful, or depressed. You came from the God-consciousness of joy. Just
watch little babies. They’ve done nothing to be so happy about. They don’t
work; they poop in their pants; and they have no goals other than to expand,
grow, and explore this amazing world. They love everyone, they’re
completely entertained by a plastic bottle or goofy faces, and they’re in a
constant state of love—yet they have no teeth, no hair, and they’re pudgy
and flatulent. How could they possibly be so joyful and easily pleased. Because they’re still in harmony with the Source that intended them here;
they have no resistance to being joyful. Be like that baby you once were in
terms of being joyful. You don’t need a reason to be happy. your desire
to be so is sufficient. Step 7: Keep “Rule Number 6” in mind. This means to suspend the
demands of your ego, which keep you separated from intention. When you
have a choice to be right or to be kind, pick kind, and push the ego’s
demand out of the way. Kindness is what you emanated from, and by
practicing it, rather than being right, you eliminate the possibility of stress
in your moment of kindness. When you find yourself being impatient with
anyone, simply say to yourself: “Rule Number 6,” and you’ll immediately
laugh at the piddly little ego that wants you to be first, faster, number one,
and to be treated better than the other guy. Step 8: Accept the guidance of your Source of intention. You will only
come to know the Father by being as He is. You’ll only be able to access the
guidance of this field of intention by being as it is. Stress, anxiety, and
depression will be lifted from you with the assistance of that same force that
created you. If it can create worlds out of nothing, and you out of nothing,
surely the removal of some stress isn’t such a big task. I believe that God’s
desire for you is that you not only know joy, but that you become it. Step 9: Practice being in silence and meditation. Nothing relieves
stress, depression, anxiety, and all forms of low-energy emotions like
silence and meditation. Here, you make conscious contact with your Source
and cleanse your connecting link to intention. Take time every day for
moments of quiet contemplation, and make meditation a part of your stress-
reducing ritual. Step 10: Stay in a state of gratitude and awe. Go on a rampage of
appreciation for all that you have, all that you are, and all that you observe. Gratitude is the tenth step in every ten-step program for manifesting your
intentions, because it’s the surest way to stop the incessant inner dialogue
that leads you away from the joy and perfection of the Source. You can’t
feel stressed and appreciative at the same time. I conclude this chapter on your intention to lead a tranquil life with a
poem by the famous Bengali poet of Calcutta, Rabindranath Tagore, one of
my favorite spiritual teachers:
I slept and dreamt that life was joy
I awoke and saw that life was service
I acted and behold service was joy
It can all be joy in your inner world. Sleep and dream of joy, and
remember above all else: You feel good not because the world is right, but
your world is right because you feel good.
Resistance to allowing, which is caused by contradictory thoughts and feelings.
What is the main reason why some people are unable to manifest abundance and success, according to the text?
Becoming aware of and eliminating resistance, and instead, aligning with the universal intention.
What is the key to manifesting one's desires, according to the author?
The author suggests replacing stressful thoughts with positive, loving, and appreciative ones, and to focus on what one has, not what's missing.
What is the author's approach to dealing with stressful thoughts?
The author advises to stop hoping, wishing, and praying, and instead, take proactive steps to attract the right people by being what one desires to be, and to stay in harmony with the universal intention.
What is the author's advice for attracting ideal people into one's life?
The author suggests acknowledging and eliminating resistance, and instead, focusing on one's natural state of joy and connection with the universal intention.
What is the author's approach to dealing with stress and anxiety?