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According to the Law of Attraction, a powerful intent made up of clear, pure and focused thoughts will start to attract the very essence of your desires. Hence, the clearer, more specific and untainted you are in your thoughts, the more likely you can be in bringing them into physical reality. However, what happens if you do not have a clear idea of what you really want yet? Or what happens if it is a question of readiness?

It may be the case that you need more information to make a decision on your desires or that you want to feel your way a little more before making a decision. It will be useful to think of the process of coming to a powerful intent by the metaphor of a jigsaw puzzle, where you take time gathering each relevant piece to see how the pieces all fit in together into a coherent, beautiful and complete picture.

Case Studies of Intents That Are Not Powerful Enough

My last post was a good example of how I would like to publish a best seller but because my intent was not clear, I ended up with getting a picture of my vision board published in Joyce Schwarz’s best selling The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life book instead. Not that I minded, I simply love her book!!

Another excellent example which many of you can probably relate to is if you are interested to set up your own business but do not know which area to go into. You have various interests but do not know which to pursue. (Anyone still wondering at this question can get extra help from Tom Volkar’s Business Of Your Dreams Program.

So you create an intent to have your own business but are unable to make the intent clear or specific enough. It is possible that while your thoughts are fuzzy (due to insufficient information) or chaotic (due to too many options), you face great difficulty bringing a specific and successful business into fruition. It is also no surprise that most of your business ventures fail miserably at this stage!

Steps To Making A Powerful Intention

1. Make an Intent “I want to Know What I Want”.

To start off with, you can make an intent saying “I want to know what I want”. This is a suggestion provided by Abraham Hicks in The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense to admit that you do not really know what you want yet and need some help. Don’t we often turn to our friends for some assistance if we find ourselves in a bind? Well, it works the same way with The Universe/Source/God.

You make the intention to attract all sorts of examples and cases to help you make a decision. You allow your dominant intent to be looking for things you want. You can also look at the people around you for traits and characteristics that you desire in a companion, mate or friend if this is what you are hoping to attract.

2. Collect Useful Data.

Sometimes, the examples around you may not all that perfect. For instance, you may say that you would like more wealth; however, you experience some resistance in your thoughts due to having a friend who is wealthy but in poor health. Abraham Hicks suggests that you just collect the prosperity data and leave out the rest of the undesirable parts. Each piece of information must be scrutinized so that it can contribute healthily and meaningfully to your entire dream or picture.

3. Put The Jigsaw Pieces Together Mentally.

Then, you start to visualize by piecing together all the desired characteristics of what you want. The pieces are about what you now feel you want to experience. This is where Vision Boards or Mind Movies come in particularly useful!!

You may find that what you put together may be nothing like what already exists. No one else has had it. This is perfectly fine!! You are the creator of a new experience or a physical reality never before manifested! Do not for a second believe that just because it has not happened to anyone yet, it cannot happen to you!!

4. Set The Intention At The Right Time.

Due to having to put the puzzle pieces together, it may require you some time. You only know when you are clear enough as soon as you get all excited. Back to the same example, your thoughts have been mostly on the business you would like to set up but none of the options you have been exploring have a strong appeal. However, one fine day, an inspired idea may just drop in and you have the “Aha” moment! When you hit that sweet spot, you get an instant inner knowing. That is when you set a clear and powerful intention by saying “this is what I want”!

5. Keep The Intent Pure.

Well, according to the Law of Attraction, when you have been purely visualizing your intention, it should come pretty quickly.

“The purity of the visualization is key and by that we mean purely offering thoughts only in the direction of what you want.”
— Abraham Hicks in The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham

However, the problem comes in you we start to have our “buts”. It is when you say “I want this but” Here is what Abraham Hicks say….

“If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be only for one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence”.

Hence, get your eyes, words and thoughts on what-is. The more often you practice this, the faster your wants will manifest.

Learn From The Frog Get Your Intents Clear & Pure

Recently, the Psychic Friends Network launched a hotline for frogs. Here is the story of one frog, which decided to call into the hotline to ask to speak to a psychic.

The psychic told the frog, “You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you.”

The frog was elated, “This is great! I have been wishing for exactly that.”

However, secretly inside, it felt unsure that a beautiful girl would seriously fall in love with an ugly looking creature like a frog.

Filled with doubt, it decided to ask for more information. “Will I meet her at a party, or what?”

“No,” replied the psychic. “Next semester in her biology class.”

Your Thoughts Please

Do you make the asking “I want to know what I want” if you are not already clear about the intent that you wish to create? How is the process like for you in finding out what you really want? What has been a helpful strategy for you in feeling good about the experience you wish to have, although in reality you are not there yet?

One of the best techniques I have learned is about how to program ourselves for positive changes with water. Having just written an article on 7 jazzy ideas to making affirmations fun, I thought it will be nice to add to this list with the Glass of Water technique.

The use of water for healing is nothing new. For instance, in churches, for centuries, blessings of water have often done for the purpose of baptism or for the blessing of persons, places or things. Hence, programming through water can be used for just about anything that you wish for. As such, I am going to propose, with the writing of my article today, the use of water to carry messages of affirmations on success, health, relationships, love, happiness and abundance, to every single cell of our body.

Why Water?

You can program any object that you want to. By programming, you send thoughts of focused positive energy into the object on hand, so that it will emit the same energy vibration back to its environment or in essence, the Universe. For instance, you can program a crystal to emit love energy every time someone passes it in your living room.

However, it cannot be denied that that water is one of the best mediums, if not the best, for transmitting information and energy inside us. After all, we drink water every day and our human body is comprised of 70 percent water. The properties of water allow it to reach every cell and subatomic particle to deliver the information. Hence, by changing the molecular structure of water through the use of energy or vibrations, it is possible to transmit any message that you want at the miniscule subatomic particle level.

These findings were revealed by the very famous Dr Masaru Emoto in his best selling books “The Hidden Messages in Water” and and “The True Power of Water”. My husband first sat for a lecture presentation by Dr Emoto himself some years ago and even got our book copies autographed.

In The Silva Class during last weekend, I also found out that the late Jose Silva had also conducted experiments using water. What would be useful for us, therefore, is to combine both Jose Silva’s mind power techniques and Dr Emoto’s findings to programming affirmations with the use of water.

Basic Programming of Water The Silva Way

1. Get a glass of water. In the original experiments, Jose Silva used glass, But later experiments have shown that just about any container such as plastic bottles, Styrofoam cups work. However, I would still recommend that you use glass since most of the tests involved glass, with good results.
2. Sit in a comfortable position.
3. Clasp the glass with both hands and try to spread your fingers while grasping it. However, do not allow your fingertips from touching the fingertips of the other hand. Hence the thumb of your left hand will be close to the thumb of your right hand but they are not touching each other.
4. Look into the water, using it as a mental screen.
5. State your affirmation and visualize the end result. Do this for 15 minutes. Here, you are using focused thought to communicate the pure intention that you wish the water to carry.
6. Once you have finished, drink it. As you are drinking it, say this “this is all I need to achieve ________ (your affirmation)”.

4 Ways To Programming Positive Affirmations With Water

1. Use the Power of Words

In his books, Dr Emoto had been visually documenting molecular changes in water in a variety of situations using photographic techniques. It was clear that water easily took on the vibrations and energy of its environment, whether toxic and polluted or naturally pristine. What was perhaps most revealing was the effect of water when positive and negative words were typed on pieces of paper and stuck to its container overnight.

It was shown that water absorbed the hado, the subtle energy of the word or thought. Where water was exposed to positive words, the photographs showed beautiful crystalline structures (see picture on left). Where it was shown negative words, the crystalline structures were ugly and distorted. Emoto’s photographs provided proof that water was highly alive and highly responsive to every one of our thoughts and emotions.

Based on the findings, it would not be unreasonable for us to consider using water to carry the affirmations that we want to make down to our cellular level. Since you are water, your body will surely respond to the information carried by it. Hence, to program yourself for positive changes, absorb words of positive affirmations by sending messages in the water that you consume.

Hence, after step 5 above, instead of drinking the water right away, how about programming it with a stronger energy vibration or hado? Dr Emoto’s recommendation: write the words on paper and paste it onto the container with the words facing in so that water inside can read it. Keep this water at least overnight.

Talk to the water from time to time and occasionally shake the bottle, which helps to activate the water and contributes to its vibrations. Drink 5 glasses of this water every day.

What words should you use? Whatever you want to affirm. But state it positively. If you do not have any specific affirmations, “love and gratitude” is a good phrase to show to the water.

Quoted from Emoto….

They were all beautiful, but the most beautiful one to me was the crystal that formed after the water was exposed to the words “love and gratitude”.

“Love” is absolute and “gratitude” is relative. Absoluteness is an active energy and relativeness is a passive energy. Only when we have a receiver can we be involved in the act of giving. No matter how hard you try to give your love, without a receiver, you won’t be able to do so. It is Nature’s providence. Splendidly, the water crystals present us Nature providence and the concept of life’s phenomena. Not just love. Not just gratitude. Only when the two are together can they manifest the workings of Nature.

If you are working on canceling some negative emotion through your affirmations, use its antonym. For instance, if you are feeling stress, then use the word “relax”. For irritability, use “calmness”. For anger, use “happy”. In short, use various healing words to override what you are currently feeling.

In Emoto’s experiments, I’m not sure if he used anything longer than 2 words for the pieces of paper to be stuck onto the container. Still, I do not see it a problem if you want to use a longer phrase or sentence.

2. Heal With The Power of Prayer

Instead of just stating an affirmation for Step 5 above, consider making a prayer. In Emoto’s findings, you can send a stronger hado by offering prayers in the past tense than in the future tense. “I hope my mother’s cancer will be cured”has been found to be less effective than “My mother’s cancer was cured”.

Ideally, you may want to recite your prayers continuously for the 15 minutes. To make the process easier, search in advance for verses that you can recite for various affirmations or check up religious text for appropriate spiritual verses. Of course, it is best if you can write prayer affirmations yourself to make them more relevant to your needs. Recite your prayers emphatically, while imaging your success, and in the past tense.

3. Use The Power of Imaging

Imaging is also very important. It represents your hope, dreams and wishes. As you repeat your affirmations, visualize the end result that you desire. Visualization is a way of giving stronger energy. You add movement and emotion when you visualize. Make it as vivid as you can.

3. Heal With The Power of Music

You may also choose to play music to the water, since Emoto’s photographs have shown that water responds to music. Of course, the music that you select will have to be appropriate to the message that you want the water to transmit.

When all vibrations go well at your cellular and subatomic particle level, your body as a composite, works beautifully like a grand orchestra. If a disturbance occurs in a vibration, a discord is created. Translated to physical terms, sickness can happen as a result of disharmony in your energy vibrations within. If you know music therapy, you can incorporate healing by playing beautiful classical pieces to water. For health affirmations that you need to make, also visualize water coming from an undiscovered mountain spring cleansing and pure.

Affirmations In A Glass

The lessons above have profound implications on possibilities:

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1. Affirmations of Self Love. You can transmit positive words or thoughts to every part of your body by simply drinking water that has been programmed with an affirmation. Emoto’s work provides undisputed evidence that it is possible to heal and transform yourself by the positive thoughts you choose and send. Affirmations of self love can be wonderfully made through water.

2. Affirmations of Success. You can drink to affirmations of success at work, improving your golf score (see picture), fulfilling your dreams or becoming a top expert in your field. Here’s to Empowerment Through Water!

3. Affirmations of Health. Other than for self healing purposes, you can also help others with any existing health issues. I witnessed two monks using this technique sometime early this year, for my friend who was struck with cancer. For cancer or other tumor issues, simply meditate and visualize a body that has normal and healthy growing cells. What is important is the pure intention and well wishes that you sent through the water.

4. Affirmations of Love and Gratitude. Here is additional idea for a Random Act of Kindness:

Consider also giving bottles of “Love and Gratitude” water to your friends, loved ones and strangers. Give as Christmas presents, birthday wishes, as a token of appreciation or even for no specific reasons whatsoever.

Need an idea for a positive affirmation to say to the water? This beautiful verse from Louis Hay, author of You Can Heal Your Life, will be a great one for anyone to drink to

In the infinity of life where I am,
all is perfect, whole and complete.
I support myself and life supports me.
I see evidence of the Law working all around me
And in every area of my life.
I reinforce that which I learn in joyous ways.
My day begins with gratitude and joy.
I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day,
Knowing that in my life, “All is good.”
I love who I am and all that I do.
I am the living, loving, joyous expression of life.
All is well in my world.

Let’s toast to Your Affirmations on Good Health, Love and Joy Always!

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Be One with The Spoon, we were told in an Advanced Silva Workshop, which took place just the weekend, by our instructor Ms Nancy Ho.

Sounds like mambo jumbo? I thought so too.

How do you BE One with a Spoon, for crying out loud???

The weekend culminated with an exercise that required us to bend a metal spoon, not by brute force but by the mental focus of thought. Nancy shared that we, be it spoon or human, are made up of energy and therefore, instead of viewing ourselves as seperate from another matter, we are One. And BEing One, it is possible to alter the appearance of the spoon.

The focus of the Workshop that I was attending was on BEing, with a course outline of helping participants improve on creative, intuitive and spiritual abilities. I had signed up for it some weeks back, knowing that my husband would be free to take care of the kids, while I attend the workshop.

The Spoon Test

So it was….during the last hour of the workshop yesterday, that we were handed ordinary metal spoons that were bought from the supermarket. I tested the spoons to check if it was possible to bend them. Nope….no way it would be easy for that…..the spoons were made of solid stainless steel and thick at the handle. Urrgh…..I felt a lump in my throat, in nervous anticipation about the whole exercise.

Although I could theoretically agree with the concepts of energy and focused thought, I was sceptical at what Nancy was suggesting – that it was possible to bend anything made of thick solid metal.

However, in about 15 minutes or so into the exercise, a number of my classmates managed to bend their metal spoons. Some not only bend their spoons but twisted them out of shape.

Great job!!

The other half of the class was still in deep concentration, holding on their spoons, as if “willing” them to bend.

Sigh….Including myself.

Another 10 minutes lapsed.

My spoon refused to budge.

Damn!!…not even for less than a millimeter, could I attempt to bend it.

A Battle In The Mind

I could barely keep myself from launching into a stream of expletives!

It became clear to me that I was stuck in a s****hole of disbeliefs – I just could not do it!!!

It was no longer just a battle with “willing” the spoon but one I sought to wrestle in my mind. Now that some of my classmates have proven that it was possible to bend a solid matter out of shape, it was more about how much I believed in my own abilities….

Was I capable of focused thought?

What would become of me, if I found out that I have no ability to effect any changes in the physical world through the power of thought?

What would become of this blog, the very essence of which is on taking charge of the mind and in creating the life that one desires?

Doubt clouded my mind. I began to feel as if my whole life would now depend on whether I could bend spoons with mental focus or not.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. — William Hazlitt

Nancy suggested that it would be helpful to visualise a flame that was burning the handle of the spoon, enough for it to melt and making it easy for us to bend it. Also, while focused attention is needed, BEing one with the spoon also required us not to “force” things to happen nor try too hard.

So I imagined a candle flame burning a part of the handle and focused my attention on it. In the end, I had to give up. We were running out of time in class.

Despite feeling exhausted after a long tiring weekend of lectures and exercises, I swore that I would not sleep last night until I got my spoons bent. I had lots of emails to attend to, when I got home, but nothing was as important to me as the battle that was going on in my mind. I barely looked at my inbox, before shutting down my PC early.

From Doubt To Elation

I told my husband deftly that he would not be allowed to sleep until I finished Mission Impossible!! Luckily for him, lest he would lose sleep, he had already bent and twisted metal spoons himself in an Energy Conference some years back. He offered me some useful suggestions. Visualise the spoon as red hot, he said. Only if it was red hot enough, could the molecules in the spoon part enough for its structure to be altered.

That was when I realised that perhaps imagining a candle flame was not good enough to “melt” the spoon. My intention was just not strong enough!!

So instead of a candle flame, I visualised the spoon over my kitchen stove fire at full blast. My visualisation was so vivid that I almost dropped the spoon a couple of times because it felt burning hot in my hands!!

And instead of taking things the easy way out as some would by focusing on the nape of the spoon at the weakest point between the handle and curved end, I placed my concentration on the thickest part of the spoon handle. I held on to my focus, pushing away thoughts of doubt. In steady focus, I continued.

In about 15 minutes or so, I could feel as if the molecules in the handle of the spoon were parting and not as tightly packed. The metal was softening? I went in for the “kill”.

In an instant, I managed to bend the handle. At another go, the handle got twisted very easily. See the first spoon ifrom the bottom of the picture (my first attempt) on the left.

The fire of my imagination must be so hot that another spoon, which I tried after the first piece, broke into two! By the time I got to the third spoon, I was tired mentally and only managed to bend it at the nape.

Yippee!!! I went to bed on a high, happy with my latest collection of “art” pieces!

“Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. ” —Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

Lessons From The Spoon

A test in mental skills? Not just that! The purpose of the exercise cover many key lessons on Universal Laws:

1. BEing One

You are made up of the same energy subatomic particles, as much as the spoon, your dog or the trees. Of course, what differentiates you from the rest mentioned is that you are a bundle of intelligent energy that is able to process information, and in the human form.

You are not a seperate BEing but part of the whole Universe. You are more connected to the next human being, than you realise. Through your connection with others, you are able to subconsciously pick up the energy of others in their intentions, even before they verbalise them. When you realise how connected you are with others, you will be on your way to BEing more loving and kinder to others, as how you would to yourself. Wars will end, strife will cease, in the understanding that you are really One.

2. Cause and Effect

When you are One with the Spoon, it is possible to change its molecular structure, and hence its appearance. This supports the Universal Law that you are the cause and effect of yourself. You are all that you see, feel and done because of the thoughts in your mind.

By the same token, you are able to effect physical events by channelling your energies on your desires. Energy follows focused thought. This makes you a co-Creator of the Universe. For what you choose to focus on, can manifest in physical reality.

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
— Buddha

That you are co-Creator of the Universe is a powerful and liberating realisation. Your energy field changes constantly, based on your thoughts and feelings. If your intention is not strong enough, you will not create anything. You can see that in the example of my initial problems with trying to bend the spoon. On the other hand, if you focus your thoughts with pure and uninterrupted intent, you can create almost anything you desire.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. — Sheilah Graham

3. The Expansion of All Possibilities

The limits to all possibilities lie in the blockages that exist in our mind. No more playing the victim for this role has not proven to yield good results. Instead, choose to free yourself of negative beliefs that are holding you back.

“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
— V. S. Naipaul (Trinidadian writer of Indian descent,Won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2001, 1932)

If you are imaginative enough, you can even think up and manifest whole new worlds for yourself. Just think about the number of innovative ideas that were born because great minds decided to explore new frontiers in improving humanity?

In conclusion, give serious consideration to following your dreams and attract the resources to make possibilities happen. Believe in your own capabilities (a key lesson for me)! Be an active Co-creater of the Universe and revel in its Abundance!

Interested To Prove The Power of Focused Thought?

Metal spoon bending is not a party trick. Neither do you need psychic powers to do it.

There is no use of illusion. As some would have you believe. At least, not in my case.

I can also assure you that the spoons are not the thin ones either. Definitely, no trickery involved here.

If you are interested to learn how to test out the power of focused thought, here’s a video demonstration that is pretty close to how I did it…..with first going into the Alpha meditative state and then using focused concentration….

Be A Hero

If you can bend metal spoons, it feels as if you can do almost anything! Walk on water, scale blank walls with your bare hands, levitate yourself…Anything! You can easily be one of the characters in Heroes, except that this is not for TV but for Real.

It sure feels good to be empowered. And All with the aid of Spoons!

Signed,
Superwoman – One of Steel!