CHAPTER ONE REALITY CREATION BY PERSONAL WILL Intention & Counter-Intention
(One technique as a complete practice for life)
This technique is the answer to the frequently-asked-question “If I practice only one thing for the rest of my life, what technique should it be?”
As a life coach I often recommend to my students to take just one practice, one method, one technique, one style and practice that until it begins creating results and change. What matters more than the specific method is the full commitment of the student to learn one thing properly instead of nervously jumping from one tool to another, one book to another, one philosophy to another. The Reality Creation Technique was created for those who are looking for that one tool that covers it all – the practical and the mystical, the peace and prosperity.
The Reality Creation Technique is extremely simple and consists of two steps: State Your Intention Release Counter-Intentions Alternate between 1 and 2 until there are no counter-intentions, meaning the reality you intended to manifest has manifested. That’s all folks, thanks for reading!
(Intention as decision: the language that collapses the gap)
“I will” is no good either because it projects the preferred reality into the Future. “I have” is good, “I am” even better. “I decide” captures the spirit of an intention and is also highly recommended. “I allow” is very popular among practitioners of
If you don’t want any problems in life, don’t have any goals or intentions. Every time you do form an Intention, it automatically brings up whatever stands in the way of that. I’m quite serious when saying that you will be happy and free of all difficulty if you have no goals at all. But having goals and achieving them is a lot of fun and allows for an entirely different type of happiness not experienced by that many. As a rule of the thumb, know that the higher up your goal and the more specific your goal, the more blocks, problems, objections, resistance and doubts it will bring up. Money being on most peoples minds let me use its example again:
It’s best to keep much of your Intention-Creating to yourself. Becoming extremely specific as to try to work “magic” is a no-no. As we will later explain it is something much greater than you, that’s actually doing the creating.
Make sure you have your Intention right the first time because The Reality Creation Technique does not permit a change of the Intention once it is launched. The desire to change the Intention is handled as another of many forms of doubt and resistance.
Its not a Desire, it’s a Decision Once you are sure about your Intention, voice it. Voice it as a Decision. A Decision feels very different than a Desire, a Wish, a Dream or even a Goal. A Decision says “this is the way it is!” and then that’s the way it is. A Decision means that you your 100% willing to choose reality A and abandon reality B, never looking back to B. A Decision implies that there are no ifs and buts, although the second step of “Releasing Counter-Intentions” will handle such ifs and buts anyway. Oftentimes the mere Decision, the mere Willingness (as opposed to Wanting-ness, which is actually Lackful-ness) is enough to either have the Intention manifest or put you on a path to the goal. But for cases in which manifestation is not apparent the second step comes into play. Types of Counter-Intentions
(Counter-intentions: the obstacle as the other face of the goal)
The second step after voicing your Intention is to “release counter-intentions”. Counter-Intention is my word-creation to describe objections, doubts, problems, resistances, blocks, issues, second-thoughts, matters arising, beliefs, emotions, sensations, feelings and realities that are in contradiction to your Intention. The Reality Creation Technique asks you to never handle problems outside of the context of an Intention again. Behind every problem you have there is an Intention. Do not see the two things separately. So if having no money is the problem, somewhere there must be an intention to have money, otherwise having no money would be no problem. Intention and Problem or, in my words, Intention and Counter-Intention go hand in hand. They are two sides of the same coin. Deal with goals and you also have to deal with everything that is between you and the goal. That is the nature of physical reality and there is no way around this as long as you live on Planet Earth.
Even though thoughts like these indicate that you are getting closer to manifestation, that you are currently in a better mood, in using RCT (Reality Creation Technique) they are also handled as counter-intentions because they do not match the original Intention.
In short: Everything other than the real-life, physical manifestation of your Intention is a counter-Intention. What if it doesn’t manifest? Well, it not manifesting is the counter-intention. And what if, after handling the counter-intention, it still doesn’t manifest? Well, it still not manifesting is the counter-intention. The question is never whether something works or not, whether something manifests or not but if you are wiling to focus until it manifests. That is the awesome and extremely powerful philosophy behind RCT.
This is a more proper use of the RCT because focus on the counter-intention does not take a priority to the Intention. On planet Earth it is actually quite common to focus much more attention on the unwanted than the wanted, so the RCT will gradually reduce that conditioned behaviour.
You now do have the outline of the basic-version of the technique. I know you are eager to get started but do read on before you start because there are several add-ons to the technique to make it deeper, longer-lasting and more effective.
Personally, when I have an Intention I repeat it about 20 times a day. There are several reasons for all of this: The advantages of repeating your Intention every day, again and again and again and again is that your body-mind familiarizes itself with the energy-vibration of the preferred reality.
The purpose is to have at least enough control over your attention so that it is aware of or focussed on the preferred reality at least 51% of the time. 51% is quite enough to have it manifest. That means you can have it manifest despite doubts, you can have it despite issues and problems and challenges and blocks.
There are hundreds of different ways of handling counter-intentions but I strongly recommend, from 15 years of experience with RCT, you only work with the ones presented in this book.
(Releasing resistance: awareness dissolves what suppression feeds)
Releasing Resistance First of all, plenty of counter-intentions dissolve or loose energy-charge merely by you noticing them. That’s because many of these thought-patterns only have power and momentum because you are not quite aware of them operating.
By trying to push away problems you are actually holding them in mind. To quit energizing problems, stop resisting them.
In fact, suppressing or trying to avoid problems is not a sign of positivity or spiritual awareness, but a sign of cowardice.
Get it? “Problems” should therefore be not only not resisted but much more than that, they should be embraced, enjoyed, celebrated. You take the Bull by the horns and it will ride you straight to your goal.
Enjoy the “Problem” as a Stepping-Stone to Manifestation So it is of crucial importance to begin to enjoy the objections, blocks, challenges, counter-intentions that present themselves, to appreciate them as the very stepping stones to the full manifestation of your Intention. Once you quit responding to them like some kind of wuss and instead react to them like someone tough enough to handle it and free and powerful enough to overcome even that, these blocks will disappear.
counter-intention does not always have to be a thought or a word, in which case you simply mimic whatever comes up. It can be A feeling An emotion Tiredness An intuition A thought A memory A fantasy A physical sensation An inner aversion or resistance A contraction An energy in your stomach, solar-plexus, chest, forehead or crown An urge to do something else
Every time you are too serious you know you are bottling up Emotions that want to flow up and out.
This can have some hilarious effects while at the same time freeing long-held energy. It is not possible to demonstrate this on this piece of paper so I do recommend you listen to the Reality Creation Technique Audio which is available at www.realitycreation.net
(The non-dual nature of resistance and desire in manifestation)
Everything we want stays away and everything we don’t want comes to us. For people who do not understand how energy operates, life can become quite a nightmare. Everything you say “Yes” to, you activate and everything you say “No” to, you also activate. There is no difference between “Yes” and “No” because Infinity is non-dual, is One. Resistance is saying “No”. Desire is saying “Yes” but its saying yes to “I don’t have it”. Intention is saying “Yes” to the reality you prefer.
All issues, emotions and counter-intentions can be traced back to a collection of wants and resistances which are: Wanting Love/Attention/Approval (Resisting Disapproval/Criticism) Wanting Control/Power – (Resisting Powerlessness) Wanting Freedom/Separation/Superiority (Resisting Unity/Inferiority/Emprisonment) Wanting Unity/Oneness (Resisting Separation/Freedom) Wanting Safety/Security/Certainty (Resisting Uncertainty/The Unknown)
In The Infinity Course Level 2 I call this “Duality Surfing”. So you’d visualize the fulfilment of your Intention, then you’d shift your attention to an objection and you’d go back and forth again and again, until a) shifting back and forth is no longer a problem b) there is no resistance toward the negative or opposite side c) there is no resistance toward the positive side or what you intend d) you can easily put your attention on the preferred reality and feel it as real
Examples for “Acting-As-If” in regards to the Intention “I allow myself to have $15 000 Dollars a month” Test-driving a new car Saying “no” to an unfriendly customer Spending a day at a Spa as if you had no worries in the world Having time for creative projects because you “already have enough money”
As-if actions are actually even more powerful than actions-toward-the-goal because they produce an energy-field of already having as opposed to wanting. You always receive back in life what you feel you already have. (More on the as-if method in my book “Parallel Universes of Self”)
(Action, flow, and prosperity as natural fruits of aligned intention)
Many people who are attracted to reality-creation-literature and courses have an aversion towards physical-reality. They’d like to have some magic Formula fix it for them rather than actually deal with their goals, dreams and intentions and all the hurdles and issues that brings up. Along with this exhaustion with life (which they usually hide from themselves) comes an aversion against physical action, which is labelled as “laziness”. Action or Working is perceived as “difficult”. In reality, and successful people know this, action is fun. Physical life on earth is fun. We embrace physical reality, we embrace action, we embrace work. What purpose would it have to incarnate as physical beings and then not want to participate in physicality? What point is it to long for the soul-realm when you previously really looked forward to trying out the physical realm? Generally speaking I recommend all readers of this to soften their resistance of action and work and challenges.
Productivity and Creativity are sure signs that you’re in flow. Being in flow means to be in alignment with your Intentions.
go ahead and do, act, work. Just make sure that before you do so, you feel well, you feel at ease, you feel joyful about your Intentions and your life. Otherwise your actions will be “compensation actions” meant to make-up for negative creating.
the rule of the thumb is always: First get into a good state, then act. Otherwise all of your actions will be coloured negatively, will be inspired by lack and create more lack. When, on the other hand, your actions are inspired by joy, they will lead to more joy.
Escapes Some of the things we use to avoid feeling/releasing or avoid going for our goals; some of the counter-intentional actions we as modern day humans regularly do are: Internet Email Television Telephoning Gaming Chit-Chatting Watching Movies Listening to Music Seeing Friends Going Out Eating Sleeping Taking Drugs (including Alcohol and Tobacco)
It’s the same with all other things. Going through life in Resistance and Unawareness leads to Exhaustion and Energylessness.
Weekly Plans or Monthly Plans are alright, but again: These are also often action- and realism-oriented. But if you insist on week-planning or if you need to do it in context of your company, then at least begin with the goal (the final outcome) and why you want it (the motivator) and then work out your actions from that vantage point. This is much more effective than starting out with an action list. “Do I have to write them down? Can’t I just repeat them as Affirmations?”
Passive Income is a wonderful thing. It means you have things that are making money for you, covering your regular expenses. It means you do not have to work for money and the only work you do is work coming from joy, creativity, service-to-the-world rather than lack. I passed the mark from “working for money” to “being able to live off passive income” at the age of 30, having originally set the goal at the age of 28. Although this is no “spectacular manifestation” and I used no RCT for it (I merely used common sense) it is nevertheless the Basis of me having time to devote my life to spirituality, life coaching, book writing and so on. If you can find an asset or a product or an idea that makes money for you once you’ve produced it, and if that income covers all of your regular expenses, you can be considered rich. I do not consider you rich if you have to slave and be unhappy in order to earn a lot of money. Prosperity is not really about money its about being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it and having all the resources available when you need them.