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CHAPTER ONE REALITY CREATION BY PERSONAL WILL Intention & Counter-Intention
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!
“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
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.
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The Reality Creation Technique by Frederick E. Dodson presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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