Thread: How much skill does it take to manifest your intentions?

Very interesting. Thought I should provide an excerpt (since some people will be too lazy to click on the link. Quote: Building muscle, it turns out, is not nearly as mechanical as we thought. And, in fact, a recent study by Erin M. Shackell and Lionel G. Standing at Bishop’s University reveals you may be able to make nearly identical gains in strength and fitness without lifting a finger! That study measured the strength gains in three...

Isn't it a case where you want to be thought of as a nice guy (if at least in your own mind) so you ACT nice?

Quote: Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot I think this is the one: Yue GH, Cole KJ: Strength increases from the motor program: Comparison of training with maximal voluntary and imagined muscle contractions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 67: 1114-1123, 1992. Thanks. I was having a little trouble finding it, though I only looked for a few brief moments so far. Here's another article about it: Can your brain make you buff? Imaginary...

Quote: Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot This is an experiential thing. Anyone can discover this for themselves, through meditation. There is no need to discuss further, because it is not an intellectual sort of topic, where you can reason and deduce your way through. You just have to sit and meditate (or pray). Deeply ..... and you'll see. Well said. If only the ego wasn't so stimulated by intellectualism and going round and...

Quote: Originally Posted by SmartAlx There is a difference between not being good at something and being bad at something. What I'm telling you is if it was left alone, it would function correctly. Just like with the hot stove and the hand that is placed there. Your natural instinct is to pull your hand away when you touch something damaging. Intentional manifestation is the same way, if we didn't unlearn that natural part of it, we...

I suppose it does take some skill to bring your unconscious beliefs forward, pull them apart and rebuild them. But that wasn't the question.

Quote: Originally Posted by SmartAlx Do you really think that crying makes a baby feel better? Uhuh.. Quote: Originally Posted by aelle Your answers are extremely interesting, guys. Maybe you can help me with something. I understand that taking responsibility and being at cause is a major part of growth and IM, but I have a hard time conciling it with some of my life events - I'm specifically thinking abuse, as a child in particular. No...

Quote: Originally Posted by cylon But how is that possible when everyone keeps saying "you can't sit on your couch and get rich"? People come by here all the time and flat out tell you that what you describe is impossible. Why won't you listen to them? Because we are made to believe that you have to work really hard to find money or get money. When in reality we don't and if you sit on the couch people...

Quote: Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot Very interesting. Thought I should provide an excerpt (since some people will be too lazy to click on the link.) ... So now, we know one more thing that we can achieve, by sitting on a couch - a 24% gain in muscular strength, over two weeks. I was too lazy to click on the link, but I thought about it, and I got the information all the same! It does work!

I accidentally manifest things all of the time. I can be thinking "Boy I haven't seen that movie in a while. I would really like to see that again" and withing a day or a week we will find it on cable. My son did an experiment once to show his girlfriend how it works. We were out shopping together and he mentioned a movie he knew I liked and probably hadn't seen in a while. I said "Yeah, I would like to see...