Korpo

Reality creation begins with the intention. There actually exists a lot of confusion about what reality creation is and what a good intention is. Many intentions will create realities, but quite a few seem to backfire or not yield what was intended. Let's call these for sake of argument "problematic intentions."

Many people start their reality creation processes like this: "I want to be happy. In order to be happy I need to be with Sara. Please make Sara love me." The problem with this one is not in the choice of words. It's not how you state it or how often. The problem is what is asked for, and if we go deeper, the beliefs (often implicit) behind it.

The first problem is that this intention violates the free will of another. If this person is willing to love you, no problem. But you wouldn't have asked if you had that love in the first place, right? Unless your problem is being too shy about asking Sara out, that is. Let's not go there for now.

An affirmation that violates the free will of another person is problematic - how could the Universe give you what you wish for? How can you gain what is not given?

Let's take one step deeper. What is also asked for is a specific form. What if that person had asked for a Porsche? That precludes so many other things that could happen. If you ask for a specific form, a specific scenario, one choice out of many, you already limit what can happen.

Imagine your intention to be a wave spreading out throughout reality. Asking for one specific thing is like a small wave which dies out after a few feet. Asking for a more general thing is like a big wave, spreading out, with the potential to touch many events and many people who might want to help you out, for many exchanges that could get you there.

Imagine a person that asks "I want to be happy, so I need the love of a beautiful girl." This sends a bigger wave, but it might blind you for seeing the love of a stranger, for meeting Jesus in the road. There are so many more forms of love than can be had instead of just desiring beautiful girls. Implicitly there might be also a lot of beliefs of what beautiful girls need to do to make you happy. And all that baggage diminishes the waves you are making.

But we can go deeper than that still. Now we have arrived in the realm of beliefs. "I can only be happy if I have a lover." "Having a Porsche will make me happy." "I need a better job to make me happy." We have arrived at the belief level, the mental body level of the reality creation process. You hold ideas about the truth, and those shape your reality.

Whenever you think "I would be happy if..." then you put a condition on your happiness. In fact, an intention like "I want a lover so that I can be happy." will put out two intentions - "I want a lover" and "I want to be happy". What does happen when you drop two stones in the pond? You create two waves spreading, and starting to interact with each other. Both waves will not have as much influence because part of each wave is cancelled out be the other.

Many times this happens with half- or subconscious beliefs. You're thinking you're dropping one stone in the water, but because all those unknown beliefs are attached to it you drop many. And sometimes they interfere with each other.

You can read the waves by what they bring back to you. The better a match to your intention it is, the clearer the intention was and the less sub- and halfconscious baggage was attached to it.

Sometimes intentions seem to backfire. You find a lover but it doesn't make you happy. You get what you wanted but it did not do what you expected. This also has to do with the two intentions.

What if the very idea that you need a lover to be happy, that it is the lover who must make you happy is what makes you unhappy? Even finding a lover might teach you then that there's still plenty of unhappiness. You might think your intention has backfired, but still your intention to be happy is at work. You're learning that your mental body idea about the truth is not the truth itself.

This can be the start of a wonderful journey. Yes, some people just think it's the wrong lover, the wrong circumstances, that there's something incurably wrong with themselves. But that doesn't have to be the end of it.

You can take one more step, and this will lead us even deeper: You can ask to be happy. Put no conditions on it. Isn't this what you really wanted? No ifs, no buts. No ideas about the truth. Just simplify. This IS a big wave to make.

I'm not going to lead you on - this is not necessarily an easy intention to hold, but many people hold it implicitly anyway. It might easily bring many things your way you need to confront, release and let go of. It will challenge your ideas about what creates happiness. It might end you up in a very different place. Sounds a bit like life, doesn't it?

But the result can be greater happiness.