Hi Joshua,
This is the fifth of Deepak Chopra's Seven Laws to Success.
5. The Law of Intention and Desire - The law is based on the fact that energy and information exist everywhere in nature. The whole universe, in its essential nature, is the movement of energy and information. Intention transforms energy and information, intention organizes its own fulfillment. Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear. Intention is the real power behind desire.
Question - is Intention the real power behind desire? Is it because intent is desire without attachment to the outcome? "Your intent is for the future, but your attention is in the present. As long as your attention is in the present, then your intent for the future will manifest, because the future is created in the present. The past is recollection, memory; the future is anticipation, the present is awareness. Therefore, time is the movement of thought. Is time the movement of thought? I thought time was an illusion.
With love your student,
Isabelle
Dear Isabelle,
Intention and desire are the same, are they not? "I intend to experience joy." Is that not the same statement as "I desire to experience joy?" Intention is the desire and attention is the movement toward or away from the desire. The law of intention and desire is stating that desire is the engine of manifestation. Desire is the intention to move into another reality, one where the manifestation of the desire exists. The intention is for some future reality to be manifested. When it is manifested, it will be the present. So time, therefore, is the illusion that the desire has not yet been manifested.
The desire is manifested the moment it is born. "Ask and it is given" as Abraham says. The manifested desire exists now in some alternate reality. Your work is to become a vibrational match to the desire. You do so through an alteration of who you think you are. In order to change who you are now into the version of you who will recognize that the desire now exists in your life, you must focus your attention in a way that aligns with who you will become. You are not a vibrational match to your desire even though it exists now. It will take a certain focus of attention on your part to become a match.
The focus is not on the specifics of who you will be, but on allowing the change to take place. You will be changed in order to become a match to your desire. Your point of focus will move along or resit that change. For instance, you have at least one limiting belief that must be altered for you to change into the vibrational version of you who will be a match to your desire. Notice we used the term "will." That implies some future event. Yet we have just stated that the manifested desire exists now. You cannot see it. The illusion is that you will move forward in time to become a match. What you are actually doing is making your way though many dimensions and ending up at the dimension where you can recognize your desire. It seems like time travel, but it is simply moving to the dimension that holds your desire.
When you traveled to the Land Cruise, it seemed like you got in an airplane and flew to Florida. What was actually happening was that you were moving through multiple dimensions. The aspect of physical reality known as space is also an illusion, just as time is. You did not resist any part of the travel to Florida and so you made it there quite easily. Had there been some resistance, you would have missed your flight, the flight would have been cancelled or overbooked, or the plane would have crashed. Since there was little to no resistance on your part, everything went smoothly. You fully expected the change in scenery and you perceived that every aspect of the trip was how it should be.
When you make your way to a desire, you will encounter manifestation events that will enable you to alter your beliefs. If you resist these events, you will not make the change. Resistance is focus of attention that is on the wrongness of the event. If you allow the events to unfold and you receive the information the universe is giving you regarding the wobble (limiting belief) in your vibration, and by focusing on the issue at hand, you clear up that wobble, and you move closer to the dimension where your desire exists. Your attention in the moment is the only thing that matters. Just as your attention mattered every step you took as you made your way to Florida. If you place you attention on what is wrong about the manifestation event, you miss your flight. If you accept that the event is for you and you process your fears and adjust your beliefs, your plane lands easily in Florida. It is your attention that allows you to move through dimensions or not. This law could be called "The Law of Desire and Attention."
With our love,
We are Joshua
