Many people are finding themselves in a state of disappointment after using methods outlined in the DVD and book The Secret and its related teachings and not making their dreams a reality.  These teachings point out how to take control of one's life and manifest an ideal life using visualizations, lists and statements.

These methods do work, but it seems they don't work on everything. Why is that?

The reason is because deep down in the person's subconscious mind, or life pattern, there is something called a "counter intention". 

You will also often find it called an “internal block”, but I personally like the term “counter intention” better.

What is Counter Intention?

The area, or areas, of your life that take up most of your time, the ones that worry you the most, make you suffer, yet the ones you spend most time trying to fix, are the ones where there is a counter-intention.
These are not external blocks, or the intentions of other people that go against your own. These are deeply ingrained, emotion-energy blocks in your own self that are there either from this life's learning or from previous lifetimes.
The Fast Guide Series have a very specific instruction on how to get past these counter-intentions, yet sometimes the latter can be so strong that the person never reaches the step that deals with these!
If you have been reading self help books, using the Law of Attraction and doing everything you can possibly do to overcome a certain problem, or manifest a certain dream and you are not getting anywhere with it, then it is time to stop trying and deal with your counter-intentions instead.

There are three steps in dealing with a specific counter intention:

1. Identify it.
2. Acknowledge it
3. Neutralize it

1. How do you Identify it?

The first thing you will notice is that no matter what you do, the situation does not change. For example:
You want to be independently wealthy and you are instead in financial trouble or completely financially dependent on another person. Yet you have put a lot of effort in using self help tools to overcome your financial situation, you might have started your own business or businesses which flop, you can't make sales or increase your revenue no matter how many tried and trusted methods you have used.  This area uses a lot of effort in your life.
Yet this is not your counter-intention. This is the result of your counter-intention. So how do you go about identifying what is causing all this?
Ok, this is where we get a little bit Mystical.  There are various ways to identify the actual counter-intention.

• Ask
  If you believe in Divine Guidance of some sort, whether these are Angels, Guides, Ascended Masters, relatives who have passed over or other non earthly beings, then ask them to show you what your counter-intention is with regard this lack of results.
  The answers might come as intuitions, dreams, a book, something someone says, a TV show and in many other ways.
  

• Feel
  This is not related to the first way to identify the counter-intention, Asking, but it works very well with it. Close your eyes and feel your desired outcome. Now thank it and make it go out of your mind, feel what there is behind it. Is it fear? Is it a negative command or belief?
  For example  manifesting wealth, maybe deep down you were taught that being rich was evil, or that it was selfish, or that it would bring you nothing but problems.
  

• Trace
  Write down a list of all your beliefs about your desire and beside it a list of the opposite:
  Wealth is good       -       Wealth is evil
  Wealth happens to me because I am (fill here)    -       Wealth doesn't happen to me because (fill here)
  
  Make the list as long and thorough as possible.
  Now, when you were writing the list, certain "negatives" made you squirm, or had other physical or emotional reactions.
  

Whatever method worked for you, the result has to be a physical, mental or emotional reaction.  This is when you do the next step; Acknowledge.

2. How do you Acknowledge Counter Intention?

You have to let the feeling, the physical reaction or mental play overcome you. Let it flow and express itself completely while at the same time "watching it". Don't get involved with it, just let it flow and watch it. Then say something like "I acknowledge you" to it, or "Thank you for expressing yourself to me".

3. Neutralize it.

This step is the simplest, yet it can take a long time to do fully, particularly with really big counter-intentions so don't give up after a week!

• One way to neutralize your counter-intention is to love it away. Yet it is very hard to get one's mind around this concept.  You can simply tell the feeling that you have allowed to express, "I love you" over and over again until it goes away by itself.  If in the middle of this you start thinking of something else, try to invoke the feeling again and see if it still there. If it is, then carry on saying "I love you" to it. You don't have to feel love for it at first or at any time for it to work.
• If you are good at visualizations and/or the above doesn't work for you, then you can send a pure divine light to it, wrap it up with it, let it be infused with it. This light can be white (for divinity), pink (for love), purple (for connection) or green (for healing).
• If you use a mantra in your life, or have a positive prayer from a religion you are aligned with, and then send this mantra or prayer to the physical reaction, feeling or mental play.
• Using the Ho'oponopono method I recently learned from the book Zero Limits, you can also say "I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you" to your Higher Self, or Divinity and bypass the feeling altogether.
• An absolutely fantastic way to neutralize it is to practice a teaching by Esther and Jerry Hicks, in which you simply change your point of attention to something you love. With this method, it is important to feel a positive feeling when you do so. Their method is very effective and it basically teaches that you must make an effort to always feel positive feelings rather than negative feelings. So if you find yourself confronting a negative feeling, simply stop giving it your attention and put your attention on something that gives you positive feelings instead.
  

How do you know when you have succeeded?

When you no longer have the feeling, mental play or physical reaction. And most importantly, when you are no longer attached to the outcome of your visualizations.  You still want them, but your happiness is not dependent on them coming true.

(c) Inelia Benz www.inelia.com

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