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C100-Intention and Affirmation Campaign

MM, I just have to comment on the useability of this. Wonderful technique and reminder – I just implememented your idea within our family’s “intention” objective. I think your story is hilarious tho.
So, close but yet yet so far, but it seems like ur other intentions have come true (Wink, wink. Some billionaires swim in oceans of money, but I m sure the dolts dont “get some” as much as MM!). USD246 billion? My goodness, what a huge number!
I can imagine tho that ur an honest person but if he met up with different foreigners or locals, that he’d be in big personal trouble in terms of being a “target” for harvest. Pls keep these stories coming.
I m learning everyday, and hopefully becoming “smarter!” If u cant get everything in life, unlimited p*ssy as a consolation may be ample compensation….

Rob, you put a smile on my face.

Indeed, you have read between the lines correctly. It’s better to have viseral, physical experiences, than to have stacks upon stacks of paper, and a nice spreadsheet with big impressive numbers on it.

It’s not that I am afraid to go to prison, but I just don’t want to. There’s a difference, you know. There’s a part of me that suggests this guy is looking for an easy way out; a mark. But it’s not gonna happen. Well, not with me it won’t.

I’m still working the affirmations and tweeking them. I’ll write a post describing things as they develop. But, I guess the points here are numerous…

[1] Ask your affirmations BIG.
[2] It works and things WILL happen.
[3] Ask and revise your affirmations.
[4] Never stop.

Indeed, as you said. “So close and yet so far”. It’s like giving a starving dog a rubber bone!

This information has opened the doors to a whole new world of possibilities for me. Even though I’m just 5 days away from completing my first 3 months praying cycle, allow me to share a little bit of what I experienced in my prayer campaign so far.
I hope it’s okay to reveal one of my intentions/affirmations to explain my point here; so I have been praying for “I will live the love life of my dreams in the beautiful city of Hiroshima one day, with my true love.”

And as a result, not so long ago, I received a message on my Twitter from a person saying he supports international students in Japan by paying for their tuition fee and improving education and whatnot, which at first appears to be like WOW!
It’s an opportunity of a lifetime to go to Japan! My intentions are manifesting!

But thanks to your article, now that I’m fully equipped with this knowledge of ‘false positives’, my suspicions about the credibility of this person have proved to be true. It is very likely he might be just another one of those scammers.
In your previous post titled “the extreme intention prayer challenge”, I learned about the “realistic”, “further out” and “impossible goals”, and I think my prayer falls in the latter category.
So in any case, common sense tells me that there’s no way for any such intention of that level to manifest so effortlessly within such a short period of time.
I fully appreciate the fact that it could take anywhere from 5 to 10 years of hard work for this intention to actually manifest in the way I want it to manifest.

Thank you for this.

The good news is that if you get a “false positive” you are well on your way to have your dream goals come true. While you have described it as being perhaps ten years out, my experience is that if you are getting a false positive, that it is much closer and sooner than that.
maybe a year or two maximum.

It is critical for you to update your prayer affirmations with your latest thoughts and lessons.

This is true even as you enter into the “pause” phase. And make no mistake the pause phase is critical to the success of your operation. So when you enter the pause phase, you forget about all the affirmatiosn and everythign and spend three months doing nothing.
Let the prayers and intentions manifest. then after three months begin again only with the revised intention affirmations.

Remember, and I want to underline this, if you are experiencing a false positive you need to be advised;

[1] Update your affirmations to prevent these kinds of false positives from occurring.
[2] Realize that you are far closer to your objectives when you are first getting false positives.
[3] Make absolutely sure that you conduct the pause phase absolutely.

All affirmation MUST use present tense.

The present tense is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to locate a situation or event in the present time. The present tense is used for actions which are happening now.

Oh, one more thing. You need to CHANGE the tense of your affirmations. Into Positive-Perfect.

From “I will live the love life of my dreams in the beautiful city of Hiroshima one day, with my true love.”

To: “I am living the love life of my dreams in the beautiful city of Hiroshima, with my true love.”

Your affirmations are currently about “…will do in the future…” instead of “…am doing now…”

First off. I want to thank you for what you’ve done. In your life and with what you’ve written. And because this is a comment section I cant write everything I would like to say to you So I want to keep things a bit shorter.
To make a long story short, i’ve been living a prayer life for 16 years. i’m a catholic and libertarian and I started praying after something that shook up my life. Probably sounds familiar.
Any way i came upon an article on your site, completely unrelated to prayer campaigns or the mwi, but something got me reading more from you and i came across your majestic and prayer posts. And like a lot of things I encountered in my life,things clicked.
I always had the feeling that there had to be a “technical” side to why prayer worked. And it felt good to read how everything you wrote corresponds with what I learned from preachers and the bible.
And now for the first time I adjusted my way of praying with how you perform your prayer campaigns. And mind you I was already very carefull about wording things when it comes to safety. Any way I finished my campaign and prayers are being answered.
Mostly Just like they were when I prayed in my older style but perhaps better and definately with more understanding now. But I also decided to put an extreme or Lets say more far out prayer in my campaign.
And about 4 days into my pause i got something that made me flabbergasted. Its sort of what I prayed for but could also be a false positive. And studying what I got I think I perhaps didnt word my prayer correctly. No problem you would say.
Just adjust your prayer in your next campaign. But thats just it. It also got me thinking. What if someone decided to pray for six months and than pause for six months. And his false positive shows up in the first week of the pause.
Does he have to wait the rest of the six months realising he worded that particular prayer wrong or can one pray with their better worded prayer right away after realising its a false positive.
I would love to hear about this because its one of the few things i couldnt find out reading through your posts. To finish up this already long comment , and dammit I wanted to keep things shorter lol , but I felt that would come across as someone looking for a quick fix.
I sincerely wish I could pay you for answering but I dont have the means. Even if you wont answer thanks for everything you’ve written anyway

Thank you for this.

I am so very glad that my writings have meaning and understanding for you. It means a lot to me. It really does. I know that not everyone can pay me some money that is why I’m not screaming for it, or flooding you all with pop-ups, banners, and gimmicky advertisements.
The benefits that I derive through helping people cannot be measured in money.

So, how do you tell the difference from a “false positive” and a real thing? It’s very difficult.

The reason why is because time is NOT a factor. Oh, it seems like it is.
But it is really not, and when you start hitting the bedrock of substantive purpose for your life (not yet covered, I’ll get to it) in your prayer affirmation campaign, you will start touching the “base-line pre-birth world-line template (remember that?).
And there are certain things that lie there untouched and undisturbed silently waiting for you to uncover them. They await there silent, ignored, un-moving, like a coiled spring.
Like a very old coiled spring that was wound up by your great great grandfather, that you found inside an old dusty drawer in an old sub-basement in your long dead great aunties house.
And when you open it up and you hold it in your hand, you are amazed at the sheen of the gun-metal soils, and the weight of it. You pull it out of the drawer and look at it by the light filtering in through the window. What is this? You ask. Could this be…

…and you remember this deep, dark, half-forgotten desire or dream that you once had a a young, young boy. This crazy, oh it’s just a crazy dream that would never happen to me, kind of desire. But you look at this beautiful piece of wound up mechanism.
You can clearly read the stamped in letters, and everything. Not a fleck of rust on it. Pristine. And you wonder… you wonder…

The only way to see if it works is to release the spring and watch it uncoil. Just note that once you do, it might be impossible to coil the spring back.

Do you want to continue living a life where the discovery did not happen? Then put the coil back in the drawer and continue on your life.

But if you want to take a change at your DREAM… then uncoil it and stand back. Knowing full well that you only have an inkling of whether it will work or now, and you have no idea what might be unleashed when you uncoil it.

It is at these times that you will find your life at a cross-roads. It will be one of “do you proceed with the opportunity” or not. It will be clear and quite abrupt. You will not need to question whether it is real or not. You can either take it, or try to take it or not.

But the only way that you will know if it is a “false positive” is if you try to take that opportunity. I suggest that you do so, and then let the chips fall. Good or bad. Pleasant or a surprise. Prayer is not for the timid.
You either follow through in your actions or stop praying and following intention campaigns. Now, I sincerely hope that this dream of yours, this impossible high-stakes objective comes true for you. They have come true for me, I’ll tell you what. But…

But…

Everything comes with a “price tag”. You will find you life changing in unexpected and new ways, ways that you had no idea of. Both good and bad. Change is a good thing. Embrace it. If you read my post on how my life has changed since I started decades ago, you will see that I had to go through some uncomfortable changes to get here, and here (as much as I enjoy it) still has many imperfections. And the struggles of life do not, never, actually end. They just change form.

You can comment all you want, and feel free to tell of your adventures in prayer. (In general terms.) Most of us would love to hear what went right and what went wrong. Just like you like to read my writings on this subject.

In fact, if you have a burning desire to tell others, I can give you a space on MM to relate your “war stories”. We can chat off line if you want, or are interested in that. It’s an open invitation that I offer to everyone, but no one takes me up on it.
Too afraid of the MM stigma I guess. Best Regards, and keep on praying. 6 months on, 6 months off is a good healthy system. Stick with what works for you.

To your question. Can you interrupt your campaign… start a shorter duration campaign when you start getting positives?

I would advise against it. Instead, [1] update your prayer list. [2] Continue your dwell/pause period for 1/2 (50%) duration. So if you have a 6 month on / 6 month off period. Perform a dwell/pause for 3 months. then [3] start a smaller cycle.
I’d advise a 3 month on /3 month off. Don’t do anything radical.

The dwell pause is a very, very, VERY important part of your campaign. Don’t discount it.

First off all. Thank you very much for the well thought out answer. I have a lot of things I want to say about it but that takes some time and I would like to do it tonight. But I thought i’d let you already know that I read it and thinking about all that you wrote.

Thank you for that. Take your time. Compose your thoughts then write. Not a problem. I have a prayer / Intention campaign post that I just released. You might want to check it out.

My first comment contained a lot of words because if I just wrote some bullet points i felt it would look like i was a troll or something but i do think that saying and clearing up some things up in bullet point format works better.
At least now, without coming across as perhaps insulting. So here goes:
I set my prayer campaign this time for 1 month on 1 month of. Not 6 months.

I did not include a far out prayer with a long wanted dream because i’m Not ready to have my world shook up. At least not yet.

I never asked things in prayer that were far out just to test God.
The bible tells us we shouldnt do that and that always felt true. Also according to your writing I think.

But still wanting to put a far out prayer in my campaign and it being one I would live up to. I choose something that if I wouldnt pray for might only occur after years but most likely wouldnt occur. So something slim.

4 days into the pause I got pretty much what I asked for. But not what I really wanted.

The occurrence was pretty much on par with your own examples of a house with a specific number or dating a girl from iceland. So im convinced it was my prayer. So far So good.

My prayer being answered So far even if it seems like a false positive at least is a safe thing. So I dont need to discard it. I would say its something like your example of being a painter in belgium.
Not quite what you want but you can definately accept it and enjoy it and then keep on praying for what you really want.

This resulted in 2 things.
1 I thought about my own prayers from the past that were simple things and were answered sometimes within days. What if someone, not neccesarily myself , but someone would put a simple request in his prayer campaign that would take six months on and than six months off.
And then getting a false positive early on. Does one still need to wait a whole year for only that specific prayer. Assuming you still have your pause for your other prayers in that campaign.
2 i actually decided to update my affirmation list after a couple of days. Like you say. And 2 hours after doing that what I had received dissappeared. I get the feeling that me going into my affirmation list to update it somehow resulted in the dissappearance.

What are your thoughts on that. Would really like to hear them.
Also on your offer of writing some “war” stories. Ill definately think about it. But I would really need to find the time for it. It would be even longer than my comment lol. And those took quite some time.
Thanks in advance and bless you

Thank you for that. Well, I can clearly see that you are following the examples, working the program, praying, and monitoring your results. You are doing it right; correctly. You are also getting the expected results. So all the measurables are there. Now what?

As things manifest, you will start to notice that they will start altering your prayer content. It’s really rather unusual for you ever to get what you pray for so quickly. Instead, events happen and ideas crop in your head.
These ideas will have you add, subtract and change your written affirmations. If you find yourself doing that, well then you are certainly on the right track.

If you seem to get a “false positive” then you can be assured that [1] you are on the right track, and [2] it contradicts (as worded) some other affirmations that you have written, or [3] you need a “deep dive” or “slide” to exit your pre-birth baseline world-line.
When you see or experience a “false positive”, you need to look at what you are desirous of, then reroute your affirmation campaign upon your new realizations.

It has been my experience that when you ask for things relating to relationships, you open up an entire “Pandora’s box” of issues. Often those very issues might contradict other affirmations.

I once had an affirmation campaign that went like this; I will meet and live with a stunningly beautiful model. We live in a beautiful area, and I have a very happy and satisfying job.

Sure as shit, seven months later, my relationships changed. I found myself traveling with this very beautiful blonde. What a beauty. Stunning! She would actually stop traffic when she walked by I am not kidding. We moved to Boston. And I had an outstanding job there.
Her name was CJ, and even her driver’s license was stunning.

The catch? She was impossible to live with, she had addiction problems, a mean ass temper, and was mercurial. I didn’t want to have anything to do with her, though she was very attached to me.

The relationships must be part and parcel of your requirements when praying for others. As such, don’t expect immediate returns, but chill out, and let all the chips fall in place, and they will. Trust me on that.
You just need to get in touch with your inner being and ask for things that are as comfortable to you as a nice clean pair of your favorite jeans.

Thanks for the reply. And kudos to you for seeing what my false positive had to do with.
Still a small question. When updating for the next campaign AFTER the pause. Yes i’ll be more patient lol. Can you atleast update your prayers during the pause because you already have the right words in your head.
Cause thats why I opened my list. Otherwise I would of waited and then update my prayer AFTER the pause.
For now have a nice weekend. And dont drink too much lol.

You can update your campaign at any time. I tend to update it both during a campaign, and in the pause. I just don’t say the updated phrases until I begin a new campaign.
If you are following the technique properly you should almost immediately find that you are updating and revising your campaigns quite often.

I thought this would be a nice part of the intention-prayer-index to share my experiences, seeing as it relates somewhat to the ‘false positive’ aspect.

So I actually learned about the intention-prayer technique about 13-14 years ago (i’m 29 now), which was when the ‘law of attraction’ was the viral ‘rage’.
Even back then, I knew I wanted a ‘special’ life that was not the office-cubicle-9-to-5 job pop culture suggested most people were destined for.
And back then, I loved playing football, and supported Liverpool football club, so I ‘intended’ quite ferociously to be a ‘Liverpool Footballer’. I did all the stuff with visualisation, putting in emotion, etc, and trained very hard by myself.

One day, whilst I was browsing through the library, a book about the autobiography of Steven Gerrard, which was then the talismanic captain of LFC, just seemed to ‘pop out’ at me in a way in which I was utterly convinced that it was a ‘sign of the universe’ that it had received my intentions.
So not quite a ‘false positive’, but a clear signal that my intentions were warping my reality.

But as I trained and focused on my goal, I quickly fell out of love with playing football, because there was so much angst and anxiety within me about ‘reaching my goal’.
I felt ‘burnt-out’, and would sometimes play well and sometimes not – but always with increasing fear and anxiety and not being able to perform.

At that point, I was also very much interested in self-help – goal-setting, LOA, nutrition, yadayada all that kind of thing. And as I opened up yet another self-help book, I came across a spiritual book ‘The Power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle.
And the book spoke to me so so much, describing how all of us wanted peace and happiness, but mistakenly searched for it in external ‘things’ and ‘goals’.
And that the true path to happiness was one of inner happiness regardless of external circumstances, the peace that passeth all understanding.

In that moment, I realised that I did not really want to be ‘Liverpool Footballer” although that idea was, and still sounds fantastic!, but that I just wanted the happiness and ‘specialness’ and ‘adventure’ that I thought it represented.
So I dropped the goal-idea and just focused on enjoying playing football, and very quickly, my anxiety and fear when playing went away and I played very well for the rest of my high school season.

I remembered that during that moment, I did attempt intention-prayer on an on-and-off basis for various things, but often plagued with some sort of anxiety, worry or hope whether or not it would manifest. Looking back, I think a person needs to attain a baseline of emotional-stability; otherwise, their intention-prayers are likely to be muddled and muddied by their negative emotions.
It is hard to ‘let go’, if you are too attached to a particular outcome. I didn’t really keep a record of my intention-prayers back then, so I can’t know if some of them did later manifest.

So anyway, after my spiritual awakening, I pretty much stopped trying to intention-prayer anything. Instead, I focused on my spiritual growth, trying to be happy in just my being; just Being happy without looking for anything else to give it to me.
My intuition is that my pre-birth soul contract was not for me to be a Liverpool footballer (lol), but to spiritually awaken and then continue my path from there wherever it may lead.

For the past 13+ years, I have had passing interests come and go (I still love playing football), but the central interest has been spiritual growth, and thus, with my focus being so drawn to it, my life had manifested in a way as to support that.
I guess our innate interests and intentions often naturally intersect and become one.
Although I have not deliberately set out an affirmation with the intention of using the LOA-technique to be ‘spiritually enlightened’, my focus has naturally led me to the path and current life I am leading.

And as I type this, I begin to wonder; perhaps this is why my life has been as such; relatively hermit-like existence, with little to distract me, so that I would relentlessly focus on my spiritual growth.
Not much in terms of adventures or excitement, but a relentless purifying and letting go of ego-thoughts, attachments, fears, etc.

In any case, reading your site (I came across it by, guess what, a link from a Trump supporting site, donald.win LOL) and coming across the Intention-Prayer Index, I thought I’d try my hand again at this LOA-intention-prayer stuff, this time with a better metaphysical understanding of how it works, as well as being in a far better emotional state than I was 13 years ago.
I started about a few days back so…let’s see where we end up six months from now…

An outstanding, just outstanding comment. I can clearly see how your desire for inner peace and tranquility has manifested, but you needed more didn’t you. And now here you are.
There’s an adventure with being alive, and you can have a nice quiet restful life “grazing on the grass”, or you can have a “swash buckling adventure”. But either routes, and everything in between is up to you.

I think that you have the basics “nailed down”, and as such you probably will want to build upon them.

Since you have spent such a long time in one intention direction, you can expect a longer-than-expected period of time to have your new different manifestations occur, but don’t worry they will. Don’t get too upset if it take months or years.
Your prior decades of efforts need to be factored into your latest campaigns.

You see, every time you perform an Affirmation campaign it is NOT like a fresh clean table that you set your dishes upon. So do not expect new ideas or concepts to happen with a new found urgency.

Instead it is like a big tureen of soup. And for the last ten years your have been pouring sugar into the soup, and now you want to add some chicken and celery. There will be a time of adjustment, give it time, and your intentions will manifest.

Again great comment! Thank you for this.

Thank you for the encouragement!

I have some more thoughts to share regarding how spirituality and intention-prayer work together but i think i will wait until i’ve finished reading the rest of your intention-prayer index before sharing more thoroughly.

But for what its worth, I think one of the most important principles of getting intention-prayer to work is the ability to be not too overly-attached to the outcome, to have a baseline state of peace and contentment, which allows one to be patient as well as better understand what they really want.

One of the core teachings of A Course in Miracles is that ‘we do not know our highest good’ – and when we don’t know our highest good, we look for happiness-contentment in external things of the world, often very particular, specific, and ‘far out’ things like being in a relationship with a particular celebrity, or having a lot of money (but a lot of ‘jobs’ that pay well may be stressful, difficult and unethical).
And then whilst having such ‘far-out’ intention-prayers, we are very impatient and frazzled, desperately demanding for the intention-prayer to ‘manifest as soon as possible’ in order to be ‘satisfied’, but such impatience and negativity sabotages not just the intention-prayers but the present reality as well.
All of this makes intention-prayer a much more labored affair, and I suspect, much less likely to succeed.

Absolutely…

And then whilst having such ‘far-out’ intention-prayers, we are very impatient and frazzled, desperately demanding for the intention-prayer to ‘manifest as soon as possible’ in order to be ‘satisfied’, but such impatience and negativity sabotages not just the intention-prayers but the present reality as well.
All of this makes intention-prayer a much more labored affair, and I suspect, much less likely to succeed.

Well stated.