Maintain a Clear Intention
J.M. Setlodi
J.M. Setlodi (Justice) is a hands-on
metaphysical student. He is a
meditator and author by day and
a reader by night. Justice started
meditating in 2005, with the aim of
reducing stress and living a more
joyous life. Little did he know that
this would lead to a spiritual journey
of discovery and creativity. Justice
is constantly working on his ability
to strengthen his connection to
universal knowledge. He is able to
connect to his higher self and retrieve
information that he uses for writing
books and online courses. To date,
he has written three books: How to
Use Mind Power to Lose Weight and
Stay Young, The Ultimate Guide to
Manifesting, and Believing Is Seeing,
all of which are available on Amazon.
com. The Ultimate Guide to Manifesting
has just recently been translated into
Chinese Mandarin and is available on
Amazon.com (China) as well as Douban
and JingDong. Justice also manages
his own blog, which is a good source
of information covering topics in
the metaphysical space. His aim is to
awaken and inspire every person he
interacts with.
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Abstract: A foundational idea that is key in ­ creating
your own reality is having a clear intention and a clear
feeling of the thing you wish to do. The clear feeling
is generated by your clear intention. This emotional
­component puts the energy in motion and begins to
thicken the f­oundation and the vibration, making it
that much ­easier to be acted upon. You realign to and
maintain your clear ­ intention by choosing to act on
what e­ xcites you the most—in a point in time—doing
so fully and ­experiencing the ­grandeur of that choice
in that ­moment. The thing that is available that you
­intend to do is most quickly accessed when you follow
your ­excitement. While acting on what excites you in
that ­moment, keep your eyes open and it will be obvious
how that was a­ bsolutely instrumental in allowing you to
accomplish your clear intention, whether it is subtle or
blatant.
Keywords: Acknowledge, Actions, Affirmation,
Alignment, Assign, Assigner, Beliefs, Believe,
Conscious mind, Consciousness, Counter-force, Create,
Desire, Details, Emotions, Excitement, Future, Hope,
Imagination, Inspiration, Intend, Intention, Knowledge,
Law of attraction, Life, Loa, Maintain, Manifest,
Metaphysics, Motivation, Outcome, Paradigm shift,
Personal development, Positive, Prefer, Reality, Reality,
Self-help, Self-improvement, Subconscious mind,
Success, Success principles, Vision, Wealth
Do Not Give Up on Your Intention
If you are willing to establish, in no uncertain terms,
what it is you intend to do, you are stating your inten-
tion. No hoping, no wishing, no praying, simply: “This is
who I am, this is what I intend to do. I do not care how
long it takes, nothing will stop me.” By mere wishing to
clarify what this intention is, you start the process of
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crystallization, from the mental or causal
plane into your physical reality.
The reason that people fail is that they are
not willing to maintain that clear ­intention.
The only way that you can have the effect
of failing to do something is if you let go of
the clear intention, utilizing circumstances
in your life as evidence. If you are willing to
maintain the clear intention, no matter what
the face of reality seems to suggest, then you
can never fail. You simply realize that the
moment you are in is not the moment for
the playing out of the clear intention. The
only way it can be experienced as a failure
is when you let go of the clear intention
or “give up” the clear intention. As you are
willing to maintain the clear intention, you
can only manifest success.
In this physical reality, we all subscribe
to the idea of linear time. This is one of
the ideas that we explore in this physical
reality, which is before, during, and after.
Our lives unfold in the past, present, and
future. Therefore, since we are creating
and fl
­ owing through time, we use this as an
unfoldment. We unfold, we experience, we
build, we accumulate, and then we express
and experience. Having done that, we will
have accumulated all the knowledge and
tools to appreciate that expression most
fully.
When something that you clearly intend
to happen is not happening, in a point in
time, you may simply remember that it is
timing.
1. You could think, on the surface: “Well I am
ready for this, why is it not happening?
The universe does not work; I give up.”
2. Or you can choose to say: “Well, let me
think about this for a moment. Obviously,
I still wish to do this as this is something
that I desire, so therefore I intend to do
it. This is not happening now, however,
something is happening now. And if I
concentrate on the intended thing that
is not happening right now, I cannot
even see what is happening right now.”
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So, by reminding yourself of your clear
intention, which is obviously not available
in this moment, you assure yourself that
you have earned it and you will not give
it up. You should, however, maintain it as
a clear intention and put it aside. Once
you put it aside, maintaining it and fully
intending that it will happen, you then
­
open up your vision to what is available
in any point in time, now that you are not
­obscuring it with what is not available.
If you are prepared to see what is right
in front of you, not what is not, you are
re-grounding yourself into the moment.
You will always find, if you look closely, that
there are choices, choices that are unique
to that moment. If you again obscure them
by the things that are not available, you will
make it more difficult to see them.
The only way you can manifest failure
is when you give up in the point in time
­because your intention appears ­unavailable.
Your willingness, in any point in time,
to push it aside and maintain it as a clear
­intention, is success. If you maintain the
clear intention, you will accomplish the
idea. If you release and give up the clear
intention, then you change what you are
aligned to; you change what you are dial-
ing into your reality. So, giving up the clear
­intention on a sporadic basis slows down
the process.
Everything that you are excited about
is related. You may have many things that
­excite you in any point in time, and this
may seem so confusing, but understand
that all those things are one expression:
multidimensional faces of your expression
of your excitement. Your excitement is the
­vibration that tells you who you choose to
be in the most blatant and obvious of terms.
That is why you have excitement. When you
­interpret your excitement through negative
terminology, through doubt, you experience
it as anxiety. But anxiety and ­excitement
are the same energy, the ­excitement being
interpreted in the positive aligning fashion
and the anxiety being interpreted through
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negative or doubtful fashion. As you act
upon your excitement with integrity, it will
only serve you and others. There is nothing
to lose, it is up to you.
Therefore, you have it all right in front
of you, literally, in every point in time. You
will find that your life begins to feel fresh
rather than stale. Everything is anew and
everything is experienced as happening for
the first time. This allows an eagerness, a
fascination in attitude and in orientation.
The only thing that makes it appear that
you do not maintain a clear intention is not
looking at what that moment holds and not
thinking in terms of the fact that what is in
that moment is unique to that moment.
You can always consider yourself suc-
cessful by maintaining your clear intention
and not allowing the circumstance of your
reality to “talk” you out of it. Failure is the
succumbing to the circumstantial evidence
rather than as a creator establishing what
you intend to do. Many people speak of fear
of failure and fear of success. Fear of f­ ailure
is believing that you do not create your
own reality and you do not understand the
mechanism of creation. You can never fail
as long as you maintain the clear intention
and re-ground yourself to the moment by
acting on your excitement with integrity. If
you have perceived that you have “fear of
failure,” look at it through these glasses and
begin to understand that there is nothing
to fear. One of the reasons that your inten-
tion is not immediately available is that the
tools and resources that you need to fully
experience it are not yet there. You will not
get what you intend before you are ready.
Fear of success, on the other hand, gener-
ally arises from the feeling that you would
create a reality that you cannot handle.
This is a contradiction of terms for it will
be a pointless creation and there are no
pointless, superfluous creations to c­reate
something that you cannot handle. The
mere fact that you are creating ­anything,
in any point in time, is your sign that you
can handle it. The idea that you cannot
­experience an idea before its time is simply
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not possible. When the idea is forthcoming,
that is the time. Otherwise there would be
pointless and extraneous creations.
Therefore, you need not fear failing if
you maintain your clear intention and
you need not fear success if you under-
stand that you create only according to the
­timing in which you can handle, express,
and ­ appreciate most fully whatever you
are creating. Nothing is extraneous and
­nothing you can do will result in a lack or
stoppage of your growth.
Inspiration from Tragedy
As I am writing this article, I have just been
a victim of a serious crime. Two weeks
prior to starting this article, my family was
robbed at gun point in our own home. My
wife and kids all witnessed as I was being
bludgeoned by the robbers. They helped
themselves to our appliances, electronics,
furniture, clothes, and some money. The
police responded only three hours after the
incident. My wife and kids moved to my
in-laws’ tiny house because they could not
imagine sleeping in the house again, and
I moved in with my brother-in-law.
A day after that, I made a conscious choice
not to languish and feel sorry for ­myself,
and 2 days later I was back on my feet,
limping my way around as we were moving
the last of what’s left of our stuff to friends
and ­family. Soon after that, I  ­immediately
resumed my meditation practice and
I  ­
regained my inspiration. I  ­ remembered
my vision and re-clarified my intention,
and in no time I was up and writing. I kept
on reminding myself of my clear ­intention
and I would not allow any situation or cir-
cumstance to dampen my spirit.
I have written, in my previous articles
and I also discuss this extensively in my
books, we are all assigners of meaning
in our lives. All situations, all circum-
stances, and all events are a neutral set of
props that contain no built-in meaning. You
­assign the meaning, and therefore, you are
the assigner of that meaning. The mean-
ing that you assign determines the effect
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