What is Intentional Action?
There is a difference between action and intentional action.
Action without intention can produce unintended results. Further, it can hamper your conscious reality creation efforts.
The process of conscious reality creation is rather set. Thought, feeling and action are linked together in this operation. However, it is of vital importance that there be clarity, or else more likely you’ll find yourself wondering why you don’t seem to be getting where you want to go.
Thought is the easiest concept. Everybody thinks (granted, some people don’t seem to think all that much). Everyone develops concepts, ideas, intentions, notions and questions about life. Thought is how everything starts, big or small, and no manifestation can begin without it.
This is why awareness is of so much import. When you are not conscious of your thoughts, your subconscious is still thinking about things. The subconscious will act upon a thought you lost track of, but never intended to make manifest. Being aware of what you are thinking about is conscious reality creation, and intentional manifestation.
From thought there must be emotion. If you do not feel anything into your thought, you will not give the thought enough power to be turned into anything but an idea. That idea will gain no traction without thought. Think of it this way…thought is the car, feeling is the fuel to make it go.
Again, it is good to be aware of your feelings in order to take the wheel from your subconscious. When you read bad news, and start giving it a lot of thought and feeling, subconsciously you might create something you don’t actually want. This is why awareness, or consciousness, is so valuable to building the life we most desire.
Action versus inaction.
You’ve had a thought, felt it out and given it power. Now you need to take an intentional action. If thought is the car, and feeling the gasoline, intentional action is putting the car in gear. That’s the difference between action and intentional action. Taking the action of putting your foot down on the gas pedal without putting the car in gear won’t move you at all.
By the same token, if you take no action, chances are you will also fail to move anywhere with your conscious reality creation. However, considered and intentional action might require time before it happens.
We live in a society of go go go. We want it NOW, we want it FAST. Remember when your internet connection was dial-up, and it could take a few minutes to log in? Nowadays, how do we feel when we aren’t instantly online? We demand incredible speed, we want it blazingly fast, and it all has to happen as close to instantaneously as possible.
Time is an illusion.
Einstein told us that time is an illusion. Yet we are obsessed with it, and we accept nothing less than immediate action. But the Universe does not recognize human expectations of time. It will move in its due course, sometimes as fast as we demand, but sometimes not.
The issue here is taking action for the sake of action. We recognize that action is necessary, but rather than be intentional in how we act, we simply DO. And then, when the result is not what we wanted, we become frustrated and wonder why we’re not manifesting what we set out to create.
Again, because our society tends to be reactionary, we frequently see action taken that is either insufficient to what it is addressing, half-assed, or otherwise less effective than wanted. Demanding instant gratification will not always produce the desired effect.
What is the difference between action and intentional action?
Returning to the car analogy, if I stomp on the gas pedal without bothering to put the car in gear, the engine will rev and the exhaust might belch…but I won’t move where I want to. If I put the car in gear and then step on the gas, now I am getting somewhere. That’s intentional action versus action.
The action you take has a purpose. There is intent, resolve, decision in that action. It is not action for the sake of action, it is intended to take the thought and feeling and start moving it forward. The thought and feeling can only begin the manifestation process. To consciously create reality there must be action, too.
The biggest complication to this process is the how. When we have that thought, and we know what we want to see our reality turn into, often we just do not see how it will come about. Getting caught up in the how will invariably trip us up, and confuse this process. Sometimes, in the process of working out the how, we take action because we think it will help. However, if there is not intent behind that action…if we do not believe that this action is a must-have part of the conscious reality creation, it will not be helpful.
How does intentional action feel?
Any action taken in the process of conscious reality creation should feel good, it should feel right, it should almost feel effortless. If it feels like a struggle, or a chore, or a complexity, it might not be what you need. Fortunately, it’s not necessary to get this perfect to get it right. Failure just provides us with another opportunity to succeed.
What intentional actions have you taken along your path?
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