Intentions Versus Actions-You Choose!

As harsh as it may sound, people do not really care so much about your thoughts or intentions. It is your energy and action that attracts people to you. When you behave with a sense of purpose and meaning, you will get the results you are seeking. When you have faith and make good choices, the better the results. People care about you “showing them” what you can do. Your creditors do not care that you “meant” to pay your hydro bill; your partner does not care that you “meant” to buy a Christmas gift; and, your boss does not care that you “meant” to have your project completed within the deadline. They care about what you “do.”

It is important to decipher your insights, awareness, and life goals and then take action. A way to do this is to measure the quality of your life by the results, not your “good intentions”. Intentions are good. They get us up and moving. However, they lead to nowhere without action.

We give ourselves permission to intend to do, yet we fall short by not doing. Yes, we are human. However, making excuses does not serve the overall goals of life. What we want in life is creative change that brings positive and happy results. It is important to not take excuses from other people either. Talk is cheap! You can do this measuring of the results within relationships by the other person’s actions, not their words.

In a Metaphysical sense, action can be brought forth in the silence of meditation. This should be key in our lives, daily. Its purpose is to help you begin to “do” something and apply the valuable intentions and ideas that fill our minds, with faith. The Personal Mind should become stimulated by the Higher Mind to “take action” by following the Action Guideline below. What automatically will follow is greater success, happiness and the fulfillment that comes from putting forth the ideas and intentions in our own minds.

ACTION GUIDELINE FOR STUDENT OF MEDITATION

PHYSICAL REALITIES COME FORTH AS A RESULT OF YOUR THINKING. As a creative idea or inspiration surfaces to your conscious mind, immediately say to yourself, "My Higher Mind puts this into action immediately."

DOUBT IN YOURSELF IS THE ONLY THING THAT HOLDS YOU BACK FROM TAKING ACTION. As a student of meditation, take the pressure off yourself by realizing that the same Higher Mind that created the idea in your mind is ready to help you succeed in it.

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As you go about acting out an idea, acknowledge to yourself that IT IS NOT YOU (PERSONAL SELF) THAT IS DOING IT, BUT YOUR HIGHER MIND.

If you have to speak to someone in order to activate an idea, think to yourself beforehand, as well as while facing that person, that IT IS NOT YOU BUT YOUR HIGHER MIND DOING THE COMMUNICATING.

ANOTHER REASON PEOPLE FAIL TO ACT, ALTHOUGH HAVING A GOOD IDEA, IS THEY FEAR THEY MAY NOT HAVE FOLLOW-UP IDEAS OR INSPIRATIONS with which to help the initial idea succeed. Again, it is the Higher Mind that gives one the idea in the first place, and IT will follow up with additional ideas to help one succeed.

A PERSON WHO TAKES ACTION DOES SO OUT OF FAITH. That faith should not be in one’s personal self, but in one's Higher Self, which is more than equal to any task.

CONSTANTLY VISUALIZE THAT THROUGH YOUR HIGHER MIND AND SELF, you are enjoying and living the idea in your mind as an already fulfilled fact.

DON'T TAKE A DEFEATIST ATTITUDE when there is a momentary dip in the condition of your action. Remember, when you start something new, there will always be adjustments, and even readjustments that must be made. Each day, while meditating, think that YOUR HIGHER MIND IS ALWAYS GUIDING AND DIRECTING YOU to the fruition of your idea.

CONSIDER THAT NEGATIVE THOUGHTS COMING INTO YOUR MIND, CREATING DOUBT OR HESITATION, ARE PART OF YOUR OLD PERSONAL SELF. Nullify them quickly by saying to yourself, “Cancel! Cancel! Cancel!” If you do not, these thoughts will prevent you from having the type of life you desire. Constantly tell yourself that you are a new person with a new way of leading your life. If you do this continually, your subconscious mind will come to accept it and you will find yourself automatically living it by taking action with your ideas.

Each day, say to yourself, "SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS ARE IDEAS PUT INTO ACTION IN MY LIFE. It is not I, but my Higher Mind, that does the work - perfectly!"

WHENEVER SOMETHING GOOD TAKES PLACE IN YOUR LIFE, IMMEDIATELY GIVE CREDIT TO YOUR HIGHER MIND. This practice repeated will constantly reinforce the true self-image of your being, which is the foundation of your life’s success and happiness.

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SOME PEOPLE HESITATE IN APPROACHING OTHERS TO ACTIVATE THEIR IDEAS BECAUSE THEY FEEL SHY OR AWKWARD. REMEMBER, IT IS YOUR HIGHER SELF THAT IS THE DOER THAT ACTS IT OUT. Your personal mind should become as a bystander that watches and praises the wisdom coming forth from your Higher Mind. It is not you, in a personal sense, that communicates, but again, IT is your Higher Mind. Keep this in mind before seeing someone, and continue thinking of it while in his or her presence.

SELF-CONFIDENCE, TO THE STUDENT OF MEDITATION, IS CONFIDENCE IN ONE'S TRUE SELF, HIGHER MIND, OR GOD. Those who fail to think in this way are filled with doubt, and don’t take the action needed to bring about what they want in life.

Each day, tell yourself, "Reality is success and happiness in my life, made possible by my Higher Mind." WHATEVER ONE TRULY BELIEVES TO BE REAL IN LIFE IS REALITY.

DON'T EVER FEEL LIMITED OR INCAPABLE OF PUTTING YOUR IDEAS INTO ACTION. Once again, it is not you, but your Higher Mind that is doing the work. Each day, say to yourself: "My Higher Mind does everything, and is unlimited in what it can do”.

Maintaining a positive attitude creates a conscious state of mind that better allows your Higher Mind to activate you. BE POSITIVE IN THE PRESENCE OF YOUR HIGHER MIND, EACH DAY. Regard your Higher Mind as the true and real presence of your Selfhood.

EACH PERSON IN THIS WORLD IS UNIQUE; EVERY PERSON HAS A SPECIAL PURPOSE. If this were not so, they would not exist. This includes you! Consider that the PURPOSE of your life is to activate and bring forth your uniqueness, that it may in some way be expressed and shared with others.

IN THE LAWS OF NATURE AND THE SCHEME OF THE UNIVERSE, YOU EXIST TO SUCCEED WITH YOUR INDIVIDUAL PURPOSE FOR BEING. YOU ARE NOT INCONSEQUENTIAL. Whatever action you take sets up a chain reaction that travels around the world. You are valuable to life! See and accept that value of yourself and you will find the inner motivation to take the action needed to bring you success and happiness, and thus, the fulfillment of your own soul.

Action is based on faith in yourself. People who take action are acting on a spiritual premise, for they are acting on faith. That faith may be expressed as the Higher Mind, or Universal Mind. Regardless, the principle is the same. This faith is a belief in “something” within oneself, a certain something extra that every human being possesses. In Metaphysical Science, IT is identified as Our Higher Mind. By identifying

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IT, the mind has a better focal point for concentration in one’s consciousness to make IT more real, and thus, more effective.

You have within you that “extra something!” It is your faith in IT that takes you beyond self-doubt and uncertainty to the surety of putting your ideas or intentions into action. Go for it!

Revised Copyright © 2011 by Dr. Paul Leon Masters The contents of these lessons may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form of communication, except by written permission by the Board of Directors of the International Metaphysical Ministry, parent body of the University of Metaphysics.

McGraw, P., 1999. Life Strategies. Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. New York, NY.

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