Creating Deliberate Intentions

Drew Rozell, Session Leader

Drew: Welcome everybody; this is Drew Rozell and I'll be hosting the call today. I'll give you some background on what the inspiration for the call was, I'll open it up to you to find out what you came to the call for. I like to play off the participant's energy, so anytime you have a question or comment, just speak up.

Okay, a little bit on my background. First, thank you all for being here. You probably got my newsletter on the topic of intentions; for the last several years of my life, the more I've gotten into the field of attraction, intention has gotten into the forefront. I've been focusing on my intentions and I've been amazed by what has shown up. Over the holidays, I went down to New York City to visit my sister. Every time I go to New York – I live in the country – I'm always amazed at the infrastructure of the place, walking around New York and seeing all the buildings. They're so massive and so incredibly tall, and the bridges that span the river, they're just huge. It's amazing to me that someone thought of that. Just being in that place and looking around and seeing the reality of what's been created and realizing that it all started from a thought, that got me thinking about intentions.

Everything around us begins as a thought. If you study attraction or are familiar with it, you recognize how important your thoughts are in what you create. I figured it's a new year and I'm definitely not one for resolutions – I gave that up a long time ago – and I like to think things into existence. As I look back and reflect as the calendar flips over, I begin to think that things that have happened in my life have been as a result of intentions. I'm sitting here in my office, talking to you – 30 or 40 people on this call from different countries – that really reflects my intention around being a coach, about having the kind of business where I can work at home, and how I wanted to talk about the things I'm interested. Having held that thought 8 or 9 years ago, here I am doing what I wanted to do. I've had these intentions and held to them and took the actions underneath the intentions as well.

We talk about creating intentionally, and the point I tried to make in the article is that we all create intentionally. People talk about how they ‘started' using the law of attraction; well, you started using that no more than you ‘started' using the law of gravity. These are the things that are the way the universe operates; the only question is: are you doing it consciously or unconsciously? I got an email from someone that described a situation and asked, ‘Am I attracting this?' Of course you are. As I mentioned in that article as well, I went through 20 years of formal education – I did all that, but no one ever talked to me about this stuff; no one talked to me about setting an intention and how you do that. I was taught how to think my way through things, but I was never taught in terms of intentions. This is something I wanted to express, and obviously a lot of you have an interest in it.

I'll stop talking here for a moment and ask why are you here? What intrigues you and what would you like to know about intentions?

Barb: I think one of the questions I have is how do you – with so many things going on, how do you keep it focused and all together?

Drew: Do you have something in mind?

Barb: Well, take my business for example. While we're working to increase our business, we still have personal lives going on and different things going on, on an everyday basis. How do you do that and keep everything else in balance as well?

Drew: Let me just make this point; it may not address your question, but I think it's an important point. You used the word ‘how'; the thing is, whenever we ask ‘how', we're getting in the way of intentions becoming manifested. Our job is not to figure out how. We like to think we're the ones doing stuff; we become attached to the idea that it's up to us to do stuff – what's kicked in is our belief that we have to be in the middle of this somehow. What I want to get rid of is that anytime we find ourselves getting caught up in the ‘how', we're blocking our intentions coming to us. I know that isn't what you were saying, but….

Barb: No, but it's a valid point.

Drew: It's just a point for everyone that when that comes up, you're getting in your own way. We all have to decide what we really desire. We have to desire what we really want and feel good about asking for, and then we have to stand in that place. It's like we're in a cosmic kitchen where your job is to order what you want from the menu and let the chef prepare it for you. It's just your job to order it. So, when you're talking about ‘how' to do this, the first thing that came to my mind is, do you really know what you desire? Is it that you feel you have to choose either this or that?

Barb: Yes, that's the point. When you're referring to a chef in the kitchen, what came to my mind is that you don't have to just pick one thing and ignore everything else.

Drew: Exactly. When you do that, you're just living unconsciously. It's your job to order exactly what you want, and not just in one area of your life. Intentions really are cosmic-focused thoughts we have, but every thought you have is responsible for what you're creating in your life. What we're really talking about here is recognizing that fact and being conscious of it. What you're asking for and what you're putting out there is really specific and deliberate.

Barb: Okay, that's great; thank you so much.

Drew: You're welcome.

Linda: What I'm interested in – of course I'm doing this and I'm interested in this, but I'm interested in what would bring me to the next level or a deeper level around intentions.

Drew: Give me an example; what's an intention you're holding right now?

Linda: I have an intention to get back to Paris in the next few months.

Drew: Why?

Linda: I was there for 4 months and I want to keep going. I want to live in 2 places.

Drew: So you'd like to have another residence.

Linda: I'd really like to be able to live and work anywhere in the world.

Drew: Ah, so why not hold that intention? What I would want to everybody is that you write these down. I have a journal, and 3 or 4 times a week, I will write down my intentions – what I want to create. Linda, let's get to what you really want.

Linda: I need money to get to Paris.

Drew: For you, in terms of your desire, that's you putting in a limiting belief about what you need; your story is that you need to money to get to Paris. If I got you to Paris, would you care if you had money to get there?

Linda: Well, I'll need money – I'll need something for expenses while I'm there also.

Drew: I'm sure, but all I want to do is point out that we put in our limiting beliefs about how we don't understand how that would happen.

Linda: So you said you have intentions, then you held them, and then you took action. Isn't that action you figuring out how to get money to get there?

Drew: No, that's inserting you into the process. Let me give you an example. This is a small example, but an intention I had recently – and I'm sure some of you have flown Southwest Airlines and you know that they don't reserve a seat for you. I'm never one to wait in lines so I'm the last person to get on a plane and usually the last person who gets on a plane, so all the aisle seats are taken and all the window seats are taken because no one likes to sit in the middle. My intention is that I have an aisle seat. My intention is that I have an aisle seat. Do I have one? No. Do I resonate with that? Yeah. Is there a way that I'm going to get on that plane and get an aisle seat? Probably not, but it's my job to hold that intention. Sure enough, I get on the plane and I'm looking at a bunch of middle seats. I'm trudging down with everybody else in line and I'm still holding my intention in the face of this belief that's staring me in the face. My job is to choose and hold on that intention, so as I'm walking down the aisle that said, ‘Sit right there and ask these people if you could sit between them.' There were these 2 nice ladies and I asked if I could sit there and one said, ‘Sure, not a problem' and she slid over to the middle seat.

I told her I would be willing to sit in the middle seat and she said, ‘Oh no, you sit there'. That seat wasn't there; it got created for me. I made the choice to listen to the feeling that I had – that's where my action was. You have to continue to hold that intention. We start to get in the way when we create all the limitations that we think have to be in that place, and then we no longer resonate with that intention. So Linda, in terms of what your intention really is, you talked about living and working where you wanted. How would you turn that into an intention?

Linda: I intend to create a livelihood that allows me to live anywhere in the world….

Drew: Okay, right away, you don't want to ‘intend to'. An intention statement is that you want to put it in the present tense. I live and work anywhere in the world. You want it to be personal; you want it to be about you, and you want to make it present. This is important for everybody. No ‘I will' or ‘I want to' or ‘I choose' – ‘I am' is the strongest way. So, how would you say that?

Linda: I am living and working anywhere in the world.

Drew: You've probably want to make that more specific; what I hear – this is the other thing, you want to make it specific enough. You probably don't want to live just anywhere in the world.

Linda: Well, at this moment, subject to change but at this moment, I want to live in both in Paris and in Connecticut and I'm sort of already doing that. How do I say that?

Drew: I live and work in the places of my choosing. That's a potential one. These are important; how you put these words together for yourself and how you feel when you say that are going to determine what will happen. You don't sound like you're very far off.

Linda: I want the ability – what I want is the ability to design my life in such a way that wherever I go, if there's a phone, I can do my work.

Drew: There you go!

Linda: I don't want to limit myself by naming where I'm going.

Drew: Exactly – you want the freedom underneath. I know because that's what I wanted and what's what I have now.

Linda: So I'm still not clear how I word this, how you begin creating words around this so it becomes an intention.

Drew: I will say this; it becomes an art form and you have to practice at it just like anything else. The reason people don't do it constantly is that it takes practice. You have to refine this to something that really fits for you. It would be something like, ‘I live in the place of my choosing…' and I'm sure that you might want the word ‘freedom' in there because that's what it's really about, isn't it?

Linda: Yes. For me, that's meaningful because that's how the choice comes in.

Drew: And for you, that's what you would have to decide. You have to have something that you resonate with.

Linda: I could say anywhere of my choosing.

Drew: Then that's what I would say – just to put some specificity so that it brings it back to you rather than leaving it open-ended in that way. Is that helpful?

Linda: Thank you – yes it is.

Drew: That's a cool intention.

James: When you said ‘the intention', but what comes up during the process is the doubt.

Drew: And that will crush your intention.

James: So how do you handle the doubt part?

Drew: Well, the intention is what gets created, whether you're conscious of it or not. If there's doubt, then only the doubt gets created. On some level, it's a conscious choice, okay? That's the easy answer, but the other part is that you have to clear out the negative beliefs you have because as long as you have those doubts, that's what you will create. It's really a two-pronged thing. If you really resonate with something and you make the proper choices, you will reflect that intention. If you have something you really doubt, it's the energy of doubt that determines what you bring into your life; that's what the universe responds to on an energetic level.

Unless you can reframe your intentions with something you do resonate with – perhaps a lower amount of money – or – and this is a big part of it – you have to clear out the energy underneath. This is your limiting beliefs, things you've been taught, and so on. I've done a couple different classes at AttractionVille on that and how to remove those energetic blocks. That's the explanation.

James: Thank you.

Drew: Let me take you a bit deeper. What are you talking about?

James: Well, I've read in books to set an intention that is unreachable. My intention is a big one, and as has happened before, doubts creep as I get out of my comfort zone.

Drew: What's the comfort zone you're creeping out?

James: Well, to pay off my apartment in 6 months' time is the first time I've ever done it in my life so I'm coming into a situation where I've never done it before.

Drew: So is it in your comfort zone your ability to receive what you desire?

James: Yes.

Drew: So that's where you have the block; you have to figure out how to do this. We insert ourselves in our intentions; we feel that we have to do something or be deserving something. The truth is, we're all deserving of what we desire. We're here to bring these things into our lives, but we have to choose that. You have to be awake in that you allow yourself to put out there and consciously create that intention that your apartment is paid off in 6 months. But, you also have to be able to look at where those feelings are coming from. What would that feeling be like to have your apartment paid off in 6 months?

James: I would feel exhilarated, excited.

Drew: It would probably be all of those things. Your work is to allow yourself to be in that place and to allow yourself to be in the wonder of how this would occur. You're not responsible for it occurring in a certain way. The thing about intentions is that we want them to be specific, but you don't want to be so specific that you place a restraint or limitation on this. Meaning that somehow you have to do this – that you have to work hard or make something happen to attract this money.

James: All right. So the work is to be in the feeling of excitement, yeah?

Drew: Yes. Your work is to stay in that place, and if you begin to have feelings of doubt, your job is to tell yourself to cancel that thought.

James: Thank you.

Kathy: Since I've learned about the law of attraction, I've seen it happen on a smaller scale in my life and it makes my life very exciting. When it comes to larger things, I feel I'm ready to accept what's come my way and yet, what I'm trying to do – what I find is that the more I try to ignore the doubt, the doubt becomes stronger. I heard you mention about letting it go and not thinking about it – don't create that negative reaction – and I find that harder on the bigger things.

Drew: Give me an example.

Kathy: Of something bigger that I want?

Drew: Yes, tell me what you're talking about so we can get to the place where we can move through this.

Kathy: Well, I have a full-time job, and my intention is to be a full-time healthcare practitioner and do my art.

Drew: Why?

Kathy: Because that's who I am.

Drew: I need to understand why at the feeling level. You've constructed this story of the way you want things to be, but I need to understand the feelings under that.

Kathy: I like helping people; I want to share what I've learned.

Drew: What is this going to mean for you? When James pays off his place, he's going to feel this sense of freedom. I'm hearing you talk about this, but I'm not getting the sense of energy.

Kathy: I don't exactly know how to word it.

Drew: It's not about the wording; I'm giving you this feedback because this is what I feel when I hear you talking. I hear what you want to create, but I don't hear what's important to you. What would that allow for you and what would that feel like for you?

Kathy: Well, it's definitely freedom in the sense that I never wanted to work for anybody.

Drew: So make – don't box it into the conditions of how you think that needs to look. My intention is to live where I choose and the freedom to work as I want to work. I'll let the universe figure the rest out.

Kathy: So you want to be clear in what you want; what about being specific?

Drew: Be specific but not too specific. The most important thing is that you resonate with your intentions at the feeling level; when you have that clear connection, what you desire shows up in your life. Don't think you have to order the salad on the side with something else, you can just order the salad. From a coaching perspective, I think there's something deeper under there that's your real intention. Make it about what's really juicy about the intention for you. Does that help?

Kathy: It helps a lot; thank you.

Mike: I've got a question. This is very cool, listening to how you talk things through. You said something earlier that doesn't resonate with me. When you were talking about stating the intention in the present, if you stay in the present and you're not doing that, I have a conflict with that.

Drew: Is there something you want me to do with that conflict?

Mike: Well, okay, go ahead.

Drew: I don't know if I can. You are the one creating reality so if that thing isn't right there, you have to put yourself in the place that you are.

Mike: Okay, I hear what you're saying. I can get myself into the place of feeling it, touching it, smelling it and hearing it. I'm all about the ‘intend to'.

Drew: Let's just take it from this level. What's the intention that you have?

Mike: About 2 years from now, I intend to buy a boat and sail around the Mediterranean for a year, and then head off around the world in it. Now, it's no problem for me to see myself on the boat, the places I go and the things I do – I don't have a problem with that, but to say that I have it now grates on me for one reason or another.

Drew: That grating feeling that you have is the space between you and your intention. If your intention is – is there a name for this boat?

Mike: Oh, here we go, then. Yes, it's going to be called The Starship Enterprise.

Drew: To say that I intend to have The Starship Enterprise and sail around the world. Can you say that now?

Mike: Yes. Can I be a little more specific than that?

Drew: Go ahead.

Mike: Okay, my intent is that 2 years from now, I intend to be aboard The Starship Enterprise while I'm sailing it around the world.

Drew: So why – put that in the present for me. I am on….

Mike: I am on The Starship Enterprise, filling that captain's log and sailing around the world.

Drew: Which one feels better?

Mike: Well, it sounds great when I say it now….

Drew: It sounded really great when you say it now. And guess what, 2 years is always in the future? I'm not making up the rules; I'm just conveying information that has come to me and has been my own experience. We were never taught that we were the creators of reality until it is too late. The truth is, we create reality every minute; we're the ones creating what happens. We need to put this in the present tense because that's when you begin creating it. If you say it's going to be 2 years, then you're not starting to create it.

Your belief is going to determine what you're going to get. I can't change your belief, so if you believe things are going to take a while, then they're going to take a while. If you put things in the present, then you start to live in this magical place where your socks get knocked off when things happen that you want.

Mike: I've got a question for you then. If it takes 12 months to get certificated to pilot a boat of this size, then how is this going to happen because if I did get the boat, I wouldn't be qualified to sail it?

Drew: That I wouldn't know. You can set your intentions any way you want, but I don't know. I can't answer the question of how things happen – that's not up to me.

Mike: I think some things have to be in the future because they take time to get done. I can't reduce the time it takes to get certified.

Drew: If that's your belief that there's no other way that that can happen, then it won't happen.

Mike: But if there was – see, you can't – you have to do 10,000 nautical miles under supervision and instruction to get that certification.

Drew: I can't argue against that.

Mike: So some things must, therefore, be futuristic.

Drew: I'm not sure what that has to do with your intention.

Mike: I agree that some things you can create now, but some things take a while. It's not within me to influence the certification process that it takes for me to sail such a vessel….

Drew: Mike, I'm going to move on, okay? Fair enough?

Mike: Okay.

XXX: I just want to know, how can we work on the subconscious belief?

Drew: You want to bring that subconscious belief to the conscious level?

XXX: Yes, how do you do that?

Drew: You want to look at how you feel. Do you have an intention you have?

XXX: I want to buy a 5-bedroom house.

Drew: So when you say that, say that you own a 5-bedroom house.

XXX: I own a 5-bedroom house.

Drew: How does that feel?

XXX: There is some nagging feeling, yes.

Drew: Where is that nagging feeling in your body?

XXX: It's in my throat.

Drew: So what you've just done is made that subconscious belief – you don't even have to know what the belief is – conscious and you've noticed it in your throat. Then, you allow yourself to go into that energy rather than ignoring it. You've been operating from the place that there's something you really want, but you're also noticing this energy that says that you don't really want it or you don't deserve it or whatever. Until you remove this block, you'll continue to feel this.

XXX: How do I remove this block?

Drew: That's a different class; it's called Feeling 101 and it's available at AttractionVille. It will go through step-by-step on what you can do to eliminate that. Good for you. One of the calls I have there is called ‘Why isn't it showing up?' One of the ways to do this is to notice when you say your intention, do you resonate with it or not? Do you feel good about that or not? If something comes up for you, that is something that will either prolong that intention from becoming manifest or prevent that from becoming manifest. Think of it this way, anything in your experience that you felt really good about that you knew was going to come into being, came into being. Think back to other incidents.

XXX: Okay. Thank you.

Mike: When you were talking about I'm on the boat, can you say ‘I'm in the process of sailing that boat around the world'?

Drew: You don't want to use that sort of language either. You want to make it really concrete and really present. Again, I'm not the one making up the rules; I'm just trying to share them with you.

Dennis: This is my first call. I was a UPS driver and my route used to in Santo River, which is an exclusive area where I live. At the first of the year, I sat down and wrote my intentions and one was that I live in a mansion in Santo River. The funny thing, my subconscious is telling me that I have to go buy that house. Where do I go from here? Do I go to the realtors, drive around or look for things for sale?

Drew: Do you have a feeling of what you need to do next?

Dennis: No, I just have a picture in my mind of the inside of the house and a couch with me laying there talking to the maid and butler. I'm feeling it, but then I go back to work on Monday. How do I get a little closer?

Drew: Hold the intention; it sounds like you're doing a good job of that. Then, you need to take action as it unfolds. When you get the hint that there's something that needs to be done, then you do it. If you drive by a house and it has a sign that says ‘open house', if you get the feeling that you should go in, then do it. Part of living within the state of intention is to allow these things to unfold. Live in the state of curiosity; that's how you know you have this relationship with the universe.

Dennis: It's taken me a whole year to get away from the fear over the money and money just keeps flowing in. Now I want to create my own business and I just keep on working on that.

Drew: It's good you mentioned that; I just want to let everyone know that you can set an intention around fear. You want to keep those intentions present, you want to keep them person, you want to keep them about you, and you want to keep them positive. You want it to be positive about what you do desire; you don't want to feel less fear in your life – you want to feel free. Make sure you do it in a positive way as well.

Dennis: Okay, so keep feeling place about what I'm seeing in my mind.

Drew: That's all it takes. Just watch it unfold. The thing is, you have to trust as well there's a perfect time for everything and that the universe knows more about this than we do.

Dennis: And we just have to focus on staying in that place?

Drew: Yes. We're coming up on the hour here; does anybody have one final question?

Philip: When you finally quit on the idea of being something, you become.

Drew: Well said. We're on the hour here. A couple people, if you could tell me if this was valuable or what you got out of it.

XXX: I think this is very valuable, this session. I'm going to have to change my wording.

Linda: I got clarity around holding those intentions and I loved that you used real-life examples -that really helped me.

Drew: And thank you all for showing up; I hope you got what you came for! See you around the bridge!

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