THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE…SELFISH
Intentionality is what separates nature from beast and beast from man. Have you noticed animals don’t live to please any other outside of themselves?
They exist in the highest version of selfishness– just for the sake of expansion that life affords them. It’s a concept we’d be advantaged to remember as human beings. In fact, it’d be even better if we rewrote our narratives surrounding “selfishness” in general.
Think about it. When someone calls you selfish, what do you think lies behind their suggestion? It’s not just a general term. It’s them saying to you, “you’re thinking about yourself before you think about me and your job is to please me (this other person, company, or cultural narrative) first… not yourself.” What could be more defining–and deafening than that?
And while this reads like sound logic, the undercurrent of “self” is what misses most of us. The point I’m making above with my mention of the furry (and non) beasts of this planet is that they’re “create as you go” creatures, while we spend the majority of our time in a variety of places which all include focusing outside of ourselves. Sigh.
Our thoughts are a soup of mixed emotions that keep us stuck in the past, haunted by our memories, or overly concerned with an ideal future that hasn’t yet manifested. In all cases, it’s an externalization of our focus, which blocks us from creating something fresh and new, right now.
So, what’s the definition of focus? Well, you can think of focus as intentionality. And intentions (as I’m defining them here), are a creator—a manifesting mechanism. While impulses, which work very well for animals in their basic needs world, end up placing us on autopilot to the needs of others (like we were dutifully trained to do). Pats human head gently.
For us, impulses sway the mind into the past or future more often than toward the present. Thus, a roadblock to change (in any area of life), is plunked down and we begin wondering why life isn’t working out according to our big plan. This folks, is where all the problems of the world begin.
THE BIG PROBLEMO
This is more than a tiny (personal) problem because the past is essentially unchangeable, though it can be rewritten, and the future is always in constant flux. Creation, however, only occurs in the now—in your present moment. This element of timing is where I see the majority of people feeling or perceiving a standstill in one or more areas of their lives. It’s a domino effect in either direction of wanted or unwanted.
Another common reaction to frustration comes from trying to dictate the speed of a manifestation. This habit only slows what you want, way, way down—so take your foot off the gas. If you think about it, there aren’t enough action hours you can muster in a single 24-hours to make it appear any faster.
Speed isn’t technically your (or my) job, anyway. It’s the job of your universal manager (nonphysical helpers). Or, what some may refer to as your soul. To nutshell this idea, your soul is the essence of you that is connected to something greater than physically focused you. Your soul plus universal managers (guides, gods, goddesses, angels), whatever verbiage you want to give them, equals fast– blissful creations.
Your only real option in producing momentum then, is to get into a receptive state. A state where you have enough clarity to define a desire for the future but enough trust to release it to the forces working on your behalf who will bring it wrapped and ready to your doorstep.
Energetically speaking, the speed of each creation, what we measure as time, changes frequency with the clarity we have surrounding it (our job) and the cooperative mechanisms brought to us through our thoughts and feelings (universal manager’s job).
However, what is brought to us and what we do with that information are two different things. That’s the difference intention makes in our creative process.
WHERE TF IS MY MANIFESTATION?
I’m going to break down the cogs of this wheel and hope to make it less complicated. Put your seatbelts on kids, here comes the explainer:
Time is not what you think it is. Time, from a much higher perspective than mine, is only understood as “expansion.” It isn’t measured chronologically. Over history, it’s become a necessary mechanism to organize our lives, both individually and socially. Fantastic, so what does that have to do with intention and all the stuff I want? Well, everything.
When you send out a “wish” or intention to the universal forces that be, how do you measure it? By how long it takes, right? So now you understand the discrepancy with that perspective. If Source [God, Universal Forces, etc.], “sees” intention as creation and creation as expansion, time is actually irrelevant. That doesn’t mean there’s a lower likelihood of your wishes coming true. Not at all.
What it does indicate, is that manifestation of such things may materialize faster if you adjusted your personal understanding of expansion and time, as a whole. See them as working in tandem—in a healthy, thriving relationship with one another.
This goes back to my earlier statement about our creations which “change frequency with the clarity and cooperative mechanisms of a particular intention.” Thus, the clearer you are about your intentions (focus), your motives behind them, and your perception of how things are received (universally speaking on time), the higher the frequency.
Which is equal to what? Speedy delivery of wanted manifestations!
Example time (on time)
Think of it like this, a skier who’s been gracing down a hillside has developed a pattern of execution, a speed dictated by focus and decline. One can’t simply stop him in his tracks as he’s likely gained a lot of downward momentum. The same can be said about our creations, how they turn out, if they do, and how long it takes for us to align with their essence.
Speed can be your friend. It’s about understanding that everything you observe is way less about action and way more about conscious allowing. That release of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole is what propels and dictates the speed of any manifestation. Not your pedal to the metal. In that sense, you’re essentially pressing the brakes. It sounds too simple because it’s natural and correct.
EMOTIONS: THE DISTINGUISHING FACTOR
Animals, like plants, are primarily focused on intentions of survival. Thus, the components assembled on their behalf helping them create reality, are strictly answered from that basis. It lends to clarity and simplicity in a world chocked full of opposites but also limits their ability to vibrationally expand (like us).
As humans, we offer many contradictory elements into the mix, giving us the opportunity to create lives beyond the borders of basic imagination. So where do we start? With emotions. Which are the first (and most important) piece in understanding our ability to execute our never-ceasing desires.
Emotions don’t ‘create’ our realities; however, they do show us what we are creating at any given time. In this way, you can think of them as traffic lights, indicating what action would be of greater benefit to take at a particular moment. They work for us as impulses work for animals. Interestingly, they’re also what separates us from them, as they allow us the ability to create richer existences through clarity, focus, and limitless imagination.
Becoming aware of how you feel about any particular thought or action, is like learning which tools help the sculptor shape clay into its envisioned form. If you’re allowing thoughts to ignite something negative within you and then inviting your mind to run wild with them for any decent amount of time, you’re doing yourself a huge disservice as the creator of your personal reality.
You need emotionally based thought propelling that blade into the clay or you cannot shape the matter which stands in a block before you. If you had no consciousness in the mix of creativity, there would just be a blade sitting idly next to a lump of mud. Matter does not create matter—consciousness (i.e., thought-form) does. Said another way, action taken for the sake of obligation or someone else’s suggestion for you, is not action taken in joy. And what do you think that ends up looking like? A big lump of mediocre mess, that’s what.
A SIDE NOTE ON CREATIVITY AND EXECUTION
Idea and execution are the difference between creating and creation. Creation is a bit of a misnomer because while there is physical evidence of our ideas (as books and songs and movies and painted canvases) once the execution takes place, it’s original essence becomes somewhat idle. Similar to the philosophical conundrum presented in the Ship of Theseus, our view of past experiences changes with time and so does our outlook and understanding of previous creations.
The will for a project to actively live on—its creativity— is reimagined with each new change and therefore, its essence is altered. Ushered into a new segment of reality where it dons a different mask and is sculpted with the various meanings imposed upon it through its users and their uses for it.
The same can be said about cellular memory. Our physical bodies are internally anew each day, year, and decade. Depending upon what segments we’ve focused them into during those moments, what patterns of thought we’ve changed, what memories we’ve stored, discarded, or rewritten—our cells adapt and we become a different person tomorrow whether we know it or not.
RE-INVITING SPEED TO THE PARTY
So given all this, let’s put speed back into it and use the distinctions between animals and us. Their intentions are sharply focused on physicality and under most circumstances, creating this way would be slow going (just like it is for humans).
However, because they are less bogged down with emotional junk, their intentions vibrate at a higher rate and due to the clarity of their desires, they manifest their reality quite quickly in comparison. In most cases, there is no lower vibrational emotion attached to their desire, either—the largest of roadblocks (and a creative detriment) for any being.
That isn’t to say they have no feelings, of course. Animals do have emotional intention. The difference is that it almost always accompanies a self-focused end goal. Their essence is naturally purer than ours and their lives are shorter, as a result.
The saying, dogs (and cats) are basically God, is true. They are always in a state of alignment with their Source which is why us being around them is energetically uplifting. Blakes’ Tyger was my first love for this very pure and paradoxical reason.
THERES FOG IN PHYSICAL ACTION, ALONE
Our emotionality, the part that isn’t as active for them, is what usually fogs our mirrors and introduces contradictory thought, but it also gives us greater speed in creating anything (from a book to a relationship to a debt payoff). The double edge.
Yet, most of us are creating by default from reactions and beliefs that aren’t ours—generational regurgitators of a formula that operates on something wholly outside of us. And so, we end up using our emotions as indicators to excuse or justify our limitations rather than leverage them into joyful, purposeful action.
So where does that leave action in relation to speed; the words we give so much time and attention to?
Physical action at its basis is slower in speed, by lifetimes, than feeling states. That’s why when the two are paired together, with the good feeling being the basis for the action itself, unicorns are born and billionaire fortunes are amassed (yes, even Bezos and Musk are included here). This is where execution not only becomes effortless, it becomes inevitable.
The prolific creators of the world are not rendering such profound works of art because of action—nor are their actions swifter because of their prolific talent or ability. The speed of creation is faster because their emotions are elevated and their momentary and long-term intentions are clear.
Because of this, they’re more often (on this subject, anyway) in a state of allowing rather than making things happen. This is true regardless of the stories you hear of “how hard this was to accomplish.” Sure, we can keep believing wealth and worthiness come with struggle but that’s just a story a bunch of people have made up and replayed into reality. You see it everywhere and in all industries —those some deem “regular” or “mediocre” talent leading genres and generations. This is the gap!
THE FINAL ASCENT
The speed of any creation is greater in the -ing than in the -ion. We never (as plants or animals or humans) stop asking for a new destination or experience. When we only focus on our previous executions, creations, and manifestations, well, that’s when we die a real and final death.
When it comes to the intentions and impulses behind your creations, the greatest control is in releasing control itself. In trusting that chaos and order are not opposites but the same creative abilities met with different intentional makeup.
Intend to become the person enjoying the road trip and not getting out at every rest stop damning the ground you walk on because you haven’t yet ‘arrived’. Know deeply that both you and your creations will always remain in some way, unfinished snapshots of many existences that are still unfolding in a parallel universe(s).
And remember that part of you is already living your dream and your only job is to follow the inspired intentions (and impulses) that are leading you into alignment with seeing, tasting, and touching it, now. Living with this deep knowing, will bring you up to speed with all that you ever have and ever will, desire to live.
