Word and Action

Being your word gives you power in “reality”. Speaking your command causes the forces of manifestation to bring about what you intend. Your action, along what you have spoken indicates your belief in your words, as well as the reality of your intent. It’s like telling your driver to have the car ready for a certain journey. When you get in the car, you fulfill your intention, and make your word true, thereby making it a simple matter for the universe to assemble the forces that bring into “reality” what you desire.

However, if you fail to enter the car, you have disrupted the flow of intention, leaving the driver with nowhere to go. By working against yourself, you have caused confusion in the mechanism of intention-manifestation. Worse, you have set a precedent in your own being (subconscious mind) — creating the idea that “I do not follow through on my intentions.” This in turn forms the disempowering belief that your word has no meaning.

The universe can only give you what you ask for, but you must be able to receive it. You can only receive it by acting in concert with your desire. That is, acting as if you intend for your stated desire (or declaration) to be absolutely fulfilled. This applies to demands made of ourselves, as well as of the universe. If you say “I will exercise now”, but then sit down to watch television, you make hash of your intention. Telling yourself “I’ll do it later” doesn’t help, because the universe, and your higher self has no concept of “later” — all time is NOW. To paraphrase Yoda, “Do, or do not. There is no later.”

This is the essense of procrastination. We rob ourselves of the now, wherein all our power lies. And powerlessness is feeling shared by all who chronically procrastinate. But, it’s a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg conundrum: we feel low energy because we procrastinate, and we procrastinate because we feel low energy.

But you don’t have to be controlled by this feeling, you can reclaim control by self-regulating — choosing thoughts and actions. For example, if you are in a state of relative contentment, the thought of doing something that will remove you from that state (i.e., “work”) is unpleasant, and you can feel your energy draining. In other words the contemplation a task can often feel worse than the actual doing of the task.

Well, how to deal this? Here’s an idea: don’t contemplate doing a task while relaxing (sitting, laying down). First get up and start moving — walking around, dancing — whatever. Then, when you are already in motion, and feel the flow of energy in your body, NOW contemplate taking on the task — it will be far easier to shift your state from active to active than from passive to active.

Put yourself in position to actualize your word by readying your mind/body for action.

The present moment is a gift. Act in gratitude.