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The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent

The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent

by Esther Hicks 2007 336 pages
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Key Takeaways

1. You Are a Vibrational Creator in an Expanding Universe

You are far more Vibration and Energy than you are the physical Being that you recognize as you.

Leading-Edge Creators. You are not merely physical beings, but powerful, leading-edge extensions of Non-Physical Source Energy. This means your true nature is vibrational, and you exist within a vibrational universe where everything is energy. Your presence here is for the joyous expansion of the Universe itself.

Law of Attraction. The universe operates on the consistent and powerful Law of Attraction: "that which is like unto itself is drawn." Every thought you have, whether conscious or unconscious, is a vibration that activates and attracts more of its kind. This universal law ensures that you are constantly creating your reality through your focus.

Eternal Expansion. Life on Earth is continuously improving and expanding, driven by the contrast you experience. This contrast naturally clarifies your preferences and desires, which then emanate as vibrational "askings." These askings are immediately heard and answered by Source Energy, fueling the never-ending evolution of All-That-Is.

2. Your Emotions Are Your Personal Guidance System

Your emotions, in every moment, give you an indication of the vibrational relationship between the NonPhysical You and the physical you.

Vibrational Interpreters. Your physical body is equipped with sophisticated vibrational interpreters—your senses—but your emotions are the most crucial. They serve as your internal Emotional Guidance System, providing real-time feedback on your vibrational alignment with your Inner Being or Source Energy.

Alignment vs. Misalignment. Good-feeling emotions (like joy, love, appreciation) indicate vibrational alignment with your Source and your desires. Bad-feeling emotions (like fear, anger, frustration) signal vibrational misalignment or resistance. This system is always accurate and available, helping you understand the vibrational content of your thoughts.

Conscious Awareness. Becoming consciously aware of your emotions is paramount. It allows you to gauge whether your current thoughts are leading you towards what you want or away from it. This awareness empowers you to deliberately choose thoughts that improve your emotional state, thereby shifting your vibrational point of attraction.

3. When You Ask, It Is Always Given (Through Allowing)

When you ask, it is given. It is always given. It is given every time. No exceptions… .

Inherent Asking. As you experience life's contrast and variety, new preferences and desires are constantly born within you. These desires are not just spoken words but vibrational emanations—"rockets of desire"—that are immediately received and answered by Source Energy. The Universe instantly aligns with your new desires.

Vibrational Escrow. Once a desire is launched, Source Energy immediately becomes a vibrational match to it, holding it for you in "vibrational escrow." This means your creation is already complete in the non-physical realm, awaiting your vibrational alignment to manifest in your physical reality.

The Role of Resistance. The only reason you might not receive what you've asked for is if your current, dominant vibration (your beliefs and habitual thoughts) contradicts the vibration of your desire. This "vibrational discord" is felt as negative emotion, acting as resistance that prevents the manifestation of your wanted creations.

4. Deliberate Creation is the Art of Allowing Your Well-Being

We call that conscious state of deliberate vibrational alignment with your Source Energy … the Art of Allowing.

Optimal Connection. The Art of Allowing is the conscious and deliberate maintenance of vibrational alignment between your physical self and your Non-Physical Source Energy. This connection is your most natural state of being, bringing feelings of clarity, vitality, eagerness, passion, love, and appreciation.

Beyond Outcomes. While deliberate creation involves manifesting desired outcomes, it's fundamentally about the process of creation and maintaining your vibrational balance. It's about enjoying the journey of clarifying preferences and aligning with the flow of Well-Being, rather than solely focusing on the end result.

Unclogging the Flow. When you are in alignment, you allow the fullness of who you are—your wisdom, love, and power—to be present in your leading-edge moment. Conversely, resistance (misalignment) pinches off this flow, leading to a lack of thriving, wellness, clarity, and abundance.

5. Shift Your Focus from "What Is" to "What You Want"

You cannot continue to speak about them as they are without causing vibrational discord between your desire and your belief.

Reality is Temporary. What you are currently experiencing is a manifestation of past thoughts and is temporary. Focusing intently on your current "reality," especially if it's unwanted, only perpetuates that reality by activating matching vibrations. To create something different, you must shift your focus.

Creating Your Own Truth. Every subject has a varied vibrational range, from what is wanted to the lack of it. Your consistent focus on any aspect of a subject makes that vibration dominant, eventually manifesting as your "truth" or "fact." It's not about denying reality, but about choosing which reality you want to create.

Deliberate Thought. Deliberate creation requires intentionally choosing your thoughts and paying attention to how they feel. If a thought about money, for example, brings worry, it means your vibration is aligned with lack, not abundance. By consciously reaching for better-feeling thoughts, you begin to mold your reality towards your desires.

6. The Emotional Guidance Scale Helps You Find Relief

A feeling of relief always indicates an improvement in your vibration, and it always means a releasing of resistance, or an increasing of allowing.

Navigating Emotions. The Emotional Guidance Scale provides a map of your emotional states, ranging from joy and empowerment at the top to fear and powerlessness at the bottom. Your goal is to consistently move up this scale, even incrementally, by choosing thoughts that offer a slight feeling of relief.

Reaching for Relief. When you feel negative emotion, it signifies resistance. The most effective way to balance your energy is to actively seek thoughts that feel slightly better than your current ones. This "relief factor" is your most important personal awareness, as it directly indicates a release of resistance and an increase in allowing.

No Source of Unwanted. Just as there's no "dark switch" to flood a room with darkness, there's no source of sickness, badness, or evil. There is only a practiced resistance to the natural Source of Well-Being. By continually reaching for relief, you move closer to your natural state of Well-Being, allowing desired circumstances to unfold.

7. Practical Processes to Align Your Vibrational Energy

Every process, as you apply it, will raise the vibration of your Being.

Tools for Alignment. The book offers various practical processes designed to help you deliberately shift your vibration and release resistance. These are not rigid rules but flexible tools to play with, each aiming to bring your active vibrations into alignment with your desires.

Examples of Processes:

  • Book of Positive Aspects: Deliberately listing positive aspects of a subject to activate beneficial vibrations.
  • Segment Intending: Pre-paving upcoming time segments with positive intentions to set a desired emotional tone.
  • Wouldn't-It-Be-Nice-If...?: Framing desires as hopeful possibilities to reduce resistance and foster positive expectation.
  • Which-Thought-Feels-Better?: Consciously choosing thoughts that incrementally improve your emotional state.
  • Wallet Process: Mentally "spending" a $100 bill repeatedly to cultivate a feeling of financial abundance.
  • Focus Wheel: A powerful visual tool to gather and amplify positive thoughts around a specific desire.
  • Finding-the-Feeling-Place: Using imagination or memory to conjure the feeling of your desire already manifested.
  • Becoming-Free-of-Debt: A playful yet pragmatic approach to shift your vibration around financial obligations.
  • Turning-It-Over-to-the-Manager: Delegating desires to the "Universal Manager" (Law of Attraction) with expectation.
  • Reclaiming-One's-Natural-State-of-Health: A meditative process to align with the body's innate Well-Being.
  • Moving-Up-the-Emotional-Guidance-Scale: Gradually shifting from strong negative emotions to better-feeling ones.

Consistent Application. The key is consistent application of any process that feels appealing and good to you. The better you feel, the more aligned you are, and the faster your desires will manifest. Do not make hard work of it; be playful and flexible.

8. The Emotional Journey Shapes Your Reality, Not Just Action

The most important aspect of any journey is the emotional aspect, for if you are aware of how you feel, and are able to affect those feelings deliberately, then (and only then) will you have conscious control of all future outcomes of your life experience.

Two Concurrent Journeys. You are always on two journeys simultaneously: the "Action Journey" (the factual, observable events and circumstances of your life) and the "Emotional Journey" (your vibrational response and feelings about those events). Most people create by default by focusing predominantly on the Action Journey.

Prioritizing Feeling. Conscious control over your life comes from prioritizing your Emotional Journey. While the Action Journey is "what is happening," your emotional state is "what you are creating next." By deliberately managing how you feel, you mold your future experiences.

Invincible Creation. You cannot offer the same vibration that created an unwanted reality and expect a different outcome. By shifting your attention and vibration, even slightly, you change your point of attraction. This means your happiness and success are not dependent on external conditions, but on your internal vibrational state.

9. Most of Your Creation is Complete Before Manifestation

Ninety-nine percent of every creation is complete before you see any physical evidence of it.

Unseen Formation. Your future is constantly being shaped by the vibrational signals you emit through your thoughts. A vast majority (99%) of any creation is already formed in the non-physical realm before it manifests physically. This unseen phase is where your true creative power lies.

Early Redirection. Understanding this pre-manifestation phase is crucial. It is significantly easier to redirect your thoughts and change the course of a probable manifestation before it appears physically. Waiting until an unwanted event has manifested makes the redirection process much more challenging.

Emotional Indicators. Your Emotional Guidance System is invaluable here. It tells you, in the moment, whether your current thoughts are preparing a future you will enjoy or one you will not. By tuning into your emotions, you gain conscious awareness of what you are on the brink of manifesting, allowing for timely adjustments.

10. Embrace Eternal Expansion and the Joy of Creation

You will never get it done. You will come back lifetime after lifetime for the joy of it, not because there are some rungs on a ladder that you must climb...

Never-Ending Journey. Life is an eternal, never-ending process of expansion and creation. There will always be new desires born from new contrasts, and Source Energy will always answer them. The idea of reaching a "perfect" state where all desires are fulfilled and nothing new emerges is contrary to your eternal nature.

Thrill of the Process. Your true purpose is not to "fix" a broken world or achieve a final destination, but to experience the thrill of feeling your own preferences being born and the joy of the "balancing of Energy" process. The manifestation itself is a brief thrill, quickly becoming a new platform for further creation.

Relax and Allow. Make peace with the idea that you will never "get it done." Relax into the continuous flow of life, knowing that new desires and their answers are always unfolding. This perspective liberates you from the pressure of completion and allows you to fully enjoy the joyous, creative adventure of existence.

11. You Are Always Free and Empowered to Choose Your Vibration

You are only powerless if you are not in alignment with your power, and only you possess the key to that alignment.

No External Control. No one can truly bind you or make you powerless, because no one can offer your vibration for you. Your personal freedom is absolute, as your vibrational offering is the sole determinant of your personal life experience. Blaming others for your circumstances only disempowers you.

Reclaiming Power. The perception of powerlessness stems from misalignment with your own power. By understanding your Emotional Guidance System and deliberately choosing better-feeling thoughts, you reclaim control over your vibration and, consequently, over everything that comes into your life.

Unshakeable Well-Being. Once you consciously understand and apply these principles, you can cultivate an unshakeable sense of Well-Being. You will no longer fear unwanted events or the "other shoe dropping," because you know you possess the inherent ability to direct your focus and choose how you feel, no matter the external circumstances.

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4.27 out of 5
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The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent receives mixed reviews averaging 4.27/5. Supporters praise its techniques for emotional guidance, manifestation, and creating positive reality through deliberate intention. Many appreciate the practical exercises and Abraham's wisdom about vibrational alignment and the Law of Attraction. Critics find it repetitive, unnecessarily lengthy, and cult-like, with some dismissing it as delusional thinking. Several note it complements or extends "Ask and It is Given." Readers value the Emotional Guidance Scale and specific techniques like segment-intending and focus-wheels, though some struggle with the channeling concept and Jerry's audio narration.

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About the Author

Esther Hicks is an American inspirational speaker and best-selling author who co-authored nine books with husband Jerry Hicks on the Law of Attraction. Born in Coalville, Utah, she married Jerry in 1980 and has one daughter from a previous marriage. Hicks presents workshops and appeared in the original release of "The Secret," which was inspired by her material. According to Hicks, her books are channeled from non-physical entities collectively called Abraham, describing her process as tapping into "infinite intelligence." Her work focuses on manifestation, positive thinking, and deliberate creation through emotional guidance.

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