"Instead of doing something to cause a result, you clearly state your intention -- and the result finds you."

The Old Way of Doing: Force

If you’re like most people, you often try to control and overpower things, using your energy to force and manipulate individuals and situations. Instead, if you choose to stay conscious and play the Field, you can make an impact on your life immediately. This may feel confounding and disorienting at first because the way the Field works is the opposite of cause and effect. Instead of doing something to cause a result, you clearly state your intention -- and the result finds you. Your challenge is to let it find you. Intention is the key to accessing the power of the Field. Rather than working harder or muscling an outcome, focus on what you want. Zero in on the what, not the how. Most of us spend our lives trying to make things happen, which sends the message to the Field that things must be made to happen. When you know you can instead operate from power, much less effort and work are entailed. For example, if you are going to a party and want to make contact with a specific person, you can try to force it by planning every little detail of what you will wear, say, and do, or you can set the intention of having a powerful connection with that person and then just go to the party. Think of all the time and energy you will free up when you stop trying to control and engineer what happens.

Think of the Field as a cosmic version of QVC, the popular home-shopping channel. They both have everything you could possibly want, are "on" twenty-four hours a day, and are waiting to fill your order. With QVC, you see what you want. With the cosmic QVC, you imagine what you want, and you don’t have to figure out whether to shop online or by phone or determine the size, model number, or which credit card to use. You just need to be clear about what you want to create in your life.

My friend Jessica knows how to "place an order." She wanted to get married and have a child. She was very specific about these intentions. She didn’t worry about the how. The years went by, her biological clock was ticking, and still she hadn’t met the right man, so she decided to adopt. Most people expect to get married and then have a child. Jessica didn’t get stuck worrying about the sequence. You’ve probably guessed the rest of the story. She met her husband, a single father, months later at a school event she would not have attended if she hadn’t been a parent. People who have mastered this way of being, who can move into the Field and stay there most of the time, are the ones we call lucky. Most of us just don’t believe we have the power to be "lucky" too.

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