To fully understand this article, I suggest you read beforehand: The Law of Attraction and the Power of Thought and you watch this video by Franck Lopvet.

One of the consequences of the law of attraction is that we always get what we want. The Universe fills us at every moment with the energy we carry. In this case, how can we explain that we experience so many unpleasant, even painful situations? Simply because we carry unrecognized limiting beliefs and a behavior (often unconscious) that generates uncomfortable situations within us.

We create our reality through filters

To these two mechanisms is added a mental filter that, among the infinite flow of information accessible at every moment in our environment, selects those that confirm our beliefs. This is why we truly construct our reality. Hence the importance of changing our beliefs when our reality does not please us! Only by reprogramming our mental filter can we change our perspective on events. In everyday life, when there is no life at stake, the discomfort of a situation always comes from the perspective we have on it and not from the event itself.

“We tend to believe that a scene says something, while in reality this scene exists and it is the way I look at it that says something about us.” Franck Lopvet

For example:

A situation: I just got fired.

Possible interpretations of this situation:

• 1) Life is unfair and cruel because I invested myself and was not rewarded.
• 2) An opportunity presents itself for me to find a better professional situation.

What this says about me:

• Interpretation 1: I seek recognition because I do not recognize my own value.
• Interpretation 2: I accept to move towards the unknown with confidence because I recognize my value and my ability to bounce back.

These mental filters, built on our beliefs, make us interpret life scenes that are, intrinsically, neutral. Following wounds, especially those from childhood, the mind tries to make us vigilant so that certain painful situations (like abandonment, betrayal, rejection, humiliation, etc.) do not happen again. However, this focus produces the opposite effect by making us hypersensitive to situations that would leave someone else indifferent.

The origin of suffering

Another important mechanism to demystify: the suffering we sometimes feel is in no way related to “negative” emotions, but to our resistance to fully experience them, to welcome them. Since they scare us, we enter into resistance, whereas if we fully welcomed them, even a painful sensation could become neutral, pleasant, or even orgasmic. This is what we call transmutation.

These unexperienced emotions store energetically in the body and the mind will then install a filter that will result in us reliving, through the theater of life, situations that revive our wounds until the painful experience we initially lived is integrated and then surpassed. This alchemical healing process happens naturally, even if it can take more or less time, thanks to our earthly experience.

For example:

A situation: In childhood, I felt abandoned.

Beliefs established:

• You cannot trust others.
• I do not deserve to be loved.
• Etc

Reprogramming beliefs

The filter that is created following the development of a limiting belief makes us spot in our daily lives everything that could reactivate this initial wound. This makes us hypersensitive to any signal that could suggest that a situation poses the risk of reactivating this wound. If we do not become aware of this reality bias, we have reactions that end up generating the very situations we were trying to protect ourselves from. Ultimately, it is as if the Universe, whether we want it or not, will present us with similar situations until our wound is healed. And this involves its reactivation many times until we change our mental filter.

To do this, one of the effective tools is to set intentions. They are expressed verbally, with a simple, short, explicit, affirmative sentence, in the present indicative and in the first person singular.

Examples of intentions:

• If I feel bad, I just need to relax and breathe deeply.
• In difficult moments, say “Thank you life” with my heart even if at the moment I do not make sense of what I am experiencing.
• Stress and anger slide off me OR I fully accept to feel this stress and anger.
• I let go of the mind and I am in my heart.
• I focus on my strengths/qualities.

Intentions to avoid:

• I wish to be patient. I am patient.
• I am not afraid. I am confident.
• Vague or imprecise phrases.
• Inappropriate phrases because we have not yet pinpointed the problem.

Know thyself

Setting wise intentions requires knowing one’s wounds  (cf the 5 wounds of the soul by Lise Bourbeau)  and one’s filters.  To become aware of them, one simply needs to look for them behind all the uncomfortable life scenes that repeat endlessly.  Once this work is done, sometimes the help of a psychotherapist is necessary, one just needs to  ask for what one wishes through meditation, prayer, reprogramming the subconscious, visualizations, offerings, a ritual, or, more simply, by writing them down in a dedicated notebook. Fasting and/or purges, as well as digital detoxes, are very appropriate for setting intentions because we cannot welcome the new without making space, which detoxes effectively allow.

Then, as soon as the intention is clearly identified and set, success depends on letting go of the outcome so as not to resist the ongoing process, lest we block it. It is therefore important to accept that we do not know when or how our intention will manifest, while being certain that everything is right and will happen at the right time. Knowing that intentions often manifest in our reality in unexpected ways.

It is also possible to set intentions daily on lighter subjects than our reprogramming.

For example:

• Sleep deeply and wake up at such a time refreshed.
• Receive inspiration for a creative activity.
• Move freely and without hindrance.
• Etc.

You will find other sources of inspiration on this topic in this article:  Meditate and Breathe.

Different reprogramming tools

Personally, I use 4 tools to set intentions.  In descending order of importance:

• Morning meditations  during which I repeat my intentions while visualizing and feeling them as if they were already fulfilled. For this, I use
• a notebook in which I record all my current intentions  at the moment. I keep them, which allows me to see the evolution of my concerns.
• During my  purges,  I systematically set intentions beforehand.
• During my  annual fasts  I do the same.  

Experience showed me that one always ends up being fulfilled as long as (even if we never know when or how)  we set intentions with the heart and stop positioning ourselves as victims.  The law of attraction makes us aware of the great power that is ours, and of our inherent responsibilities. As long as we do not consider ourselves responsible for everything that happens to us, we will not be able to  take back our creative power and thus shape our life according to the aspirations of our soul.