Three factors of Intention - Will, Desire and Belief
Intention has three factors influencing it which are the will, desire and belief. A Being could not act unless it Willed to Act; and it would not Will to Act, unless it Desired to Act; and it would not Desire to Act unless it obtained some Satisfaction thereby. What it is satisfied by will depend on its own nature.
And we know that the nature of a Being is the result of its own awareness because Consciousness Is Being.
Therefore the order of causation in mental creation is Consciousness >> Beingness >> Desire >> Will >> Action. The action is firstly mental action that leads to physical action secondly. I think therefore I am, therefore I desire, therefore I will conceive and carry out my plan with action to get what I desire and find satisfaction doing so.
The psyche consists of the faculty of intellect, the faculty of emotion, the faculty of will and desire. It is that faculty of will and desire that is the most powerful and authentic one.
It is the will and desire faculty that makes you do what you do. It is the will and desire faculty that brings you back to the thing that you’ve left multiple times. It is the will and desire faculty that causes you to refine yourself and everything you are doing until you achieve what you’ve always wanted. To make a decision based on what you really want. Make it from the will and desire faculty.
Belief gives strength to your intentions. Belief is power. The more you belief in something, the more power you give it to have effect.
Desire In The Absence Of Belief Is Neediness. Desire in the presence of belief is having a Strong Intent. The belief has to be the unwavering certainty that you’ll achieve your intended outcome. You could have all of the skills and desire in the world but without the unwavering certainty that you’ll get what you want, you’re doomed.
But one does not absolutely need to have an unwavering certainty. That is not always entirely possible. There might be doubts or contrary beliefs that exist.
It is all a matter of focus. By choosing only to focus on that which is empowering and positive, one eliminates the effect of that which is disempowering and negative as though they don’t exist. Hence you will seem to have an unwavering certainty.
Although will, desire and belief are factors affecting intention, you must understand that intention isn’t any of these. Intention is simply focus. This is the all important key.
The Law of Attraction is whatever you focus on most of the time, you get. You attract to you everything and anything you hold in your mind, positive or negative.
Intention is applied attention.
“Attention” is a word derived from the Latin root, meaning “to reach out; to stretch out,” and so the act of Attention is really a mental “reaching out; extension” of mental energy. Intention is where you are mentally reaching out to.
The Will is mind force or mental assertion. When you will something, you mentally assert it. You have the mindset that commands and demands that it must be so, and that it will. Your will gives power to your intention. Will is the outward manifestation of Spirit.
People are normally focused on their problems. Problems are simply unmet desires.
The Will is the ruling faculty of the mind. Secret of the Will - The Will is directed by Desire. The trouble with us is that we do not want to do the thing enough to make us exert our Will Power. We don’t want to hard enough. Strong Will follows strong Desire. The person that never wants anything gets little. To demand resolutely is the first step toward getting what you want. All operations of the mind are based on desires. Your beliefs about your desires form the characteristics of your will. It is most important to have the right beliefs about your desires.
Concentration is sustained focus. Will is the faculty of concentration. Concentration requires interest. The relation between concentration and interest is the relation between Will and Desire.
Desire is created by Purpose. In your strongest desires, you feel a definite sense of purpose which is undeniable within you. Purpose is what defines us and binds us to our design and destiny. Purpose is the Will of the Divine.
The stronger the Motive, the greater the concentration. Motive is Purpose Driven Desire for moving forces towards the attainment of a thing.
The Will never acts in a direction, which the mind believes impossible. The disbelief acts as a brake on the Will. Belief removes the barrier for the Will to act. When you have the realization that there are others out there doing what you are thinking of, it gives you the permission to go totally into it without holding back.
The Will and Desire are already operating at full blast. It is belief that releases or unleashes their power. The more you believe, the stronger your will and desire will be. Belief is belief in Purpose. Belief realizes Purpose. Belief unleases your Desire and Will power according to Purpose.Belief connects your Will and Desire with the Universal Will Power and Infinite Desire. Imagination is the faculty of belief.
A person’s free will always yields to the imagination. This secret of the Will is the magic key which opens all doors of mental power.
You can use the Will by using the Imagination. The more you imagine, the more your will moves automatically. The mental picture is the mental force. Where you focus is where your Will will act. Your Will does not need training - but your Mind does. The mind is the instrument and the supply of Will Power is proportionate to the fineness of the instrument through which it manifests.
The Will is Feeling Force. Since All Sense is One Sense, to feel is to imagine, to imagine is to feel. Will and Imagination are One.
All mind power is one mind power. Everything can be resolved into the Will/Imagination.
Will/Imagination >> Belief >> Purpose >> Desire >> Will >> Focus >> Concentration = Attainment Although the Will is directed by Desire and Desire is influenced by Belief, it is still the Will that chooses the
Belief. So it is ultimately the Will directing itself. The reason why this is so is because God created each of us as a Free Will Entity. We have a self-regulating Will.
Focus is above desire and belief. Where you focus is where you are giving psychic energy or mental life to.
It doesn’t matter what you desire or don’t desire. If you focus on what you desire, you will get what you desire. If you focus on what you don’t desire, you will get what you don’t desire.
It doesn’t matter what you believe or don’t believe. The more you focus on what you believe, the more you will experience its reality in your life. The same is true for your unbelief. If you focus on what you don’t believe, you will still see it happen anyway because you are giving it the mental life to manifest.
So it is not enough to say “I don’t want to get sick” or “I don’t believe I’ll get sick”. You’ll still get sick because you are focusing on it. You shouldn’t even think about it. You should instead focus on your desire to be healthy and your belief that you are healthy.
Let’s say a person has a belief that healing has occurred. To visualize being well again is to create the internal representations of a state of wellness. The person does not need to absolutely “believe” in the internal representations for them to work. They simply need to be willing to make the representations consistently. Belief will grow with the forthcoming success. Read Beliefs and Representations of Healing in Healing Cancer with NLP article.
The extent you succeed in getting something is determined by what you truly believe is possible and how intensely you desire the result.
You must focus on your belief and desire, and allow yourself to feel it so powerfully that it fully directs your will which in turn influences the quality of your actions (mental and physical) towards manifesting it.
A Strong Intent is having the Will and Desire to do whatever it takes to get your intended outcome, coupled with the Belief that you can actually get that outcome.
To sum it up, an intention is what you focus on. It is all a matter of choice. You can choose where to direct your attention to, but choice is based on awareness. Once you know, you can choose. Gaining more knowledge about how things work in the mind and reality gives you more power to make conscious decisions in life.