The Boomerang Effect – Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want – Part 3 of 3

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The Boomerang Effect – Why You Don’t Always Get What You Want – Part 3

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In post one of this boomerang effect series, we considered ‘throwing a boomerang’ as a metaphor for the concept of using your thoughts and intentions to affect your experience of life. 

The lesson from that post was to align with the prevailing winds of your life before attempting to throw your thoughts around.

In post two, we studied the two primary techniques for learning how to throw a boomerang. Which, when transitioned to the concept of using intention and thoughts to your benefit, requires an understanding of the design of the boomerang (crafting your thoughts) and the specific technique for throwing one properly (practicing again and again).

In part 3 we now get to the interesting part…catching the boomerang!

Since we’re using the metaphor of throwing and catching a boomerang to represent ‘affecting your life through the power of thought and intention’, most people are only interested in this third piece of the puzzle. 

“Where is my stuff?”

This, unfortunately, is where most people invest the bulk of their time and energy.  I say ‘unfortunately’ because if you haven’t practiced the first set of skills (personal clarity, alignment and practicing how to project your thoughts properly) you will have a VERY difficult time catching anything!

A girlfriend of mine is a member of an actual ‘intention group’, where they meet weekly to discuss their intentions and how they are able, or unable, to manifest change in their lives.  I think it’s a brilliant idea, but her experience has been both positive and negative.

It seems there is one member who spends the entire meeting talking about her inability to create stuff.  Yes, the group provides a platform for open discussion, but her commentary is self-centered.  She always complains about how she “never can manifest anything”, and “it’s taking so long, what am I doing wrong?” 

Well, it’s obvious to me!  Her focus is not on what she wants as her experience, instead her focus and intention is on what is not her experience.  In Reading Between the Lines, The Hidden Power of Language, I spend a lot of time describing exactly how to focus with intention, and she has the rules of the game mixed up.  She’s trying to throw the boomerang like a Frisbee!

What’s interesting, is this same woman expects to manifest stuff into her life through thoughts alone, and refuses to take any physical action because all the gurus teaching in this space say it’s simply a matter of ‘acceptance’. 

That maybe so for others, but in my experience working with the tools of intention and focused thought, action has always been part of the game too!  This is the primary lesson for today. 

How to best catch a boomerang…

The indigenous aboriginals know the flight of a boomerang is affected by many factors.

We’ve identified alignment and technique as two skills to perfect, but no matter how experienced you are with aligning and throwing, there is a 99% chance it won’t return to exactly where you are standing.  You will have to take a step or two. 

And the reality is, it’s not simply a step to catch it, but more like a running jump to grab the weapon as it speeds towards your general vicinity.

Bringing this metaphor back to using your thoughts to affect your experience of life, you need to consider two options:

1. Take Action
2. Do Not Take Action

If you’ve ever seen the second Mad Max movie, you might recall the narrator is actually the little feral boy who uses a metal boomerang as a lethal weapon (pun intended), and has a special glove to catch it.

You might also recall that at one point in the movie, one of the bad guys is attacked by the boy.

He ducks, but his partner is killed, and in a rage he throws the boomerang back at the boy, who likewise ducks out of the way.  Since the boomerang missed its original target, it begins the inevitable, elliptical return.  Another of the bad guys tries to catch it, and his fingers get chopped off because the blade is razor sharp.  You can view that scene in the movie here, but fair warning – it is violent.

This is a good example of an opportunity to catch a boomerang, which was better left unactioned.

Once you start throwing your well crafted thoughts around, you’ll receive all kinds of opportunities.  Some of these will be in alignment with your primary focus, but others won’t.  When trying to catch a boomerang coming at you, there are many factors to consider.  

Each throw, or the sending of mental energy in the form of intention, will bring about opportunities to take action or not.  It is the wise person who can properly determine when to take action and when to avoid action.

To Review…

The first post about the boomerang effect explained that ‘achieving a specific goal’ will take more than one mental throw.  In fact, it may take many throws to bring about the specific outcome you want to achieve.

You will rarely throw a real boomerang, then stand perfectly still to catch it.  Likewise, you will rarely use your thoughts and intention to manifest something in your life, without taking some sort of action.  When an opportunity comes into your experience, you have to first recognize it, then immediately decide if it should be actioned or not.  

This is why so many people fail.  It’s pretty easy to find alignment in your life through some serious internal conversations.  It’s also pretty easy to craft a thought and throw it out there.  But it is extraordinarily difficult to use thought energy to affect your physical experience of life, so most people give up.

If you’re going to learn how to throw a boomerang, or build a website, or write a book, or play tennis, or speak French…it’s gonna take  effort, tenacity and perseverance.  That’s not what people want to hear these days.  Everyone has instant access to everything today, so why not instant access to the power of the mind?

Well, just like tennis, French or throwing a boomerang, learning how to affect your experience of life is a skill which takes time, practice and belief.

So my hope is every time you see a boomerang you’ll remember this short series of posts. 

Remember to first align with who you are, then craft your thoughts and practice throwing them again and again.  Lastly, be aware of your surroundings.  Look for opportunities to take action and situations to avoid.

When it is time to take action, do so with your full intention to succeed.  When it is time to avoid a situation, do not give any mental energy to it; remove it from your mind.

Align.  Focus.  Throw.  Act.

It is a simple yet powerful philosophy. 

The Rolling Stones must have thrown a few boomerangs…”You can’t always get what you want…but if you try some time, you just might find…you get what you need.”

I look forward to your comments!

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