The second component of an intention is the energy you bring to your desire. Like passion, gratitude or joy, the feeling is actually the result of the energy. You know there is energy in your intention when you connect strong feelings to your desire. People complain that they’ve dutifully applied the Law of Attraction, but their intentions aren’t manifesting. Stubborn believers will continue beating their heads against the wall, using the same ineffective approach even though it generates no results. Desire alone is not enough!

The problem with desire that wanting alone isn’t enough because energy is an essential component of every intention. Wanting alone without energy won’t manifest anything but frustration. So, how do you engergise your desires and wants? Need and example of some high-energy intentions, look no further than children. Kids are intention masters. When they really want something, they’ll ask for it, they’ll jump up and down, and assuming they don’t give up, kids are pretty darned good at manifesting what they want. What kind of energy do you bring to your intentions? Do you talk about your desires as if they don't belong to you or so excited that you’re just glowing with enthusiasm? Emotions measure your desire energy level. 

The level of emotions is how much energy you’ve managed to pack into your intention. So what’s the real source of this energy then? Your energy is already there you just need to connect some of it with your intention. Consider how your home appliances work? To get them to work you flip a switch, creating a current and the electric field moves at the speed of light, and you kettle start to boil right away. 

Your intentions work much the same way. The energy is already there. You just need to get the current flowing in the right direction. And this has virtually nothing to do with the actual content of your intentions. To get your energy current flowing you need to understand the concept of polarity.

Using the electricity example. Imagine a battery. It has two terminals which are polar opposites of each other, one positive and one negative. If you hook the battery up to a circuit, electrons will flow in one direction, thereby creating a current. If you flip the battery around and hook it up the other way, you’ll reverse the flow of electrons through the wires, creating an identical current in the opposite direction.

So what does this have to do with intention-manifestation? Well, the energy you apply to your intentions also has polarity, much like a battery. It can flow one way or the other way. You’ll know you have a strong intentional current when you experience strong emotions. No emotions means you have no current. Many people screw up their intentional energy flow by trying to use both polarities in the same circuit. You can’t do that and expect to get good results with the Law of Attraction. It just won’t work.

Polarity is the key to understanding how to create high-energy intentions. Thoughts have content and energy and polarity is a property of the energy level. When we consider the energy of a thought, we’re really talking about the energy flow. But in order to have a flow, we need a direction. What are the possible directions of energy flow? With respect, there are only two directions that make sense: into your consciousness or out from your consciousness.

Energy can flow towards you, or it can flow away from you. The in-flowing energy has one polarity, and the out-flowing energy has the opposite polarity. So here are the two basic energy flows: You to Universe (directing energy from your consciousness to the universe) Breathing out. Universe to You (drawing energy from the universe into your consciousness) Breathing in.

The polarity of every thought is either outward or inward but never both. These two different energy polarities are incompatible with each other. When you have both polarities present at the same time and in the same magnitude, they cancel each other so in effect you are working against yourself. Not understanding polarity is a source of tremendous frustration when applying to your desires since it’s entirely possible to inject lots of energy into your intentions but get little or no results because you’re mixing both polarities together. Unfortunately it’s very easy to do this by default. If you want to manifest a particular desire, you’ll achieve the best results by picking a single polarity and using it consistently. Polarizing your Intentions: An intention without a strong polarity is very weak and has little power to manifest An intention with a strong polarity is very strong and has significant power to manifest To polarize an intention, you must energize it with directional energy. The energy must either flow outward or inward but not both. 

In this case you are receiving from the universe. Your dinner will turn out best if you pick one polarity or the other and stick with it. Try this exercise and see for yourself which works best. To form a strong intention, think of that intention as either an inflow or an outflow of energy. Are you primarily creating or acquiring? It’s important to be crystal clear about which polarity you’re going to use. If you can’t clarify your intention in terms of the inflow or outflow of energy, you’ll end up with a very weak intention that isn’t likely to manifest. When you form a true intention, either you’re giving something to the universe, or you’re getting something from it. What’s important here is that you focus your intentional energy on either one direction or the other but not both. Your attention must be concentrated either on sending energy out or on drawing energy in. Polarized: These concepts may be easier to understand if you look at them from another angle: the emotional output of polarized energy. If you apply highly polarized energy to your intentions, you will experience a strong surge of emotion. But that emotional surge will be totally different depending on your choice of polarity. If you use the polarity of creation and giving (outflow), you will experience a surge of related emotions such as love, joy, and inspiration.

If you use the polarity of acquisition and receiving (inflow), you will experience a surge of related emotions such as greed, lust, and power. These polarized emotional states are incompatible with each other, which is what we’d expect as a result of the underlying energies being incompatible. 

The only way you’ll truly understand the significance of polarity is by experiencing it. Whenever you observe yourself or someone else in an emotional state, stop and take notice of the energetic flow. What is its polarity? Is the focus on inflow or outflow? The content of a thought is the raw desire. If you form a desire to have a million dollars, the content is the request for a million dollars. Even if the original thought is highly emotional, the content portion is the emotionless. 

Desire is simply an abstraction to help us better understand the energy component. So how do you energise your desires?