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 If you want something, work for it. Work for it and pray for it. And be sure to keep you house clean because this is how we wait for cherished guests. 
All these "Attract with the power of intention" new age practices are just a form of energy control. Everyone talking about freedom while acting the opposite way, holding a strong grab of an intented outcome. If we want to step into an era of free energy, we must free energy. Starting within our own body. Discipline is not intentional suffering. It is a natural state of having respect for other people's freedom and limits. It is a sense of pride that lacks interest in that which is not yours. It is endurance when pushing through opposing forces in order to reach a peaceful state and balance. It is a sense if satisfaction with self sufficiency and love of the journey no matter how tough it gets. Pain for the sake of release, and discipline for the sake of victory of mind over flesh is just a form of enslavement.