weirdway

I just want to alert your attention to the fact that there is no such as anything that's powerless. Every tiniest thought has power. Every breath has power. Every sigh has power. I won't even say anything about magickal intentionality, rituals, punches, written articles, and wars. Even glancing at someone has power. You cannot avoid power. The right attitude for anyone seeking self-mastery is to begin recognizing the power that you have and constantly exude, and begin taking responsibility for it, and stop pissing your power away in ineffective, pointless, useless and self-defeating causes. I won't tell you what those causes are. You have to figure this out for yourselves.

Let's consider a metaphor here and why many people get confused about the effectiveness of small alterations.

Suppose there is a 1000 lbs barbell laying on the floor. Let's also suppose it has square sides instead of the circular ones, so it cannot roll. Now suppose I am a weak child, 5 years of age. Now suppose I were to strain myself against the barbell by pulling it upward. Obviously the barbell won't move. So if you go by visible appearance, you'll wrongly conclude my action had no effect. If another person were to stand there and begin pulling they would no longer need to pull the entire 1000 lbs upward, but it would be 1000 lbs minus whatever my 5 year old self is contributing in the pull. In other words, nothing of that action got lost! Every tiny action has an effect.

Properly repeated (with good timing) actions have their effect applied according a principle of resonance by combining with the habitual energy of the past such actions.

So the point is, even if you don't see anything change as a result of your intent, it doesn't mean your intent just vanished or wasn't effective. Rest assured all your intentionality is absolutely supremely effective. Everything you do and don't do matters. How often you do it matters to. With what attitude you do it matters. The mood matters. Your understanding matters. Everything matters. There is nothing that doesn't matter. If you believe something doesn't matter, then that belief begins to matter and takes effect, but only because that's the state of mind you're in at the time.

So don't right away judge whether you succeed or fail by simply naively observing the outward appearances. You have to go beyond the appearance to start cultivating inner power. Eventually you may start seeing obvious results too. Just like someone can eventually learn to lift that 1000 lbs barbell but they may first only get a visible result with a 50 lbs barbell.

So if you don't see an effect it doesn't mean there isn't one.

It is an immutable mental law that all intent has an effect.

It's often hard to say exactly what kind of an effect because to say this you need to know the specifics of your own mentality, but you can be sure it has some effect, always.