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Second existence. Second love. Second life. Second thought. Second feeling. Second sensuality. Second physicality. Second understanding. Second sexuality. Second imagination. Second mind. Second being. Second psyche. Getting out of the way. Courage. Intuition. Second Self.
Second existence. Second love. Second life. Second thought. Second feeling. Second sensuality. Second physicality. Second understanding. Second sexuality. Second imagination. Second mind. Second being. Second psyche. Getting out of the way. Courage. Intuition. Second Self.
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Intention. Dr Wayne Dyer
Dr Wayne Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of creation to take place. This work explores intention, not as something you do, but as an energy you are part of...The power of intention. Learning to co-create your world your way.
Viewing intention from a new perspective. During the past several years, I have been so strongly attracted to the studying intention, that I’ve read hundreds of books by psychological, sociological and spiritual writers. Ancient and modern scholars and academic researchers.
My research reveals a fairly common definition of intention as a strong purpose or aim, accompanied by a determination to produce a desired result. People driven by intention are described as having a strong will that will not let anything interfere with achieving their inner desire.
I imagine a kind of pit pull resolve or determination. If you’re one of those people with a never give up attitude, combined with an internal picture that propels you, towards fulfilling your dreams, you fit this description of someone with intention.
You are most likely a super achiever and probably proud of your ability to recognise and take advantage of opportunities that arise. For many years I held a similar belief about intention . In fact, I’ve written and spoken often about the power of intention being just what I described above.
Over the past quarter of a century however, I felt a shift in my thinking from a purely psychological or personal growth emphasis, towards a spiritual orientation, where healing, creating miracles, manifesting and making a connection to divine intelligence are genuine possibilities. This hasn’t been a deliberate attempt to disengage from my academic and professional background, but rather a natural evolution that’s been unfolding as I began to make more conscious contact with spirit.
My writing now emphasises my belief that we can find spiritual solutions to problems, by living at higher levels, and calling up on faster energies. In my mind, intention is now something far greater than a determined ego or individual will, it’s something almost totally opposite.
Perhaps this comes from shedding many levels of ego in my own life, but I also feel the strong influence of two sentences I read in a book by Carlos Castaneda. In my writing life, I’ve often come across something in a book that starts germinating something in me, that ultimately compels me to write a new book. At any rate, I read these two sentences in Carlos Castaneda’s final book.
The Active Side of Infinity, while I was waiting to have a cardiac procedure to open up one clogged artery, leading into my heart that had caused a mild heart attack. Castaneda’s words were “Intent is a force that exists in the Universe. When Sorcerers, that is those who live of the Source, beckon intent, it comes to them and sets up a path for attainment. Which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.”
When I read those two sentences, I was stunned by the clarity and insight it gave me about the power of intention.
Imagine that intention is not something you do, but rather a force that exists in the Universe as an invisible field of energy. I had never even considered intention in this way, before reading Castaneda’s words. I wrote those two sentences down, then I had them printed on a card and laminated, I carried the laminated card into the c—lab, for my minor surgical procedure. And as soon as I could, I began to talk about the power of intention to anyone who would listen. I made intention a part of every speech I gave. I immersed myself in the idea of how to use it, not only in my own healing, but to help others use the power of intention to carry them where they are fully equipped to go.
I had experienced what is called Satori, or instant awakening and was intent on offering this insight to others. It had become clear to me that accessing the power of intention, relieved so much of the seemingly impossible striving to fulfil desires by sheer force of will.
The Power of Intention. I hope this book will help you view intention in a new way, and also to make use of it in a manner that leads you to define yourself in a way as Pantangalli suggested more than 20 centuries ago, “Dormant forces and faculties come alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far, than you ever dreamed yourself to be. “ Patangalli’s two words, ‘dormant forces’ kick-started me in the direction of writing about intention.
Patangalli was referring to forces that appear to be either non existent or dead. And he was referring to a powerful energy when someone feels inspired. If you’ve ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you. Inspired is our word for ‘inspirited’. I have thought long and hard about accessing seemingly dormant forces to assist me at key times in my life. To achieve an inner burning desire.
What are these forces? Where are they located? Who gets to use them? Who’s denied access and why? Questions like these have propelled me to write this book and subsequently arrive at a totally new perspective on intention.
At this point, as I’m writing about my excitement of realising a long, obscure truth, I know that intention is a force that we all have within us. Intention is a field of energy that flows invisibly beyond the reach of our normal, everyday, habitual patterns. It’s there, even before our actual conception. We have the means to attract this energy to us and experience life in an exciting new way.
The meaning of omnipresent intention. Try imagining a force that’s everywhere. There’s no place you can go where it isn’t. It can’t be divided and it is present in everything you see or touch. Now, extend your awareness of this infinite energy field beyond the world of form and boundaries.
This infinite, invisible force is everywhere, so it’s both in the physical and the non physical. Your physical body is one part of your totality emanating from this energy. At the instant of conception, intention sets in motion how your physical form will appear and how your growing and ageing process will unfold.
It also sets in motions your non physical aspects, including your emotions, thoughts, and disposition. In this instance, intention is infinite potential. Activating your physical and non physical appearance on earth. You formed out of this omnipresent to become present in this time and space.
Because it is omnipresent, this energy field is accessible to you, after your physical arrival here on earth. The only way you de-activate this dormant force is by believing that you are separate from it. Activating intention means re-joining your source and becoming a modern day sorcerer.
Being a sorcerer means attaining the level of awareness where previously inconceivable things are available. As Carlos Castaneda explained, “the task of sorcerers was to face infinity or intention. And they plunged into it daily as a fisherman plunges into the sea.” Intention is a power that is present everywhere as a field of energy. It isn’t limited to physical development. It’s the source of non physical development as well.
This field of intention is here now, and available to you. When you activate it, you begin to feel purpose in your life and you’ll be guided by your infinite self. As you make your metaphorical bow to this power, recognise that you are bowing to yourself, the all pervading energy of intention pulses through you towards your potential for a purposeful life.
How you came to experience yourself as disconnected from intention. If there’s an omnipresent power of intention that’s not only within me but in everything and everyone, then we’re connected by this all pervading source to everything and everyone and to what we would like to be and what we would like to have and what we want to achieve and to everything in the Universe that will assist us.
All that is required is re-aligning ourselves and activating intention.
But how did we get disconnected in the first place? How did we lose our natural ability to connect? Lions, fish and birds, they don’t get disconnected. The animal, vegetable and mineral worlds are always connected to their source. They don’t question their intention. We humans though, with our capability for our presumably higher brain functions, have something we refer to as ego.
Which is an idea that we construct about who and what we are. Ego is made of six primary ingredients that account for how we experience ourselves as disconnected. By allowing ego to determine your life path, you de-activate the power of intention.
Briefly, here are the six ego beliefs; I’ve written more extensively about them in my previous books, most notably, Your Sacred Self.
1. I am what I have. That is, my possessions define me.
2. I am what I do. That is, my achievements define me.
3. I am what others think of me. That is, my reputation defines me.
4. I am separate from everyone. That is, my body defines me as alone.
5. I am separate from all that is missing in my life. That is, my life space is disconnected from my desires.
6. I am separate from God. My life depends on God’s assessment of my worthiness.
No matter how hard you try, intention cannot be accessed through the ego. So take some time to recognise and re-adjust any or all of those six beliefs. When the supremacy of ego is weakened, in your life, you can seek intention and maximise your potential.
There are four steps to intention. Activating intention is a process of connecting with your natural self and letting go of total ego identification. The process takes place in the following four stages.
1. Discipline. This is the first stage. Learning a new task requires training your body to perform as your thoughts desire so eliminating ego identification doesn’t mean disconnecting with your relationship with your body, but rather training your body to activate those desires. You do that with practise, exercise, non toxic habits, healthy foods and so on.
2. Wisdom. Wisdom is the second stage. Wisdom, combined with discipline, fosters your ability to focus and be patient as your harmonise your thoughts, your intellect and your feelings with the work of your body. We send our children off to school, telling them, “Be disciplined and use your head”. And then we call this an education, but it falls far short of mastery.
3. Love. The third stage is love. After disciplining the body with wisdom and intellectually studying a task, this process of mastery involves loving what you do and doing what you love. In the world of sales I call it falling in love with what you’re offering and then selling your love or enthusiasm to potential customers. When learning to play tennis, it involves practising all of the strokes while studying strategies for playing the game. It also involves enjoying the feeling of hitting the ball and being on the tennis court and everything else about the game.
4. Surrender. And the final stage, four, surrender. This is the place of intention. This is where your body and your mind are not running the show. And you move into intent. You relax. You allow yourself to be carried by the same power that turns acorns into trees, blossoms into apples and microscopic dots into human beings. When you surrender, you lighten up and consult with your infinite soul. Then the power of intention becomes available to take you wherever you feel destined to go.
All of this talk of intention and surrender may cause you to question where your free will fits in. You might be inclined to think that free will is non- existent or that you become whatever your programme dictates. So let’s just take a look at your will and how it fits in with this new you of intention.
As you read the next two sections, please keep an open mind, even if what you see, conflicts with what you believed all of your life. Intention and your free will are paradoxical. A paradox is seemingly absurd or contradictory statements, even if well founded.
Intention and free will certainly qualify as being paradoxical . They conflict with many a pre-conceived notion of what’s reasonable or possible. How can you possess free will and also have intention shaping your body and your potential? You confuse this dichotomy by choosing to believe in the infinity of intention and in your capacity to exercise free will .
You know how to think rationally about the rules of cause and effect. So try your intellect out on this. Obviously it’s impossible to have two infinites, for then neither would be infinite. Each would be limited by the other. You can’t divide infinite into parts. Essentially infinite is unity, continuity or oneness, like the air in your home. Where does the air in your kitchen stop and the air in your living room begin. Where does the air inside your home end and the air outside your home start? How about the air you breathe in and out. Air might be the closest we come to understanding the infinite, universal, omnipresent spirit. Somehow you must travel in thought, beyond the idea of your individual existence to the idea of a unity of universal being, and then beyond this to an idea of a universal energy.
When you think of part of a whole being in one place and one part in another, you’ve lost the idea of unity. And keeping an open mind as I beseeched you to do earlier, get this. At any moment in time, all spirit is pointed at the point where you focus your own attention.
Therefore you can consolidate all creative energy at a given moment in time. This is called your free will at work.
Your mind and your thoughts are also thoughts of the divine mind. Universal spirit is in your thoughts and in your free will. When you shift your thoughts from spirit to ego, you seem to lose contact with the power of intention. Your free will can either move with universal spirit and its unfolding or away from it towards ego dominance.
As it moves away from spirit, life appears to be a struggle, slower energies flow through you, and you may feel hopeless and helpless and lost. You can use your free will to rejoin higher, faster energies.
The truth is that we do not create anything alone. We are all creatures with God. Our free will combines and re-distributes what is already created. You choose. Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit. Or not.
So the answer to the question, do I have a free will, and is intention working with me as an all pervasive universal force? Is Yes. Can you live with this paradox? If you think about it, you live with a paradox in every moment of your existence. At the same exact instant that you’re a body with beginnings and ends, with boundaries and a definition in time and space, you’re also simultaneously an invisible, formless, unlimited, thinking and feeling being. A ghost in the machine, if you will.
Which are you? Matter or essence? Physical or metaphysical? Form or spirit? The answer is both. Even though they appear to be opposites. Do you have a free will? And are you a part of the destiny of intention? The answer is Yes.
Fuse this dichotomy. Blend the opposites. And live with both of these beliefs. Begin the process of allowing spirit to work with you and link up to the field of intention.
Combining free will with intention.
In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide, fit together perfectly. The word coincidence does not describe luck or mistakes, it describes that which fits together perfectly. By combining free will with universal mind, you harmonize. Rather than operating in your own mind, outside of this force called intention, your goal very well may be as you listen to this programme, to be in harmony at all times with intention.
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up or when you slip up and return to old self defeating habits, recognise the signs that you’re out of harmony with intention. You can and will re-connect in a way that will bring you into alignment with your own purpose.
For example, when I write, I open myself to the possibilities of universal spirit and my own individual thoughts, collaborating with fate to produce a helpful insightful programme. Here’s an example of how intention collaborates with life’s circumstances to produce what we need.
Recently, my 19 year old daughter, Summer, told me that she’d quit her temporary job as a restaurant hostess and wasn’t sure what she wanted to do before resuming her college studies. I asked her what made her feel most purposeful and happy. And she said it was teaching horseback riding to young children, but she refused to return to the old barn where she’d worked a year before, because she really felt unappreciated, overworked and underpaid.
I was over on Maui, writing the very first chapter on a whole new perspective on intention when we had this telephone conversation. I launched into my ‘intention as a force on the universe’ spiel and told my daughter that she needed to re-align her thoughts and so on. “Open up to receiving the assistance you desire” I told her, “trust in intention. It exists for you. Stay alert and be willing to accept any guidance that comes your way. Stay in vibrational harmony with the all providing Source. “
The next day, the very moment I was searching for an example of intention to put into this chapter, the telephone rang. And here it was Summer bubbling with enthusiasm. “You’re not going to believe this Dad” she said, “on second thoughts, I’m sure you will believe it. Remember how yesterday you told me to be open to intention. Well, I was sceptical, even thinking that’s just my weird Dad, but I decided to try it. Then I saw a sign on a telephone poll that said, ‘horseback riding lessons’ and there was a telephone number. I wrote the number down and I just called it.
And the woman who answered told me she needed to hire someone she could trust, to do trail rides with young kids. She pays exactly double what I was making at the restaurant! I’m going out to see her tomorrow. Isn’t that cool?”
Cool! Hell yes, it’s cool. Here I am, writing a book, looking for a good example and when it arrives in the form of help I was attempting to offer the day before to my daughter. Two for the price of one, if you will.
I’ll close this section with words from Aldous Huxley, one of my favourite authors; “ The spirit-ful journey does not consist in arriving at a new destination, where a person gains what he did not have or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life. And the gradual growth of that understanding, which begins the spiritual awakening, the finding of God is a coming to oneself.”
In this first chapter, I’ve asked you to stop doubting the universal, omnipresent force I’ve called intention. I told you that you can be linked to and carried to your destination on the energy of destination alone.
In the next part, I describe how this field of intention might look, were you able to see it and what the faces of intention might look like.
The Seven Faces of Intention.
Moving from thinking about intention to knowing intention. Not too long ago, while writing this book on Maui I experienced a knowing that I’ll attempt to explain to you. A woman from Japan was pulled from the surf, her body bloated from an excessive intake of sea water. I knelt over her with others, attempting to get her heart beat going with cpr , while many of her friends from Japan, cried out in anguish as the futile attempts at resuscitation.
Suddenly I felt the quiet awareness of this woman’s spirit hovering above our life saving attempts. As I watched the rescue scene on the beach, I felt the presence of some blissfully peaceful energy and in some unfathomable way, I knew that she wasn’t going to be revived and she was no longer connected to the body that so many well meaning people, including myself, were trying to bring back to life.
This quiet knowing led me to stand up, put my hands together and say a silent prayer for her. We were from different parts of this world and didn’t even share a common language. Yet I felt connected to her. I felt peaceful, with a knowing that her spirit and mine were somehow connected in the mystery of the transient, ephemeral nature of our physical lives.
Silent knowledge starts when you invite the power of intention to play an active part in your life. This is a private and very personal choice that needn’t be explained or defended. When you make this inner choice, silent knowledge will gradually become a part of your normal, every day awareness. Opening up to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation.
Clinging to attempts to think or reason your way to intention is futile. By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feeings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.
This may sound like hocus pocus but I prefer to think of it as emptying my mind and entering the heart of mystery. Here, I set aside rational thoughts and open to the magic and excitement of an illuminating, new awareness.
A great teacher in my life, named J Krishnamurty was observed, “to be empty, completely empty is not a fearsome thing, it is absolutely essential for the mind to be unoccupied, to be empty, unenforced, for then only can it move into unknown depths.”
Now I’ve described what our view might be, if we could be outside ourselves, floating above our body. Like the spirit of the Japanese lady on the beach the other day. From this perspective I imagine myself looking at the faces of intention through eyes that are capable of seeing higher vibrations.
And here are the seven faces of intention.
1. The Face of creativity.
The first of the seven faces of intention is the creative expression of the power of intention that designed us, got us here. And created an environment that’s compatible with our needs. The power of intention has to be creative, otherwise nothing would come into existence. It seems to me that this is an irrefutable truth about intention and spirit, because it’s purpose is to bring life into existence, in a suitable environment.
Why do I conclude that the life giving power of intention intends us here to have life and to have it in increasing abundance. Because if the opposite were true, life as we know it, couldn’t come into form.
The very fact that we can breathe and experience life has proved to me, that the nature of the life giving spirit is creative at its very core. This may seem obvious to you, or in fact, it may appear confusing or even irrelevant. But what is clear is this. You are here in your physical body. There was a time when you were an embryo, before that a seed and before that, formless energy. That formless energy contained intention which brought you from nowhere, to now, here.
At the very highest levels of awareness, intention started you on a path towards your destiny. The face of creativity, intends you towards continued creativity, to create and co-create anything that you direct your power of intention towards. Creative energy is a part of you. It originates in the life giving spirit that intended you here in the first place.
2. The Face of Kindness.
Any power, that has as its inherent nature, the need to create and convert energy into physical form, must also be a kindly power. Again, I am deducing this from the opposite. If the all giving power of intention, had at its core, the desire to be unkind, malevolent or hurtful, then creation itself would be impossible.
The moment unkind energy became form, the life giving spirit would be destroyed. But instead, the power of intention has a face of kindness. It is kind energy, intending what it created, to flourish and to grow. And to be happy and to be fulfilled. Our existence is proof to me of the kindness of intention.
Choosing to be kind is a choice to have the power of intention active in your life. The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proved in research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, more peaceful and even blissful.
In fact, the role of most anti depressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically. Helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness, directed towards another human being, improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this. Kindness extended, received or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved. Both the face of kindness and the face of creativity are smiling here.
3. The Face of Love.
The third of the seven faces of intention is the face of love. That there’s a life giving nature inherent in the power of intention is an irrefutable conclusion. What would we name this quality that encourages and enhances and supports all of life. If not love. It’s the prime moving power of the spirit of intent. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “love is our highest word and the synonym for God.” The energy field of intention is pure love, resulting in a nurturing and totally co-operative environment.
Judgment, anger, hate, fear or prejudice won’t thrive here. So were we able to actually see this field, we’d see creativity and kindness in an endless field of love. We enter the physical world of boundaries and beginnings, through the universal force field of pure love. This face of intention, that is an expression of love , which is only for us to flourish and grow, and become all that we’re capable of becoming . When we’re not in the harmony of energy of love, we’ve moved away from intention and weakened our ability to activate intention through the expression of love.
For example, if you’re not doing what you love and loving what you’re do, your power of intention is weakened. You attract more into your life the dissatisfaction that isn’t the face of love. Consequently, more of what you don’t love will appear in your life.
St Francis, in his famous prayer, beseeches God, “Where there is hatred, let me so love.” What he is seeking is the power to dissolve and ultimately convert hate to the energy of love. Hate converts to love when the energy of love is in its presence. This is true for you too. Hate, directed towards yourself or others, can be converted to the life giving, love granting, life force of intention.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin....put it this way, “The conclusion is always the same. Love is the most powerful and still, the most unknown energy of the world.”
4. The Fourth Face of Intention, The Face of Beauty.
The fourth of my seven faces of intention is the face of beauty. What else could a creative, kind and loving expression be other than beautiful? Why would the organising intelligence of intention ever elect to manifest into form anything that is repugnant to itself. Obviously it wouldn’t so we can conclude that the nature of intention has an eternal interaction of love and beauty and add the expression of beauty to the face of a creative, kind, loving power of intention.
In order to grasp the significance of beauty as one of the faces of intention, remember this: Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. As you become receptive to seeing and feeling beauty around you, you’re becoming attuned to the creative power of intention within everything in the natural world. Including yourself.
By choosing to see beauty in everything, even a person who was born into poverty and ignorance, will be able to experience the power of intention. Seeking beauty in the worst of circumstances with individual intent, connects one with the power of intention. It works. It has to work. The face of beauty is always present, even where others see non beauty.
I always love the way Mother Theresa describes this quality when she was asked, “What do you do every day in the streets of Calcutta at your mission?” She responded, “Everyday, I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises. “
5. The Fifth face of intention is called Expansion.
The elemental nature of life is to increase and seek more and more expression. If we could sharply focus on the faces of intention, then we’d be startled. I imagine that one of the faces that we’d see is a continuously expanding expression of the power of intention. The nature of this creative spirit is always operating so as to expand. Spirit is a forming power. It has the principle of increase, meaning that life continues to expand toward more life. Life, as we know it, originates from formless intention.
Therefore, one of the faces of intention looks like something that’s eternally evolving. It might look like a tiny speck in a continuous state of duplicating itself and then enlarging itself and then moving forwards, all the while continuing its expansion and its expression. This is precisely what’s happening in our physical world.
This fifth face of intention takes the form of what is expressing it. It can be no other way, for if this ever expanding force disliked itself, or felt unconnected, it can only destroy itself. But it doesn’t work that way. The power of intention manifests as an expression of expanding creativity, kindness, love and beauty.
By establishing your personal relationship to this face of intention, you expand your life through the power of intention, which was, is and always will be, a component of this originating intention. The power of intention is the power to expand and increase all aspects of your life. No exceptions. It’s the nature of intention to be in a state of increased expression, so it’s true for you as well.
6. The Sixth Face of Intention is called Unlimited Abundance.
This sixth face of intention is an expression of something that has no boundaries. It is everywhere it wants and it is endlessly abundant. It’s not just huge. It never stops. This marvellous gift of abundance is what you were created from. You too share this in the expression of your life. You’re actually fulfilling the law of abundance. These gifts are given freely and fully to you just as the air, the sun, the water and the atmosphere, are provided in unlimited abundance for you.
From the time of your earliest memories, you probably were taught to think in terms of limitations. My property starts here, yours over there. So we build fences to mark our boundaries. But ancient explorers gave us an awareness of the world as potentially endless. Even more ancient astronomers pushed back our beliefs about an immense dome shaped ceiling covering the earth. We’ve learned about galaxies that are mentioned in the distant light travels in a year.
Science books that are only two years old are outdated. Athletic records that supposedly demonstrated the limits of our physical prowess, are shattered with amazing regularity. What all these means is that there are no limits to our potential as people as collective entities. And as individuals. The face of abundance has absolutely no limits.
Imagine the vastness of the resources from which all objects are created. Then consider the one resource that stands above all others. This would be your mind and the collective mind of humankind. Where does your mind begin and end? What are its boundaries? Where is it located? More important, where is it not located? Is it born with you or is it present before your conception? Does it die with you? What colour is it, what shape?
The answers are in the phrase, unlimited abundance. You were created from this very same unlimited abundance. The power of intention is everywhere. It is what allows everything to manifest, to increase and to supply infinitely. Know that you’re connected to this life force and that you share it with everyone and all that you perceive to be missing. Open to the expression of the face of unlimited abundance and you will be co-creating your life as you’d like it to be.
7. The Seventh and Final Face of Intention is called Receptivity.
This is how I imagine the seventh face. The receptive face of intention. It’s simply receptive to all. No one and no thing is rejected by the receptive face of intention. It welcomes everyone and every living thing without judgment, never granting the power of intention to some and then withholding it from others.
The receptive face of intention means to me, that all of nature is waiting to be called into action. We only need to be willing to recognise and receive. Intention can’t respond to you if you fail to recognise it. If you see chance and coincidence governing your life and the world, then the universal mind of intention will appear to you as nothing but an amalgamation of forces, devoid of any order or power.
Simply put, to be receptive is to deny yourself to the power of intention. In order to utilise the all inclusive receptivity of intention, you must produce within yourself, an intelligence, equal in affinity, to the universal mind itself. You must not only become receptive to having guidance available to you, for you to manifest your human intentions, but you must be receptive to giving this energy back to the world.
As I’ve said many times and in speeches and earlier writings, your job is not to say how, it is to say yes. Yes, I’m willing, yes, I know that the power of intention is universal, it is denied to no one. The face of receptivity smiles on me, as what I need, flows to me from the Source. And the Source is receptive to my tapping into it to co-create books and speeches and videos and audios and anything else that I’ve been fortunate enough to have on my resume.
By being receptive, I’m in harmony with the power of intention of the universal, creative force. This works in so many different ways. You’ll see the right people, magically appearing in your life. Your body healing and if it’s something that you want, even becoming a better dancer or card player, or an athlete, the field of intention allows everything to emanate into form. And its unlimited potential is built into all that has manifested, even before it’s initial birth pangs were being expressed.
In this chapter, you’ve become familiar with my concept of The Seven Faces of Intention. They’re Creative, Kind, Loving, Beautiful, Ever-expanding, Endlessly Abundant, and Receptive to all. And you can connect to this alluring field of intention.
Connecting to Intention.
Listen to this observation by the great mental science practitioner of the early twentieth century. His name was Thomas Troward. “The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the thinking of things. But by contemplating the floating of things, which floated naturally and then intelligently asking why they did so.”
In the early days of ship building, ships were made of wood and the reasoning was that wood floats in water and iron sinks. Yet, today, ships all over the world are built of iron. As people began studying the law of flotation, it was discovered that anything could float, if its lighter than the mass of liquid it displaces. So today, we are able to make iron float by the very same law that made it sink. Keep this example in mind as you listen and apply the contents of this chapter, on connecting to all that you are intended to become.
The key word here is contemplating what you’re placing your thoughts on as you begin utilising the enormous potential and the power of intention. You must be able to connect to Intention and you can’t access and work with Intention, if you’re contemplating the possibility of being able to intend and manifest. You can’t discover the law of co-creation, if you’re contemplating what’s missing.
You can’t discover the power of awakening if you’re contemplating things that are still asleep. The secret to manifesting anything that you desire, is your willingness and ability to re-align yourself so that your inner world is in harmony with the power of intention.
Every single modern advance that you see and take for granted, was created and creating is what we’re doing here in this chapter, by someone contemplating what they intend to manifest. The way to establish a relationship with spirit and access the power of this creating principle, is to continuously contemplate yourself as being surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce.
Dwell on the idea of a supreme infinite power producing the results that you desire. This power is the creative power of the universe. It’s responsible for everything coming into focus. By trusting it to provide the form and conditions for its manifestation, you establish a relationship to intention that allows you to be connected, as long as you practise this kind of personal intent.
Entering into the spirit of Intention.
Whatever you intend to create in your life, involves generating the same life giving quality that brings everything into existence. The spirit of anything the quality that allows it to come into the world of form, is true as a general principle. So why not activate it within yourself. The power of intention simply awaits your ability to make the connection. How do you enter into the spirit of intention which is all about feelings expressing life? You can nurture it by your continual ongoing expectation of the infallible law of increase being a part of your light.
We saw it through our imaginary capacity to see higher vibrations and we heard it in the voice given to it by spiritual masters throughout the ages. It’s everywhere. It wants to express life. It’s pure love in action. It’s confident and guess what, you are it. But you’ve forgotten that. You need to simply trust your ability to cheerfully rely upon spirit to express itself through and for you.
Your task is to contemplate the energies of life, love, beauty and kindness. Every action that’s in harmony with this originating principle of intention, gives expression to your own personal power of intention.
WAYNE DYER
Thank you to the author for this excerpt and to the outside source for the artwork.
Other Links
Courage. The Joy of Living Dangerously. Osho
How to Know God. Deepak Chopra
Karma. Deepak Chopra and Judy Hall
THE LOST KNOWLEDGE. Official Definitions of Spirituality, Esoteric Thought and Philosophy. Mysticism.
Freedom. The Right To Be Free. Amera Ziganii Rao
The Power of Boundaries. Christopher Howard
Expand Your Life! Christopher Howard
Earth Angels. Doreen Virtue. An Excerpt
Amera Ziganii Rao
Amera Ziganii Rao is a philosophical writer, essayist, social commentator, prose writer, dramatist and photographer artist as well as a consciousness explorer, self actualiser and emotional healer. She is a former journalist who is now turning professional with her art forms and indeed, her healing forms, after a long journey of inner searching, self teaching and exploring many layers and areas of both craft and wisdom. She is now working on her first book of philosophy and esoteric thought, and social and cultural commentary. She is also showing her first photography collections. And last but most definitely not least, she is building a business to share her consciousness and empowering explorations to reach as many people as possible across the world. She is 46 years old and currently lives in London.
Amera Ziganii Rao is a philosophical writer, essayist, social commentator, prose writer, dramatist and photographer artist as well as a consciousness explorer, self actualiser and emotional healer. She is a former journalist who is now turning professional with her art forms and indeed, her healing forms, after a long journey of inner searching, self teaching and exploring many layers and areas of both craft and wisdom. She is now working on her first book of philosophy and esoteric thought, and social and cultural commentary. She is also showing her first photography collections. And last but most definitely not least, she is building a business to share her consciousness and empowering explorations to reach as many people as possible across the world. She is 46 years old and currently lives in London.
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