I am condensing Dr. Wayne Dyers book, (I'm sure that he will not mind) because many of my loved ones, do not have the time to read the whole book - and I really want them to know about the power of intention! Also, I have to re-read it myself often, to try to remember it. It is truly "Amazing!"
"Self-realization means that we have been consciously connected with our source of being. Once we have made this connection, then nothing can go wrong...."
Swami Paramananda
"In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link."
Carlos Castaneda
Castaneda's words were: "Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the Source) beckon intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do."
Imagine that intention is not something YOU DO, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy!
"I hope that this book will help you view intention in a new way and make use of it in a manner that leads you to define yourself as Patanjali suggested more than 20 centuries ago: "Dormant forces, faculties, and talents come alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
Patanjali was referring to forces that APPEAR TO BE either nonexistent or dead, and he was refering to the powereful energy a person feels when inspired. If you've ever been inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of Spirit working through you. Inspired is our word for in-spirited.
"At this point, as I'm writing about my excitement of realizing a long-obscured 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, everday 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."
There's no place that it's NOT, because everything in the universe has intention built into it. This is true for all life forms, whether it be a wildebeest, a rose bush, or a mountain. A mosquito has intent built into its creation and life experience. A tiny acorn with no apparent power to think or make plans for its future contains intention from the invisible field. If you cut the acorn open, you won't see a giant oak tree, but you know it's there. An apple blossom in the springtime appears to be a pretty little flower, yet it has intent built into it and will manifest in the summer as an apple. Intention doesn't err. The acorn never turns into a pumpkin, or the apple blossom into an orange.
Every aspect of nature, without exception, has intention built into it, and as far as we can tell, nothing in nature questions its path of intent. Nature simply progresses in harmony from the field of intention. We, too, are INTENDED from the energy of this field.
There is what some call a future-pull in the DNA that's present at conception in each of us. In the moment of our conception, when an infinitely tiny drop of human protoplasm combines with an egg, life in physical form begins, and intention directs the growth process. Our body structure, the shape of our physical features, our development, including our aging,, are intended in that one moment of conception. The sagging skin, the wrinkles, and even our death are all there. But wait, what exactly happens at the moment of conception? Where did this life, born of intention, begin?
As we examine that seed/egg dance attempting to discover its origin, moving backwards toward Creation, we first find molecules, then atoms, than electrons, then subatomic particles, and then sub-subatomic particles. Ultimately, were we to put these tiny quantum subatomic particles into a particle accelerator and collide them, trying to put our finger on the source of life, we'd discover what Einstein and his scientific compatriots discovered: "There's no paraticle at the source; particles do not create more articles. The Source, which is intention, is pure, unbounded energy vibrating so fast that it defies measurement and observation. It's invisible, without form or boundaries. So, at our Source, we are formless energy, and in that formless vibrating spiritual field of energy, intention resides.
On a lighter note, I KNOW it's there, since somehow it managed to get into a drop of sperm and an ovarian egg and determined that my hair will no longer grow on my head after 25 years...and in 50 years, it will grow in my nose and ears, and all I (the observer) can do is watch it and snip it away!
This field of intent can't be described with words, for the words emanate from the field, just as do the questions. That placeless place is intention, and it handles everything for us. It grows my fingernails, it it beats my heart, it digests my food, it writes my books, and it does this for everyone and everything in the universe."
You've formed out of the omnipresent to become present in time and space. Because it's omnipresent, this energy field of intent is accessible to you after your physical arrival here on Earth! The only way you DE-ACTIVATE this formant force is believing that you're SEPARATE from it.
This field of of INTENTION is HERE, NOW and AVAILABLE to YOU. When you activate it, you'll begin to feel purpose in your life, and you'll be guided by your infinite self.
Here's how a poet and a spiritual teacher describes what I'm calling intention.
O Lord, thou art on the sandbanks
As well as in the midst of the current;
I bow to thee.
Thou art in the little pebbles
As well as in the calm expanse of the sea;
I bow to thee.
O all-pervaiding Lord,
Thous art in the barren soil
And in the crowded places;
I bow to thee.
- from Veda XVI by Sukla Yajur
As you make your metaphorical bow to this power, recognize that you're bowing to Yourself. The all-pervading energy of intention pulses through you toward your potential for a purposeful life.
How did we get disconnected in the first place?
We humans, however, with our capability for presumably higher brain functions, have something we refer to as EGO, which is an idea we construct about who and what we are.
By allowing ego to determine your life path, you deactivate the power of intention.
1. I AM WHAT I HAVE. My possessions define me.
2. I AM WHAT I DO. My achievements define me.
3. I AM WHAT OTHERS THINK OF ME. My reputation defines me.
4. I AM SEPERATE FROM EVERYONE. My body defines me as alone.
5. I AM SEPARATE FROM ALL THAT IS MISSING IN MY LIFE. 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 can't be accessed through ego, so take some time to recognize and readjust any or all of these six beliefs. When the supremacy of ego is weakened in your life, you can seek intention and maximize your potential.
1. DISCIPLINE is the first stage.
Learning a new task requires training your body to perform as your thoughts desire. So iliminating ego identification doesn't mean disconnecting from your relationship with your body, but rather, training your body to activate those desires. You do that with practice, exercise, nontoxic habits, healthy foods, and so on.
2. WISDOM is the second stage.
Wisdom combined with discipline fosters your ability to focus and be patient as you harmonize your thoughts, your intellect, and our feelings with the work of your body. We send children off to school telling them: Be disciplined and Use your head, and call this education, but it falls short of mastery.
3. LOVE is the third stage. 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.
4. SURRENDER is the fourth stage. This is the place of intention. This is where your body and your mind aren't running the show and you move into intent. "In the universe there is an immeassurable, indescribable force which the shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link."
Absolutely everything in the entire cosmos includes you and your disciplined, wise, loving self, and all of your thoughts and feelings. When you surrender, you lighten up and can consult with your infinite soul. Then the power of intention becomes available to take you wherever you feel destined to go.
OUR INDIVIDUAL THOUGHTS CREATE A PROTOTYPE IN THE UNIVERSAL MIND OF INTENTION. You and your your power of intention are not separate. So, when you form a thought within you that's commensurate with Spirit, you form a spiritual prototype that connects you to intention and sets into motion the manifestation of your desires.
Whatever you wish to accomplish is an existing fact, already present in Spirit. Eliminate from your mind thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the the possibility of it not manifesting.
In simpler words, "All things whatsover ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall receive them."
[Mark 11:24]
This is the power of INTENTION at work.
"The spiritual 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 one's self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. THE FINDING OF GOD IS A COMING TO ONE'S SELF!"
[Aldous Huxley]
1. Whenever you feel out of sorts, lost, or even in a sour mood, say the word Intent or intention repeatedly. When you're in a state of anxiety or when everything around you seems to have conspired to keep you from your mission. Repeat the words "Intent" or "Intention" as a reminder to be peaceful and calm. Intention is spirit, and spirit is silently blissful.
2. Tell yourself that you have a life mission and a silent partner who's accessible at any moment you choose. When "ego" defines you by what you have or do, or compares you to others, use your power of free will to terminate those thoughts. Say to yourself, "I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force of the universe." This will become an automatic way of responding to life. Synchronistic results will begin to happen.
3. Act as if anything you desire is already here. Believe that all that you seek you've already received, that it exists in spirit, and know you shall have your desires filled. One of the secrets for success and inner peace is to TREAT YOURSELF AS IF YOU ALREADY ARE WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO BECOME.
4. Copy this ancient Hasidic saying and carry it with you for a year. It's a reminder of the power of intention and how it can work for you every day in every way.
"....the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations."
DON JUAN MATUS:
"Four thousand volumes of metaphysics
- VOLTAIRE
Take a moment right now, to close your eyes and empty your mind of rational thoughts and the multitudinous ever-changing chatter that goes on. Next, hit the delete button every time doubt appears. Finally, open to the emptiness. Then you can begin to discover how to silently know the power of intention.
Imagine yourself floating above your body, looking at the faces of intention through eyes that are capable of seeing higher vibrations.
The first face 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 or nothing would come into existence. It seems to me that this is an irrefutable truth about intention/spirit, because its purpose is to bring life into existence in a suitable environment.
Why do I conclude that the life-giving power of intention intends us 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.
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 NO WHERE to NOW HERE.
Creative energy is part of you; it originates in the life-giving Spirit that INTENDS you.
It is a kind energy intending what it's creating to flourish and grow, and be happy and fulfilled.
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!
When you're unkind, you're blocking the face of kindness. You're moving away from the power of intention. No matter whether you call it God, Spirit, Source, or intention, be aware that unkind thoughts weaken, and kind thoughts strengthen, your connection.
As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it: "Love is our highest word and the synonym for God."
The energy fiesd of intention is pure love resulting in a nurturing and totally cooperative environment. Judgment, andger, 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.
If you aren't doing what you love and loving what you do, your power of intention is weakened. You attract into your life more of the dissatisfaction that isn't the face of love. Consequently, more of what you don't love will appear in your life.
Thoughts and emotions are pure energy; some higher and faster than others. When higher energies occupy the same field as lower energies, the lower energies convert to higher energies.
A simple example of this is a darkened room that has lower energy than a room bathed in light. Since light moves faster than non-light, when a candle is brought into a dark room, the darkness not only dissolves and disappears, but it seems magically converted into light.
The same is true of love, which is a higher/faster energy than the energy of hate.
St. Francis, in his famous prayer, beseeches God: "Where there is hatred, let me sow 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 toward youself or others, can be converted to the life-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."
.....so we need to silently know that truth and beauty are one and the same. This knowing leads to valusble insights in relation to exercising your individual will, imagination, and intuition.
Remember this: Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul.
Seeking beauty in the worst of circumstances with individual intent connects one to the power of intention. It works. It has to work. The face of beauty is always present, even where others see non-beauty.
Viktor Frankl shared his assertion "that it's the ability to see beauty in all of life's circumstances that gives our lives meaning." He reminds us that if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives.
I love the way Mother Teresa described this quality when she was asked, "What do you do every day in the streets of Calcutta at your mission?" She responded, "Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises."
The power of intention manifests as an expression of expanding creativity, kindness, love,and beauty. By establishing your personal relation to this face of intention, you expand your life throught 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 is true for you, too.
The only proviso to this forward movement of intention is to cooperate with it everywhere and allow this spirit of increase to express itself through you and for you, and for everyone you encounter. Then you will have no worry or anxiety. Trust the face of expansion and do what you do because you're loving what you do and doing what you love. Know that expansive, beneficial results are the only possibilities.
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.
What all this means is that there are no limits to our potential as people, as collective entities, and as individuals. This is largely true because we emanate from the unlimited abundance of intention.
Consider the one resource that stands above all others.
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 perceie to be missing. Open to the expression of the face of unlimited abundance, and you'll be co-creating your life as you'd like it to be.
Here is Walt Whitman speaking to us in Song of myself. As you read these lines, substitute "the face of endless abundance" for God to gain a flavor of what the power of intention is.
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand
You don't have to have an intellectual understanding. It's enough to silently know and proceed to live with your awareness of this face of endless abundance.
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 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 recognize and receive. Intention can't respond to you if you fail to recognize 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 unreceptive is to deny yourself access to the power of intention. In order to utilize 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 to manifest your human intentions, but you must be receptive to giving this energy back to the world. As I've said many times in speeches and earlier writings, your job is not to say HOW, it's to say YES! YES, I'm wiling. YES, I know that the power of intention is universal. It's denied to no one.
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, you'll even discover youself becoming a better dancer, card player, or athlete! The field of intention allows everything to emanate into form, and its unlimited potential is built into all that has manifested even before its initial birth pangs were being expressed.
1. Visualize the power of intention. Invite your visualization of the field of energy, which is the power of intention, to appear in your mind. Be receptive to what appears as you visualize your concept of this field of energy.Even though you know it's invisible, close your eyes and see what images you receive. Recite the seven words that represent the seven faces of intention: creative, kind, loving, beautiful, expanding, abundant, and receptive.
Remind yourself that when you feel or behave inconsistently with these seven faces of intention, you've disconnected from the power of intention.
2. Be reflective. A mirror reflects without distortion or judgment. Consider being like a mirror, and reflect what comes into your life without judgment or opinions. Be unattached to all who come into your life by not demanding that they stay, go, or appear, at your whim.
3. Expect beauty. Expect kindness and love along with beauty to be in your life by deeply loving yourself, your surroundings, and by showing reverence for all of life.
4. Meditate on appreciation. Cherish the energy that you share with all living beings now and in the future, and even those that have lived before you. Feel the surge of that life force that allows you to think, sleep, move about, digest and even meditate. The power of intention responds to your appreciation of it. The life force that's in your body is key to what you desire. As you appreciate your life force as representative of the power of intention, a wave of determination and knowing surges through you. The wisdom of your soul as it responds to your meditation on appreciation assumes command and knows every step that must be taken.
5. Banish doubt. When doubt is banished, abundance flourishes and anything is possible. We all tend to use our thoughts to create the world we choose. If you doubt your ability to create the life you intend, then you're refusing the power of intention. Even when nothing seems to indicate that you're accomplishing what you desire in your life, refuse to entertain doubt.
Shakespeare declared. "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
Don't doubt your creation from a field of energy that's always available to you.
HOW YOU CAME TO EXPERIENCE YOURSELF AS DISCONNECTED FROM INTENTION
How did we loose our natural ability to connect?
Lions, fish and birds don't get disconnected. The animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds are always connected to their Source. They don't question their intention.
HERE ARE THE SIX EGO BELIEFS.
FOUR STEPS TO INTENTION
Merging Your Individual Thoughts with the Universal Mind.
If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it WILL GERMINATE into the REALITY in the PHYSICAL WORLD.
FIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING THE IDEAS
When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul came aout and cling to you,and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you.
THE SEVEN FACES OF INTENTION
will not teach us what the soul is."1. The face of creativity.
2. The face of kindness.
3. The face of love.
4. The face of beauty.
5. The face of expansion.
6. The face of unlimited abundance.
This would be your mind and the collective mind of humankind.
Where does your mind begin and end?
Where 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 color is it?
What shape?
Song of myself
God not in the least....
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four,
and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;
I find letters from God dropt in the street,
and every one is signed by God's name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know
tht whereso'er I go
Others will punctually come forever and ever.
7. The face of receptivity.
Five Suggestions for Implementing the Ideas.
Links to other sites on the Web
