The Power of Intention By Beth Outtrim |
The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way by Wayne Dyer is a great follow on to last month’s book, Nonviolent Communication; A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg teaches us how to speak gently and non-violently to ourselves and others. Dr. Dyer takes us further into intention; what is our intention in our every thought, word and deed and how can we direct those to achieve what we want to have in our life? I, like so many others apparently, since Dr. Dyer addresses it specifically, have tried affirmations for years as though it was an exercise of the will. As Dr. Dyer writes, “Willing yourself to be happy, successful, wealthy, number one, famous, the top salesperson, or the richest person in your community are ideas born of the ego and its obsessive self-absorption…You may achieve the physical goal of your individual intention. However, your imagination, that inner place where you do all of your living, won’t allow you to feel peaceful.” He goes on to say that, “I don’t complete a book because I have a strong will to do so. That would mean that I believe that it’s me, the body named Wayne Dyer, that’s doing all of this, whereas my imagination has no physical boundaries…my imagination is my very own ‘chip off the old block’ of intention.” Esther and Jerry Hicks talk about the same thing in The Vortex. They offer a twelve-step solution; a clock-wise manner of getting yourself to a place of full belief in the affirmation of your choice. You answer a series of questions with affirmations starting from the smallest that you can fully believe, “I believe that my boss really wants the best for his company”, for example, and then step-by-step to a full blown affirmation that has the best intention for all parties. Working with this has been very beneficial to me in several different venues – our new domicile is a result of performing one of these exercises. |
