:: The Power of Intention

Making Your Intention Your Reality

(extracted from the book The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your world your way, by Wayne Dyer)

A ten-step program for making the intention of creating a stress-free, tranquil life your daily experience:

Step 1: Remember that your natural state is joy.
You are a product of joy and love; it's natural for you to experience these feelings. You've come to believe that feeling bad, anxious, or even depressed is natural, particularly when people and event around you are in low-energy modes.
Remind yourself as frequently as necessary: I come fronm peace anbd joy. I must stay in harmony with that from which I came in order to fulfill my dreams and desires. I choose to stay in my natural state. Anytime I'm anxious, stresses out, drepressed, or fearful, I've abandoned my natural state.

Step 2: Your thoughts, not the world, cause your stress.
Your thoughts activate stressful reactions in your body. Stressful thoughts create resistance to the joy, happiness, and abundance that you desire to create in your life. These thoughts include: I can't, I'm too overworked, I worry, I'm afraid, I'm unworthy, It will never happen, I'm not smart enough, and so on. These thoughts are like a program to resist being tranquil and stress free, and they keep you from manifesting your desires.

Step 3: You can change your thoughts of stress in any given moment, and eliminate the anxiety for the next few moments, even hours and days.
By making a conscious decision to distract yourself from worry, you've inaugurated the process of stress reduction, while simultaneously reconnecting to the field of all-creating intention. It's from this place of peace and tranquility that you become a co-creator with God. You can't be connected to your Source and be stressed at the same time - this is mutually exclusive. Your Source doesn't create from a position of anxiety, nor does it need to swallow antidepressants. You've left behind your capacity to manifest your desires when you dont choose in the moment to eliminate a stressful thought.

Step 4: Monitor your stressful thoughts by checking on your emotional state right in the moment.
Ask yourself the key question: Do I feel good right now? If the answer is no, then repeat the five magic words: I want to feel good, then shift to: I intend to feel good. Monitor your emotions, and detect how much stress - and anxiety-producing thinking you're engaging in. This monitoring process keeps you apprised of whether you're on the path of least resistance or going in the other direction.

Step 5: Make a conscious choice to select a thought that will activate good feelings.
I urge you to choose your thought based exclusively on how it makes you feel, rather than on how popular it is or how well advertised. Ask yourself: Does this new thought make me feel good? No? well how about this thought? Not really? Here's another. Ultimately you'll come up with one that you agree makes you feel good. You choice might be the thought of a beautiful sunset, the expression on the face o someone you love, or a thrilling experience. Its only important that it rsonate within you emotionally and physically as a gppd feeling.

Step 6: Spend some time observing babies and vow to emulate their joy.
You didnt come forth into this world to suffer, to be anxious, fearful, stressful, or depressed. You came from the God-consciousness of joy. Just watch little babies. They've done nothing to be so happy about. They dont work; they poop in their pants; and they have no goals other than to expand, grow, and explore this amazing world. They love everyone, they're completely entertained by a plastic bottle or goofy faces, and they're in a constant state of love - yet they have no teeth, no hair, and they're pudgy and flatulent. How could they possibly be so joyful and easily pleased? Because they're still in harmony with the Source that intended them here; they have no resistance to being joyful.

Step 7: Keep "Rule Nubmer 6" in mind.
Suspend the damands of your ego, which keeps you separated from intention.When you have a choice to be right or to be kind, pick kind, and push the ego's demand out of the way. Kindness is what you emanated from. When you find yourself being impatient with anyone or anything, simply say to yourself: "Rule Number 6", and you'll immediately laugh at the piddly little ego.

Step 8: Accept the guidance of your Source of Intention.
You will only come to know the Mother or Father by being as She or He is. You'll only be able to access the guidance of this field of intention by being as it is. Stress, anxiety and depression will be lifted from you with the assistance of that same force that created you.I believe that God's desire for you is that you not only know joy, but that you become it.

Step 9: Practice being in silence and meditation.
Nothing relieves stress, depression, anxiety and all forms of low-energy emotions like silence and meditation. Here, you make conscious contact with your Source and cleanse your connecting link to intention. Take time everyday for moments of quiet contemplation, and make meditation a part of your daily ritual.

Step 10: Stay in a state of gratitude and awe.
Go on a rampage of appreciation for all that you have, all that you are and all that you observe. Gratitude is the tenth step in every ten-step program for manifesting your intentions, because it is the surest way to stop the incessant inner dialogue that leads you away from the joy and perfection of the Source.