The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way

by Wayne W. Dyer

“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.”

Our free will combines and redistributes what’s already created. You choose! Free will means that you have the choice to connect to Spirit or not!

My awareness of intention as a power for me to reconnect to, rather than something my ego must accomplish, has made a huge difference in my life’s work.

By combining free will with intention, you harmonize with the universal mind.

“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 in the universe.”

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 my ten secrets for success and inner peace is to treat yourself as if you already are what you’d like to become.

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 come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you.

“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.” — Voltaire

Silent knowledge starts when you invite the power of intention to play an active part in your life.

Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another 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.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it: “Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.”

John Keats, the brilliant young romantic poet, concludes his Ode on a Grecian Urn with: “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’ that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

Recite the seven words that represent the seven faces of intention: creative, kind, loving, beautiful, expanding, abundant, and receptive.

Shakespeare declared, “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

The secret to manifesting anything that you desire is your willingness and ability to realign yourself so that your inner world is in harmony with the power of intention.

“You get what you intend to create by being in harmony with the power of intention, which is responsible for all of creation.”

You are not this body, you are not this mind, you are the Spirit . . . this is the greatest truth.

Your thoughts are an extremely high frequency of pulsation that moves beyond the speed of sound and even light. The frequency of thoughts can be measured, and the impact that they have on your body and your environment can be calculated.

In The Fire from Within, Carlos Castaneda hears these words from his sorcerer teacher: “Self-importance is man’s greatest enemy. What weakens him is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of his fellow man. Self-importance requires that one spend most of one’s life offended by something or someone.”

True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. It’s about being better than you used to be. Stay focused on your growth, with a constant awareness that no one on this planet is any better than anyone else. We all emanate from the same creative life force. We all have a mission to realize our intended essence; all that we need to fulfill our destiny is available to us. None of this is possible when you see yourself as superior to others.

As you change your thought patterns to raise your energy vibrations, and reduce the demands of your ego, you’ll begin developing a reverent or holy relationship with others.

When you coincide with intention, your impact on others has a calming influence. People tend to feel more at peace, less threatened, and more at ease.

Have you ever noticed when you’re in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has the noticeably pleasant impact of simply making you feel really good about yourself. You’ll impact others with this energy of compassion as you develop your connection to intention.

The effect of being in the presence of people expressing high frequencies is to feel unified and connected to all of nature, all of humankind, and to intention.

By staying at the higher energies of optimism, forgiveness, understanding, reverence for Spirit, creativity, serenity, and bliss, you radiate this energy and convert lower energies to your higher vibrations.

“Remember at all times that what you think and what you do affects other people.”

In Power vs. Force, Dr. David Hawkins writes: “In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.

You have a responsibility to the entire human family to stay connected to intention.

“Eternity is not the hereafter . . . this is it. If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere.” — Joseph Campbell

The power of intention involves staying on the active side of infinite possibilities. George Bernard Shaw, who was still creating into his 90s, has been quoted as saying, “You see things as they are and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were, and I say ‘Why not?’”

The Greeks have given us one of the most beautiful words of our language: enthusiasm. The word enthusiasm translates to “a God within.” Within you is an infinite passionate soul that wishes to express itself.

The source of your thoughts must be celebrated and loved, and this means having the self-respect that’s in harmony with the omniscient Source of intelligence.

What You Think of Yourself Is What You Think of the World

Perhaps the greatest mistake we make, which causes a loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. Self-respect means just what it says—it originates from the self.

Respect your body! You’ve been provided with a perfect body to house your inner invisible being for a few brief moments in eternity. Regardless of its size, shape, color, or any imagined infirmities, it’s a perfect creation for the purpose that you were intended here for. You don’t need to work at getting healthy; health is something you already have if you don’t disturb it. You may have disturbed your healthy body by overfeeding it, underexercising it, and overstimulating it with toxins or drugs that make it sick, fatigued, jumpy, anxious, depressed, bloated, ornery, or an endless list of maladies.

Being on purpose is what the most self-actualized people accomplish on their life journeys.

You’ll feel most on purpose when you’re giving your life away by serving others.

By putting your attention on what you intend to manifest rather than on the same low energy that you encounter, you make a decision to connect to intention and bring the attributes of your universal Source to the presence of that low energy.

“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu

Concerning abundance, one of the most effective ways to increase that pulling power from intention to you is to take the focus off of dollars and place it on creating abundant friendship, security, happiness, health, and high energy.

the stress in your body is rarely the result of external forces or entities attacking you; it’s the result of the weakened connecting link to intention caused by your belief that ego is who you are. You are peace and joy, but you’ve allowed your ego to dominate your life.

I assure you that your decision to feel good is a way of connecting to Spirit.

The right people will arrive to assist you in every aspect of your life: The people who will support you in your career are there; the people who will help you create your perfect home show up; the people who will arrange the finances for whatever you desire are available; the driver you need to get you to the airport is waiting for you; the designer you’ve admired wants to work with you; the dentist you need in an emergency when you’re on vacation just happens to be there; and your spiritual soul mate finds you.

“No one can ask another to be healed. But he can let himself be healed, and thus offer the other what he has received. Who can bestow upon another what he does not have? And who can share what he denies himself?” — A Course in Miracles

They don’t say, With my luck things won’t work out. Instead, you’re much more likely to hear something like, I intend to create this and I know it will work out.