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

by Wayne W. Dyer

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 won’t permit anything to interfere with achieving their inner desire.

Whatever you wish to accomplish is an existing fact, already present in Spirit. Eliminate from your mind thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate into reality in the physical world.

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

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.

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.

order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the inconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don’t have.

Become indifferent to doubt and to the call of your will. Remain confident that through continued reliance on your imagination, your assumptions are materializing into reality.

the universal force of abundance worked with me in providing opportunities.

Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop, pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out loud, “Thank you, God, for this symbol of abundance that keeps flowing into my life.”

Monitor your inner dialogue, and match your thoughts to what you want and intend to create.

You must learn to assume responsibility for the circumstances of your life without any accompanying guilt.

Link up with intention, use your inner speech to stay focused on what you intend to create, and you’ll find yourself regaining the power of your Source.

your thoughts are on what others expect of you—even though you despise their expectations—you’ll continue to act on and attract more of what they want and expect for you.

Removing the obstacle means that you decide to shift your inner speech to what you intend to create and attract into your life. You must do this with unswerving intent, and a commitment to not giving mental energy to what others feel about how you live your life. This can be a tough assignment at first, but you’ll welcome the shift when you do it.

the seven faces of spiritual intention,

The Fire from Within, Carlos Castaneda

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

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”

Consider some of the numerous great inventions, which we take for granted today: airplanes, electric lights, telephones, television, fax machines, computers. They’re all the result of creative ideas by individuals who ignored the ridicule they encountered while they stayed focused on possible rather than impossible. In other words, a sense of the possible grows in the fertile terrain of the active side of infinity.

The power of intention involves staying on the active side of infinite possibilities.

even when a calamity arises, you can be assured that you’ll turn it into a blessing.

Being in a state of gratitude actually creates magnetism, and of course, a magnet draws things to itself. By giving authentic thanks for all the good you now have, as well as the challenges, through this magnetism you’ll start the flow of more good into your life. Every successful person I know is grateful for everything they have. This process of giving thanks opens the door for more to come.

I’m no longer identified by this body/mind, and I reject this label from this moment on. I’m infinite. I’m one with all of humanity. I’m one with my Source, and this is how I choose to view myself from this day forward. Repeat this mantra to yourself each day as you remind yourself that God wouldn’t and couldn’t create something that doesn’t last: I will exist for all eternity.

I’m not my body. I’m not my accumulations. I’m not my achievements. I’m not my reputation. I am whole and perfect as I was created!

There’s no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

Affirm: I attract only peace into my life.

Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.

I feel successful, I intend to feel the abundance that is here, now.

As you practice allowing and living the faith of least resistance, success is no longer something you choose; it’s something that you are. Abundance no longer eludes you. You are it, and it is you. It flows unimpeded beyond your resistance. Herein lies another clue to the free flow of abundance: You must avoid becoming attached to and hoarding what shows up in your life.

Abundance is the natural state of the nature of intention. Your desire for abundance must flow free of resistance. Any discrepancy between your individual intention or desire, and your belief concerning the possibility of summoning it into your life, creates resistance. If you want it but believe it’s impossible or that you’re unworthy, or that you don’t have the skills or perseverance, then you’ve created resistance and you’re disallowing. Your feelings indicate how well you’re attracting the energy necessary for the fulfillment of your desire. Strong feelings of despair, anxiety, blame, hate, fear, shame, and anger are sending you the message that you want success and abundance but you don’t believe it’s possible for you. These negative feelings are your clues to get busy and balance your desires with those of the universal mind of intention, which is the only source of that which you desire. Negative emotions tell you that your pulling power from intention is weak or even nonexistent. Positive emotions tell you that you’re connecting to and accessing the power of intention.

I’m not suggesting that you just wait for everything to fall into place. I’m suggesting that by declaring, I intend to feel successful and attract prosperity, your emotional energy will shift and you’ll act as if what you desire were already true. Your actions will be in harmony with the faces of intention, and you’ll be provided with what you are, rather than attempting to be provided with what’s missing.

Step 1: See the world as an abundant, providing, friendly place.

Step 2: Affirm: I attract success and abundance into my life because that is who I am.

Step 3: Stay in an attitude of allowing.

Step 4: Use your present moments to activate thoughts that are in harmony with the seven faces of intention.

Step 5: Initiate actions that support your feelings of abundance and success.

Act on those passionate emotions as if the abundance and success you seek is already here. Speak to strangers with passion in your voice. Answer the telephone in an inspired way. Do a job interview from the place of confidence and joy. Read the books that mysteriously show up, and pay close attention to conversations that seem to indicate you’re being called to something new.

Step 6: Remember that your prosperity and success will benefit others, and that no one lacks abundance because you’ve opted for it.

Step 7: Monitor your emotions as a guidance system for your connection to the universal mind of intention.

Step 8: Become as generous to the world with your abundance as the field of intention is to you.

Step 9: Devote the necessary time to meditate on the Spirit within as the source of your success and abundance.

Step 10: Develop an attitude of gratitude for all that manifests into your life.

“Rule Number 6 is ‘Don’t take yourself so goddamn seriously.’ ”

What are the inner thoughts that produce stress? I’m more important than those around me. My expectations aren’t being met. I shouldn’t have to wait, I’m too important. I’m the customer here, and I demand attention. No one else has these pressures.

When you examine segments of stress-producing incidents, you always have a choice: Do I stay with thoughts that produce stress within me, or do I work to activate thoughts that make stress impossible?

Five magic words: I want to feel good!

Your intention here is to be tranquil and stress free. When you feel good, you’re connected to your intentions, regardless of what goes on around you or what others expect you to feel. If there’s a war going on, you still have the option to feel good. If the economy goes further into the toilet, you have the option to feel good.

Say it out loud: I want to feel good! Then convert it to: I intend to feel good.

Any thought that puts a barrier between what you would like to have and your ability to attract it into your life is resistance.

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.