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Whereas inner intention has the focus
of staving off the negative, outer intention would be more accurately described as giving the green light for the realization of whatever the soul and mind agree on.
As we have said before, people usually have an excellent idea of the things they do not wish to experience and only have a vague sense of what they desire with a passion.
A dream is like a play, and the script that will direct the role of the outside world is chosen by the dreamer’s outer intention in accordance with their experience and expectations but irrespective of whether they will experience pain.
In non-lucid dreaming, the dream just ‘happens’. Outer intention acts independently of your will and there is nothing you can do about it. In lucid dreaming a person steps down into the auditorium
and consciously directs the script. It is not that outer intention deliberately aligns itself with a person’s will, it just ceases to contradict it.
Outer intention requires an even higher level of conscious awareness. In lucid dreaming, as in waking reality in order to work with outer intention you have to wake up.
Union between the heart and mind activates outer intention which transforms the chosen script into physical reality.
As you can see, outer intention arises not as a result of will but as a consequence of harmony between the heart and mind. Outer intention acts independently of personal will and so inner intention (personal will) should only be directed towards achieving a harmonious connection between heart and mind.
Susceptibility to the influence of other people and destructive pendulums is in inverse proportionality to a person’s level of conscious awareness.
This is what happens if you allow the pendulum to hypnotise you and make its own game your problem. By turning the problematic script round in your conscious mind you reach a point where the heart and mind are in agreement over their concern, at which point outer intention immediately shifts you onto a problematic life line.
To stand back from something means to be aware of the fact that you make up the rules of the game deciding whether the play will turn either into a tragedy or a comic sketch or light vaudeville.
You do not have total power over outer intention but you can act in such a way that firstly, it does not act against you and secondly, that you get the opportunity to help it work in your interests.
Remember, you only have the right to choose, not to change. Make yourself at home but do not forget you are a guest.
You have to remind yourself again and again of the need to go with the flow. Conscious awareness lies in observation, not in the ability to control.
It is not about forcing your own script on the world so much as considering it possible, allowing an alternative to be realized and allowing yourself to receive it. You will only succeed in ceasing to do battle with the world and allowing yourself to choose if the heart and mind are
As soon as you embrace the position of Guardian you will feel a burst of energy and increased levels
of vitality because now, rather than dejectedly carrying out actions that are the will of another, you are creating your own destiny. Taking responsibility for your own fate is not a burden, but an act of freedom.
The secret of so-called clever people lies in their awareness. Awareness gives clarity of mind. Some people are able to think and express their thoughts clearly whilst others are muddled. The relative sharpness or dullness of one’s mind depends more on awareness than it does on intellect.
So, harmony between heart and mind generates outer intention, and mindfulness enables you to have it work in your favour. Unity of heart and mind is so easily achieved in dreams for the simple reason that in dreams, the heart is free of the authoritative control of the mind.
The Guardian objectively evaluates what is happening and assesses in whose interests the game is being played. It makes sure that you will not get drawn into the game like a puppet. You have to remember to ask yourself every minute of the day: “Are you asleep or not?”
You have to maintain balanced intention, which means to want without desiring, to take
care without worrying, to strive without being distracted and to act without demanding.
Desire always creates excess potential. Desire is potential by definition. Desire is when somewhere, something is absent but thought energy is aimed at attracting that something to make it present. Intention neither believes nor desires; it simply does.
Pure intention never creates excess potential. Pure intention assumes that everything is already in the bag. You simply decide that it will be so. It is like an almost accomplished fact. It is the calm realization that something will come into being.
The thought energy of desire is focused on the goal. The energy of intention is focused on the process of its being achieved.
The secret to fulfilling one’s desires lies in the understanding that desire must be replaced by intention, total resoluteness in the decision to have and act.
You will not get a single step closer to working with outer intention unless you reduce the level of importance and emotional intensity you associate with your goals.
Outer intention makes it possible to shift the point of material realization from one sector to another in the alternatives space.
To give yourself up to outer intention you have to achieve unity of heart and mind. This can only be done if the intensity of importance is absent. Importance gives rise to doubt which stands as an obstacle on the path to unity.
intention: reducing the intensity of importance and abandoning attachment to achieving one’s goal. It sounds paradoxical of course that in order to achieve your goal you have to abandon the desire to achieve it. We understand all aspects of how inner intention works because we are so used to functioning exclusively within these narrow confines.
If inner intention is the decision to act, outer intention is closer to the decision to have.
to start with you consider the goal you want to achieve. As soon as doubts enter your head you know you have desire. If you start worrying about whether you have the necessary qualities and skills to achieve the goal it means you have desire. Even if you believe that you can and will achieve your goal, desire can still be present. You have to want and act without fuelling the emotion of desire.
There is a very simple way of reducing importance which is to come to terms with the possibility of defeat at the very beginning. Unless you accept the possibility of defeat you will not eliminate desire.
net. Invite the realization into your mind, that not achieving the goal would not be the end of the world.
Imagining the scenario of defeat should be a one-time event. There is no point in constantly returning to the scene of failure in your mind. The exercise is only intended to free you from the need of achieving the goal exactly as you had imagined.
Inner intention strives to impact the outside world directly. Outer intention gives the green light for the autonomous realization of the goal.
The heart and mind are united in negative expectation, which is why they are easily realized.
Any game must be played with an element of detachment like a participating observer.
Awareness is achieved by being detached from the game. Detachment presupposes vigilance and complete mental clarity.
Why is it that virtual sectors of the field that are the focus of the mentally ill are not transformed into physical reality?
Of course the mind is capable of great imagination and fantasy but only within the relatively narrow limits of its accumulated experience. The mind can only construct a new model of a house from the bricks of a previous design. So where is the line between imagination and actual perception of another reality?
Even if you are sitting through a job interview you can be certain that the interviewer is thinking more about how well they are playing their own role than they are about the suitability of the interviewee.
dissatisfaction with self that has been forced into the subconscious pours out onto others. No-one wants to criticise themselves for their own unacceptable attributes and so they tend to ascribe them to other people instead. People are often quick to criticize others for the very things they dislike in themselves. You have probably done the same thing yourself without being aware you were doing it.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, the famous French painter, broke both his legs in childhood and was physically handicapped for his entire life. Whilst growing up, Lautrec suffered depression caused by the realization of his own ugliness. As the years passed his physical deformity became all the more evident causing him to suffer even more deeply. There came a point at which his distress reached its peak and Lautrec was forced to accept the inevitable. He finally overcame the limitations of his deformity and threw himself into life. As soon as he let go of the importance of his condition the slide
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You have to switch your attention from negative to positive. Dismiss with a wave of the hand anything that has been getting you down and give up the internal battle. Turn your attention away from your shortcomings and towards your virtues and any other positive qualities you would like to acquire.
Just like a negative slide, a positive slide will directly effect your actions and overall behaviour. You will unwittingly, unconsciously, begin to adjust to the slide. The main task though, is for outer intention to fulfil the picture in the slide.
You have to recreate the picture in your thoughts until the slide dissolves. What I mean by this is that with time the slide will become an integrated part of your personality, at which point, it will cease to exist. Once you achieve your desire, the slide will cease to be significant. Importance will disappear and the slide will melt away, but not without first fulfilling its mission. When this happens, the heart will be in harmony with the mind. The slide’s mission cannot fail to be fulfilled because you desire it with both your heart and your mind. When the mind tries to transform a slide
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your heart knows that it is just playing a game of masks. On the other hand, if you systematically and consecutively consolidate the slide’s image in your thoughts the heart will get used to it and agree to integrate the slide into its essence. Remember, that outer intention will not...
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It is better to start with steps that are realistically achievable than to start by drawing a picture of your absolute ideal. With time you can progress to closer versions of it.