THE  
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INTENTION
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THE POWER OF
INTENTION
Learning to Co-cr eate 
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“Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of
perception resembles more than anything else that celestial
source from which we all come . . .”
— Michelangelo
“Self-realization means that we have been consciously
connected with our source of being. Once we have made this
connection, then nothing can go wrong. . . .”
— Swami Paramananda
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For my daughter Skye Dyer . Your singing voice is a perfect vibrational match  
to your angelic soul. I love you! OceanofPDF.comCONTENTS
Preface
PART I: THE ESSENTIALS OF INTENTION
Chapter 1: V iewing Intention from a New Perspective
Chapter 2: The Seven Faces of Intention
Chapter 3: Connecting to Intention
Chapter 4: Obstacles to Connecting to Intention
Chapter 5: Y our Impact on Others When Connected to Intention
Chapter 6: Intention and Infinity
PART II: PUTTING INTENTION T O WORK   
(Eight chapters of fering specific information and a step-by-step
guide for applying these principles to your daily life.) Chapter 7: It Is My Intention to: Respect Myself at All T imes
Chapter 8: It Is My Intention to: Live My Life on Purpose
Chapter 9: It Is My Intention to: Be Authentic and Peaceful with
All of My Relatives
Chapter 10: It Is My Intention to: Feel Successful and Attract
Abundance into My Life
Chapter 1 1: It Is My Intention to: Live a Stress-Free, T ranquil Life
Chapter 12: It Is My Intention to: Attract Ideal People and Divine
Relationships
Chapter 13: It Is My Intention to: Optimize My Capacity to Heal
and Be HealedChapter 14: It Is My Intention to: Appreciate and Express the
Genius That I Am
PART III: THE CONNECTION  
Chapter 15: A Portrait of a Person Connected to the Field of
Intention
 
Acknowledgments
About the Author
OceanofPDF.comP R E F A C E
The book that you’re now holding in your hands, and all of the
information it contains, was once a formless idea residing in the invisible
domain of the field of intention. This book, The Power of Intention, was
intended into the material world by applying all of the principles written
about here. I managed to make my own vibrational energy match up to the
all-creating Source, and allowed these words and ideas to flow through me
directly to you. You’re holding in your hands evidence that anything we can
conceive of in our minds—while staying in harmony with the universal all-
creating Source—can and must come to pass. If you’d like to know how this book might impact you and how you
might think, feel, and co-create after reading and applying its messages, I
encourage you to read the final chapter, A Portrait of a Person Connected
to the Field of Intention, before beginning this journey. You and everyone
else, as well as all of life, emanated from the universal all-creating field of
intention. Live from that perspective, and you will come to know and apply
the power of intention. You have an endless stream of green lights before
you! — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer  
Maui, Hawaii
OceanofPDF.comTHE 
ESSENTIALS 
OF 
INTENTION
“Beside the river stands the holy tree of life. There doth my father dwell, and my home is in him. The heavenly father and I are one.”
— The Essene Gospel of Peace
OceanofPDF.comVIEWING 
INTENTION 
FROM A NEW 
PERSPECTIVE
“In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which
shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire
cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.”
— Carlos Castaneda
 
During the past several years, I’ve been so strongly attracted to studying
intention that I’ve read hundreds of books by psychological, sociological,
and spiritual writers; ancient and modern scholars; and academic
researchers. My research reveals a fairly common 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. I imagine a sort of pit-bull kind of resolve or determination. If
you’re one of those people with a never-give-up attitude combined with an
internal picture that propels you toward fulfilling your dreams, you fit this
description of someone with intention. You are, most likely, a super-achiever and probably proud of your ability to recognize and take advantage
of opportunities that arise. For many years I’ve held a similar belief about intention. In fact, I’ve
written and spoken often about the power of intention being just what I’ve
described above. Over the past quarter of a century, however, I’ve felt a
shift in my thinking from a purely psychological or personal-growth
emphasis, toward a spiritual orientation where healing, creating miracles,
manifesting, and making a connection to divine intelligence are genuine
possibilities. This hasn’t been a deliberate attempt to disengage from my academic and
professional background, but rather a natural evolution that’s been
unfolding as I began to make more conscious contact with Spirit. My
writing now emphasizes a belief that we can find spiritual solutions to
problems by living at higher levels and calling upon faster energies. In my
mind, intention is now something much greater than a determined ego or
individual will. It’s something almost totally opposite. Perhaps this comes
from shedding many levels of ego in my own life, but I also feel the strong
influence of two sentences I read in a book by Carlos Castaneda. In my
writing life, I’ve often come across something in a book that starts a thought
germinating in me that ultimately compels me to write a new book. At any
rate, I read these two sentences in Castaneda’s final book, The Active Side
of Infinity, while I was waiting to have a cardiac procedure to open one
clogged artery leading into my heart that had caused a mild heart attack. Castaneda’s words were: “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.”
When I read those two sentences, I was stunned by the insight and clarity
it gave me about the power of intention. Imagine that intention is not
something you do, but rather a force that exists in the universe as an
invisible field of energy! I had never considered intention in this way before
reading Castaneda’s words.I wrote those two sentences down, and then I had them printed on a card
and laminated. I carried the laminated card with me into the catheter lab for
my minor surgical procedure, and as soon as I could, I began talking about
the power of intention to everyone who would listen. I made intention a part
of every speech I gave. I immersed myself in this idea to use it, not only for
my own healing, but to help others use the power of intention to carry them
where they’re fully equipped to go. I had experienced satori, or instant
awakening, and was intent on offering this insight to others. It had become
clear to me that accessing the power of intention relieved so much of the
seemingly impossible work of striving to fulfill desires by sheer force of
will. Since that defining moment, I’ve thought of the power of intention in
virtually all of my waking hours—and books, articles, conversations,
telephone calls, items arriving in my mailbox, and arbitrary works I might
be looking at in a bookstore all seemed to conspire to keep me on this path. So here it is: The Power of Intention. I hope this book will help you view
intention in a new way and make use of it in a manner that leads you to
define yourself as Patanjali suggested more than 20 centuries ago:
“Dormant forces, faculties, and talents come alive, and you discover
yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to
be.”
Patanjali’s two words, “dormant forces,” kick-started me in the direction
of writing about intention. Patanjali was referring to forces that appear to
be either nonexistent or dead, and he was referring to the powerful energy a
person feels when inspired. If you’ve ever felt inspired by a purpose or
calling, you know the feeling of Spirit working through you. Inspired is our
word for in-spirited. I’ve thought long and hard about the idea of being able
to access seemingly dormant forces to assist me at key times in my life to
achieve an inner burning desire. What are these forces? Where are they
located? Who gets to use them? Who is denied access? And why? Questions like these have propelled me to research and write this book and
subsequently arrive at a totally new perspective of intention. At this point, as I’m writing about my excitement of realizing a long-
obscured truth, I know that intention is a force that we all have within us.Intention is a field of energy that flows invisibly beyond the reach of our
normal, everyday habitual patterns. It’s there even before our actual
conception. We have the means to attract this energy to us and experience
life in an exciting new way. Where Is This Field Called Intention? Some prominent researchers believe that our intelligence, creativity, and
imagination interact with the energy field of intention rather than being
thoughts or elements in our brain. The brilliant scientist David Bohm,
writing in Wholeness and the Implicate Order, suggested that all ordering
influence and information is present in an invisible domain or higher reality
and can be called upon in times of need. I found thousands of examples of
these kinds of conclusions in the research and reading I did. If scientific
evidence appeals to you, I suggest that you read The Field: The Quest for
the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne McTaggart. Her book is filled
with studies supporting the existence of a higher, faster energy dimension or
field of intention that can be tapped in to and used by everyone. The answer to Where is this field? is: There’s no place that it’s not,
because everything in the universe has intention built into it. This is true for
all life forms, whether it be a wildebeest, a rosebush, or a mountain. A
mosquito has intent built into its creation and life experience. A tiny acorn
with no apparent power to think or make plans for its future contains
intention from the invisible field. If you cut the acorn open, you won’t see a
giant oak tree, but you know it’s there. An apple blossom in the springtime
appears to be a pretty little flower, yet it has intent built into it and will
manifest in the summer as an apple. Intention doesn’t err. The acorn never
turns into a pumpkin, or the apple blossom into an orange. Every aspect of
nature, without exception, has intention built into it, and as far as we can
tell, nothing in nature questions its path of intent. Nature simply progresses
in harmony from the field of intention. We, too, are intended from the
energy of this field. There is what some call a future-pull in the DNA that’s present at
conception in each of us. In the moment of our conception, when an
infinitely tiny drop of human protoplasm combines with an egg, life in
physical form begins, and intention directs the growth process. Our bodystructure, the shape of our physical features, our development, including our
aging, are intended in that one moment of conception. The sagging skin, the
wrinkles, and even our death are all there. But wait, what exactly happens at
the moment of conception? Where did this life, born of intention, begin? As we examine that seed/egg dance attempting to discover its origin,
moving backwards toward Creation, we first find molecules, then atoms,
then electrons, then subatomic particles, and then sub-subatomic particles. Ultimately, were we to put these tiny quantum subatomic particles into a
particle accelerator and collide them, trying to put our finger on the source
of life, we’d discover what Einstein and his scientific compatriots
discovered: There’s no particle at the source; particles do not create more
particles. The Source, which is intention, is pure, unbounded energy
vibrating so fast that it defies measurement and observation. It’s invisible,
without form or boundaries. So, at our Source, we are formless energy, and
in that formless vibrating spiritual field of energy, intention resides. On a
lighter note, I know it’s there, since somehow it managed to get into a drop
of sperm and an ovarian egg and determine that my hair will no longer grow
on my head after 25 years . . . and in 50 years, it will grow in my nose and
ears, and all I (the observer) can do is watch it and snip it away! This field of intent can’t be described with words, for the words emanate
from the field, just as do the questions. That placeless place is intention, and
it handles everything for us. It grows my fingernails, it beats my heart, it
digests my food, it writes my books, and it does this for everyone and
everything in the universe. This reminds me of an ancient Chinese story I
love, told by Chuang Tzu:
There once was a one-legged dragon called Hui. “How on earth do you manage those legs?” he asked a
centipede. “I can hardly manage one!”
“Matter of fact,” said the centipede, “I do not manage my
legs.”
There’s a field, invisible and formless, that manages it all. The intention
of this universe is manifested in zillions of ways in the physical world, and
every part of you, including your soul, your thoughts, your emotions, and ofcourse the physical body that you occupy, are a part of this intent. So, if
intention determines everything in the universe and is omnipresent,
meaning there’s no place that it’s not, then why do so many of us feel
disconnected from it so frequently? And even more important, if intention
determines everything, then why do so many of us lack so much of what
we’d like to have? The Meaning of Omnipresent Intention
Try imagining a force that’s everywhere. There’s no place that you can go
where it isn’t. It can’t be divided and is present in everything you see or
touch. Now extend your awareness of this infinite field of energy beyond
the world of form and boundaries. This infinite invisible force is
everywhere, so it’s in both the physical and the nonphysical. Your physical
body is one part of your totality emanating from this energy. At the instant
of conception, intention sets in motion how your physical form will appear
and how your growing and aging process will unfold. It also sets in motion
your nonphysical aspects, including your emotions, thoughts, and
disposition. In this instance, intention is infinite potential activating your
physical and nonphysical appearance on Earth. You’ve formed out of the
omnipresent to become present in time and space. Because it’s omnipresent,
this energy field of intent is accessible to you after your physical arrival
here on Earth! The only way you deactivate this dormant force is by
believing that you’re separate from it. Activating intention means rejoining your Source and becoming a
modern-day sorcerer. Being a sorcerer means attaining the level of
awareness where previously inconceivable things are available. As Carlos
Castaneda explained, “The task of sorcerers was to face infinity”
(intention), “and they plunged into it daily, as a fisherman plunges into the
sea.” Intention is a power that’s present everywhere as a field of energy; it
isn’t limited to physical development. It’s the source of nonphysical
development, too. This field of intention is here, now, and available to you. When you activate it, you’ll begin to feel purpose in your life, and you’ll be
guided by your infinite self. Here’s how a poet and a spiritual teacher
describes what I’m calling intention:
O Lord, thou art on the sandbanksAs well as in the midst of the current;
I bow to thee. Thou art in the little pebbles
As well as in the calm expanse of the sea;
I bow to thee. O all-pervading Lord,
Thou art in the barren soil
And in the crowded places;
I bow to thee. — from Veda XVI by Sukla Yajur
As you make your metaphorical bow to this power, recognize that you’re
bowing to yourself. The all-pervading energy of intention pulses through
you toward your potential for a purposeful life. How You Came to Experience Yourself As 
Disconnected from Intention
If there’s an omnipresent power of intention that’s not only within me,
but in everything and everyone, then we’re connected by this all-pervading
Source to everything and everyone, and to what we’d like to be, what we’d
like to have, what we want to achieve, and to everything in the universe that
will assist us. All that’s required is realigning ourselves and activating
intention. But how did we get disconnected in the first place? How did we
lose our natural ability to connect? Lions, fish, and birds don’t get
disconnected. The animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds are always
connected to their Source. They don’t question their intention. We humans,
however, with our capability for presumably higher brain functions, have
something we refer to as ego, which is an idea that we construct about who
and what we are. Ego is made of six primary ingredients that account for how we
experience ourselves as disconnected. By allowing ego to determine your
life path, you deactivate the power of intention. Briefly, here are the six egobeliefs. I’ve written more extensively about them in several of my previous
books, most notably Your Sacred Self. 1. I am what I have. My possessions define me. 2. I am what I do. My achievements define me. 3. I am what others think of me. My reputation
defines me. 4. I am separate from everyone. My body defines me
as alone. 5. I am separate from all that is missing in my life. My life space is disconnected from my desires. 6. I am separate from God. My life depends on God’s
assessment of my worthiness. No matter how hard you try, intention can’t be accessed through ego, so
take some time to recognize and readjust any or all of these six beliefs. When the supremacy of ego is weakened in your life, you can seek intention
and maximize your potential. Holding on to the Trolley Strap
This is a practice I find exceedingly helpful when I want to activate
intention. You may find that it works for you, too. (See Chapter 3 for an
entire chapter describing ways to access intention.) One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking her three boys on the
streetcar on the east side of Detroit to Waterworks Park. I was two or three
years old, and I recall looking up from the seat and seeing the hand straps
hanging down. The grown-ups were able to hold on to the straps, but all I
could do was imagine what it would be like to be so tall as to grab those
straps way above my head. I actually pretended that I was light enough to
float up to the hanging handles. I then imagined feeling safe and the trolley
taking me where it was destined to go, at whatever speed it chose, picking
up other passengers to go along on this glorious adventure of streetcar
riding.In my adult life, I use the image of the trolley strap to remind myself to
get back to intention. I imagine a strap hanging down about three to four
feet above my head, higher than I’m capable of reaching or jumping up to
grab. The strap is attached to the trolley, only now the trolley symbolizes a
flowing power of intention. I’ve either let go of it or it’s just out of my
reach temporarily. In moments of stress, anxiety, worry, or even physical
discomfort, I close my eyes and imagine my arm reaching up, and then I see
myself float up to the trolley strap. As I grab the strap, I have an enormous
feeling of relief and comfort. What I’ve done is eliminate ego thoughts and
allow myself to reach intention, and I trust this power to take me to my
destination, stopping when necessary, and picking up companions along the
way. In some of my earlier works, I’ve called this process the pathway to
mastery. The four pathways may be helpful to you here as steps toward
activating intention. Four Steps to Intention
Activating your power of intention is a process of connecting with your
natural self and letting go of total ego identification. The process takes
place in four stages:
 
1. Discipline is the first stage. Learning a new task requires training your
body to perform as your thoughts desire. So, eliminating ego identification
doesn’t mean disconnecting from your relationship with your body, but
rather, training your body to activate those desires. You do that with
practice, exercise, nontoxic habits, healthy foods, and so on. 2. Wisdom is the second stage. Wisdom combined with discipline fosters
your ability to focus and be patient as you harmonize your thoughts, your
intellect, and your feelings with the work of your body. We send children
off to school telling them: Be disciplined and Use your head, and call this
education, but it falls short of mastery. 3. Love is the third stage. After disciplining the body with wisdom, and
intellectually studying a task, this process of mastery involves loving whatyou do and doing what you love. In the world of sales, I call it falling in
love with what you’re offering, and then selling your love or enthusiasm to
potential customers. When learning to play tennis, it involves practicing all
of the strokes while studying strategies for playing the game. It also
involves enjoying the feeling of hitting the ball and of being on the tennis
court—and everything else about the game. 4. Surrender is the fourth stage. This is the place of intention. This is
where your body and your mind aren’t running the show and you move into
intent. “In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which
shamans call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire
cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link,” is the way Carlos
Castaneda describes it. You relax, grab the trolley strap, and allow yourself
to be carried by the same power that turns acorns into trees, blossoms into
apples, and microscopic dots into humans. So grab that trolley strap and
create your own unique connecting link. Absolutely everything in the entire
cosmos includes you and your disciplined, wise, loving self, and all of your
thoughts and feelings. When you surrender, you lighten up and can consult
with your infinite soul. Then the power of intention becomes available to
take you wherever you feel destined to go. All of this talk of intention and surrender may cause you to question
where your free will fits in. You might be inclined to conclude that free will
is nonexistent or that you become whatever your program dictates. So, let’s
take a look at your will and how it fits into this new view of intention. As
you read the next two sections, please keep an open mind, even if what you
read conflicts with what you’ve believed all your life! Intention and Your Free Will Are Paradoxical
A paradox is a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement, even if well
founded. Intention and free will certainly qualify as being paradoxical. They
conflict with many a preconceived notion of what’s reasonable or possible. How can you possess free will and also have intention shaping your body
and your potential? You can fuse this dichotomy by choosing to believe in
the infinity of intention and in your capacity to exercise free will. You know
how to think rationally about the rules of cause and effect, so try your
intellect on this.Obviously, it’s impossible to have two infinites, for then neither would be
infinite; each would be limited by the other. You can’t divide infinite into
parts. Essentially, infinite is unity, continuity, or oneness, like the air in your
home. Where does the air in your kitchen stop and the air in your living
room begin? Where does the air inside your home stop and the air outside
start? How about the air you breathe in and out? Air may be the closest we
can come to understanding the infinite, universal, omnipresent Spirit. Somehow, you must travel in thought beyond the idea of your individual
existence to the idea of a unity of universal being, and then beyond this to
the idea of a universal energy. When you think of part of a whole being in
one place and part in another, you’ve lost the idea of unity. And (keeping an
open mind as I beseeched you earlier), get this! At any moment in time, all
Spirit is concentrated at the point where you focus your attention. Therefore, you can consolidate all creative energy at a given moment in
time. This is your free will at work. Your mind and your thoughts are also thoughts of the divine mind. Universal Spirit is in your thoughts and in your free will. When you shift
your thoughts from Spirit to ego, you seem to lose contact with the power
of intention. Your free will can either move with Universal Spirit and its
unfolding, or away from it toward ego dominance. As it moves away from
Spirit, life appears to be a struggle. Slower energies flow through you, and
you may feel hopeless, helpless, and lost. You can use your free will to
rejoin higher, faster energies. The truth is that we do not create anything
alone; we are all creatures with God. 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! So, the answer to the questions, Do I have a free will? and Is intention
working with me as an all-pervasive universal force? is Yes. Can you live
with this paradox? If you think about it, you live with paradox in every
moment of your existence. At the exact same instant that you’re a body with
beginnings and ends, with boundaries, and a definition in time and space,
you’re also an invisible, formless, unlimited, thinking and feeling being. A
ghost in the machine, if you will. Which are you? Matter or essence? Physical or metaphysical? Form or spirit? The answer is both, even though
they appear to be opposites. Do you have a free will, and are you a part ofthe destiny of intention? Yes. Fuse the dichotomy. Blend the opposites, and
live with both of these beliefs. Begin the process of allowing Spirit to work
with you, and link up to the field of intention. At Intention, Spirit Will Work for You! With your free will consciously deciding to reconnect to the power of
intention, you’re altering its direction. You’ll begin to feel pleasant
recognition and reverence for the unity of Spirit and yourself as an
individual concentration of it. I silently repeat the word intent or intention
to help me get my ego and my self-absorption out of the picture. I think
often of this quote from Castaneda’s Power of Silence: “Having lost hope of
ever returning to the source of everything, the average man seeks solace in
his selfishness.” For me, personally, I attempt to return to the source of
everything on a daily basis, and I refuse to be the “average man” that
Castaneda describes. Many years ago I decided to give up drinking alcohol. I wanted to
experience continuous sobriety to improve my ability to do the work that I
felt was burning inside of me. I felt called upon to teach self-reliance
through my writing and speaking. Several teachers had told me that
complete sobriety was a prerequisite for the work I was called to do. In the
early stages of this dramatic life change, a power seemed to help me when I
was tempted to return to my old habits of having a few beers each evening. On one occasion, in my state of wavering, I actually went out to purchase a
six-pack but forgot to bring money with me. I never forget to take cash with
me! In the few minutes it took me to return home and retrieve the cash, I
reevaluated the free will that would allow me to buy beer, and chose to stay
with my intention. I found, as the first weeks passed, that these kinds of
events started occurring with regularity. I’d be guided by circumstances that
led me away from situations where drinking was a temptation. A telephone
call might distract me from a tempting situation; a family minicrisis would
erupt and deter me from a potential slip. Today, a couple of decades later,
it’s clear to me that a firm handle on that trolley strap I described earlier
allows me to be whisked along my path to destinations invoked eons ago byintention. And I also see that my free will is a paradoxical partner of the
power of intention. 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. The simple awareness that my writing and speaking are
manifested from the field of intention has been of immeasurable benefit to
me. I’m awed by the creative energy when I get my self-importance and ego
identification out of the way. Before taking the microphone, I send ego to
the lobby or tell it to have a seat in the audience. I repeat the word intent to
myself and feel myself floating up to this energy field of intention. I
surrender and allow, and I find myself completely at ease, remembering tiny
details in the midst of my speech, never losing my way, and experiencing
the unique connection that’s occurring with the audience. Fatigue dissolves,
hunger disappears—even the need to pee vanishes! Everything that’s
necessary for delivering the message seems almost effortlessly available. Combining Free Will with Intention
In mathematics, two angles that are said to coincide fit together perfectly. The word coincidence does not describe luck or mistakes. It describes that
which fits together perfectly. By combining free will with intention, you
harmonize with the universal mind. Rather than operating in your own mind
outside of this force called intention, your goal may very well be, as you
read this book, to work at being in harmony at all times with intention. When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down,
when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return
to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you’re out of harmony
with intention. You can and will reconnect in a way that will bring you into
alignment with your own purpose. For example, when I write, I open myself to the possibilities of universal
Spirit and my own individual thoughts collaborating with fate to produce a
helpful, insightful book. But as I reconsidered my account of leaving
alcohol behind me, I wanted anotherexample to put in this chapter of how
intention collaborates with life circumstances to produce what we need.Recently my 19-year-old daughter, Sommer, told me that she’d quit her
temporary job as a restaurant hostess and wasn’t sure what she wanted to do
before resuming her college studies. I asked her what made her feel most
purposeful and happy, and she said it was teaching horseback riding to
young children, but she refused to return to the old barn where she’d
worked a year before because she felt unappreciated, overworked, and
underpaid. I was in Maui writing this first chapter on a new perspective on intention
when we had this telephone conversation. I launched into my intention-as-
a-force-in-the-universe spiel and told my daughter that she needed to
realign her thoughts, and so on. “Open up to receiving the assistance you
desire,” I told her. “Trust in intention. It exists for you. Stay alert, and be
willing to accept any guidance that comes your way. Stay in vibrational
harmony with the all-providing Source.”
The next day, at the very moment I was searching for that additional
example of intention to put into this chapter, the telephone rang, and it was
Sommer, bubbling with enthusiasm. “You’re not going to believe this, Dad. On second thought, I’m sure you’ll believe it. Remember yesterday how
you told me to be open to intention? I was skeptical, even thinking, That’s
my weird dad, but I decided to try it. Then I saw a sign on a telephone pole
that said Horseback-Riding Lessons and there was a telephone number. I
wrote the number down and just called it. The woman who answered told
me that she needed to hire someone she could trust to do trail rides with
young kids. She pays exactly double what I was making at the restaurant. I’m going out to see her tomorrow. Isn’t that cool? !”
Cool? Hell yes, it’s cool! Here I am writing a book, looking for a good
example, and it arrives in the form of help I was attempting to offer the day
before to my daughter. Two for the price of one! Merging Your Individual Thoughts 
with the Universal Mind
Our individual thoughts create a prototype in the universal mind of
intention. You and your power of intention are not separate. So, when you
form a thought within you that’s commensurate with Spirit, you form aspiritual prototype that connects you to intention and sets into motion the
manifestation of your desires. 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. In simpler words, “All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that
ye have received them, and ye shall receive them” [Mark 11:24]. In this
scriptural quotation, you are told to believe that your desire has already
been fulfilled, and then it will be accomplished. Know that your thought or
prayer is already here. Remove all doubt so that you create a harmonious
thought with universal mind or intention. When you know this beyond
doubt, it will be realized in the future. This is the power of intention at
work. I’ll close this section with words from Aldous Huxley, one of my favorite
authors: “The spiritual journey does not consist in arriving at a new
destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he
is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning one’s
self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the
spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self.”
 
In this first chapter, I’ve asked you to stop doubting the existence of a
universal, omnipresent force I’ve called intention, and told you that you can
link to and be carried to your destination on the energy of intention. Here
are my suggestions for putting this to work in your life. Five Suggestions for Implementing the Ideas 
in This Chapter
1. Whenever you feel out of sorts, lost, or even in a
sour mood, visualize the trolley strap hanging down from the
field of intention three or four feet above your head. Imagine
floating up and allowing the trolley to carry you to your built-
in intention. This is a tool for implementing surrender in your
life. 2. Say the word intent or intention repeatedly when
you’re in a state of anxiety or when everything around you
seems to have conspired to keep you from your mission. This is
a reminder to be peaceful and calm. Intention is spirit, and
spirit is silently blissful. 3. Tell yourself that you have a life mission and a
silent partner who’s accessible at any moment you choose. When ego defines you by what you have or do, or compares
you to others, use your power of free will to terminate those
thoughts. Say to yourself, “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.” This will
become an automatic way of responding to life. Synchronistic
results will begin to happen. 4. 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. 5. Copy this ancient Hasidic saying and carry it with
you for a year. It’s a reminder of the power of intention and
how it can work for you every day in every way. 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.In the next chapter, I describe how this field of intention might look were
you able to see it, and what the faces of intention look like. I’ll close this
chapter with another quotation from Carlos Castaneda’s teacher, Don Juan
Matus: “ . . . the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and
consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.”
Readers and warriors alike, proceed in the spirit of free will to access the
power of intention. OceanofPDF.comTHE 
SEVEN FACES 
OF INTENTION
“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.”
 
— Voltaire
Moving from Thinking about 
Intention to Knowing Intention
Yesterday, while writing this book here on Maui, I experienced a knowing
that I’ll attempt to explain to you. A woman from Japan was pulled from
the surf, her body bloated from an excessive intake of seawater. I knelt over
her, with others, attempting to get her heartbeat going with CPR, while
many of her friends from Japan cried out in anguish as the futile attempts at
resuscitation proceeded. Suddenly I felt a quiet awareness of this woman’s
spirit hovering above our lifesaving attempts. As I watched the rescue scene
on the beach, I felt the presence of blissfully peaceful energy, and in some
unfathomable way I knew that she wasn’t going to be revived and that she
was no longer connected to the body that so many well-meaning people,
including myself, were trying to bring back to life.This quiet knowing led me to stand up, put my hands together, and say a
silent prayer for her. We were from different parts of this world and didn’t
even share a common language, yet I felt connected to her. I felt peaceful,
with a knowing that her spirit and mine were somehow connected in the
mystery of the transient/ephemeral nature of our physical lives. As I walked away, the pain of death wasn’t dominating my thoughts. Instead, I knew and felt that the departure of this woman’s spirit from what
was now a lifeless, bloated body was inexplicably all a part of perfect
divine order. I couldn’t prove it. I had no scientific evidence. I didn’t think
it—I knew it. This is an example of what I mean by silent knowledge. I still
feel her presence as I write this, 24 hours later. In Power of Silence, Carlos
Castaneda describes silent knowledge as “something that all of us have. Something that has complete mastery, complete knowledge of everything. But it cannot think, therefore it cannot speak of what it knows. . . . Man has
given up silent knowledge for the world of reason. The more he clings to
the world of reason, the more ephemeral intent becomes.”
Since intention is being presented in this book as an invisible energy field
that is inherent in all physical form, intention, then, is a part of the
inexplicable, nonmaterial world of Spirit. Spirit eludes our attempts to
explain and define it because it’s a dimension beyond beginnings and ends,
beyond boundaries, beyond symbols, and beyond form itself. Consequently,
written and spoken words, our symbols for communicating our experiences
in this world, can’t really explain Spirit the way they do the physical world. I agree with Voltaire’s statement at the beginning of this chapter and
readily admit that I can’t definitively teach anyone what Spirit is or use
words that give a precise picture of what it looks like. What I can do is
describe a way that I conceptualize intention— if it were somehow possible
to remove the veil that keeps the field of intention from our sensory
perception and reasoning mind. I’ll give you my concept of what I refer to
as the seven faces of intention. These points represent my imagined picture
of what the power of intention looks like. Intention is something that I believe we can feel, connect with, know, and
trust. It’s an inner awareness that we explicitly feel, and yet at the same time
cannot truly describe with words. I use this concept to help guide me towardthe power of intention that’s the source of creation, and activate it in my
daily life. It’s my hope that you too will begin to recognize what you
personally need to do to begin activating intention in your life. The descriptions that follow are distilled from my experience with master
teachers, my professional work with others over the past 30 years, the
veritable library of metaphysical books I’ve read and studied, and my
personal evolution. I’m attempting to convey my personal knowing of the
extraordinary benefits of linking to intention. Hopefully you will feel
inspired by the silent knowing of the power of intention and go on to create
an increasingly enchanted experience for yourself and everyone else in your
life. Silent knowledge starts when you invite the power of intention to play an
active part in your life. This is a private and very personal choice that
needn’t be explained or defended. When you make this inner choice, silent
knowledge will gradually become a part of your normal, everyday
awareness. Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that
conception, birth, and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of
creation. Clinging to attempts to think or reason your way to intention is
futile. By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a
space for the power of intention to flow through. This may sound like
hocus-pocus, but I prefer to think of it as emptying my mind and entering
the heart of mystery. Here, I set aside rational thoughts and open to the
magic and excitement of an illuminating new awareness. A great teacher in my life named J. Krishnamurti once observed: “To be
empty, completely empty, is not a fearsome thing; it is absolutely essential
for the mind to be unoccupied; to be empty, unenforced, for then only can it
move into unknown depths.”
Take a moment right now to put this book down and allow yourself to
trust and gently experience an awareness of your nonphysical self. First,
close your eyes and empty your mind of rational thoughts and the
multitudinous ever-changing chatter that goes on. Next, hit the delete button
every time doubt appears. Finally, open to the emptiness. Then you can
begin to discover how to silently know the power of intention. (In thefollowing chapter, I’ll discuss in more depth other ways to access and
reconnect to intention.) But now, I’ll describe what I think our view might be if we could be
outside of ourselves, floating above our body, like the spirit of the Japanese
lady on the beach yesterday. From this perspective, I imagine myself
looking at the faces of intention through eyes that are capable of seeing
higher vibrations. The Seven Faces of Intention
1. The face of creativity. The first of the seven faces of intention is the
creative expression of the power of intention that designed us, got us here,
and created an environment that’s compatible with our needs. The power of
intention has to be creative or nothing would come into existence. It seems
to me that this is an irrefutable truth about intention/spirit, because its
purpose is to bring life into existence in a suitable environment. Why do I
conclude that the life-giving power of intention intends us to have life, and
have it in increasing abundance? Because, if the opposite were true, life as
we know it couldn’t come into form. The very fact that we can breathe and experience life is proof to me that
the nature of the life-giving Spirit is creative at its core. This may seem
obvious to you, or in fact it may appear confusing, or even irrelevant. But
what is clear is: You are here in your physical body; there was a time when
you were an embryo, before that a seed, and before that formless energy. That formless energy contained intention, which brought you from no
where to now here. At the very highest levels of awareness, intention started
you on a path toward your destiny. The face of creativity intends you
toward continued creativity to create and co-create anything that you direct
your power of intention toward. Creative energy is a part of you; it
originates in the life-giving Spirit that intends you. 2. The face of kindness. Any power that has, as its inherent nature, the
need to create and convert energy into physical form must also be a kindly
power. Again, I’m deducing this from the opposite. If the all-giving power
of intention had at its core the desire to be unkind, malevolent, or hurtful,then creation itself would be impossible. The moment unkind energy
became form, the life-giving Spirit would be destroyed. Instead, the power
of intention has a face of kindness. It is kind energy intending what it’s
creating to flourish and grow, and to be happy and fulfilled. Our existence is
proof to me of the kindness of intention. Choosing to be kind is a choice to
have the power of intention active in your life. The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the
increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in research
studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes
us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role of
most antidepressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically,
helping to ease depression. 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. Even more amazing is
that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts
the physical health and feelings of everyone involved! Both the face of
kindness and the face of creativity are smiling here. When you’re unkind, you’re blocking the face of kindness. You’re
moving away from the power of intention. No matter whether you call it
God, Spirit, Source, or intention, be aware that unkind thoughts weaken,
and kind thoughts strengthen, your connection. Creativity and kindness are
two of the seven faces of intention. 3. The face of love. The third of the seven faces of intention is the face of
love. That there’s a life-giving nature inherent in the power of intention is
an irrefutable conclusion. What would we name this quality that
encourages, enhances, and supports all of life, if not love? It’s the prime
moving power of the Universal Spirit of intent. As Ralph Waldo Emerson
put it: “Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.”
The energy field of intention is pure love resulting in a nurturing and
totally cooperative environment. Judgment, anger, hate, fear, or prejudicewon’t thrive here. So, were we able to actually see this field, we’d see
creativity and kindness in an endless field of love. We entered the physical
world of boundaries and beginnings through the universal force field of
pure love. This face of intention that is an expression of love wishes only
for us to flourish and grow, and become all that we’re capable of becoming. When we’re not in harmony with the energy of love, we’ve moved away
from intention and weakened our ability to activate intention through the
expression of love. For example, if you aren’t doing what you love and
loving what you do, your power of intention is weakened. You attract into
your life more of the dissatisfaction that isn’t the face of love. Consequently, more of what you don’t love will appear in your life. Thoughts and emotions are pure energy; some higher and faster than
others. When higher energies occupy the same field as lower energies, the
lower energies convert to higher energies. A simple example of this is a
darkened room that has lower energy than a room bathed in light. Since
light moves faster than non-light, when a candle is brought into a dark
room, the darkness not only dissolves and disappears, but it seems
magically converted into light. The same is true of love, which is a
higher/faster energy than the energy of hate. St. Francis, in his famous prayer, beseeches God: “Where there is hatred,
let me sow love.” What he is seeking is the power to dissolve and ultimately
convert hate to the energy of love. Hate converts to love when the energy of
love is in its presence. This is true for you, too. Hate, directed toward
yourself or others, can be converted to the life-giving, love-granting life
force of intention. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin put it this way: “The
conclusion is always the same: Love is the most powerful and still the most
unknown energy of the world.”
 
4. The face of beauty. The fourth of my seven faces of intention is the
face of beauty. What else could a creative, kind, and loving expression be,
other than beautiful? Why would the organizing intelligence of intention
ever elect to manifest into form anything that’s repugnant to itself? Obviously, it wouldn’t. So we can conclude that the nature of intention hasan eternal interaction of love and beauty, and add the expression of beauty
to the face of a creative, kind, loving power of intention. 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.” Obviously truth exists in the creation of
everything. It’s true that it shows up here in form. It’s now here in a form
that’s an expression of the invisible creative power. So, I agree with Keats
that we need to silently know that truth and beauty are one and the same. Out of the truth of the originating spirit in an expression of the power of
intention comes truth as beauty. This knowing leads to valuable insights in
relation to exercising your individual will, imagination, and intuition. In order to grasp the significance of beauty as one of the faces of
intention, remember this: Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. As you
become receptive to seeing and feeling beauty around you, you’re
becoming attuned to the creative power of intention within everything in the
natural world, including yourself. By choosing to see beauty in everything,
even a person who was born into poverty and ignorance will be able to
experience the power of intention. Seeking beauty in the worst of
circumstances with individual intent connects one to the power of intention. It works. It has to work. The face of beauty is always present, even where
others see non-beauty. I was deeply honored to be on a panel with Viktor Frankl in 1978 in
Vienna, Austria. I strongly recollect that he shared with me and the
audience his assertion that it’s the ability to see beauty in all of life’s
circumstances that gives our lives meaning. In his book Man’s Search for
Meaning, he describes a bowl of filthy water with a fish head floating in it,
given to him by his Nazi captors in a concentration camp during WWII. He
trained himself to see beauty in this meal, rather than focus on the horror of
it. He attributed his ability to see beauty anywhere as a vital factor in
surviving those horrific camps. He reminds us that if we focus on what’s
ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions,
and ultimately into our lives. By choosing to hang on to one’s corner of
freedom even in the worst situations, we can process our world with theenergy of appreciation and beauty, and create an opportunity to transcend
our circumstances. I love the way Mother Teresa described this quality when she was asked,
“What do you do every day in the streets of Calcutta at your mission?” She
responded, “Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises.”
 
5. The face of expansion. The elemental nature of life is to increase and
seek more and more expression. If we could sharply focus on the faces of
intention, we’d be startled. I imagine that one of the faces we’d see is a
continuously expanding expression of the power of intention. The nature of
this creative spirit is always operating so as to expand. Spirit is a forming
power. It has the principle of increase, meaning that life continues to expand
toward more life. Life as we know it originates from formless intention. Therefore, one of the faces of intention looks like something that’s eternally
evolving. It might look like a tiny speck in a continuous state of duplicating
itself, and then enlarging itself, and then moving forward, all the while
continuing its expansion and expression. This is precisely what’s happening in our physical world. This fifth face
of intention takes the form of what is expressing it. It can be no other way,
for if this ever-expanding force disliked itself or felt unconnected, it could
only destroy itself. But it doesn’t work that way. The power of intention
manifests as an expression of expanding creativity, kindness, love, and
beauty. By establishing your personal relation to this face of intention, you
expand your life through the power of intention, which was, is, and always
will be, a component of this originating intention. The power of intention is
the power to expand and increase all aspects of your life. No exceptions! It’s the nature of intention to be in a state of increased expression, so it’s
true for you, too. The only proviso to this forward movement of intention is to cooperate
with it everywhere and allow this spirit of increase to express itself through
you and for you, and for everyone you encounter. Then you will have no
worry or anxiety. Trust the face of expansion and do what you do becauseyou’re loving what you do and doing what you love. Know that expansive,
beneficial results are the only possibilities. 6. The face of unlimited abundance. This sixth face of intention is an
expression of something that has no boundaries, is everywhere at once, and
is endlessly abundant. It’s not just huge, it never stops. This marvelous gift
of abundance is what you were created from. Thus you too share this in the
expression of your life. You’re actually fulfilling the law of abundance. These gifts are given freely and fully to you just as the air, the sun, the
water, and the atmosphere are provided in unlimited abundance for you. From the time of your earliest memories, you probably were taught to
think in terms of limitations. My property starts here. Yours over there. So
we build fences to mark our boundaries. But ancient explorers gave us an
awareness of the world as potentially endless. Even more ancient
astronomers pushed back our beliefs about an immense dome-shaped
ceiling covering the earth. We’ve learned about galaxies that are measured
in the distance light travels in a year. Science books that are only two years
old are outdated. Athletic records that supposedly demonstrated the limits
of our physical prowess are shattered with amazing regularity. What all this means is that there are no limits to our potential as people,
as collective entities, and as individuals. This is largely true because we
emanate from the unlimited abundance of intention. If the face of the power
of intention is unlimited abundance, then we can know that our potential for
manifestation and attracting anything into our lives is the same. The face of
abundance has absolutely no limits. Imagine the vastness of the resources
from which all objects are created. Then consider the one resource that
stands above all others. This would be your mind and the collective mind of
humankind. Where does your mind begin and end? What are its
boundaries? Where is it located? More important, where is it not located? Is
it born with you, or is it present before your conception? Does it die with
you? What color is it? What shape? The answers are in the phrase unlimited
abundance. You were created from this very same unlimited abundance.The power of intention is everywhere. It is what allows everything to
manifest, to increase, and to supply infinitely. Know that you’re connected to this life force and that you share it with
everyone and all that you perceive to be missing. Open to the expression of
the face of unlimited abundance, and you’ll be co-creating your life as
you’d like it to be. As is so often true, the poets can express in a few short
words what seems so difficult for us to grasp. Here is Walt Whitman
speaking to us in Song of Myself. As you read these lines, substitute the face
of endless abundance for God to gain a flavor of what the power of
intention is. I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God
not in the least . . . I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and
each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face
in the glass;
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is
signed by God’s name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that whereso’er I
go
Others will punctually come forever and ever. You don’t have to have an intellectual understanding. It’s enough to
silently know and proceed to live with your awareness of this face of
endless abundance. 7. The face of receptivity. This is how I imagine the seventh face, the
receptive face of intention. It’s simply receptive to all. No one and no thing
is rejected by the receptive face of intention. It welcomes everyone and
every living thing, without judgment—never granting the power of
intention to some and withholding it from others. The receptive face of
intention means to me that all of nature is waiting to be called into action.We only need to be willing to recognize and receive. Intention can’t respond
to you if you fail to recognize it. If you see chance and coincidence
governing your life and the world, then the universal mind of intention will
appear to you as nothing but an amalgamation of forces devoid of any order
or power. Simply put, to be unreceptive is to deny yourself access to the power of
intention. In order to utilize the all-inclusive receptivity of intention, you
must produce within yourself an intelligence equal in affinity to the
universal mind itself. You must not only become receptive to having
guidance available to you to manifest your human intentions, but you must
be receptive to giving this energy back to the world. As I’ve said many
times in speeches and earlier writings, your job is not to say how, it’s to say
yes! Yes, I’m willing. Yes, I know that the power of intention is universal. It’s
denied to no one. The face of receptivity smiles on me, as what I need flows to me from the
Source, and the Source is receptive to my tapping in to it to co-create books,
speeches, videos, audios, and anything else that I’ve been fortunate enough
to have on my résumé. By being receptive, I’m in harmony with the power
of intention of the universal creative force. This works in so many different
ways. You’ll see the right people magically appearing in your life; your
body healing; and if it’s something that you want, you’ll even discover
yourself becoming a better dancer, card player, or athlete! The field of
intention allows everything to emanate into form, and its unlimited potential
is built into all that has manifested even before its initial birth pangs were
being expressed. In this chapter, you’ve read about my concept of the seven faces of
intention. They’re creative, kind, loving, beautiful, ever-expanding,
endlessly abundant, and receptive to all, and you can connect to this alluring
field of intention. Here are five suggestions you can implement now to put
into practice the essential messages in this chapter. Five Suggestions for Implementing the Ideas 
in this Chapter1. Visualize the power of intention. Invite your
visualization of the field of energy, which is the power of
intention, to appear in your mind. Be receptive to what appears
as you visualize your concept of this field of energy. Even
though you know it’s invisible, close your eyes and see what
images you receive. Recite the seven words that represent the
seven faces of intention: creative, kind, loving, beautiful,
expanding, abundant, and receptive. Memorize these seven
words and use them to bring you to harmony with the power of
intention as you visualize it. Remind yourself that when you
feel or behave inconsistently with these seven faces of
intention, you’ve disconnected from the power of intention. Allow the seven words to decorate your visualization of the
power of intention, and notice the shift in your perspective as
you regain your connection to it. 2. Be reflective. A mirror reflects without distortion
or judgment. Consider being like a mirror, and reflect what
comes into your life without judgment or opinions.
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        THE  
POWER OF  
INTENTION
O c e a n o f P D F. c o mALSO BY DR. WAYNE W. DYER
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Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Who is the author of the book "The Power of Intention"?
The author believes that intention is a force that exists in the universe, and that it's not something we do, but rather a field of energy that flows through us.
What is the author's new perspective on intention?
The author defines intention as an invisible, formless energy that is omnipresent and infinite, and that it's the source of creation.
What is the author's definition of intention?
The author emphasizes the importance of recognizing that we are all connected to the universal energy of intention, and that we must reconnect to this energy to achieve our desires.
What is the author's message about the connection between intention and the universe?
The author recommends visualizing the power of intention, reciting the seven words that represent the seven faces of intention, and being receptive to the power of intention.
What is the author's suggestion for implementing the ideas in the chapter?
The author suggests that ego is a major obstacle to connecting with intention, and that we must eliminate ego thoughts and surrender to the power of intention to achieve our desires.
What is the author's message about the role of ego in connecting with intention?