The Power of Intention Part 7 of 10: Directing Your Inner Voice
March 10, 2009 by dr. lam
An obstacle to intention is any manifest conflict that exists with our internal dialogue. Dyer likens this to the old Match Game in which newlyweds would try to guess what his/her partner thought or felt on a particular subject. We need to match our intention with our goal. As examples:
No Match: I hate my spouse who always acts rudely to me.
Match: I will see only love in my spouse and radiate that love to him or her.
No Match: I am poor and need money badly.
Match: I will attract abundance and be without want.
If our inner dialogue is filled with doubt, anger, despair, fear, we are holding onto a deep level of negativity that we need to let go so that we can be attuned to the universal condition of positive intention. We must achieve a peaceful inner voice and one that attracts abundance, love, creativity, i.e., in short the 7 faces of intention talked about over the past 2 weeks.
One way that Dyer talks about reaching a desirable inner voice is to meditate. We can start with the affirmation, “I want to feel good” and say it as we slowly breathe in and out and with our eyes fully closed. I have calmed nervous patients with a similar technique. I had a gentleman who came from Michigan for a scar revision and a lip reduction last week who was flustered and nervous given the fact that he had bad permanent lip injections and repeated scar revisions that failed. I don’t blame him. I put my hands onto his forehead and slowly spoke the words, “You are okay. I am right here. I want you to slow your breathing down and start to focus on the present moment.” I performed an exercise and asked where he wanted to be. He said the Maldives so we went there for a few minutes. When I came back into the room after the anesthetic had been fully in place, I asked him how he was doing. By the tone of his voice, I could tell he was already calm. He said, “I’m doing fine, doctor.”
Calm your inner voice. Feel your peace now. Exit your anxiety. Focus on abundance, love, creativity, and gratitude. Focus on where your spirit will take you. Focus on directing that inner dialogue toward a future that is bright and calm and, of course, a present time that is equally so. If you have 5 minutes right now, close your eyes and start to breathe slowly and deeply and focus on the Power of Now. Focus on gratitude and abundance. Focus on peace.
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I like the idea of that match game of taking a negative thought or situation and counteracting it with a positive spin. I think this is a good way to view anything that is negative. I guess focusing on one’s thoughts through meditation can help someone detect and reconstruct his/her negative thoughts to be more positive. I am going to try to keep in tune with my inner dialogue and change any negative thoughts to be more positive.
Cool post!
thanks heather. i just got a letter i wrote to myself at my retreat 3 weeks ago in which i wrote not to let uncertainty of the future rule me. i am working on all that myself. we are all growing together, and i am proud of that journey.
I think Dyer/you made a really important point here, namely that the INNER voice (the thoughts, the REAL intentions, the way we REALLY feel) is the one of which we need to be aware. It does not suffice to be only outwardly calm, grateful, happy for others etc. while inwardly being indeed anxious, ungrateful, envious of others etc. We can try to fool ourselves, but we won’t be very successful…
Thanks Vancouver. I know you are a fan of Eastern thought. You will enjoy my blogs in 2.5 weeks. I won’t tell you what it is about but it will really be interesting.
love/respect,
sml
Hey, Dr. Lam, that’s cool that you wrote a letter to yourself. I guess it helps to see how you have grown from when you wrote it or if you need to take your advice that you gave yourself.
One of my sisters did that when she was in Papua New Guinea last summer and a couple months after she returned home, she got the letter in the mail. She said that it helped her remember the things that she had learned on her trip.
Vancouver, great point!!
2.5 weeks in advance…lol Dr. Lam, you sure have things planned out. I know that it will be interesting. You sure know how to keep people tuned. I am still suffering from anticipation for Friday’s assignment tomorrow.
haha. i am looking forward to your answers if you are interested in posting them.
You little rascal!
Must you torture me so..lol
i have just published friday’s blog exercise! don’t read my answers first.